Noted Chicago performance poets and vocalists Marvin Tate and Avery R. Young respond to the exhibition Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980 with in-gallery spoken word and live music performances.
In Fall 2018, Honey Pot Performance will premiere ways of knowing, an exploration of how we know what we know and create value for our ways of making knowledge. ways of knowing explores concepts of mastery, expertise, value, and knowledge production using HPP’s own evolving creative process and almost two decades of history together as a center to build the work around.
Mobile, featuring the work of Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Robert Chase Heishman, Todd Mattei, and Betsy Odom, is the second iteration of the exhibition Landline, which opened at ADDS DONNA in 2017.
Final Meals is a community-based performance/video installation by Lucky Pierre in which members and volunteers from the community cook recreations of the final meals requested by Texas death row inmates.
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The Propeller Fund, a Chicago-area grantmaking organization for visual artists, seeks a part-time, temporary intern to research, document, and archive past grantee projects. Propeller is looking for someone who is organized, a self-starter, and interested in documenting the dynamic activities of socially engaged artists in Chicago. The intern will work under the supervision of Propeller… Read more »
DO NOT RESIST? 100 YEARS OF CHICAGO POLICE VIOLENCE RESISTANCE RECEPTION LARRY REDMOND’S SOLO PHOTOGRAPHY WORKS Friday, January 19, 2018 at 6pm – 9pm Uri-Eichen Gallery – 2101 S. Halsted St. 6:00 PM Doors Open 7:00 PM Discussion with Larry Redmond and Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression and lead organizer in the campaign for a Civilian… Read more »
Double Feature: <3 and The Republic Two ambitious experimental narratives each realized with hilariously singular visions. Looping all month. Airing on ACRETV.org January 1-31, 2018 <3 by LNZ: “Constructed as a loosely woven spiraling death odyssey of the night, LNZ’s body moves through different forms of digital imagery until finally being uploaded to the internet to live forever. Formally, its a… Read more »
The Beast: Herd Mentality Opens February 15, 2018 Montserrat Art Academy, Beverly, MA Herd Mentality is the second iteration of John Preus’s The Beast project, originally exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in 2014, made largely from materials collected from closed Chicago Public Schools. Preus considers his exploration of public space within… Read more »
Robin Hustle’s SLIT WAVE SHEATH HEARTH Exhibition Opening December 10, 2017, 2-5PM, with readings & performances at 3PM The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food 1371 W Estes Ave, Chicago, IL 60626 The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food is pleased to present a new project by Chicago-based artist Robin Hustle, featuring work by Hustle and Thomas… Read more »