Zorka Wollny is an interdisciplinary artist who directs and choreographs performative works in collaboration with musicians, actors, dancers, and community members. Combining visual art, theater, activism, and contemporary music, her projects explore the voice and the body as tools of expression and public debate, responding directly to the histories and functions of specific architectural sites. In summer 2019 Wollny made recordings at the former Anthony Overton Elementary School, one of fifty Chicago public schools that were controversially closed in 2013 in the wake of budget deficits. The work centers on both the physical memory of the building and the collective memory of thec ommunity surrounding it. Presented in a classroom at the decommissioned school, the sound installation takes the shape of a large wasp nest made of tangled speakers and cables. Other speakers integrated into the building’s architecture emit sounds of footsteps and children talking, shouting, and making noise, evoking the school’s former vibrancy.