Programming & Performances

Portrait of the Deity — Ритуал (Ritual)

Performance by Branislav Jankić which re-enacts a classroom ritual in which a child is made to kneel in a corner on dry corn kernels.

2nd Trace

Cumulative performances by Rui Sha   2nd Trace activates the objects through performance, expresses the intensely personal experience of sadness.

Time Machine Collaborative

Performance by Josh McCormick and the Time Machine Collaborative.

Caroline Wood Walking Tour

Walking tours led by artist Caroline Wood.   This tour will be a one-hour walk around Chicago’s loop. Participants will travel to 11 locations, mainly office buildings, and learn about the histories of these spaces and how they intersect with the artist’s experience working on the accompanying book and installation of photographs. Participants will be …

Getting Up and Thinking Through: An Ethics of Spatial Objects

Lecture performance by Evan Fusco.   There is a small space that exists, a transitional zone, not between, but “among, within, and elsewhere”, like the idea that “talking is dancing” but also “dancing is not talking”. It’s taking objects, language, and bodies and integrating them into non-cohesion. Thinking of the “invisible bodies, with their fists …

Nomad, Folds, Events

Durational performance by Parvin Peivandi.   Parvin Peivandi’s art is influenced by the Iranian Sufi Poetry and Deleuze reworking of new materialism. In her performance, Peivandi, expresses a nomadic journey of becoming by transforming left over materials such as scraps of metal and Iranian rug and fusing them together to make simple sculptures as registrars …

One Time This Thing Happened… (Panel Discussion)

Group dialogues with artist Elise Parisian.   Join artist Elise Parisian with panelists Brooke Hawkinson and Santiago Quintana as they discuss familial relationships to the paranormal/the occult and explore different ways one can experience a haunting. Following the panel listeners are invited to participate in a group story telling session. Additional story sessions will be held …

Agape

Performance by Marie Ségolèone.