Drawing from George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion, with a Busby Berkeley twist, visitors may perform in short, scripted scenes playing the role of Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, or a supporting character. On July 27, at 7 pm, a large-scale Busby Berkeley dance scene utilizing audience members is performed and filmed on the MCA Terrace. During the week, audience members are invited to act and are given cards with a description of a scene, along with a minimal costume that represents the character. Scenes are edited by Duguid and presented the following day on television monitors in the gallery, culminating ...
An unseen performance by Georgia Wall.
"The structure for the unseen performance is as follows: I invite two people to view a performance that will remain unseen by all others. As these two people witness the event they will provide accounts of what they are seeing to the others present."
For this work, the gallery becomes a place of learning, listening, contemplation, and dialogue, as it incorporates the ideas of studio practice, re-use of materials, and an examination of the local waste stream. Live Station Project aims to be an evolving "tool-box" where the public is invited to build, draw, write and share. Various stations such as a construction station; salvaged material station; research, archive, and listening station; and contemplation and interaction station, allow the public to learn how to create objects with salvaged materials. Materials, from the waste stream at large, are prepared for reuse and the objects may ...
The orangerie, a type of building which grew oranges on estates such as the Palace of the Louvre before the French Revolution, serves as an inspiration for this work. On Tuesday, a temporary free restaurant serves a communal meal which includes citrus foods. Seating in the restaurant is made from surplus materials such as pallets and crates related to the fruit industry. Throughout the week, lectures and discussions about the culture of food, agriculture, and the emancipating potential of exhibition space take place at various times in the gallery.
This summer, the popular performative art exhibition Here / Not There returns, ...
In "the world's smallest comedy club," visitors may experience an array of programs and events such as stand-up comedy, DJ dance parties, academic lectures, screenings, and musical performances. Every day features extended open-mic sessions for audience participation. Complete with a stage, disco ball, and DJ booth, Club Nutz is an eclectic and lively temporary venue connecting audiences with a shared Chicago culture of performers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
This summer, the popular performative art exhibition Here / Not There returns, and asks how participatory actions within structured events can encourage a collective act of creation. The viewer, rather than the artist, ...
On the opening night of Sound & Vision, Summer Sounds, a series of Friday night performances, kicks off with the world premiere of a new composition/performance by composer/performer/digital artist Cory Arcangel.
Born in Buffalo and trained at Oberlin’s renowned music conservatory, the 32-year-old Arcangel is known for a range of subversive uses of computer and video technology; one to two works by Arcangel will be in the Sound & Vision exhibition. For this performance in Fullerton Hall, Arcangel will début Music for Stereos, a composition/performance for low-end modern home stereo systems.
5 durational performances based on 4 accounts of 1 event. Video by Georgia Wall. Performances by Vicki Fowler, Millie Kapp, Isabella Ng, Libby O'Bryan, Ali Scott and Hannah Verrill.
Luke Munn performs physical gestures and minimal instrumentation, emulating the phasing, looping, and soundscapes of contemporary electronic music with no electronics or post-processing. This is both an audio and visual performance utilising hand movements, breath, glass pieces, water and various surfaces.
Max Alexander cuts, pastes, mixes, remixes, bends, breaks, twists, turns and molds his existing compositions, drones, and soundscapes into a whirling dirvish of electroacoustic benevolence.
Join us for the first installment of our Spring Series Cotillion. And exploration of those events that bring us to age and explore the many facets of a right of passage. Performance by EJ Hill.
Presented by Stephanie Nadeau, hosted by Spoke, and back by popular demand, Waiting Room invites you to come spend your time. Our mission is to allow you to contribute your time comfortably and productively while remaining completely idle. Wait for as little or as long as you like, it’s entirely up to you. Stop by anytime for your free timecard and we'll get you started on a rewarding and enjoyable waiting experience. We look forward to seeing you!
Waiting Room is a performance that operates much like a place of business. Spoke will be transformed into a waiting room, complete ...
The private lives of humans, animals, and houseplants exist betwixt and between the magic and glamour of polarized human emotions in Hexenhaus. Fantastic environments created by Tessa Siddle build psychologically charged hybrid spaces and narratives. Domestic objects, natural elements and projections combine to embody multiple versions of self in evocative settings and situations. The breakdown of communication-attraction-domesticity-loneliness-jealousy-witchcraft becomes a meditation.
As a Transgender film/video, installation and performance artist, Siddle's work uses costumes, cosmetics, projections, blue-screen and minimally worked materials such as cardboard, yarn, tin foil, untreated wood, leaves, paper, fabric and fur to critique binary social constructions—Nature/Culture, Animal/Human, Autobiography/Fiction, Physical/Mental, ...
For the last six years, artist Takeshi Murata and musician Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Three Legged Race) have collaborated on a series of visceral glitch-based animations, setting Murata’s psychedelic imagery to Beatty’s hypnotic compositions. Murata's videos range from hand-drawn animations of fluidly morphing shapes to painterly abstractions of meticulously hijacked digital code. Beatty employs hacked electronics and thrift store cast-offs to craft otherworldly sonic narratives. Together, the duo’s electronic alchemy transforms the detritus of consumer culture into dazzling tapestries of sound and color. This evening, CATE teams up with experimental music and intermedia series Lampo to bring ...
Performance by Isabella Ng and Millie Kapp.
Chasing Two Rabbits is a special event curated by Sonia Yoon and Shannon Stratton that pairs animators with live performances by sound artists and musicians. Inspired by the experimental films of Norman McLaren, who combined abstract imagery (including scratching and painting into the film stock in earlier work, as well as paper cut-outs and live action and dance) with imaginative music and sound, Chasing Two Rabbits, acts to pair artists in both genres to produce a unique event where, rather than leaving art to illustrate a story, perhaps sound and vision will illuminate each other.
The program for the ...
Contemporary sculpture is an increasingly intriguing notion, defining it is a somewhat useless activity. Nineteen artists will make an attempt with performances, installations, photographs, sculptures, videos, sound and drawings. The artists work towards common goals and are situated inside un-common territories. Notions of site and space specifics, place and dislocation, memory and architecture, the body and utopian worlds, everydayness and unfamiliar grounds collide and diverge.
Work by Marissa Benedict, Christopher Bradley, Scott Carter, Lauren Carter, Younghwan Choi, Colleen Coleman, Allison Fall, Elise Goldstein, Katya Grokhovsky, Samantha Hill, Holly Holmes, Scott Jarrett, Selena Jones, ...
He Said She Said presents a special one-night event by Mumbai-based artist Nikhil Chopra. Chopra’s work addresses cultural identity through work that brings together a wide variety of theatrical and visual traditions.
The event continues a series in which Chopra assumes the persona of a Victorian-era figure named Yog Raj Chitrakar, who is loosely based on the artist's grandfather. The silent and costumed Chopra will remain in character throughout the evening, while preparing and offering an array of food and drink. Video, slides, and sound components will include the video Memory Drawing II (Mumbai 2007) which documents Chopra in character, ...
No Coast presents Heaven is Real, a collection of performances, presentations and activities themed around our abnormal/paranormal/celebratory/transcendent relationship with death and dying, as part of the Cabinet of Curiosities series. The MCA describes the event as "A grab bag of ‘un-lectures’ about a myriad of topics that create a variety show-like evening of artist presentations curated by different groups from around Chicago." We like to think of it as a morbidly fantastic show-n-tell.
Featuring performances by Acephalous, Andre Callot, Aaron Dicks & Colin Self, Andrea Fritsch, Rebecca Gordon and Brandon Joyce, Ted Marino and Carnal Torpor. Hosted By Lil ...
This one goes out to all you bloated-stomach Thanksgiving celebrants, you 4am Best Buy Black Friday tent-pitchers, you Damien Hirst diamond skull collectors, you non-recyclers and you Gucci Mane enthusiasts. These are foodstamp and slim wallet times after all, and by now it should be clear that the best way forward is on your tiptoes, preferably in some nice soft leather moccasins. Your friends at BEN RUSSELL are here to help you focus your art consumption by 2/3rds, to find a use for all your apple picking surplus and, if you do end up throwing anything away, to make sure ...
Being Beings uses performance-based video to describe the role of collaboration in the art-making process, as well as, to look deeply into the artist in order to share broader concepts of a generational and meditative background.
Sarah Elliott presents Elastic strategies for making vertical moves on a horizontal trajectory and horizontal moves on a vertical trajectory.
Elastic strategies for making vertical moves on a horizontal trajectory and horizontal moves on a vertical trajectory is a model for discourse.
Elastic strategies for making vertical moves on a horizontal trajectory and horizontal moves on a vertical trajectory is also an event and the resulting exhibition at Knock Knock Gallery. This event will take place on on the evening of December 4th, 2009 and will include the reworking/rearranging/remaking of an installation over the course of that evening.
The installation is a ...
This three-evening festival features new performances by School of the Art Institute of Chicago students who blur the boundaries between theater, movement and the visual arts.
Performers include Libby O’Bryan, Jennifer Mills, Chryssa Tsampazi, André Lenox & Evan Lenox, Marissa Perel, Alan & Michael Flemming, Noah Logan, Millie Kapp and Isabella Ng, Chloe Seibert, Ethan White, Colin Self, students of SAIC choreographed by Stephanie Bailey, Christopher Bradley, Allison Fall, Elise Goldstein and Jillian Soto.
For details, the schedule and reservations, see the website.
The SAIC Sound Department presents Waveforms: New Dialogue, a collection of works by artists exploring a new subject or medium. "Here we ask you to expand your voice, learn the language of a new people, and to have a conversation you haven't had before, or in a way you haven't before."
Installations by Chris Bradley, Ryan Dunn, Joseph Grimm, Dorian McKaie and Kim Walker. Performances by Joey Carr, Benjamin Chaffee, Bethany Childs and Rebecca Simmons, Ryan Dunn, Joseph Grimm, Joseph Kramer, Monica Panzarino, Aaron David Ross and Michael Vallera.
The Suburban is pleased to present an exhibition by New York-based artist Donelle Woolford. This will be the artist's first show at the gallery. Through her work Donelle Woolford investigates myth and the process by which art and literature contribute images, characters and story lines to the public discourse and, through that circulation, become real.
Donelle Woolford's new paintings focus on Cubism's obsession with surface tension and multiple points of view. They are influenced not only by her wanting to revisit the synthetic innovations of Picasso and Braque, but also by her exposure over the past few years and her increasing ...
Gnathonemus Petersii is a unique collaboration between musician Alex Halsted and sound artist David Moré. Halsted emits a constant pulse that forms an electrical field that surrounds her body, disturbances to this field she interprets as obstacle, food, or mate. During performance, Moré works with this signal, processing it audibly and transforming the signal with various effects. On view during the exhibition will be a sound installation by Halsted and Moré, and handmade tape and vinyl recordings for sale. Halsted and Moré, in collaboration with other musicians and sound artists, will also create a series of new performances in the ...
In conjunction with the Heartland exhibition at Smart Museum, in collaboration with InCUBATE's Sunday Soup series, Heaven presents TRY: STATION SOUP, the third in an ongoing series of a performance-meals presented by the collective Carnal Torpor.
TRY experiments use food as the liturgical basis for exploring the nexus of 'subjective' and 'objective' aspects of human experience. By providing meals designed to engage various facets of eating such as etiquette, nutrition, and collective ecstasy, Carnal Torpor seeks to provide an embodied experience of 'culture' as 'nature' and vice versa.
Opening performances with David Daniel & Mike ...
For a complete lineup of the programming taking place on 26-27 September, see the official Fest Fest website.
The Time Machine is your guide through the fourth dimension! Watch and learn about Real-Time Rendering, Quartz, and Max patches as Sabine Gruffat steers you through the sensory drone of the digital and analog hyperspace. Bill Brown takes you on a guided tour of memory's roadside attractions by way of scratchy records and the hazy glow of 35mm slides, narrating the interspatial monuments of our extemporary voyage.