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06/06/2066 (black hole sun)

04/16/2023 (Sun) 6:66pm soft start
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// LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 2–3

// performanceModules 4–8

// participatingArtists 9–

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// L A N D   A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T 
Chicago is the traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires: Odaawaa, Ojibwe, and Bodéwadmi (anglicized Potawatomi). Based on the Native Land map other nations and communities in the area include: Myaamia, Waazija, Sauk and Meskwaki, Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ as well as other nations unknown or undocumented in colonial history. Chicago is an important link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, which connect to many other regions, making the area an active and complex social site prior to the arrival of colonial settlers. Colonial settlers arrived in Chicago in the 1700s, and enforced a number of treaties, policies, and conflicts that forcibly removed Native and Indigenous people through law and policy in similar ways to the national-scale Indian Removal Act of 1830. Such displacements were part of a larger legal and belief system that sought to legitimize the genocide of Native and Indigenous populations. Land dispossession, degradation of natural resources, and harmful appropriation of culture still happens to Indigenous communities today. Today, Chicago is home to more than 65,000 Native and Indigenous Americans and represents about 175 tribes. Acknowledge how our institution benefits from colonization. Cultural institutions have ignored, distorted, and denigrated Indigenous land and lifeways. In particular, artists and cultural makers have played a role in visual representations of Indigenous people that have been harmful and created idealized versions of settler colonialism. — sources from Katrina Valera, Josh Rios, Sarah Ross and Alex O’Keefe’s pamphlet, a subcommittee of the Anti-racism Committee (ARC). 2 As citizen artists in this artist collective, we are indebted to this unceded Land. This Land provides us with a beautiful spot for us to build friendships, communities, rapports, and artworks. Tremendous injustice and inequity have happened to Native People since the colonial settlers arrived. We encourage our audiences, participants, and fellow artists to take concrete actions on the path of decolonization. Residing on this Land of historical complications from settler colonialism, we should genuinely learn about Indigenous traditions, histories, and knowledge. To start with, “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” at the Field Museum of Chicago is a very informative exhibition that helps us to gain more insight into the diversity of Indigenous Nations. Despite that, we should remain critical of how Native People’s voices, especially under Eurocentric lenses, be represented and heard through institutions, museums, and beyond. We understand Land Acknowledgement, not as an empty claim, but as our first step to bring equity to the Native People who have been residing on this Land since time immemorial. We should remain vigilant in our practice, continue to undo the harms caused by colonialism, and explore art-making processes that spread the message of respect, love, and compassion for the greatest good. — //sense 3
 // P e r f o r m a n c e M o d u l e s 
Modeling Fluxus happenings, audiences are encouraged to interact with installations and performers and freely move around for the whole duration of performance. Module I “” by Kyriakos Apostolidis, Gordon Fung, Rachel Irwin, Nicole Javellana, Yiyi Liu, Xiaoxing Yang This module blends sound, performance, projection, and internet art, using multiple media to create a loop of mutual influence. The experimental aspect lies in observing how the unstable nature of live streaming feedback affects the performance itself, and how the different media interplay with each other. Module II “What's the time? Where?” by Liz Flood and Christian Sebastian Gutierrez Participants are conducted via metronome and score cards. They are asked to consider how time affects their body. Participation from performers and attendees required throughout the event. Module III “INTENT” by Melon Sprout, participants, and audiences Using 1+ ceramic trumpets, activate the surrounding environment sonically. Once the space is activated, move to another space to activate its surroundings with the ceramic trumpet. Repeat this process until the entire environment is activated at least once with the sound of the ceramic trumpet, at which point the score is complete. Module IV “Approaching” by zhuyan ye and I-Chien Chen Games between performers utilizing physical proximity and acoustic feedback. Based on the performers' relative position and spatial 4 movement, the live sound reflects the subtle relationship between the players. Module V “Ekphrasis (02:07:59)” by Rob Croll A boombox plays a field recording of the previous experimental theater event in its entirety, including several minutes past its ending. The sounds of past installations and performances blend together with glimpses of conversations—voices describe both the performances and the attempt to represent them photographically, yet the things described cannot be concretely identified. In this way the language opens away from its original context and begins to interact with the present. Module VI “live-streaming of consciousness” by Gordon Fung, Amaya Torres, participants, and audiences Live-streamers will start the video transmission, audiences are invited to live-stream the first live-stream on their mobile device. Upon successive addition to this transmission chain, we will form a chain of videos. Let’s make a feedback loop! The live-streaming will be either available on the phone screen and display monitor. Anyone is welcome to start this module! Module VII “call me, call me any, anytime; call me, (call me), i'll arrive” by Gordon Fung, participants, and audiences 1. A list of available phone number will be shared on Instagram Story during the performance; 2. You are welcome to contribute your phone number as well! 3. Instruct the receiver to come to your location if you are in the space; 4. or hold a conversation with the speaker mode on. 5 Module VIII “zoom back camera” (interactive installation) by Gordon Fung, participants, and audiences Zoom calls will be activated across two different floors. Visitors are also welcomed to interact and intervene with the zoom call. Module IX “smile you are on camera” (interactive installation) by Gordon Fung, participants, and audiences 1. Camcorders will be set up and connected to CRT TVs. 2. Explore the camera like a crazy cameraman. Live-feed something you see? Live-feed your friends? Interview nonation cats ? Feedback loops? Module X “Looking into the void” by Eugene Tang, participants, and audiences Tang's presence in the performance space is disruptive and mesmerizing all at once. Through live photographing and the striking use of strobe lights, he weaves in and out of the audience, taking abstract shots that challenge the viewers' perceptions. As he constantly interrupts the show, he becomes a part of it, creating a unique and unforgettable experience. The photos he takes offer no narrative effect and instead, leave the audience feeling detached from the space. Tang's existence is a performer and a disturbance, an unyielding force that makes a statement through his counter-gaze observation. Module XI “I endure/adore you” by Blue McCall, borrowed performers from other modules and audience I endure/adore you is a roving movement score that takes place with three people, one LED neon-rod, and an extension cord. Blue travels throughout the space, performing the role of ‘Cable Wrangler,’ stealing pairs of people away from their tasks in other modules or as audience members. Participants will learn a simple, task-based movement score 6 1. Join at the hips with wrists gently touching, 2. Fold over slowly into a deep but comfortable stretch, 3. Cable Wrangler places a neon rod across dancers backs, 4. The trio moves together in tandem, balancing the rod. It takes work to be together, to stay in relation //in collaboration //in the struggle. I endure/adore you repeats with new participants over time, inviting failures, entanglements and switchy role-reversals. Module XII “Fische II” by Michael Orr A being in between states of wake enters the space. They simply exist without predetermined intent and ambles silently, idley, observing. Audience members are invited to interact with them by guiding, touching, dressing, or gesturing toward them in order to elicit some purpose to their presence. Most actions they'll watch or mimic as if searching for their own reflection through the other. They'll likely be seen interacting with surrounding modules who welcome them into their space. Module XIII “Tenderness” by Linye Jiang This performance is about connection, empathy, and care. As we pass the jello around the circle, I invite you to think about the small acts of kindness and care that we can all do for each other in every moment of our lives. To reinforce the experience of how much care we can transmit through this simple act of passing a jello. Module XIV "It Could be Anything" by Aleksandra Elzbieta Walaszek Sunset, blinds, insulation. Silver. Light. Rays. An excerpt from a collection tangible scraps and an irony of endless, 7 circular movement. Module XIV “REM” by Jenny Lee, Yukyeom Kim (Yuki), and Minghao Zhou This module features a live sleeping performance and projection on the floor with 2D and 3D animation as background. Ambient sound and multi-language poetry will accompany the sleeping performance. Interaction Note: Audiences can lie down on the beddings when performers are not performing. Module XV “[[Rehearsal]]” by Jung Soo Kim, Claire Lobenfeld, Theo Wu, Thuy-Tien Vo, and Yezhou Zheng The writer generates a piece of text and the performer responds with gestures. The messenger takes the writer’s text to the AI interlocutor. The writer responds to the performer with more text, and the performer responds by furthering the performance. The video maker uses the camera to interrupt the chain of responding and projects it as a secret spectator. This theatrical script is produced in all possible ways and changes every time the play is rehearsed. Script available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V0JpF8ukRZF77wXmhXvmfcGBlhD_4vlU/view ?usp=sharing Module XVI “Spring Terraces” by I-Chien Chen, Ricardo Vilas Freire, Graciela Gonzalez, Jenny Lee, Che Pai, and Mallory Qiu How do we find poetry within daily objects? What do we respond with as we carefully listen? Where could we follow the happenings whose noise is as loud as silence? The Spring Terraces is a collaborative work featuring improvisational workshops in which we build a co-existing platform to activate performers. Answers and reactions are generated through the process. Through repetitive movements and participatory relations, the performance blurs the boundaries between subjects and objects. 8 Module XVII “don’t bottle it up, let’s unplug and twist it” by Collective: Surprise //


// P a r t i c i p a t i n g  A r t i s t a s
Sound Rob Croll Rob Croll (b. 1993; Asheville, NC) is a multimedia artist whose practice combines image, text, and sound to examine the construction and subversion of meaning. Through a process of subtractive editing, he shifts photography away from straightforward representation and toward the abstraction of memory. Croll received his BA in 2016 from Amherst College, where he was a post-baccalaureate fellow and the coordinator of the Arts at Amherst Initiative; at SAIC, he is a co-curator of the Parlor Room lecture series and a Residential Research Fellow. In addition to his artistic practice, he has worked extensively as a literary translator; his publications include the three volumes of Ricardo Piglia’s The Diaries of Emilio Renzi. WEBSITE: rmcroll.com EMAIL: rcroll@saic.edu Elizabeth Flood (She/they) Elizabeth Flood is an artist and person and likes to observe the world. She makes both visual and audio collages because she likes bringing things together and holding them up to one another. She is interested in systems of permutations that bridge states of consciousness—such as bedtime stories or radio broadcast experiments 9 with modular score cards. She likes putting things in boxes and asking people to open them. Be curious. EMAIL: efood817@gmail.com IG: @lizen222 Caroline Preziosi Caroline Preziosi is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD. EMAIL: cprezi@artic.edu / caroline.preziosi@gmail.com IG: @caroline.preziosi Melon Sprout (they/them) Melon Sprout uses ceramic instruments to extend their body physically and sonically. Material and body become a tangible space for the ephemeral. Sharing the extension of self in functionality, viewers are encouraged to activate, interact with, and extend themselves physically and sonically in the form of ceramic music-making. “Ceramusic” — a word for ceramic music — retains physical traces of the instruments’ original soft clay state, which go through many material and functional transitions when released into the world. They are performed, shared, struck, climbed, spun, recorded, processed, and altered. The ceramic instruments reciprocate non-linguistic communication, generating an animated environment where feelings and ideas are free to exchange. Melon organizes the Chicago-based performance collective known as GroupLove, founded in 2022. WEBSITE: https://melonsprout4.wixsite.com/melon-sprout https://melonsprout4.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/melonsprout/tracks https://grouplove1.bandcamp.com/album/2-19-2022 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFdRmkklNdcrZXFaYLWOkfQ/playlists EMAIL: melonsprout4@gmail.com grouploveperformancecollective@gmail.com IG: @melon.a.friend 10 Jackie Swanson (She/Her) Undefinable space used to focus around physical movement performance, in and around sound and video, but most importantly soft lighting. To fold out in-between through the metaphysical. Ritualistic, meditative noise and drone influence my movements between slow and soft to purged. I want to transcend… the gap. EMAIL: jswans4@artic.edu IG: @___0jackie0__ Xinyang Xiao My performance background includes two years as a theatre director and performances in a rock band. My current focus is painting, sound, and sound design for film. My work explores the floating and flowing energy of unconsciousness. I am interested in the vibrations which are generated by narrativizing my observation of the relationship between different elements of the world around me. The kinds of collaboration I’m interested in include text, audio-visual, body movement, painting, and performance. EMAIL: xxiao4@saic.edu IG: @xxyang_0328 New Media/Art and Technology/Installation Gordon Fung Gordon Fung (b. 1988, San Francisco) is a transdisciplinary artist who primarily works with experimental film/video, noise music, multi-/new media performances, DIY electronics, digital art, programming, and installations. His works highlight unconventional executions like noises, lo-fi presentations, and glitches. Such aesthetics confronts the viewers’ understanding, perspective, and point of view through a more philosophical, if not esoteric, investigation. To expand the possibilities of artistic idioms, he intertwines both analog and digital technologies—also to signify the co-existence of 11 mundane and spiritual worlds. By overloading software and hardware, he collapses the two worlds to expand the audience’s perception of reality. As a break-maker, he employs circuit-bending to regain consumers’ sense of agency through artistic means. His involvement in media archeology strives to unearth unexplored potentials of obsolete equipment and to revive them to artistic life. Informed by his multivalent aesthetics, he forms and directs the collective //sense to showcase time-based artists’ works through performances, workshops, and seminars. By curating experimental performances, he fosters a collaborative common ground for sound/video/performance/electronic artists to create gesamtkunstwerk through synergy. As a new media artist, he performs with a wide range of gears: synthesizers (audio and video), analog camcorders, video projections, experimental films, CRT TVs, and programming. His works have been shown in major Chicago locations like Comfort Station, Experimental Sound Studio, Gene Siskel Film Center, Links Hall, MacLean Ballroom, No Nation Art Lab, Tritriangle, and beyond. As a runaway composer in contemporary music, his compositions have been performed in Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the USA. WEBSITE: https://gordondfung.wordpress.com/audiovisual-works/ https://g-atari-us.bandcamp.com/ EMAIL: gfung@saic.edu IG: @gordon.d.fung Yukyeom Kim (Yuki) Yukyeom Kim (aka Yuki) is a Chicago-based artist born in Seoul, South Korea. Her interest is in dealing with emotions which are missed during the process beyond words and reproducing them in visual language. She uses the visual language expressed through various materials such as moving images (animation) and objects (kinetic sculpture) to 12 deliver to the audience an impression,and leaves the door open to let the audience reconstruct the impression as a perceiver. By observing their reactions, she explores the possibility of empathy. WEBSITE: yukyeomkim.com EMAIL: ykim174@artic.edu IG: @kim__gae Jung Soo Kim Kim, Jung Soo is a Chicago-based artist born in Seoul, Korea. She uses interactive installations to tell stories about the spaces we occupy and actively evolve. Starting with an individual exhibition at the Cyart gallery in Seoul, she unraveled the story of individuals and spaces by artistically expanding the existing sociological concept of personal space. She investigates the space where we exist, and will exist. Especially, her works include various individuality to feel the diversity of the space. She seeks spatial experience about 'Us: Society, Community’ from ‘Myself’, so that it can be sensorized the diversity in Society. And also induce freshness in our daily life. WEBSITE: kimjungsoo.art EMAIL: jkim371@artic.edu IG: @clearwater__00 Jenny Lee Jenny Lee is a multimedia artist primarily working with experimental performance video and video installation. She is currently based in the US and Korea. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and is currently a 2023 MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the FVNMA department. Lee’s initial background in painting discussed issues regarding human dignity with special attention to the victims and traumas over the social issue of sexism and inequality in Korea. Still dealing with these issues, Lee applies them along with broader 13 concepts of opposite ideas such as fake and real, success and failure, and technology and humans. Lee’s current practice also explores the use of body, space, the feeling of alienized or familiarity, absence or communication, as well as questions about trust between people. WEBSITE: www.vimeo.com/jenny0819 EMAIL: jlee212@saic.edu / qs0820joon@gmail.com IG: @eeejennyyy Eugene Tang Eugene Tang (湯翊芃) is a Taiwanese artist based in Chicago, whose work shows unconventional relationships through his personal life experience including intriguing encounters and photographic practice. His work contains conceptual photography, video/sound installation, and sculpture to create an understanding perspective. With a background in anthropology and film maker, he draws influence from relational aesthetics, queer study, and his own desire. WEBSITE: https://itang4daa.myportfolio.com/ EMAIL: itang@saic.edu IG: https://www.instagram.com/eugenetangible/ 3D/Motion Capture/Game Engine/Video Rachel Irwin Rachel Irwin (b.1998) is a Chicago based artist, currently working towards a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She works primarily in 3D animation, live video mixing, arduino programming, and installation, with a particular interest in exploring light as its own medium. IG: @mayav1s1ons 14 Nicole Javellana | Nikitavisiion Nicole/Nikitavisiion is a creative technologist and new media artist based in Los Angeles and Chicago, with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies. Primarily working in 3D software and simulation, her practice is grounded in decolonizing her Filipino heritage by revitalizing indigenous motifs and practices. Javellana's work aims to contribute to the growing intelligentsia of contemporary cultural practice by creating trans-digital spaces for Filipino knowledge to flourish in a modern world. Through experimentation with virtual and augmented realities, game engines, and electronic fabrication, Javellana continues to create immersive technological experiences with her ancestral understanding in mind. WEBSITE: havelyana.com EMAIL: njavel@artic.edu IG: @nikitavisiion.obj (artwork) @nikitavisiion (personal brand) Yiyi Liu Yiyi Liu (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist primarily focused on creating in multi-/new media, game development, glitch art, computer generated images (CGI) art, motion graphics, sound design, and electronic music. His works are interactive and dynamic, employing cost-effective sensing technology to encourage audience participation and drive content generation. His passion and humor for computers and graphics are fully reflected in his digital theaters/poetry collections. Inspired by his experiences in creative technology, Yiyi's works draw from the glitches, errors, and overloads he has encountered, which have become his expressive vocabulary. His artistic practice is informed by a playful and grotesque aesthetic, which he employs to translate his observations and emotional experiences into digital poetry. As a visual artist, Yiyi is active in the fields of fashion and advertising as a CGI director, visual effects artist, and motion graphic designer. He has collaborated extensively with the fashion 15 magazine Wallpaper*China on multiple occasions to create novelty content that blurs the line between art and advertising. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Art and Technology department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and plans to graduate in May 2024. WEBSITE: yiyisogreen.com EMAIL: yliu88@saic.edu IG: @_rerereere Minghao Zhou Minghao Zhou is a technical artist who mainly works in the game and 3D industry. He focuses on the utilization of computer graphics theories and programming methods in digital art creation. In his art practice, he uses mediums including art games, experimental animation/video, and installation, to create surreal and bizarre graphics that reflect the absurdity of human existence. His focus originates from the death, illness, and suffering of the working class. His also explores the social disharmony brought by the economic reform that he experienced and witnessed during his upbringing in Baoshan, an industrial town centered around one of the biggest iron and steel factories in China. His works document his enduring absurd feeling of living in a magical realism fiction. EMAIL: mzhou8@saic.edu IG: @imnotminghaoz Yezhou Zheng Yezhou Zheng (b. 1997 Wenzhou, China) is a video artist whose works experiment with human observation and time linearity. He believes in commonality and fluidity. He has trust issues with the established and instituted perspectives. He is a daily rebel, stealing plastic bags and condoms from CVS. Capturing the cities and collecting fragmented reflections of their presence, he reclaims the ever-expanding territory over the metropolis in the world of moving images and travel vlogs. 16 WEBSITE: zhengyezhou.com EMAIL: yzheng19@artic.edu Performance Art/Movement Kyriakos Apostolidis Kyriakos Apostolidis (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based performance artist from Greece. Exploring the concept “Morphoplasticity,” Apostolidis's performance deals with how the body can render symbolic forms of human existence through its movement plasticity, by activating the expressive potentials of the so-called “body intelligence.” Apostolidis graduated from the School of Visual and Applied Arts at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (2017), and also studied at the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Granada (2014). Currently, he is pursuing his MFA in Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with the support of Alexis Minotis's endowment scholarship "In Memory of Katina Paxinos," administered by the National Bank Cultural Foundation (MIET). EMAIL: kapost@saic.edu IG: @kyriakos_apostolidis I-Chien Chen I-Chien Chen is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and performer who lives and works in Chicago. Chen’s practice is mainly situational, site-responsive interventions through performative actions, sound, and speech. She also makes live-art and installations. Obsessing how ephemeral gestures can shift people’s awareness and can symbolically negotiate the meanings of sites, she explores the hidden aspect of public space, playing with displacement and defunctionalization. The primary strategies she takes include situating actions that contradict the inherent logic of the spaces, further amplifying existing but often unrecognized gestures, performing labor that embodies a systemic force, and acting as a catalyst or mediator for enriching connections. By configuring actions and duration within sites, she seeks to reveal 17 and challenge the power operating behind sites, suggest agencies, and create poetic scenarios in everyday life. WEBSITE: ichienchen.com EMAIL: ichen3@saic.edu IG: @ichienchenc Grace DeVies Grace DeVies is an experimental artist based in Chicago working in the medium of live performance and ephemeral experience. Attempting to demonstrate queer trans* love, sexuality, and intimacy, he fixates on continuity. His work is often based upon concepts of tension and release as well as power dynamics, and he has shown at MANA Contemporary, NoNation Art Lab, TriTriangle, and Dispatch Gallery. EMAIL: gdevie@artic.edu IG: @gracedevies Ricardo Vilas Freire Ricardo Vilas Freire is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist whose work plays with notions of space and human interaction. He creates systems of communication relying on intuitive problem-solving in performance. He partners with the immediate environment as a constant collaborator and uses objects as props questioning the meaningfulness of daily life rituals. WEBSITE: www.ricardovilasfreire.com EMAIL: ricardovilasfreire@gmail.com IG: @ricardovilasfreire Christian Sebastian Gutierrez My artistic practice is informed by the philosophical concepts of Sisyphus and time. Employing bricolage and material repurposing, I explore the intricate interplay of contingency, intuition, and process. By illuminating the latent potentials of quotidian objects, my art serves as a catalyst for viewer inquiry and contemplation of the human condition within the unrelenting flow of time. Ultimately, 18 my artistic endeavor is a testament to the transformative potency of the creative act and its capacity to reveal the complex relationships between chance, intentionality, and temporality. Graciela Gonzalez Peruvian artist based in Chicago, whose focuses are performance, writing, and sculpture projects related to the exploration of the vernacular trough movement and its acoustics. EMAIL: mgonza19@saic.edu/ gracielagzev@gmail.com IG: @gracielagze "My artistic practice is informed by the philosophical concepts of Sisyphus and time. Employing bricolage and material repurposing, I explore the intricate interplay of contingency, intuition, and process. By illuminating the latent potentials of quotidian objects, my art serves as a catalyst for viewer inquiry and contemplation of the human condition within the unrelenting flow of time. Ultimately, my artistic endeavor is a testament to the transformative potency of the creative act and its capacity to reveal the complex relationships between chance, intentionality, and temporality." Linye Jiang Linye Jiang (b. 1988 in Sichuan, China) is a photo artist based in Chicago, whose work explores human complexity, queerness, and the social concept of normality. Currently a candidate for a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her work has been exhibited at the Gene Siskel Film Center, SAIC Galleries, Ohklahomo Gallery, 026 Gallery, Superkhana International, and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Jiang's work has also been featured in the Billboard Exhibition by Habibi House and has been published by the A4 Gallery in Chengdu, China. Jiang was awarded the Vivian Maier Scholarship in 2022. Growing up in a queer family in China, her personal experiences have led to a deep exploration of queerness and identity. She seeks to challenge societal norms and expectations surrounding these topics. 19 After transitioning from Eastern to Western culture in adulthood, Jiang's perspective on queerness has continued to evolve and expand. Her recent projects include photo sculptures, installations, videos, and performances using the images she creates. WEBSITE: www.linyejiang.com EMAIL: linyestudio@gmail.com IG: @Linye.j Claire Lobenfeld Prose, zinemaking, and editing (currently endeavoring into performance and sound and very interested in how generating a text can be publicly performed including with non-human intervention) Claire Lobenfeld is a writer from New York. For the last fifteen years, she worked as a music critic and magazine editor. Her interests include queering and re-visioning motherhood/childbirth/pregnancy, desire, meat, spectacle, and using folkloric techniques to examine the present. EMAIL: cloben@saic.edu IG: @clairelobenfeld Blue McCall (they/them) Blue is interested in antenarrative, touch, subcultures, social dance, cycles of dissent-revolt-rest, and eroding dynamics of power. They create immersive environments, performance and poetic worlds. Blue is the choreographer for the contemporary dance ensemble Touch System, and is author of “Slip Wip,” a multimedia fantasy novella that follows a genderfucked worker named Ambidextrous LoverLiar through exploits in the *Ick Factory. The novella is released serially on No Bounds Radio (Manchester/London). Their painting practice has been supported by RACC, Conduit at Utopian Visions Art Fair, Portland Textile Month, and the Cooley Gallery. Blue is from Southern Appalachia. They work across disciplines and scenes in an effort to decentralize the hierarchical workings of art worlds. WEBSITE: https://bluemccall.com 20 EMAIL: bluemccallstudio@gmail.com IG: @blue.mc.call Michael Orr My work is an overall investigation of expression through the contortion of bodily form and how they visually engage with the viewer. These illustrated bodies shape, adapt, and fold into themselves. Whether nude or clothed, their gender variance is a celebration—or point of conflict—of their individual identities. Their emotional processes influence their composure; often tangling into their own limbs and melting into their surroundings. I create these forms using a variety of mediums including ballpoint pen, ink, painting, collage, or any mixture of all. Choice of medium often directs the flow of the form and therefore influences the given narrative… A reoccurring conversation I’m interested in lies between the concept of the self and the intersection of ecstasy, the sublime, and mortality; the eroticism of identity. I enjoy sharing these stories from a visual standpoint so as to permit the viewer to develop their own dialogue. Michael Taylor (Orr) is a nonbinary, neurodivergent visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois. They transferred with a painting and illustration background from Collin County Community College in Texas and has since expanded to animation, installation, photography, experimental film, and performance during their time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Orr begins as a visual artist first before translating character design through a process of research, writing, and introspection before physical embodiment. While still new to performance and primarily self-taught, they are most interested in collaboration, improvisation, and automatic processes through bodily expression and movement- mostly by means of mimicry. They currently oscillate between two characters with two, distinct personalities but are open to continue expanding for the sake of exploration and experimentation. 21 WEBSITE: https://www.wurmiv.com/ EMAIL: torr@artic.edu IG: @wurmiv (or) @monsieurbombastic Che Pai Che Pai (b. 1988; Taipei, Taiwan) is a multidisciplinary artist whose inspiration comes from studies in literature, slow cinema, and the physical theater of Tai Chi. Through these practices, his awareness is fully opened, and internal sensations of the body flow like water. The photographs, movements, and moving images serve as mediums through which the inner state resonates with happenings. Che holds an MA degree in Literature from National Taiwan University. He embraces collaboration with other artists and has worked with award-winning director Hsin Yin Sung as a researcher, organized shows for Ta-Chao Production as the leading performer, and programmed educational events at the National Center of Photography and Images in Taiwan. WEBSITE: https://paichejeff.wixsite.com/chepai/single-project EMAIL: cpai@saic.edu IG: @chechepai Mallory Qiu Mallory Yanhan Qiu (b. 2000, Chongqing, China) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She has a deep passion in live video, sound performance, sonic exploration, body movement, poetry, and digital arts. Fueled by her curiosity in the realm of physical sensation and mimicking biological movements, Qiu endeavors to invert the familiar and discover memory-laden locations that exist simultaneously in proximity and distance. Through examination of the tumultuous fluctuations of daily life, she endeavors to bridge the gaps between space, physicality, and recollection. By seamlessly integrating elements of movement, auditory study, and visual art. Qiu creates 22 works that probe and expand upon one’s experiences and perspectives in both the physical and virtual spheres. WEBSITE: https://www.mallory-qiu.com EMAIL: yqiu6@artic.edu / malloryqiu@gmail.com IG: @qiumallory Thuy-Tien Vo Poetry, moving images, and performance. Thuy-Tien Vo is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from the University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City and is pursuing the MA program in Visual and Critical Studies at SAIC. Working with various media, her practice places at the intersection of chaotic memories, gender, cultural belief, and mass production. Her interests raise inquiries to test togetherness and apartness, cohabitation, and individual displacement; also, to test how images reflect our shared illusion, and if it contains a couple of big things. In addition, she is the co-founder of Ba Rọi (Bacon) Collective, which pays attention to mass production and deep-rooted stereotypes in the local contexts. Currently, she lives and works between Chicago and Vietnam. EMAIL: tvo@saic.edu IG: @vttienpt Aleksandra Walaszek Aleksandra Walaszek spent over 12,784 days on this planet. As an artist and human being, she is decoding her surroundings, line by line. The psychogeography of buildings and the shape of discarded materials are imprints of the human hand that captivate her attention. The continuous passing of experiences from palm to palm while being in space and exploring its limits is what interests her the most. Her vocabulary is spatial, and her work is conceived through collaboration or as a result of silent observation. She creates works that exist between locations and media, as well as conceptual objects and installations. She comes from a place that doesn't exist. 23 Tzuen Wu (Theo) Tzuen Wu (Theo) is a Chicago-based Taiwanese artist and researcher in science and visual cultures. They make and install experimental objects, images, and videos. Their work explores the power dynamics of seeing and being seen, and questions the related social structures in the context of identity, family history, colonialism, and environment. They experiment with optical illusion, bio art, and 3D modeling. Wu received a BFA from the Taipei National University of Art, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. WEBSITE: tzuenwutheo.com EMAIL: twu10@saic.edu IG: @tzuenwu_theo Zhuyan Ye Zhuyan makes images and sound, performs and writes to respond to her experiences in the urban construction and geopolitics in East Asia. She talks back into time in absolutely discontinuous fragments while working to develop alternative structures of communication. The ideal space for her is porous, air flowing and changing or allowed to change. She witnesses the movement from daily objects and performs as the objects. She accepts illness and death numbly and disciplines them into writing and pictorial memory. WEBSITE: https://zhuyan7e.cargo.site/ EMAIL: zye6@artic.edu IG: @mingbaiiiii  /// Miguel Angel González, Invited artist from Abya Yala/Colombia, in his words “我係一個視覺藝術家同文化推廣者。除咗藝術媒介，我仲用藝術作為質問身份同權力嘅藉口，同埋探討暴力、政治、環境同埋精神活性物質嘅消耗等概念。我嘗試透過詩意嘅方式在自己嘅環境中開路，用我嘅研究論述作為反思現今生活嘅橋樑。gestor cultural. Más allá del medio artístico, utilizó el arte como excusa para cuestionar la identidad y el poder, conceptos que articulo con la violencia, la política, el medio ambiente y el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas. Intento fisurar en mi contexto a través de la poética, utilizando mi discurso de investigación como puente de reflexión de la vida actual.


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//sense’s experimental theater production comes into a fruitful realization through receiving tremendous support and efforts of individuals, volunteers, participating artists, and audiences. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the following amazing people. 24 Amazing Beings: James Connolly, Troy Cruz, Kyle Thomas Dunlap, Mark Jeffery, Frédéric Moffet, Amaya Torres, Adam Vida, James Wetzel, Cameron Worden Organizations: SAIC Art and Technology Studies Department, Experimental Sound Studio, SAIC Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department, F Newsmagazine, {}() {}∆‡!(){}, SAIC Performance Department, SAIC FVNMA Tech Office, SAIC Media Center, SAIC Sound Department Writers, Photographers, and Videographers: Andrew Choi, Alex Kuo, Eunjin Lee, Jiarui Li, Erin Lynch, Clara Neisel, Nikcy Ni, Amanda Reid, Zetian Xu Participating Artists: Kyriakos Apostolidis, I-Chien Chen, Rob Croll, Grace DeVies, Elizabeth Flood, Ricardo Vilas Freire, Gordon Fung, Graciela Gonzalez, Christian Sebastian Gutierrez, Rachel Irwin, Nicole Javellana, Linye Jiang, Jung Soo Kim, Yukyeom Kim, Jenny Lee, Yiyi Liu, Claire Lobenfeld, Erin Lynch, Blue McCall, Michael Orr, Che Pai, Caroline Preziosi, Mallory Qiu, Melon Sprout, Jackie Swanson, Eugene Tang, Thuy-Tien Vo, Aleksandra Elzbieta Walaszek, Tzuen Wu, Xinyang Xiao, Zhuyan Ye, Luc Zavestoski, Yezhou Zheng, Minghao Zhou, Miguel Angel González and more. // we wish you have a beautiful and enjoyable evening with us 25∞
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