As part of South Side Home Movie Project’s 20th Anniversary, celebrate Spinning Home Movies Episode #20: Quiet Still with an intimate performance by movement artist Jenn Freeman. By weaving together research from the SSHMP Ramon Williams Collection and the physical structure of Jason Campbell’s The Linen Closet, Freeman uses movement to explore the ritual of 'homemaking' within a cedar-framed monument to improvisation and care.

Spinning Home Movies Episode 20: Quiet Still with Jason Campbell and the performance by Jenn Freeman are presented with generous support from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jenn Freeman, who also navigates this world as Po’Chop, is an interdisciplinary artist creating on the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires, including the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sauk and Meskwaki, Kiikaapoi, Peoria, and Očeti Šakówiŋ Nations. Their work weaves dance, storytelling, drag, and striptease into performance worlds that illuminate and interrogate Black queer life through humor, ritual, and embodied inquiry.

They are the co-founder of House of the Lorde, a multi-functional Black feminist artist studio and gathering space, the co-producer of Notes on Masculinity, a beloved drag king-centered cabaret, and the creator of The Black Burlesque Directory, an international archive of Black burlesque performers. Their work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum as part of Brown Girls Burlesque’s Bodyspeak, at the Harris Theater for TEDxChicago, and in headlining performances across New Orleans, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis, and New York.

Freeman has appeared in Netflix’s Easy (Season 2), performed in music videos for Jamila Woods and Mykele Deville, and created experimental dance films including LITANY. They are a board and cast member of Jeezy’s Juke Joint, an all-Black burlesque revue, and the creator of the blogzine The Brown Pages.

Their work has been supported by United States Artists, Dance/USA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Urban Bush Women, and Chicago Dancemakers Forum. Freeman has been named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Burlesque Artists by 21st Century Burlesque Magazine.