Jeremy Pauly
Nouveaux Système Archaïque de la Production Moderne
Duration: 2x8hours
Location: McLean 2M performance Space, 112 S Michigan Ave.
Allen Conkle
The Loss of Nothing
Duration: 4x1hour (performance and installation)
Location: McLean 2M Installation Space, 112 S Michigan Ave.
An intimate interactive installation in four parts.
A glimpse. A ghost. A thought. A translation.
CV Peterson
Mykitas Epoch – Habitat
Duration: durational
Location: Gallery X, 280 S Columbus Dr.
Non-biodegradable material is the legacy of Man after humanity’s extinction. Earth will continue to thrive with life even after humans are gone, and other organisms will flourish. A new sentient being will evolve from plastic consuming fungus, such as Pestalotiopsis microspore. Starting the era of the rise of the fungus, the “Mykitas Epoch.” These creatures will roam the Earth, collecting the relics of humanity’s existence: plastics, which they find to be useful and oh so very tasty.
Donors: Adrian Acosta, Allen Conkle, Megan Fasbenner, Vanessa Fletcher, Eduardo Kac, Jenna H Kang, Michelle LaPlante, Sheika Lugtu, Annie Novotny, Máire Witt O’Neill, Paul & Laurie Peterson, Pom Express, Javiera Reyes, Amy Sinclair, Lauren Steinberg, Lisa Stertz, Peyton Stewart, Mario Valdivia, Jia Zhao, Tongyu Zhao, Employees from BLICK-Loop, and all the others who have collected plastics with me in mind.
Sadie Woods
A Study in Rhyme & Song
Duration: 90min
Location: 012 performance space, 280 S Columbus Dr
Collaborators: Steven Beaudion, Eliijah Blanton, Patches Blanton, Aidan Eubanks, Omari Ferrell, Tyran Freeman, Osirirs Khepera, Erick McGee, Sean James William Parris, Elijah Ruiz
A Study in Rhyme & Song surveys the performance of identity as a form of social terrorism through the lens of children’s rhymes and songs. This performative sound installation of Minstrel show tunes “Ten Little Nigger Boys” and “Ten Little Injuns” confronts a history of social conditioning in education and entertainment.
Thank you to Tom Burtonwood, Elise Cowin, Robin Deacon, Ricardo Gamboa, Sola Gbadebo, Mark Jeffery, Ginger Krebs, Lou Mallozzi, Trevor Martin, Mitsu Salmon, Roberto Sifuentes, Lauren Steinberg, Lisa Stertz, Jan Tichy, and Erika Uzmann for your continuous support throughout the many stages of this project. A special thank you to Steven Beaudion, Eliijah Blanton, Patches Blanton, Aidan Eubanks, Omari Ferrell, Tyran Freeman, Osirirs Khepera, Erick McGee, Sean James William Parris, and Elijah Ruiz for your dedication and commitment to this performance.
Lisa Stertz
Subject To Change
Duration: 90min
Location: 012A side room, 280 S Columbus Dr.
Acknowledgements: My sincere thank you’s go out to Robin Deacon, James Elkins, Matthew Goulish, and Roberto Sifuentes for their advice and conversations to shape the performance, to Melanie Wiener for documenting, and not least to friends and family for their trust and belief from near and far.
David Hall
A Brief History of Loss
Duration: 40min
Location: 012 performance space, 280 S Columbus Dr.
We might begin by thinking about the ways in which interiority, language, and images are objects that are framed to be narrated. We might think about beginning to occupy these interstices of when and where these objects lose their handlers. We might, further still, consider these objects not in terms of the conditions of their production, but of their management and condition.
David Hall would like to thank Robin for address and methodology, Beth for context and critique, Mark for deferral and inversion, Terri for framing and figuring, Matthew for framework and difference, Ellen for equivalence and insistence, and Judd for position and execution.
Joshua Roginsky
Echolalia
Duration: 12min
Location: 012 performance space, 280 S Columbus Dr.
A repetition of text constructed in a single discrete machine/space. A machine for reading in. Stein, Beckett, Artaud, Acker, there now you don’t have to go.
Chloe Cucinotta @chloecucinotta
DISCO DIVINE
Duration: 35min
Location: 012 performance space, 280 S Columbus Dr.
DISCO DIVINE began with my looking at descriptions of the annunciation during which Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel and is told that she is pregnant with Jesus Christ. I became interested in transferring the annunciation image to my moving body.
When I did this an invisible but tangible and elevated aura tiptoed into the room, so I opened my study of transcendence to include the characteristic choreography associated with recently historical and ongoing rituals.
Perhaps I will suggest that you take note of the hands… within and between each ritual a transcendent experience may (or may not) occur.
Dedicated to my late grandmother Marie Vonderheide (who appears in this piece) and to my generous friend Jack Meriwether (who is a smash to collaborate with) @jack.meriwether !
Special thanks to my advisors Roberto and Lan, as well as to costume specialist Polly Bland @paulieantiques, sound designer William Psilos @wimmyul and my striking collaborators:
Mary the Mother of God…………………………….……..Haley Dennis
Mary the immaculate Conception…………………..Camila Rivera
Mary Queen of Heaven……………………………………..Misha Woodward
Mary Queen of the Angles…………………………….…Leslie Keller
Mary Queen of Peace……………………………………….Jennifer Stough
Mary Star of the Sea…………………………………………Polly Bland
Mary Mother of all Sorrows…………………….……….Shanna Fragen
Gabriel…………………………………………………………………Tanya Hong