Installation view, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
"Curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, and opening at the Hyde Park Art Center in October 2006 (5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago), this unique exhibition showcases a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra. Most of these materials come from Ra’s tenure in Chicago (and the period directly thereafter, where from New York he maintained close contact with his Chicago colleagues), especially during mid-50s when he and his business partner and fellow mystic Alton Abraham – together with a small secret fraternal organization that has remained heretofore but a shadowy part of Ra’s early years – built a network of cryptic associations, amassed a huge library of books on the occult, magic, Egyptology, race studies, Theosophy, philosophy and religion, and began constructing the mythology and public persona that was presented to a crossover audience later in the ’60s in the form of Sun Ra’s Myth-Science Arkestra. ..."
Corbett vs. Dempsey (Video)
[PDF] Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future
Underground, 1954-1968
NY Times: Beamed From Tomorrow By HOLLAND COTTER
Patrick Sisson
Sun Ra: Myth, Science, and Science Fiction.
Sun Ra, at the piano, with his Arkestra in 1960.
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