Here/Not There
30 Jun - 02 Aug 2009
HERE/NOT THERE
June 30 - August 2, 2009
This summer series of five multidisciplinary performances aims to answer the questions: What remains after a performance occurs? What happens when a person misses a performance? Can the experience of that performance be recreated and seen in a gallery even if it occurred elsewhere? Here/Not There stretches something ephemeral -- performance -- into something more lasting. It explores how something can be experienced in one place and yet offer a sense of the experience in another.
Each week in July, a different Chicago artist presents ways to merge the performative and the visual. Performances occur on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm afterwhich the remnants, traces, or experiences generated by the artist remain in the gallery through the following Sunday. Using multiple media, each of the four artists demonstrate how performance and visual art can not only coexist but also expand the notions of these often separate fields.
June 30 - August 2, 2009
This summer series of five multidisciplinary performances aims to answer the questions: What remains after a performance occurs? What happens when a person misses a performance? Can the experience of that performance be recreated and seen in a gallery even if it occurred elsewhere? Here/Not There stretches something ephemeral -- performance -- into something more lasting. It explores how something can be experienced in one place and yet offer a sense of the experience in another.
Each week in July, a different Chicago artist presents ways to merge the performative and the visual. Performances occur on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm afterwhich the remnants, traces, or experiences generated by the artist remain in the gallery through the following Sunday. Using multiple media, each of the four artists demonstrate how performance and visual art can not only coexist but also expand the notions of these often separate fields.