Process Notes: Part 2 with Tatyana Tenenbaum

Process Notes: Part 2 with Tatyana Tenenbaum

Guest Post by Hannah Verrill Tatyana Tenenbaum is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines sound and movement within a shared perceptual, historical, and dramaturgical framework. Her most recent piece, Private Country, premiered this past October at The...
Process Notes: Part 1 with Michal Samama

Process Notes: Part 1 with Michal Samama

 Guest post by Hannah Verrill Michal Samama is a performance artist and choreographer from Israel.  She recently came to Chicago by way of New York to begin her MFA in studio art at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She is now focusing on the research and...

Process Notes: An Introduction

Guest Post by Hannah Verrill I’d like to use this bit of time-space to introduce a series of posts that will use process as a way of looking at and unpacking a handful of contemporary performance practices. Each segment exists first as an encounter between an artist...

An Interview with La Ribot

La Ribot – a performer, choreographer and visual artist – developed her first choreographic works in Madrid in the 80s, later becoming known for her solo work.  By the late 90s, she had become a figurehead in the Live Art scene in London, where she was...
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (7/9-7/11)

Top 5 Weekend Picks! (7/9-7/11)

This weekend is making up for the last couple slow ones. In all, 35 openings, with shows in all the standard art districts, a few museum events, and an awesome array of shows at the weird-ass venues that make Chicago such a vibrant art scene. Here’s my picks: 1....