Black Cracker
Ellison Glenn aka Black Cracker is a multi-disciplinary artist from Anniston, Alabama, working in sound, text, video and installation. He enrolled at the Memphis College of Art in 1996 where he studied fine art with an emphasis in conceptual art and art history. Awarded a grant to develop his practice at the illustrious New York Studio Program in 1999, he decided to drop out of college and remain an active artist in NYC. Although discouraged by the commerce driven art market, he quickly found a place in the city’s literary scene.
He excelled as an award winning slam poet locally and nationally and as well as a poet in print. His text have appeared in a number of anthologies and his collection of poems and drawings 40oz Elephant was published in 2011 (Bowery Poetry Books). Black Cracker was also a vital activist and educator, mentoring teenages all over the city from 2000-2009 as Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC (formerly Youth Speaks NYC). In 2004 Black Cracker began exploring music production, collaborating, producing and touring with a number of Avant Garde musical groups including Cocorosie, Bunny Rabbit, and Raz Mesinai. In 2019 he was a vocalist in Grand Pianoramax a Swiss based Jazz trio and as well as in Kiku along side Blixa Bargeld. Black Cracker has released 3 solo albums, and has toured the globe extensively, including as the support act for Peaches in Europe and Australia.
Black Cracker has also appeared in the staged/performance/ensemble works Gritty Glamor, T/he/y, and Boi-band all based in his current home Berlin. In 2016 Black Cracker made his mark at the Deutsche Oper with an interpretation of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte for their inaugural Aus Dem Hinterhalt series, the performance included his video installation work, direction, in combination with musicians and singers from the DO main stage. In the same year he also performed and assisted a work at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland as a part of their 100 years Dada celebration during Manifesta 11, installed a performance/video work at ARTSPACE in Auckland, New Zealand, and as well at the Nu Performance Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2017 he has performed at the Museum of New and Old in Hobart Tasmania and at Documenta 14’s opening weekend in Kassel. In 2018 Black Cracker created performance installations for Volksbuhne, Tanznacht, NBK Gallery (assisting Peaches) and returned to The Deutsche Oper with his comment on Wozzeck, a production for 7 performers, with 7 channels of video, 9 musicians and 1 Singer from the DO ensemble.
O Black Cracker
Ellison Glenn aka Black Cracker is a multi-disciplinary artist from Anniston, Alabama, working in sound, text, video and installation. He enrolled at the Memphis College of Art in 1996 where he studied fine art with an emphasis in conceptual art and art history. Awarded a grant to develop his practice at the illustrious New York Studio Program in 1999, he decided to drop out of college and remain an active artist in NYC. Although discouraged by the commerce driven art market, he quickly found a place in the city’s literary scene.
He excelled as an award winning slam poet locally and nationally and as well as a poet in print. His text have appeared in a number of anthologies and his collection of poems and drawings 40oz Elephant was published in 2011 (Bowery Poetry Books). Black Cracker was also a vital activist and educator, mentoring teenages all over the city from 2000-2009 as Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC (formerly Youth Speaks NYC). In 2004 Black Cracker began exploring music production, collaborating, producing and touring with a number of Avant Garde musical groups including Cocorosie, Bunny Rabbit, and Raz Mesinai. In 2019 he was a vocalist in Grand Pianoramax a Swiss based Jazz trio and as well as in Kiku along side Blixa Bargeld. Black Cracker has released 3 solo albums, and has toured the globe extensively, including as the support act for Peaches in Europe and Australia.
Black Cracker has also appeared in the staged/performance/ensemble works Gritty Glamor, T/he/y, and Boi-band all based in his current home Berlin. In 2016 Black Cracker made his mark at the Deutsche Oper with an interpretation of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte for their inaugural Aus Dem Hinterhalt series, the performance included his video installation work, direction, in combination with musicians and singers from the DO main stage. In the same year he also performed and assisted a work at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland as a part of their 100 years Dada celebration during Manifesta 11, installed a performance/video work at ARTSPACE in Auckland, New Zealand, and as well at the Nu Performance Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2017 he has performed at the Museum of New and Old in Hobart Tasmania and at Documenta 14’s opening weekend in Kassel. In 2018 Black Cracker created performance installations for Volksbuhne, Tanznacht, NBK Gallery (assisting Peaches) and returned to The Deutsche Oper with his comment on Wozzeck, a production for 7 performers, with 7 channels of video, 9 musicians and 1 Singer from the DO ensemble.
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