Zachary Good is a multifaceted clarinetist, chamber musician, and composer based in Chicago. Zachary is the clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a member of Ensemble Dal Niente, and a founding member of Mocrep.
Zachary explores contrapuntal possibilities on the soprano clarinet with small–interval multiphonics (“close dyads”), creating the illusion of multiple clarinetists playing simultaneously. His music is quietly virtuosic, inspired by the intricacies of the clarinet and a love for Baroque nuance and form.
Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted homeland, the obsolete medium, the traumatic memory. With video, sculpture and writing, they attempt to give shape to what lies within and beyond the perceived emptiness. Drawing on their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find home in transit. They believe in the power of collective myth-making, and engage collaborators and/or viewers as co-conspirators towards liberation.
They have exhibited and performed at Kavi Gupta, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Elastic Arts, Roman Susan (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) amongst other spaces nationally and internationally. They have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and are currently a HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition. Their work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Performance Review Journal, and Sixty Inches from Center; Newcity Magazine named them a Breakout Artist in 2023. Que holds an MFA in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.