Notes for a novel or perhaps a play or score or guide or a creative reimagining/retelling of a re-performance in which two bodies navigate the pleasures and perils of human intimacy, both romantic and platonic. Or as it is commonly referred to by those who have survived it: “An Unyielding Commitment to Matters of that Steady Beat in the Chest”

EJ Hill lives and works in Los Angeles. Hill received his BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2011, and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2013. He has exhibited or performed at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France (2017); Underground Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Future Generation Art Prize at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2017); Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles (2017); and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016), among others. He was an artist in residence at Praxis Studio, California State University, Dominquez Hills (2017), Studio Museum in Harlem (2015), and Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (2010). He was nominated for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Art Prize (2017) and is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2018), Art Matters Foundation Award (2017), William H. Johnson Prize (2016), and American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts, Salzburg (2012).