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  • Open TV

    Open TV

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    Between Monday the 22nd and Sunday the 28th, the #OpenTVCommunity will be live on camera developing new ideas, choreographing and rehearsing dance routines, shooting and editing video projects, and more.

    The week will also include a drag photoshoot with Shea Couleé, a dance party with Cqqchifruit and La Spacer of TRQPiTECA, and a performance by dancers from #OpenTVOriginals: #FullOutSeries.

    The #OpenTVMarathon will feature the artists from the Open TV Community: Fatimah Asghar with Jamila Woods, Darling Shear, Eli McKinnon, Honey Pot Performance, King is a Fink, Shea Couleé, Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch, Mlondolozi Zondi, LADY/WATCH, and TRQPiTECA.

    SCHEDULE:

    MONDAY, February 22

    11:30 am: Fatimah Asghar in conversation with Jamila Woods about web series, poetry and politics
    5:00 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal
    6:00 pm: Elijah McKinnon for Two Queens in a Kitchen

    TUESDAY, February 23

    6:00 pm: Honey Pot Performance: Gala meeting

    WEDNESDAY, February 24

    8:00 pm: King is a Fink Productions, featuring dance performance and more

    THURSDAY, February 25

    12:30 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal
    6:00 pm: Shea Couleé introduces #LipstickCity

    FRIDAY, February 26

    8:00 am: Film shoot for Triggers, by Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch and Mlondi Zondi
    5:00 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal
    8:00 pm: LADY/WATCH — Tien Tran and Kieran Kredell — choreography

    SATURDAY, February 27

    2:00 pm: Open TV Screening at Mana!
    7:00 pm: LADY/WATCH — Tien Tran and Kieran Kredell — choreography
    10:00 pm: TRQPITECA LIVE with Cqqchifruit and Natalie Mercedes (La Spacer)

    SUNDAY, February 28

    12:00 pm: Darling Shear dance rehearsal
    4:00 pm: Film shoot for Triggers, by Kai Green, Anna Martine Whitehead, James Welch and Mlondi Zondi

    OPEN TV is a Chicago-based web platform for television by queer, trans and cis-women and artists of color, currently a research project by Aymar Jean Christian, assistant professor of communication at Northwestern University.

    @weareoentv | #weareopentv | weareopen.tv

    Airing February 22 – 28, 2016

    As part of The Set Speaks

  • “YYYYMMDD” Blair Bogin

    “YYYYMMDD” Blair Bogin

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    Blair Bogin
    2016

    “Monday is work, Tuesday is laundry, Wednesday is sleep, you pee, shave your goatee and reel through, eyes rolling east to west. The seven-day week originates from early civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia attempting to make sense of nature by studying the sky. This knowledge of expert star-gazers resulted in the titles of classical planets as symbolic totems of time. But now that the glare of astral forces has been replaced by the glow of our screens, what does a seven day week mean?

    From Monday, February 15th – Sunday February 21st, I ask anyone in Chicago or beyond to call in, stop by or post online their list of things to do that day. From short concise checklists to detailed stories, I will document this information within the physical space of the set (through improved performance & installation) creating a live timetable of various peoples day and therefore treating the four walls as a collective, zoomed in, square block in a calendar page.

    Each participants shared, daily undertakings will be an important component for re-creating or preserving a mythology. Moon, Monday, Lunes, Mars, Martes, Mardi, Mercury, Miércoles, together we will realize the contemporary language, patterns or pacing of each day, what it can characterize, denote or emote.

    Tune in, call in, stop in, write in to keep time on a cosmic clock of storytelling, performance, legendary quests and visiting guest as we digest the meanings, muse-ings and markings mingled into our modern calendar.” -BB

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    To share your schedule for any day this week you can:
    CALL and leave a message at: (240)-883-6464
    or
    SEND AN EMAIL to: iamdoingthistoday@gmail.com
    This can be anonymous or not.

     

    Airing February 15 – 21, 2016

    As part of The Set Speaks

  • “Eke Name” Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Jesse Malmed

    “Eke Name” Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Jesse Malmed

    Eke Name

    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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    Airing February 8 – 14, 2016

    As part of The Set Speaks

  • The Set Speaks

    The Set Speaks

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    February 8 – March 31, 2016

    ONLINE

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    ON SET

    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.

    – Antonin Artaud, The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto)

     

    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.

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    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

  • MCA Live: William Pope.L “Cage Unrequited”

    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.

    Sat, Nov 21, 2015, 7:30pm –
    Sun, Nov 22, 2015, 8:30pm (We’ll be on at 3am!)

    Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
    220 East Chicago Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60611

  • “Eulogy For The Dyke Bar (LIVE!)” Macon Reed

    “Eulogy For The Dyke Bar (LIVE!)” Macon Reed

    by Macon Reed

    Exterior of The Dyke Bar, Macon Reed

    Wayfarers is proud to present the culminating project of our 2015 Summer Artist in Residence:

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    Macon Reed‘s Eulogy For The Dyke Bar revisits the legacy and physical spaces of dyke and lesbian bars, an increasingly rare component of the gay and queer cultural landscape. Reed’s installation, made of cardboard and simple materials that unapologetically reveal her hand in their making, offers a full bar, pool table, neon signs and hand-painted ’70s-era wood paneling.

    Eulogy For The Dyke Bar seeks to acknowledge the mass closing of dyke bars across the country and ask a host of questions, such as: Why are these spaces closing? What socio-economic, cultural, and technological factors contribute to this phenomenon? Are the same factors impacting spaces for gay men? What role have physical spaces such as dyke bars played for lesbian-identified people in the past and how has that changed over time? How do we learn from these spaces and move forward in creating new spaces that are safe and affirming of our various communities while embracing expansive notions of gender and sexuality across generations?

    On September 25th, the bar comes to life: Dyke bartenders serve drinks as Eulogy For The Dyke Bar in collaboration with New York-based Queer Memoir offers a night of story-telling and performance from across spectrums of age, gender, race, and sexuality. Reflecting nuanced experiences in and around dyke bars, performances both celebratory and lovingly critical acknowledge these spaces that may soon exist only in our shared stories.

    ABOUT QUEER MEMOIR
    Queer Memoir is New York’s first and longest running LGBT storytelling series; giving voice to our collective queer experience and preserving and documenting our complex queer history. Every month, we host some of Queer New York’s best known performers, and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives and bring them together to celebrate the ritual and community building value of storytelling.

    http://queermemoir.com/

     

    Residency provided by Wayfarers Studio Program

     

    A livestream of the closing event of Eulogy For The Dyke Bar airs September 25, 2015, 7pm ET / 6pm CDT

  • STROBE Network

    STROBE Network

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    STROBE Network

    June 12 – 21, 2015

    Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY and streaming online at strobenetwork.tv

    June 15 – 21, 2015

    ACRETV.org is presenting a parallel stream of STROBE Network as a part of ACRE TV Takeover

     

    STROBE Network is a temporary broadcast network that will air via a digital streaming platform, featuring artworks that make use of broadcast as an artistic medium. The content has been programmed through an open call and the Flux Factory community at large, including work from 75+ artists. STROBE Network will create and distribute an alternate reality version of mass culture that is free, conscious, experimental, and uncensored.

    Streaming 24/7 for ten days, STROBE Network will feature video art, performance, animation, talk shows, and music, as well as archival materials from Performa, VML, and E.S.P. TV. STROBE Network will stream from June 12­-21 via strobenetwork.tv. In addition to streaming via our website, we will welcome a studio audience for live tapings on select evenings at our sound stage in the Flux Factory gallery in Long Island City. Off­-site spaces will host viewing parties and Strobe TV Toilet Viewing Stations at TBD locations.

    STROBE Network is part of Flux Factory’s 2015 programing. Flux Factory is a non­-profit art organization that supports and promotes emerging artists through exhibitions, commissions, residencies, and collaborative opportunities. Flux Factory is guided by its passion to nurture the creative process, and knows that this process does not happen in a vacuum but rather through a network of peers and through resource­-sharing. Flux Factory functions as an incubation and laboratory space for the creation of artworks that are in dialogue with the physical, social, and cultural spheres of New York City (though collaborations may start in New York and stretch far beyond).

    PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

    Aas Artgroup, ACRE TV, Robert Ashley, Stephanie Avery, Gili Avissar, Hiram Becker & The Cannery Collective, Tommy Becker, Benna aka Benna Gaean Maris, Billy Robinson and Blue Jazz TV, Aliya Bonar, Joanna Bonder, Julian Bozeman, Emily Bucholz and Lee Tusman, Jeremy Couillard, John Crowe, Daupo, the David Foster Wallace Reading Group (DFWRG), Andrew Demirjian and Dahlia Elsayed, Marie Demple and Becca Kauffman, Michael DiPietro and Lena Hawkins, Justin Donica, Veronica Dougherty, Eric Barry Drasin, Dreamers Welcome, Jason Eppink, ESP TV, The Experimental Half Hour, Eliza Fernand, Caitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich, Miles Forrester, Daphne Gardner, Douglas Gast, Steven Glavey, Michael Guardiola, Allison Halter, Rui Hu, HUMAN TRASH DUMP, Tatiana Istomina, JANTAR, Zuzanna Juszkiewicz, Millie Kapp, Heather Kapplow, Jason Kashruts, Christine Laquet, Christine Lucy Latimer, Ayden LeRoux, Phuc Lee, Life of a Craphead, Tzu Huan Lin, Christopher Lineberry, Talia Link, Link Link Club, Gabriel Lyons Loeb, Shehrezad Maher, Steve Maher, Wesley Marcarelli, Amelia Marzec, Alexander Mignolo, Heather Murphy, MVY, Alex Nathanson, Joas Nebe, Dustin Luke Nelson and Morricone Youth, Aaron Oldenburg, Will Owen, Duke Papi, Ella Phillips, Meg Powers, Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Rob Racine, Mark Regester and nonnon, Steve Roggenbuck, Amanda Ryan, Taylor Sakarett, Mauricio Sanhueza, Julia Santoli, Karl Scholz & plant good seeeds, Alexandra Schwartzberg and Cole Tracy, Ben Seretan, Stephen Sewell, Josephine Skinner, Soda Jerk, Serge Stephan, Kristoff Steinruck, The Sunview Luncheonette, Dan Toth, Troll Food, Jason Tschantre, Roopa Vasudevan, VML, Viva Body Roll, Georgia Wall, Angela Washko, Wetlands, Barry Whittaker, Casey Wooden, Wuz Poppn NY, Ann Liv Young.

    Featuring content from the Performa archives by Ronnie Bass, Omer Fast, Liz Magic Laser, and more!

    PROGRAM SCHEDULE HERE

    ARTIST INFORMATION HERE

  • “Dead (air)” Danny Giles

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    As a direct action, the  die-in has appeared in public spaces to represent unrepresentable loss. In recent months, mass numbers of variously raced bodies have assembled to mimic the death of black men killed by white police. As a gesture meant to incite sympathy for the slain and empathy for their communities, die-ins deploy mimicry and silence as subversive tools to commemorate victims and to reenact the moment of encounter with death.

    Popular media narratives usually focus on the biography and mannerisms of black victims. The character of the deceased is dissected, caricatured and lambasted to justify the taking of life. Dead (air) attempts to redirect our scrutiny, instead angling it back at the purveyors of violence using their own words. This piece asks, what might we stand to gain by attempting to empathize with those who lash out through a tangle of fear and slanted perceptions? Reframing this contemporary direct political action within performative artistic space, Dead (air) offers an alternative to political spectacles and popular perceptions.

    Performing in person for Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE, February 27, 2015, 7 pm at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria, Chicago, with accompanying video/sound airing simultaneously on ACRE TV.

  • “The New Fort and Swimming In There” Melina Ausikaitis

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    “My performance is the telling of a story called, The New Fort, followed by the video, Swimming in There. The two pieces together have a transformative effect on each other. They build into the form of a longer tale about loneliness. In between the two pieces, I will perform the beginning of the video’s whistling soundtrack and ask a few audience members to stream part of the track on their mobile devices in a layered “round” effect. The entire piece should be about 12 minutes.” -MA

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    Performing in person for Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE, February 27, 2015, 7 pm at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria, Chicago, with accompanying video/sound airing simultaneously on ACRE TV.

  • “Fuck Individualisierungsschub” Neal Vandenbergh

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    A performance that is really just a PowerPoint lecture responding to an e-mail sent from one co-worker to the others suggesting anyone who would cast a pro-union vote should participate in a drum circle immediately following said vote. A live-streamed slide-show of photographs from the past two and a half years looking down from the windows of Chicago’s wealthiest citizens and corporations. An advocacy to re-conceptualize and re-invigorate a new emancipatory class-consciousness: why collective action feels so good and how Unions can be fabulous.

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    Performing in person for Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE, February 27, 2015, 7 pm at Threewalls, 119 N Peoria, Chicago, with accompanying video/sound airing simultaneously on ACRE TV.