UPCOMING PROJECTS

November 7-9

New Blood II
Friday November 7 & Saturday November 8, 9pm
Sunday November 9, 7pm
Free

This second annual event features new time-based works by School of the Art Institute of Chicago students that blur the boundaries between theatre, movement, audio, video, and the visual arts. Performances at Links Hall begin at 9pm Friday and Saturday, following the opening of an exhibition of 60 SAIC undergraduate students' work at Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th floor.

We will be presenting a performance called "Configurations" on Saturday at 9pm and will also be performing in a group piece on Sunday at 7pm called "The Body Parlor" created by James Kubie and Katrina Erickson .

October 10

We will be involved in an exclusive group show at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri titled "International Video". This is an exhibition of international video work by the three winners of the 2006 "Group 3 Award". We won this award in 2006 for our video "Defining the Frame". The opening will be Friday October 10, 2008: 6-9pm in Gallery III of the Foundry Art Centre.

RECENT NEWS

June 4-6

This summer we went to Glasgow, Scotland to participate in a live art/performance project called "Here Now, There Now " which included text works and performances that explore the space between departure and destination. Devised by Pernille Spence, Here Now, There Now is the culmination of a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award 2006. The festival consisted of three days of continuous performance and alterations of the landscape by several different artists. The only real "audience" was the passengers on the train so that the performances themselves had to be experienced as scattered moments during travel. More information about this project can be found on the website as well as a documentary about the project coming soon.

We were invited out to participate as performers in Anthony Schrag's performance concept for this project. It was wonderful to go back to Scotland and see old friends.

June 7

The day after the "Here Now, There Now " project there was also a performance/live art symposium at InterMedia in The Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow titled "its not hard (to say goodbye)". At this symposium we presented "Movement Piece #2", a continuation of a site-specific piece we performed in Chicago last fall. This symposium was in conjunction with a release party for Anthony Schrag's new live art publication:

"For six months, artist Anthony Schrag has been toiling away on a wee publication that looks at Live Art in all its various forms, its beautiful functions and its ugly conundrums. Including writers such as John Calutt, Ruth Barker, and Mary Patterson (to name but a few!) the book takes its inspiration from the programme of eight live art experiments Anthony curated at InterMedia in 2007 (entitled “its not hard”), and looks backwards at these works, examining them and the genre as a whole, but also looks at current critical dialogues, the structures that are needed for support and future exciting projects."

May 10-17

Our video "Vertical Tactics" was shown as part of the screening series "The Show Starts on the Sidewalk", part of the "Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Practice" conference at UC Santa Cruz (taking place May 15-17 2008). "The Show Starts on the Sidewalk" featured work that either documented public intervention or was an intervention in itself. Screenings took place in outdoor locations in public places in San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Cruz. These films considered relational aesthetics, interventions, Situationist practices and Fluxus style events.

February 28-March 22-

The CSV Cultural Center in New York recently presented our work in the "URBANSPACE" photo exhibition. "URBANSPACE" is a photographic project distributed in the agile form of a multimedia projection. Focusing on the aesthetics of large urban centers as a theme, URBANSPACE unites internationally selected works and is hosted in the virtual galleries of WOOLOO.ORG. CSV is at 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002.

The first edition of "URBANSPACE" (2007)--a projection of 530 images from over 23 countries-- premiered in Rio de Janeiro at the media arts foundation, Oi Futuro. Simultaneous projections were also made in New Life Shop, the Berlin headquarters of WOOLOO.ORG. These projections have since been screened in ECCO during Brasilia's FotoArte, Sao Paulo's Galeria Vermelho, as well as showings during Fotopub07 in Slovenia.

January 2-9-

Great news to report for January, our video series"At Rest: The Body in Architecture" won an award at an International festival! We won the "performing" section of the International Festival of Cinematography “Kinolevchyk Festival” at the Idea Museum in Lviv, Ukraine.

January 13-

Our video "Untitled" (AKA the balance video) was shown in the 8th Annual T-10 Video Festival at the interdisciplinary arts space 21 Grand in Oakland, CA.

2007 RECAP

Our video "Defining the Frame" was shown during the “DRIP Film and Video Festival” in the fall of 2007 in California, Virginia, New York and Illinois. The festival had its first screening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York on September 5th.

DRIP is an annual festival of student video, animation, film and moving-image work selected from submissions from the undergraduates of California College of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The School of Art+Design at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Guest curator Steve Seid (Pacific Film Archive) has selected 60 minutes of work.

From October 26-November 19 we were in Glasgow, Scotland making art and visiting Jess Ferrone. We planned to treat our time there like a DIY artist residency, which ended up working out very well. We met up with a live art/performance artist named Anthony Schrag who was very generous and allowed us to use his artist residency space at CCA:The Center for Contemporary Art. We got to meet some really great people and see some really great art while we were there. We did some collaborative work with Anthony and on our own. We also had time to play around the city a lot and see some amazing things. We will be posting new video work and possibly some photographs over the next month. It was a great trip and very productive.

On October 12 we presented a collaborative performance with Thomas Albrecht titled "Believe Don't" at "Time and Again: A Night of Events". It was a one night exhibition of live performance and multi-media art at the The Springer Cultural Center in Champaign, IL. Images can be seen in the performance section.

On October 6-7 we presented a live performance titled "Movement Piece # 1" as part of the "Industrial Corridors: Empty Lot Performance Project" in Chicago. Live theatre, dance, and performances designed to take place in vacant and abandoned lots, parks, parking lots, and other outdoor, undeveloped spaces around the city of Chicago.

This summer our work was shown at the “URBAN SPACE” exhibition as part of FotoRio 2007. The work was projected outside on buildings and was shown at both Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and New Life Shop in Berlin, Germany.

Our video "At Rest: The Body in Architecture" was shown at the “Architectural Film Fest” organized by BLDGBLOG and Materials & Applications as part of the "Silver Lake Film Festival" at The Wind Tunnel in Pasadena, CA. The festival took place on May 22nd, 2007.

In March we presented our senior thesis exhibition titled “Spatial Interventions”. It was installed in The Atrium of Temple Buell Hall at UIUC, Champaign, IL. The show ran from March 26-April 6, 2007 and was a huge success. Many friends and family members were there to see what we have been up to over the past few years. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us.