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JJJJJerome Ellis

stutterer, performer, and writer

JJJJJerome Ellis is a blk disabled animal, stutterer, and artist. He prays, reads, gardens, cycles, wanders, and plays. Through music, literature, performance, and video he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he grew up and lives by a heron rookery in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  

Prospections

21/04/2022
No Linear Fucking Time

The Clearing: Music, Dysfluency, Blackness, and Time

JJJJJerome Ellis

This essay—originally published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies—is a part of musician and writer JJJJJerome Ellis’s multi-faceted project The Clearing. Conceiving of the forest and its clearings as “sites of resistant black oralities for centuries,” Ellis explores how stuttering, blackness, and music can figure within practices of refusal against the hegemonic governance of time, speech, and encounter.

Essay Visual
03/12/2021
No Linear Fucking Time

The Clearing: Melismatic Palimpsest

JJJJJerome Ellis

“The Clearing: Melismatic Palimpsest” is a part of musician and writer JJJJJerome Ellis’s multi-faceted project The Clearing (book published by Wendy’s Subway and album of the same name released by NNA Tapes, 2021). Conceiving of the forest and its clearings as “sites of resistant black oralities for centuries,” Ellis explores how stuttering, blackness, and music can figure within practices of refusal against the hegemonic governance of time, speech, and encounter.

Essay Script Text Visual
03/12/2021
No Linear Fucking Time

Dysfluent Waters

JJJJJerome Ellis

“Dysfluent Waters” is a part of musician and writer JJJJJerome Ellis’s multi-faceted project The Clearing (book published by Wendy’s Subway and album of the same name released by NNA Tapes, 2021). Conceiving of the forest and its clearings as “sites of resistant black oralities for centuries,” Ellis explores how stuttering, blackness, and music can figure within practices of refusal against the hegemonic governance of time, speech, and encounter.

Audio Script Text Visual