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“After The Revolution” Xavier Wrona

After The Revolution

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.

-Xavier Wrona

After the Revolution was created and produced by Xavier Wrona during his fall 2015 residency at the Rebuild Foundation in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago. After The Revolution features interviews and discussions with Chicago cultural historian Tim Samuelson, barber and business owner Clemon Clay, sociologist Terry Clark, architect Ido Avissar, Chicago activist Lavon Pettis, writer Ytasha Womack, Chris Cutrone aka “The Last Marxist”, and several others.

Airing November 10 – November 30, 2015

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

November 5, 2015
Tele-novela Watching Party

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

October 23, 2015
“Eulogy For The Dyke Bar (LIVE!)” Macon Reed

Exterior of The Dyke Bar, Macon Reed

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

maconreed.com

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

http://brooklynwayfarers.org

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

September 24, 2015
Tele-novela

ACRE TV is pleased to present:

Poster Design: Kyle Schlie

Curated by Robyn Farrell

September 1 – October 31, 2015

Tele-novela is a genre of limited-run drama series popular on Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television networks. The term combines tele, short for televisión or televisão (Spanish and Portuguese words for television), and novela, a Spanish and Portuguese word for “novel”. Symbolic, social, or technological, Tele-novela mimics the serial and structural nature of the pop cultural programs, but moves from linear story to abstracted narrative, and experimental play by electronic means. Arranged in three-part acts and ranging in media–video, sound, animated GIFs–and durational formats, the sequential productions on ACRE TV present a departure from their operatic tradition in favor of abstracted realities and dispersed fictions that simultaneously explore
and avoid the notion of formal narrative on screen.

Michael Robinson, Hold Me Now, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Carrie Secrist Gallery.

Tele-novela includes work by Laure Provoust, Marisa Olson, Sara Ludy, Michael Robinson, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Brenna Murphy, Megan Rooney, Jon Cates, Martine Syms, Jodie Mack, Kevin B. Lee, Kirsten Leenaars, LJ Frezza, Nick Corirossi, Maya Mackrandilal, Rosa Menkman, Sara Condo, Paul Hertz, Martin Murphy, Kim Laughton, Jillian Mayer, Andrew Rosinski, Anna Ialeggio, Claire Jervert, Lucy Pawlak, Rob Steinberg, Samuel Fouracre, Jaime Davidovich, Tina Willgren, Kyle Schlie, Heejin Jang, Christine Lucy Latimer, Dana Dal Bo, Huong Ngo & George Monteleone, Mitch Oliver, Hannah Piper Burns, Derek G. Larson, Theo Shure, Ryan O’Hare, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Caitlin Denny & Nicole Ginelli, Jeroen Nelemans, GX Jupitter-Larsen,
Bryan Zanisnik, Karthik Pandian, Ann Oren.

Artist pages and more details here.

Tele-novela Watching Party:

October 25, 2-4 pm

SCHEDULE:

Narrative Program //

Sept. 1 – 3:

Megan Rooney – Tilia Americana, Jaime Davidovich – The Pope Show, Kirsten Leenaars – On Our Way to Tomorrow, Kim Laughton – Siliconscious, Kevin B. Lee – Shades of Led

Sept. 4 – 6:

Rodrigo Valenzuela – Maria TV, Martine Syms – Lessons: 1-2, Maya Mackrandilal – Kal Pani, Martine Syms – Lessons: 3-4, Andrew Rosinski – AIMA

Sept. 7 – 9:

GX Jupitter-Larsen – A Noisy Delivery, Martine Syms – Lessons: 5-6, Nick Corriossi – Correctamundo, Martine Syms – Lessons: 7-8

Sept. 10 – 12:

Hannah Piper Burns – outer darkness, Martine Syms – Lessons: 9-10, Dana Dal Bo – “…Still in the Running Towards Becoming…”, Martine Syms – Lessons: 11-12

Sept. 13 – 15:

Bryan Zanisnik – Post Attica Reforms, Martine Syms – Lessons: 13-14, Sara Condo – Dreamgirl, Martine Syms – Lessons: 15-16, Bryan Zanisnik – The Ineluctable Modality

Sept. 16 – 18:

Jodie Mack – Yard Work is Hard Work, Martine Syms – Lessons: 17-18, Samuel Fouracre – D.^^.$.®. (Dance.Music.Sex.Romance), Martine Syms – Lessons: 19-20

Sept. 19 – 22:

Martine Syms – A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere, Kevin B. Lee – Commercial Breaks 1, Laure Provoust – We Know We Are Just Pixels, Kevin B. Lee – Commercial Breaks 2, Ann Oren – Chronicles of L, Kevin B. Lee – Commercial Breaks 3

Abstract Program //

Sept. 23 – 26:

Michael Robinson – The Dark, Krystle, Karthik Pandian – Untitled 1, Rosa Menkman – The Maze, Karthik Pandian – Untitled 2, Michael Robinson – Hold Me Now, Karthik Pandian – Untitled 3

Sept. 27 – 30:

Michael Robinson – These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us, Kyle Schlie – Lifelong Longing, Rosa Menkman – The Maze, Rob Steinberg – Buy My DVD, Michael Robinson – Light Is Waiting

Oct. 1 – Oct. 4:

LJ Frezza – Boldly Going, Huong Ngo & George Monteleone – SSRI: The Self-Monitor, Heejin Jang – The Forbidden Entertainment, Huong Ngo & George Monteleone – SSRI: The Other Monitor, Derek G. Larson – Measurement: Cheers, Huong Ngo & George Monteleone – SSRI: The Self-Rememberer

Oct. 5 – 8:

Christine Lucy Latimer – The Magik Iffektor, Tina Willgren – Weather Alert, Ryan O’Hare – Pickled, Martin Murphy – LA Dreamer

Oct. 9 – 12:

Nicole Ginelli & Caitlin Denny – Ambient Exploitation: Holes, Lucy Pawlak – Matrix Poppin’ Bot, Jeroen Nelemans – Nothing Stops What’s now in Motion, Jillian Mayer – Hot Beach Babe Aims to Please, Brenna Murphy – skymapper, Kevin B Lee – Commercial Breaks 2

Experimental Program //

Oct. 13 – 15:

Theo Shure – Commercial Break 1, Paul Hertz – Hippie Atom Test, Theo Shure – Commercial Break 2, Rosa Menkman – The Maze, Rosa Menkman – Tacit:Blue

Oct. 16 – 19:

Alfredo Salazar-Caro – Triptych AKA Miami Booty Bass Remixxx, Mitch Oliver – Independence Day, Alfredo Salazar-Caro – DiMoDa Teaser #4, Mitch Oliver – Independence Day, Alfredo Salazar-Caro – Triptych 1.0, Claire Jervert – Add to Cart

Oct. 20:

Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Martine Syms – Lessons 21-22, Sara Condo – Control, Martine Syms – Lessons 23-24, Anna Ialeggio – Cactus/Pickle At Home

Oct. 21:

Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Martine Syms – Lessons 25-26, Sara Condo – Control, Martine Syms – Lessons 27-28, Anna Ialeggio – It Started before

Oct. 22:

Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Martine Syms – Lessons 29-30, Sara Condo – Control, Martine Syms – Lessons 31-32, Anna Ialeggio – Retirement Options

Oct. 23:

Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Martine Syms – Lessons 33-34, Sara Condo – Control, Martine Syms – Lessons 35-36, Anna Ialeggio – Retirement Options

Oct. 24 – 27:

Sara Ludy – Dream House, Kevin B Lee – Commercial Breaks 3, Jon Cates – (ƑɌØM) ɱƴ/</\/\/Σ\/\/\/\/\/\/6-H̶ØÜɌ-5!7ƎƝɫ-#GLITCH-‘Ƒ1ᒶM’…, Kevin B Lee – Commercial Breaks 3

Oct. 28:

Paul Hertz – Hippie Atom Test, Sara Ludy – Dream House, Martine Syms – Lessons 37-38, Jon Cates – (ƑɌØM) ɱƴ/</\/\/Σ\/\/\/\/\/\/6-H̶ØÜɌ-5!7ƎƝɫ-#GLITCH-‘Ƒ1ᒶM’…, Martine Syms – Lessons 39-40, Rosa Menkman – The Maze, Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Sara Condo – Control

Oct. 29:

Paul Hertz – Hippie Atom Test, Sara Ludy – Dream House, Martine Syms – Lessons 41-42, Jon Cates – (ƑɌØM) ɱƴ/</\/\/Σ\/\/\/\/\/\/6-H̶ØÜɌ-5!7ƎƝɫ-#GLITCH-‘Ƒ1ᒶM’…, Martine Syms – Lessons 43-44, Rosa Menkman – The Maze, Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Sara Condo – Control

Oct. 30:

Paul Hertz – Hippie Atom Test, Sara Ludy – Dream House, Martine Syms – Lessons 42-43, Jon Cates – (ƑɌØM) ɱƴ/</\/\/Σ\/\/\/\/\/\/6-H̶ØÜɌ-5!7ƎƝɫ-#GLITCH-‘Ƒ1ᒶM’…, Martine Syms – Lessons 44-45, Rosa Menkman – The Maze, Nicole Ginelli – After Dark, Sara Condo – Control

Oct. 31 – Tele-novela HIGHLIGHTS:

Megan Rooney – Tillia Americana, Rodrigo Valenzuela – Maria TV, Martin Murphy – LA Dreamer, Martine Syms – A Pilot for a Show About Nowhere, Kyle Schlie – Lifelong Longing, Laure Provoust – We Know We Are Just Pixels, Kim Laughton – Siliconscious, Michael Robinson – The Dark, Krystle, Rosa Menkman – Tacit:Blue, LJ Frezza – Boldly Going, Brenna Murphy – skymapper, Jaime Davidovich – The Pope Show, Sara Ludy – Dream House

August 18, 2015
Normal Reality

image: Jaakko Pallasvuo, Utopia, video (still), 2013, 6 minutes 40 seconds.
Courtesy of the artist.

Normal Reality presents twelve artists from the U.S., Canada, and Europe, whose embrace of popular digital technologies raises questions about normalcy in the age of accessibility. The exhibition is on view at University Galleries of Illinois State University through September 9, 2015. University Galleries is partnering with ACRE TV to broadcast videos from the artists in groups of three, producing four weekly segments.

Airing at 12 pm, 6 pm, and 9 pm CDT

Each day from August 5 – 31, 2015

While off air, an interstitial looping video will display information on the exhibition, other viewing locations, and upcoming broadcast times.

Organized by University Galleries’ Curator Jason Judd

Week 1: August 5 – 11 /

Petra Cortright, Mariam Graff, and Kathy Rose

Petra Cortright
Sparkling I, 2010
Webcam video, 1:35 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Foxy Production, New York

Performing in front of a built-in webcam with preset digital effects, Petra Cortright (Los Angeles) nonchalantly waves a tree branch like a magic wand that dissolves into sparkling star effects with its own fairytale like soundtrack.

Mariam Graff
Magic Show, 2015
Single channel video, 13.26 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Mariam Graff’s (Fairview, IL) Magic Show, staged in a “green screen” studio and features multiple characters all played by herself, uses kitschy special effects and theater-like narrative to reference the creation of identity through the relationship between technology, entertainment, and ultimately the inner workings of the artistic process itself.

Kathy Rose
The Realm of Nothingness, 2013
Single channel video, 5:41 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Kathy Rose (New York) is known for the hand-drawn animated films she made in the 1970s and dance-related films in the 1980s and 90s, which led ultimately to her current videos inspired by Japanese Noh theater.

Week 2: August 12 – 18 /

Andrew Rosinski, Jaakko Pallasvuo, and Shana Moulton

Andrew Rosinski
Island Light, 2013
35mm film transferred to single channel, HD video, 3 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
Sound design by Morgan Evans-Weiler

In Island Light, Andrew Rosinski (Chicago, IL) uses rhythmic repetitions of nostalgic still images from vacation photos to create storylines that are periodically broken by kaleidoscopic abstractions of airplanes, clouds, and the sun.

Jaakko Pallasvuo
Utopia, 2013
Single channel video, 6:40 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

In Utopia, Jaakko Pallasvuo (Helsinki) dispassionately relates, in the manner of director’s commentary on a DVD, his failure to capture in video—as opposed to language—the essence of an idyllic Swedish landscape we view on the screen.

Shana Moulton
MindPlace ThoughtStream, 2014
Single channel video, 11:57 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Shana Moulton (New York) explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia, who in MindPlace ThoughtStream searches for psychological and physical wellness through ultra-commoditized products that result in disorientation rather than piece of mind.

Week 3: August 19 – 25 /

Sabrina Ratté, Rosa Menkman, and Brenna Murphy

Sabrina Ratté
The Land Behind, 2013
Single channel video, 4:56 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
Sound by Roger Tellier-Craig

Sabrina Ratté’s (Montreal) videos are reminiscent of broken tube televisions. Unlike the strange lines made by degraded TVs, her abstract lines dance and move around the screen with intention and grace, manipulated either by her hand or by video processing.

Rosa Menkman
I might, in the end, be no more than a reflection of your imagination, 2014
Xilitla game recording, 1:30 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Rosa Menkman’s (Arnhem, Netherlands) video game Xilitla was inspired by the Gardens of Las Pozas—deep in the northern mountains of Mexico—where an eccentric British millionaire, Edward James, created a garden as absurd as an Escher drawing. The video game recording mimics the pathways to nowhere in a digital garden with a faceless white character who can be seen as a stand-in for James or, perhaps, ourselves.

Brenna Murphy
central~lattice, 2013
Single channel video, 1:04 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Brenna Murphy’s (Edmunds, WA) psychedelic video central-lattice fuses real yet banal footage and three-dimensional rendered objects, suggesting connections between ancient forms like mandalas and current technology.

Week 4: August 26 – 31 /

Jon Satrom, Malgosia Woznica, and Wolfie E. Rawk

Jon Satrom
QTzrk_loop, 2011
Single channel video, 3:12 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Jon Satrom (Chicago) controls a glitch when he opens a Quicktime video of a shark hunting a seal, unleashing a symphony of ecstatic computer windows that reproduce and disintegrate into a chaotic yet formally appealing meltdown.

Malgosia Woznica
floVV, 2011
Single channel video, 10:24 minutes
Courtesy of the artist, Audio by AIM23 – “Distant Silence”

In floVV, Malgosia Woznica (Warsaw), otherwise known as V5mt, slowly distorts images of ancient sculptures and pop icons revealing that the digital image is as malleable as paint or clay.

Wolfie E. Rawk
Implicit Bias – ghost in the shell, 2013
Screen recording, 5:44 minutes
Courtesy of the artist

Wolfie E. Rawk (Chicago) is a transgender artist who, in a screen recording of a Google search, begins to type a series of possible questions, but before they can complete their sentences, Google automatically finishes their question with previous popular searches, thus reflecting the collision of multifaceted personal and cultural elements involved in the creation of stereotypes.

July 15, 2015
Testimonium (quiet form) in Bourges, France

Still from video documentation, Every house has a door, Testimonium, Bourges, France.

Testimonium (quiet form) in Bourges, France

June 29 – 30, 2015

Airing at 2am, 5am, 8am, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm, 11pm CDT

By Every house has a door

Video documentation from a performance, 53’15”, La Box ENSA, France, 2014.
Performance documentation by Alexia Morinaux.

Organized in conjunction with the Ghost Nature symposium, Following Nonhuman Kinds.

Presented by The Green Lantern Press

As part of ACRE TV Takeover

During a symposium at La Box, ENSA in Bourges, France, Every house has a door performs a different version of Testimonium — Testimonium (quiet form). Joan of Arc is not present. Instead Stephen Fiehn and Bryan Saner occupy the entire stage with a series of coordinated movements from the original piece. This is a quiet version, a version for a bi-lingual audience, a version focused on the choreography of objects within the original performance.

Every house has a door was formed in 2008 by Lin Hixson, director, and Matthew Goulish, dramaturge, to convene project-specific teams of specialists, including emerging as well as internationally recognized artists. Drawn to historically or critically neglected subjects, Every house creates performances in which the subject remains largely absented from the finished work. The performances distill and separate presentational elements into distinct modes – recitation, installation, movement, music – to grant each its own space and time, and inviting the viewer to assemble the parts in duration, after the fact of the performance, to rediscover the missing subject. Works include Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. (2009) in response to the work of Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev,Testimonium (2013) a collaboration with the band Joan of Arc in response to Charles Reznikoff’sTestimony poems, and the on-going project 9 Beginnings based on local performance archives.

June 28, 2015
Rehearsal of a Grand Opera for One Person

Performance/Installation still from Devin King & Caroline Picard,
Rehearsal of a Grand Opera for One Person,
New Capital, Chicago.

Rehearsal of a Grand Opera for One Person

June 29 – 30, 2015

Airing at 1:30am, 4:30am, 7:30am, 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:30pm, 7:30pm, 10:30pm CDT

By Devin King & Caroline Picard

Presented by The Green Lantern Press

As part of ACRE TV Takeover

Pulling from toy theater and the operatic tradition of regietheater, combined with the effect of streaming media in the present day, Caroline Picard and Devin King’s Grand Opera for One Person presents a 48-hour installation, interrupted for 2 hours by improvisatory guitar. The entire 48-hours is conceived as a performance of objects highlighting, in part, the potential for four 3-dimensional paintings to function as micro-stages that illicit a sense of anticipation and promise for aesthetic transformation within the viewer. The 2-hour interruption, or musical interlude, creates an intermission in the tableau, inverting traditional expectations about space and human relation.

Rehearsal of a Grand Opera for One Person assumes that a space can be active without human presence; a painting has the ability to move and affect, even while it is inanimate. Furthering that point, a birds-eye video loops simultaneously, capturing four acts and a curtain call of assorted objects as they move back, forth and around a black table by a pair of gloved hands. This simple choreography establishes a flux and flow of relations between things performing for a camera.

The collaboration was inspired by two separate lectures, samples of which are integrated into a looping 20-minute audio track. The first lecture about Graham Harman, Louis Zukofsky, John Cage and the sample-as-object (by King), and the second about Timothy Morton, Giorgio Agamben and The Pancantantra (by Picard) provide an ambient background text about nature and object oriented ontology.

The Opera is a Total Art Experience. It is massive, expensive, glittering and refined. Its high status and rarified aesthetic is easily inaccessible and exclusive — it is an older tradition, with massive audiences who sit together in vast, ornate rooms. King and Picard are interested in the potential for that form to be appropriated, reduced, tweaked and recontextualized as a one-on-one event, in which humans may or may not be present. This performance was their first rehearsal. This piece was performed on November 19th, 2012 in the basement of New Capital, in Chicago, Illinois.

June 28, 2015
Plants, Machines, Animals, and Objects!

Still from Sonia Levy, I Roam.

Plants, Machines, Animals, and Objects!

June 29 – 30, 2015

Airing at 12am, 3am, 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm CDT

Presented by The Green Lantern Press

As part of ACRE TV Takeover

Everywhere we turn, we find a territory of nonhuman things. It is impossible to escape the trace of others—from material structures (plants, machines, animals and objects) to those all but invisible bodies outside the bounds of human perception (atoms, molecules, pollution, viruses, satellites, planets, etc.). What would an aesthetic look like that included these many other things? Is such an aesthetic possible?

To further explore a line of research established by its affiliated reading group Following Nonhuman Kinds, The Green Lantern Press curated a series of short, related films that first screened at Sector 2337 in Chicago in June 2015, and again on ACRE TV. This series was curated by Giovanni Aloi, Kathleen Kelley, Trevor Perri, and Caroline Picard.

The screening features:

1. Himali Singh Soin (in collaboration with Dario Villanueva), “The Particle and the Wave” (12:47)
2. Chloë Brown, “Dialogue: Panthera Leo” (3:16)
3. Laura Aish, “The Machine”, (5:14)
4. Laura Cinti, “Nanomagnetic Plants” (1:55)
5. Peter Matthews, “The Ocean Moves Through It” (5:00)
6. Matthew C. Wilson, “Forecast” (2:52)
7. Quiet ensemble, “Orienta” (2:45)
8. Sonia Levy, “I Roam” (3:16)
9. Max Stocklosa, “More World Material”(15:32)
10. localStyle, “Chew”, (3:33)
11. Gillian Wylde, “A as in Animal” (2:46)
12. NEOZOON, “BUCK FEVER” (5:54)
13. NEOZOON, “MY BBY 8L3W” (3:03)
14. Linda Tegg, “Sheep Actress” (2:58)
15. Filip Kwaitkowski, “Tiera” (2:47)
16. Chloë Brown & Ines Lechleitner, “The Hum” (3:19)
17. Smriti Mehra, “Authanakoota (Banquet)” (13:58)

June 28, 2015
ACRE TV awarded Propeller Fund Production Space Residency

Propeller Fund is proud to announce the 2015-2016 Pilot Program residents, Floating Museum and Honey Pot Performance. The Pilot Program residency at Mana Contemporary provides ongoing support to Propeller grantees by awarding two free studio spaces to former grantees for a year for the incubation of new projects. The Propeller Fund production and exhibition space at Mana also welcomes 2015-2016 residents DINCA Vision Quest and ACRE TV. Propeller’s second year of residencies follows 2014-2015 Pilot Program residents Radius and Multiuso, an initiative formed out of A Day Without Public Art in Pilsen.

Pilot Program Residents 2015-2016
About Floating Museum:
The Floating Museum blends creative place-making, activism and exhibition design to make a platform for conversations and community engagement. Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford and Andrew Schachman are facilitating a project wherein architecture becomes the medium for exchange and a flexible site for programming by using a structural interpretation of the historic DuSable Museum that moves to various locations in Chicago and will eventually float down the Chicago River in the summer of 2016.

The Floating Museum project is inspired by the architecture, evolution, and historical significance of the DuSable Museum. It asks questions about how art can be an engine for change and act as a think tank for experimental museum practices while reversing the dynamics of brick and mortar institutions by bringing the institution to the people. While in residence at the Propeller Fund Mana Studio the artists will use the space as a project laboratory—testing exhibition design, developing community partnerships, building structural models and hosting a wide range of conversations.

About Honey Pot Performance:
Honey Pot Performance (HPP) is a woman-focused, collaborative, creative community committed to chronicling and interrogating Afro-diasporic feminist and fringe subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. HPP draws upon a central notion found in performance studies, black feminist discourse, and sociology: i.e., that non-Western, everyday popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream communities. HPP enlists modes of creative expressivity (movement, musicality, theatre, text) to examine the nuances of human relationships, including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging, and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Through performance, HPP emphasizes everyday ways of valuing the human.

Throughout their residency, HPP will complete a dramaturgical process for their newest projectMa(s)king Her, which addresses the absence of women of color in speculative fiction as empowered future beings and journey women. The work draws on Afrofuturist and Afrofeminist theories to create a contemporary coming-of-age story developed through an evolving public workshop series. Participants will explore critical black feminist texts and generate performative responses through text, music, sound, movement, altar-making, and games.

Production Space Residents 2015-2016
About ACRE TV:
ACRE TV is an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network that features live and canned video, performances, durational works, and experimental broadcasts. ACRE TV was born out of the collaborative spirit of ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) and is directed by Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Nick Bacon, and Nicholas Wylie. ACRE TV has two categories of programming – independent and thematic. Independent programming, such as art-talk shows, shorts programs, and performance events, play throughout the year. Two-month long thematic programs are devised, curated, and programmed by an 8-12 member curatorial board. ACRE TV can be viewed 24/7/365 at ACRETV.org.

While in residence, ACRE TV will transform the Propeller production space at Mana into a TV studio and publicly accessible broadcast station. Live and commissioned shows by artists will be hosted in the exhibition space and watch parties and events will be offered to ACRE TV’s community of artist-made television fans.

About DINCA Vision Quest:
Presented by dinca.org, Vision Quest is a three-day festival celebrating the most innovative contemporary moving image and media art culture from artists worldwide, with salient interest in supporting artworks made using unconventional processes and emerging technologies. Vision Quest is presented in a multimodal and multimedia format, where audiovisual performances are cross-pollinated with time-based media screenings and digitally exhibited commissioned artworks to present a showcase of the most essential contemporary media culture. This year’s Vision Quest will be held at the MCA and Co-Prosperity Sphere fromSeptember 10-12, 2015.

In the Propeller prodcution space through 2016 will be the DINCA Residency Space (DRS), a visual arts workspace providing opportunities for community organized events and small-scale exhibitions. DRS activities will also include conceptual installations and “Quarterly Community Critiques” (QCC), a program serving as a public art critique/open-mic night/show-and-tell. Additionally, the DRS functions as a production space for the operations of DINCA (dinca.org), a weblog surveying contemporary visual art, and DINCA Vision Quest.

LAUNCHED IN MAY 2010, PROPELLER FUND IS ADMINISTERED JOINTLY BY GALLERY 400 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO AND THREEWALLS. INITIAL SUPPORT FOR THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED BY THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AS PART OF ITS INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE INFORMAL AND INDEPENDENTLY ORGANIZED VISUAL ARTS ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

June 24, 2015
TV WORTH WATCHING: BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS: THE 90’s

David Bianculli recommended THE 90’s marathon, on ACRE TV, June 22 – 28, 2015, presented by Media Burn Archive.

“If that sounds like live streaming, it sort of was – just as the content of THE 90’s, driven by video artists and ground-level amateur reporters, sort of predated YouTube and reality TV in general. Tom Weinberg and company were on to something, and on to it quite early – and this week, THE 90’s is back, with all 52 episodes streamed, in sequence, several times over the next seven days. The Chicago-based artists’ channel doing this is ACRE TV, and beginning at midnight ET with the series pilot, you can watch every episode of THE 90’s on the ACRETV.org website. Watch, in particular, for the episode devoted to marijuana – a truly fascinating time capsule about a still-controversial issue.”

Read the full review here.

June 22, 2015