2016
Concept and Images: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Writing: Jesse Malmed
Still life base: Min Song
Tortoise sculpture: Daniel Baird
Two week-long, live, static shots — a still life, a landscape — are made dynamic by orbiting lights and ceaseless time. Text, made dynamic by the reader, plays alongside wondering, “what is it, by any other name?”
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The Set SpeaksFebruary 8 – March 31, 2016
Propeller Fund Studios
Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, 4th flr. | Chicago, IL
The problem is to make space speak, to feed and furnish it; like mines laid in a wall of rock
which all of a sudden turns into geysers and bouquets of stone.
The Set Speaks is a two-month continuous live stream featuring seven artist-groups who will produce week-long performances from a 641 square foot studio in Chicago. Provided with 24/7 access, four cameras, a video switcher, a computer and a connection to the internet, each group will create their own 168-hour live, durational work. Borrowing from the ubiquitous forms of nature cams and security feeds, the live broadcasts will be equal parts moving image works and portraits of the artists at play, rest, rehearsal, and performance. Taking shape and enduring alongside the viewers’ real-times, the interests and subjectivities embedded in the works will amount to seven takes on simultaneity. Stop-by, call-in, and watch: YYYYMMDD, #NewGlobalMatriarchy, 2 Queens in a Kitchen, soap operas, still LIVEs, and more.
Blair Bogin, YYYYMMDD, 2016. Courtesy the artist.
Week 1: February 8 – 14 / Eke Name Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Jesse Malmed
Week 2: February 15 – 21 / YYYYMMDD Blair Bogin
Week 3: February 22 – 28 / #OpenTVMarathon, Open TV: Darling Shear, King is a Fink, Fatimah Asghar with Jamila Woods, Honey Pot Performance, LADY/WATCH, Eli McKinnon, Shea Couleé, TRQPiTECA, Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch and Mlondolozi Zondi
Week 4: February 29 – March 6 / the strangest gathering since the destruction of the Tower of Babel Adela Goldbard
Week 5: March 7 – 13 / #NewGlobalMatriarchy Stephanie Graham and Maya Mackrandilal
Week 6: March 14 – 20 / Amina Ross
Week 7: March 21 – 31 / By way of Today Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie
Technical Assistance: John Kyle Cronan and Nick Bacon
ACRE TV (Kate Bowen, Kera MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed, and Andrew Mausert-Mooney) will be performing as part of visual artist William Pope.L’s Cage Unrequited, a 25-hour marathon reading of experimental composer John Cage’s influential book Silence: Lectures and Writings (1961). The performance reimagines the book for contemporary audiences by filtering a bit of the past through the voices and attitudes of a diverse community of more than 100 invited readers from Chicago.
This program is presented in association with the exhibition The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Xavier Wrona
This is an architectural review, one that will not focus on “remarkable buildings” but on the massive and revolutionary architectural shifts of societies. We must be done with the idea that architecture is a history of buildings: architecture is the means by which a society embodies moral law in reality. It is the formatting of the real contained in each understanding of the world. This formatting affects all human production: clothing, music, class struggle, the latest gadgets, the colors and shapes of flags… Architecture is a function, it is the transmission belt linking ideas to the construction of the world. It is that by which a system of ideas attempts to perpetuate itself throughout history and across territories. What is at stake in architecture is the total sum of effects a new world order entails in the organization of reality. In this process, buildings are only models of the world order.
After The Revolution is a review devoted to the analysis of this new global architecture.
Nov 10: Episode I
– Georges Bataille’s definition of Architecture
– Presentation of the exhibition Georges Bataille, Architecture, Chicago and World Order: an Essay on General Economy. Part 1/9
– A discussion with Tim Samuelson about the ideological dimensions of Chicago’s built environment.
Nov 11: Episode II
– The meaning of this architectural TV show
– Georges Bataille’s definition of “Formless”
– Finding pictures of the Greater Grand Crossing area during the 70’s
– A discussion with Clemon Clay about his Barber shop and the evolution of social organizations in his neighborhood
Nov 12: Episode III
– Silent Film of the City of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake
– Discussion with Sociologist Terry Clark on World Order, Neoliberalism and Austerity
– Time Laps movie of the deconstruction of the Star Theatre in NY in 1901
Nov 13: Episode IV
– Discussion with Architect Ido Avissar on Architecture and Laissez-faire
– Presentation of the exhibition Georges Bataille, Architecture, Chicago and World Order: an Essay on General Economy. Part 2/9
– M. Larry Scott “Original 64st Drummers of Chicago”
Nov 14: Episode V
– Discussion with Lavon Pattis, South Side Resident, Activist, in conversation about the Economy of the South Side and community empowerment.
– Presentation of the exhibition Georges Bataille, Architecture, Chicago and World Order: an Essay on General Economy. Part 3/9
Nov 15: Episode VI
– Discussion with Ytasha Womack, Writer, Journalist, Director and a resident of the South Side of Chicago. This discussion is looking at the long tradition of organizations in the African American communities and more specifically in the South Side: Cultural specificities, non-linear thought processes, possible futures and self fictions are amongst the many themes that Ytasha enlights all along this journey.
Nov 16: Episode VII
– Presentation of the exhibition Georges Bataille, Architecture, Chicago and World Order: an Essay on General Economy. Part 4/9
– Discussion with Chris Cutrone, aka “The Last Marxist”. The disappearance of entire structures of worker’s organizations, the ideological dialogue between Marxism and Neoliberalism, the fear of political organization and engaging in debate on the part of leftist intellectuals or the absence of a “plan” as an alternative to the current state of affairs are amongst the numerous topics that are discussed here.
For more information, please visit after-the-revolution.tumblr.com
Jaime Davidovich, The Pope Show. Image courtesy of Henrique Faria Fine Arts.
Tele-novela Watching Party
October 25, 2-4 pm
UIC Space at Mana Contemporary (5th floor)
2233 S Throop St
Please join us for a watching party of selections from our current streaming program Tele-novela, including works by Jaime Davidovich, Jon Cates, LJ Frezza, Nicole Ginelli, Kevin B Lee, Kirsten Leenaars, Jillian Mayer, Rosa Menkman, Brenna Murphy, Martin Murphy, Karthik Pandian, Michael Robinson, Megan Rooney, Kyle Schlie, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Bryan Zanisnik and more!
Artists and curator will be in attendance! Join us for a discussion and refreshments following the screening.
Curated by Robyn Farrell
Jon Cates
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Sara Ludy
2014
Dream House is a virtual architecture inspired by lucid dreams and sacred spaces.
Anna Ialeggio
2015
3-part series, thick with intrigue, slathered with doubt, reupholstered with regret, exploring the onward progression of a Cactus.
Oct. 20: Cactus/Pickle At Home, 03:34
Oct. 21: It Started before, 03:44
Oct. 22-23: Retirement Options, 01:03
Sara Condo
“Control is a video shot through the lens with the idea that society is moving deeper into a digital age. I collected footage of various urban landscapes in major U.S. cities and processed them through a visual programming language. The light in the video is generated through a filter which reduces the light into color pixels. The light pixels are then filtered through a program which generates the sound. Therefore, you hear what you see. Control aims to make the viewer present in the moment yet also hopes to hypnotize them under mass media’s spell.” – SC
Nicole Ginelli
sound by Ando
2015
05:35
After Dark is an animated exploration of childhood computer memories, encapsulating the spirit and ephemera of early 90s software and game development. After Dark takes its’ name and primary inspiration from the company that developed the popular flying toasters screensaver in 1992.