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Cloud challenges historical framings of abstract painting as pure and apolitical, approaching his works instead as products of their political contexts and the capitalist systems through which they circulate. Crudely constructed from wooden stretcher bars, thickly layered in painted signs, and protruding into three-dimensional space, Cloud’s sculptural paintings are objects, rather than pristine surfaces, that possess a deliberately improvisational and, in his words, “unschooled” aesthetic. The artist sources his subjects from online news outlets, often alluding to contemporary stories of suffering and tragedy through his enigmatic visual vocabulary, developed over two decades. Forms resembling snowflakes, rainbows, four-leaf clovers, hearts and hands densely cluster across his canvases, which are stapled to configurations of stretcher bars that hover between abstract structures and recognizable shapes.
The new paintings made specifically for this exhibition extend these strategies while foregrounding three recent developments in Cloud’s practice: emojis, an “X”-shaped painting, and the protrusion of his works off the wall and on to the floor of the gallery. Through the use of hinges, the paintings become modular, endowed with the capacity to be folded, installed upright, and exhibited in multiple configurations. Cloud’s work embodies the slipperiness of symbols, the malleability of meaning, and the potential for freedom within ambiguity.
Cloud will be in conversation with exhibition curator Nolan Jimbo on May 2, 2026, in the Edlis Neeson Theater.
Mike Cloud is the 27th artist to participate in Chicago Works, a solo exhibition series at the MCA that features artists who are shaping contemporary art in the city and beyond.
Chicago Works | Mike Cloud: Worldless Obstruction is organized by Nolan Jimbo, Assistant Curator.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mike Cloud was born and raised in Chicago. He earned a BFA from the University of Illinois Chicago (2001) and an MFA from Yale University (2003). He is currently Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University.
Cloud’s solo exhibitions include Circle Chat, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2025); Called Ahead, Fahrenheit Madrid (2024); The Myth of Education, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (2018); Bad Faith and Universal Technique, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York (2014); Systems, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2006); and Special Project: Mike Cloud, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2005). He has also participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Good Weather, Chicago; White Columns, New York; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Cloud received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024, the Richard Pousette-Dart Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ in 2023, and the Jules Guerin Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 2023.
At the MCA, Cloud previously participated in the group exhibition, The Long Dream (2020), and his work, Cycle and Stable (2015), resides in the museum’s collection. His work is also held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
SUPPORT
Generous support for Chicago Works | Mike Cloud: Worldless Obstruction is provided by the Sandra and Jack Guthman Chicago Works Exhibition Fund.
Mike Cloud (b. 1974, Chicago, IL; lives in Chicago), Poison Arrows South Africa, 2026. Acrylic on canvas, hinges, pegs, rope, and watercolor tape; 48 × 47 × 75 in. (121.9 × 119.4 × 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York. Photo: Colleen Keihm.
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Kenzi Shiokava is the first museum solo exhibition dedicated to artist Kenzi Shiokava (b. 1938, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Brazil; d. 2021, Los Angeles), gathering over fifty sculptures made across five decades, from the 1970s to the 2010s. A second-generation Japanese Brazilian, Shiokava departed São Paulo in 1964—narrowly evading the military coup d’état—and relocated to Los Angeles just months prior to the 1965 Watts Riots. After earning a BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts) and an MFA from the Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design), he spent the next fifty years working with found materials in Los Angeles while serving as a longtime artist-in-residence at the storied Watts Towers Arts Center, where his peers included assemblage artists John Outerbridge, Noah Purifoy and Betye Saar.
Through intuitive acts of carving and arranging, Shiokava unearthed what he described as the “inner movement” of discarded objects, revealing their spiritual vitality and reinvigorating them with life. Deeply attuned to his materials, which ranged from telephone poles to plastic toys, Shiokava allowed them to guide his sculptural process, which he compared to archeology—both patient practices of excavation, recovery and revelation. Reflecting the artist’s career-long embrace of wood carving and assemblage, the exhibition is anchored by two core bodies of work: abstract totems meticulously sculpted from wood and enigmatic box installations animated by miniature figurines, dried plants and stones. The exhibition also underscores the transcultural nature of Shiokava’s practice, which melds the aesthetic sensibilities of wood carving in Japan, assemblage in South Los Angeles and multiple belief systems, including Candomblé, Catholicism and Zen Buddhism.
Kenzi Shiokava is organized by Nolan Jimbo, Assistant Curator.
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Occupying the three-story stairwell galleries in the MCA, From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard examines the wider impact of the research, writings, activism and exhibitions of renowned art historian, critic and curator Lucy Lippard (b. 1937, New York; lives in Galisteo, NM), who pushed the field of art history toward further inclusivity, through the lens of the MCA’s permanent collection. Over the past six decades, Lippard’s multidisciplinary career has been foundational to the histories of Conceptual, Feminist, Minimalist and Land Art practices of the 1960s and 1970s; the representation of artists of color in the Western canon; the intersection of art and activism; and placemaking for and by artists. Lippard’s work is widely appreciated due to its reach beyond the confines of art history to grapple with real world social issues through the lens of visual art and art criticism.
From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard is split into three sections: “Form & Feminism,” “The Art Worker as Activist” and “Site, Land, Place,” and will include works from the MCA Collection alongside archival materials, interviews, recordings and texts documenting Lippard’s career and work. “Form & Feminism” will highlight Lippard’s efforts to incorporate women artists and issues in the art historical canon—including the publishing of feminist journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, which ran from 1977 to 1993; her activism on behalf of women artists; and her own writing and curated exhibitions, including Twenty-Six Contemporary Women Artists (1971) and From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (1976). The section “The Art Worker as Activist” will consider how artists are mobilized as activists alongside and as part of their artistic practices, as inspired by Lippard’s work within various activist groups such as the Art Workers Coalition and Ad Hoc Women’s Artist Committee. Lastly, “Site, Land, Place” relates to the politics of space—real, imagined or contested; the land and environment; and the power of placemaking. Lippard wrote several books concerned with these ideas, such as The Lure of the Local (1997); On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (1999); Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West (2014); and two of her storied “Numbers” exhibitions, 557,087 (1969) and 955,000 (1970), which included several notable Land artists. Cumulatively, these presentations will provide a concise overview of select overriding themes that have driven Lippard’s practice throughout the arc of her prolific and singular career.
Highlighted in the exhibition are over forty artists who have been featured in her scholarly or curatorial work, or are aligned with or inspired by her practice. Participating artists include Lynda Benglis, Andrea Bowers, Judy Chicago, Robert Colescott, Group Material, Fred Lonidier, Howardena Pindell, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart and Amanda Williams, among others. The exhibition will be supplemented by public programs, including a symposium, charting Lippard’s influence over several generations of artists, art historians and curators.
From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard is organized by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Korina Hernandez, Curatorial Assistant.
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Slow Dance features a group of artists who use performance to recover forms of slowness that resist contemporary demands to constantly perform. The exhibition approaches performance in two registers: as an artistic medium rooted in the live presence of bodies and as an economic imperative characterized by the pervasive demand for productivity, speed and efficiency. At any given moment, we might feel this pressure differently—it may inspire and motivate us, spur optimism or provoke anxiety and depression, induce fatigue or provide fuel to keep going in spite of it all. Through gestures of suspension, inaction and stillness, the artists in the exhibition investigate the politics of the body’s labor and maintenance.
Featuring works by Brendan Fernandes, Gordon Hall, Geumhyung Jeong, Carolyn Lazard, Melanie McLain and Cally Spooner, this multidisciplinary exhibition includes painting, sculpture, video and live performance. Focused on how bodies wear away and how they endure, these artists contend with the near constant obligation to perform in labor markets, the protracted economies of waiting and fatigue’s latent potential as a form of resistance. While exploring conditions of failure, breakdown or exhaustion, artists in the show model new modes of reciprocity, intimacy and connection that challenge the weathering effects of our contemporary imperative to perform.
The exhibition will include in-gallery performance activations throughout the run of the show.
Slow Dance is organized by Jadine Collingwood, Pamela Alper Associate Curator.
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A Poem for Deep Thinkers features over seventy-five artworks that span the full breadth of Johnson’s career, including works from his seminal The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club series, the Cosmic Slops and other black-soap shelf paintings, spray-painted text works and the Anxious Menand Broken Men series. Additionally, Johnson’s film and video projects will be placed intermittently throughout the galleries. Johnson’s latest film, Sanguine (2024) explores familial dynamics through the lens of the artist’s relationships with his father, brother, and son, and features a poem by the poet and activist Amiri Baraka. The subtitle of the exhibition also refers to Baraka and his poem of the same name from 1977.
A Poem for Deep Thinkers is Johnson’s third solo exhibition at the MCA, following his first institutional exhibition in 2002 as part of the museum's 12 x 12 series and his mid-career survey, A Message to Our Folks, as part of the Ascendant Artist series in 2012. Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue that feature essays from exhibition curators Naomi Beckwith and Andrea Karnes, along with contributions by Nana Adusei-Poku, Hendrik Folkerts, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kevin Quashie, and Odili Donald Odita.
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers was organized by Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Andrea Karnes, Chief Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The MCA presentation is curated by Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
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Embrace the cold and let it influence your thinking. This month we think deeply like Rashid Johnson.
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\r\n\r\nThis conceptual reading of Bradley’s work also describes his material process. What appear to be throwaway materials, like cardboard boxes and junk food, may actually be painted steel or cast bronze. But since Bradley’s objects are so finely crafted, it is often difficult to tell if you are looking at a commonplace object or its representation. The artist is deeply invested in how things are made, and in the histories and cultural significance of materials. Often described as trompe l’oeil, or a trick of the eye, the precision of representation creates a kind of sculptural illusion. His bags of ice never melt, because the individual pieces of ice are cast glass. His replica key ring grants access to nothing, because the cast is inevitably larger than the original. And his pairings of objects also invoke a tongue-in-cheek humor, as well as point to other artistic influences. For Bradley, the crafting of objects gives rise to the game of looking.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is organized by Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Joey Orr.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is presented in the Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery and Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery on the museum’s third floor.
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\r\n\r\nPerformance backdrops, documentary video and video installations, sets, costumes, artworks, photographs, and ephemera immerse viewers in Cunningham’s creative activities. The exhibition highlights partnerships with artists including lifelong collaborator John Cage as well as Black Mountain colleagues Jasper Johns and, Robert Rauschenberg and other major figures, including Frank Stella, Robert Morris, and Bruce Nauman, who were greatly influenced in the development of their visual styles by Cunningham’s ideas. Special features include a presentation of Andy Warhol’s Rainforest, which includes his famous helium-filled silver balloons, and Charles Atlas’s MC9, which will fill one of the MCA barrel vault galleries with 35 years of clips from Cunningham pieces in a dazzling audio-visual realization. It also features a series of new commissions by former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Ballet de Lorraine.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is organized by the Walker Art Center’s Artistic Director Fionn Meade with Director and Senior Curator of Performing Arts Philip Bither. It is overseen at the MCA by Curator Lynne Warren.
\r\n\r\nImage: Installation view, Merce Cunningham: Common Time, MCA Chicago. Feb 11 – Apr 30, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum’s fourth floor.
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\r\n\r\nCurator Lynne Warren leads a tour of Merce Cunningham: Common Time in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art.
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\r\n\r\nThis survey of works, comprised mostly of the MCA’s collection, starts with photographs by Larry Clark from his now infamous Kids series (from a major gift by the Howard and Donna Stone Collection), and the movie of the same name, which was released in 1995. Written by Harmony Korine and coproduced by Gus Van Sant, the film tells the story of a single day in the life of a group of sexually active teenagers in New York City, and offered breakout roles for actors Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.
\r\n\r\nThe works gathered together for this exhibition—by Dawoud Bey, Mona Hatoum, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jack Pierson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Francesca Woodman—stretch from analog culture into the utopic digital age. Accompanying programming includes talks and an online debate about art, youth, and society at large.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is curated by Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator, with Grace Deveney, Curatorial Assistant.
\r\n\r\nIt is presented in the Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Galleries on the museum's second floor.
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\r\n\r\nThe MCA invites listeners to fully experience the quiet nature of Quartet No. 2 on the 4th floor. The galleries will stay open for the evening concert, and on select days during regular museum hours the musicians are planning open rehearsals.
\r\n\r\nHeld in conjunction with Merce Cunningham: Common Time
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\r\n\r\n(Tuesdays are always FREE for Illinois residents.)
\r\n\r\nAbout
\r\n\r\nParticipe en una visita guía bilingüe el segundo martes de cada mes, para recorrer las exposiciones en español.
\r\n\r\n(Join a bilingual MCA docent on the second Tuesday of each month for a tour in Spanish.)
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\r\n\r\nAbout the Artist
\r\n\r\nStella Brown is an artist and curator based in Chicago. Through an interdisciplinary research-based art practice, her work explores narratives within natural history, geology, and culture using modes of collection, documentation, and display. She has recently shown work with the Terra Incognita art series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Slow Pony Project and Comfort Station in Chicago. She has presented curatorial projects with Efrain Lopez Gallery and Shoot the Lobster, among others.
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Performances:
\r\nThursday, March 23, 7:30pm
\r\nFriday, March 24, 7:30pm
\r\nSaturday, March 25, 7:30pm
3D film reaches contemporary dance in this voyage into queer space, time, and bodies. Choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, both dancers who performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, collaborate with radical video artist Charles Atlas on this new project that uses technology to shape new ways of seeing. Part film, part live performance, this event begins as a 3D viewing experience of dances composed for camera and unfolds into live dance with real-time video mixed and projected live by Atlas, allowing for multiple perspectives of bodies in motion.
\r\n\r\nPresented in conjunction with Merce Cunningham: Common Time
\r\n\r\nRunning time: approx. 2 hours, one intermission
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\r\n\r\nAbout TCA
\r\n\r\nTCA is made up of 25 curious, creative, committed young people, age 15 to 19, who meet at the MCA every Saturday for two years. Immersing themselves in the museum in order to build a generation of connected, creative collaborators. They present exciting, critical, and creative programs including the Living Room, monthly pop-up experiences for their peers and the general public.
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\r\n\r\nArtist Danny Giles stages a group performance throughout the museum using choreographed gestures drawn from the every day.
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\r\n\r\nCOPRESENTED WITH CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER
\r\n\r\nThe internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne, and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, 30 years after Brook’s legendary production took world theater by storm.
\r\n\r\nThe Mahabharata is not simply a book, nor a vast series of books, it is an immense canvas covering all the aspects of human existence. “In it,” Peter Brook has said, “we find all the questions of our lives, in a way that is at once contemporary and urgent. Over many thousands of years the Mahabharata shows us, in an always-unexpected way, how to open our eyes to what reality demands.”
\r\n\r\nNOTE: violent content, adult discretion advised
\r\n\r\nRunning time: 70 minutes, no intermission
\r\n\r\nPeter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne on the origins of Battlefield:
\r\n\r\nThe unfolding of a great war of extermination tears apart a family. Five brothers are on one side, the Pandavas, and on the other side their cousins, the Kauravas, the hundred sons of the blind King Dritarashtra. Both sides use terrible weapons of destruction. At the end the Pandavas win. Millions of dead bodies lie on the ground. And now the eldest of the Pandavas—Yudishtira—is compelled to become King. The victory has the bitter taste of defeat. Both Yudishtira and Dritarashtra, the old King, are in deep distress and remorse, questioning their past actions, trying to unravel their own responsibility for the disaster.
\r\n\r\nHow, having to live with this terrible massacre, having lost their sons, their families, their allies, will the new King and the old one find an inner peace?
\r\n\r\nThe richness of the language of this timeless epic, and its always astonishing stories, allow us to bring to the stage this situation, which, belonging to the past, reflects at the same time the harsh conflicts of today.
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On select Saturdays during Merce Cunningham: Common Time, local dance companies engage with Merce’s conviction of “common time” to activate the driving themes and concepts behind the exhibition. These collaborative and cross-disciplinary performances demonstrate overlapping relationships between movement, music, fashion, architecture, social media, set, and lighting design.
\r\n\r\nNeighborhood Dances progenitor Victoria Bradford choreographs dances in public spaces in accordance with a specific set of prompts and parameters that she has developed. These performances are meticulously documented in still- and moving images, and then catalogued and archived on her website.
\r\n\r\nNow, Bradford invites the public to participate in the project; their contributions will form the basis for the April 15 event. Submissions from the public will be reviewed and three will be selected as source material for choreographed performances by Bradford and staged at the MCA on April 15 as part of Merce Cunningham: Common Time. Four new 20-minute performances begin on the hour (1, 2, 3, and 4 pm), with a 10-minute talkback after each, followed by 30-minute performative rests.
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Tania Pérez Córdova (Mexican, b. 1979) is an artist based in Mexico City whose sculptural compositions suggest the passing of time. Inscribed in her seemingly static pieces are hints of an active contemporary life: a borrowed gold earring is suspended from a bronze cast, an active credit card is inserted in a clay platter, a stranger’s SIM card is embedded in a terracotta slab. These objects make visible the artist’s negotiations with third parties—with the women left without one gold earring, with the credit card user, the bank, and the whole credit system. The sculptures are all of us, our relationship to digital communication.
\r\n\r\nPérez Córdova’s interest in quotidian events underlines how unremarkable situations can be compelling acts associated with a complex infrastructure of social or economic relationships. They are performative works that do not move, “contemporary relics,” as she calls them. Pérez Córdova’s Ascendant Artist exhibition will be her first solo museum presentation in the United States.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum's second floor.
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\r\n\r\nThis program is copresented with Pitchfork as part of In Sight Out, a conversation series exploring new perspectives in music, art, and culture.
\r\n\r\nAbout the Speaker
\r\n\r\nStephin Merritt releases albums under the band names the Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. Merritt has written and recorded 11 Magnetic Fields albums, including his popular 1999 album, 69 Love Songs. His song “The Book of Love” was covered by Peter Gabriel and has become an unlikely wedding favorite. Merritt composed original music and lyrics for several music-theater pieces, including an off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaiman’s novel Coraline, for which he received an Obie Award. Merritt also scored the Academy Award–nominated film Pieces of April (directed by Peter Hedges). In March 2017, Merritt will release his latest Magnetic Fields album, 50 Song Memoir, on Nonesuch Records. He continues to compose for theater, television, and film, in addition to his solo album projects. Additional information on Stephin Merritt can be found at www.houseoftomorrow.com.
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\r\n\r\nOn select Saturdays during Merce Cunningham: Common Time, local dance companies engage with Merce’s conviction of “common time” to activate the driving themes and concepts behind the exhibition. These collaborative and cross-disciplinary performances demonstrate overlapping relationships between movement, music, fashion, architecture, social media, set, and lighting design.
\r\n\r\nThe series commences with an outdoor performance of For the toward, where vibrant and athletic performers Matty Davis and Will Arbery interact with steel objects, building nails, and poetic texts all while balancing on, pitching, and catching sculptures that weigh between 15 and 35 pounds. Expect nontraditional choreography and formidable displays of strength punctuated by startlingly tender moments of intimacy. The 25-minute performance will cycle five times on the hour starting at noon with the final performance at 4pm.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nJune 27: Maggie Brown; July 4: Here In Now; July 11: Mwata Bowden, One Foot in and One Foot Out; July 18: Jason Stein; July 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
Join the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as they celebrate its 50th anniversary with MCA ArtEdge: 50, during which attendees access an exclusive first preview of the summer blockbuster exhibition Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg (June 6 - September 24, 2017). Guests will enjoy a beautiful cocktail reception in the museum's newly redesigned interior, a Murakami-inspired dinner in an immersive art environment. An evening of music curated by Pharrell Williams - a close collaborator of Takashi Murakami and ten-time Grammy award winner, producer, entrepreneur, and singer/rapper - follows dinner and features a musical performance by Janelle Monáe, the six-time Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, and actress.
\r\n\r\nGraff is a sponsor of the evening, and it is hosted by Gala Co-Chairs Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein, Helyn Goldenberg and Michael Alper, James Litinsky, and Pamela Netzky and Ashley Hemphill-Netzky, and they join the MCA 50 Chairs Anne Kaplan, Sally Kovler, Cari Sacks, and Helen Zell in marking this particularly celebratory moment in the MCA's history. About the gala, MCA Prizker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn says, "The MCA is thrilled to present this year's ArtEdge gala honoring our 50th anniversary, and we are particularly excited to have internationally renowned artist Takashi Murakami here for the opening of his exhibition. This incredible evening, shared with our featured performer Janelle Monáe and Chicago's creative community, will be the social event of the city."
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\r\nJanelle Monáe is a major label recording star on Atlantic Records who also owns her own entertainment company, Wondaland Arts Society. Her Grammy nominations are for her chart-topping R&B studio albums The Audition; Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase); and The ArchAndroid. In 2012, the singer was featured as a guest vocalist for "We are Young" by Fun, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2016, Monáe had major roles in two Hollywood films, Hidden Figures and Moonlight. Both films received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, with Moonlight winning the title.
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\r\nThe evening begins at 6 pm with a spirited cocktail reception in the MCA's grand, two-story Kovler Atrium and Lefkofsky Lobby, set off with décor by HMR Design and lighting by Event Creative. Splashes of light and custom designs celebrate the MCA and Women's Board's 50th Anniversary, highlighting the MCA's stunning new renovation of the interior of the museum, revealed for the first time at the event. Guests can enjoy their first look at the Takashi Murakami exhibition before dinner. The international art and fashion icon's first museum retrospective in the United States features multiple never-before-seen works and massive paintings -some stretching over 60-feet long-in addition to his famous sculptures and anime-inspired characters and illustrations.
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\r\nFollowing the cocktail reception, guests will experience a spectacle in a large tent by Partytime/HDO Productions located behind the museum in Lake Shore Park. Gala guests will dine inside a dramatic sensory space enhanced by unique refreshments and an artisanal menu by Limelight Catering. Chefs will present a sophisticated multi-course dinner, beginning with Murakami-inspired hors d'oeuvres such as sushi rolls, playfully displaying edible octopus. The entrées include fish and a gourmet vegetarian dish.
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\r\nDessert is followed by Monáe's performance and a night of dancing.
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\r\nGala Tickets
\r\nTicket prices are $100,000 (Platinum) or $50,000 (Gold) for a table of 10; or $2,500 for an individual Patron ticket. Tickets include valet parking by VIP Valet and can be purchased by calling the MCA at 312.397.4017.
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\r\nConcert-Only Tickets
\r\nA very limited number of concert-only tickets are available at $250. Concert ticket holders arrive at8:30 to view the Takashi Murakami exhibition before attending the dessert and concert portion of the event, which begins at 9:30. Tickets can be purchased by calling the MCA at 312.397.4017.
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Known for his collaborations with pop icon Kanye West and fashion house Louis Vuitton, and for vibrant anime-inspired characters, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) has blurred the boundaries throughout his career between high and low culture, ancient and modern, East and West. The MCA is proud to present a major retrospective of his paintings, featuring fifty works that span three decades of his career, from the artist’s earliest mature works—many of which are being shown in North America for the first time—to his recent, monumentally scaled paintings. The exhibition, titled Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, shows how Murakami’s art is rooted in traditions of Japanese painting and folklore, and highlights the artist’s careful attention to craft and materials. It also showcases the artist’s astute eye for the contemporary influences of globalization, media culture, the continued threats of nuclear power.
\r\n\r\nMurakami’s increasingly complex paintings are filled with characters and scenarios both cute and menacing, saccharine sweet and critically acidic. They are evidence of a conflicted, concerned, and committed commentator on cultural production who recognizes that any effective “hook” is bound to have a sharp point. Throughout his career, and especially over the last ten years, Murakami has combined spectacle with sophistication, transforming the art world while establishing his own reputation within it.
\r\n\r\nTakashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and is curated by the MCA’s James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum’s fourth floor.
\r\n\r\nA fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with original essays by the show’s curator, Michael Darling, and Michael Dylan Foster, Chelsea Foxwell, Reuben Keehan, and Akira Mizuta Lippit, as well as excerpts of previously published writing by Murakami translated from the original Japanese.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nJune 13: Caroline Davis Quartet; June 20: Alexis Lombre Quartet; June 27: Maggie Brown; July 4: Here In Now; July 11: Mwata Bowden, One Foot in and One Foot Out; July 18: Jason Stein; July 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
21Minus is an annual festival of art and experiences created by people under 21 years old. On Saturday, June 17, 2017, we take over the MCA, filling it top to bottom with exciting and unexpected projects that invite visitors to engage with the museum and each other in radically new ways.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nJune 20: Alexis Lombre Quartet; June 27: Maggie Brown; July 4: Here In Now; July 11: Mwata Bowden, One Foot in and One Foot Out; July 18: Jason Stein; July 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
Since opening in 1967, the MCA has championed artistic experimentation and risk taking. To the Racy Brink kicks off the MCA’s 50th anniversary by honoring the artists and exhibitions that placed the museum on the vanguard of contemporary art. The historical material on display highlights some of the MCA’s daring early projects with emerging artists (many of whom later became household names), and advertising campaigns that encouraged Chicagoans to try something new. Contemporary art is synonymous with being of the moment, experimental, and sometimes controversial, but like all things, contemporary art ages and evolves over time. Although the artists and projects displayed may have been seen as radical, or, as one critic described them, “close to the racy brink that today’s artists sometimes fall over,” they have since become accepted into our cultural history.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition commemorates some of these boundary-pushing shows and artists through a selection of rare films, videos, photographs, and ephemera from the MCA’s archives.
\r\n\r\nAs part of our mission to support experimental art and artists, the MCA has introduced new artists through solo exhibitions. In the 1980s, the museum’s Education Department began producing videos in conjunction with these solo exhibitions, showcasing and preserving the artists’ insights into their work and creative process in their own words.
\r\n\r\nTo the Racy Brink is the first of a series of exhibitions celebrating the MCA’s 50th anniversary. This exhibition is organized by Lynne Warren, Curator, and Mary Richardson, Library Director. It is presented in the Turner Gallery on the museum's fourth floor.
\r\n\r\nImage: Bruce Nauman, Jump. Museum staff member carrying out Nauman’s telephoned instructions to perform a movement in front of a video recorder for the exhibition Art by Telephone. The videotape was played back during the exhibition in the spot where it was filmed. Photo © MCA Chicago
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nJuly 4: Here In Now; July 11: Mwata Bowden, One Foot in and One Foot Out; July 18: Jason Stein; July 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
Woman with a Camera presents photographs by 14 women artists who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and generations, and address various artistic concerns. This intimate show includes established masters of the medium—such as Catherine Opie, Laurie Simmons, and Carrie Mae Weems—alongside exceptional younger artists—including Anne Collier, Xaviera Simmons, and Mickalene Thomas—who use photography to explore facets of politics, history, and identity. Though their practices are disparate, their works draw on three central themes in photography: rendering the human figure, capturing public or private spaces, and commenting on our media-saturated culture.
\r\n\r\nEach work on view entered the MCA collection through the generosity of Jack and Sandra Guthman, whose passion for collecting women photographers matches our own commitment to collecting work by female artists. The museum is honored to receive this major gift of 50 photographs from the Guthmans’ collection in celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary. Along with other works from this gift, on view across our 50th anniversary exhibition programming, the selection in Woman with a Camera demonstrates the remarkable breadth of work in this collection, and affirms that the camera can be a tool for expression of all kinds.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is organized by Nina Wexelblatt, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the MCA. It is presented in the Carol and Douglas Cohen Gallery and Stone Family Gallery, Ellen Stone Belic and Dr. Nenad Belic, Cynthia and Richard Raskin, Carole David Stone and James H. Stone on the museum’s fourth floor.
\r\n\r\nImage: Leslie Hewitt, Untitled (Geographic Delay), 2009, Digital chromogenic print, Framed: 31 1/16 × 37 1/16 in. (78.9 × 94.1 cm), Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Jack and Sandra Guthman, 2016.33. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nJuly 11: Mwata Bowden, One Foot in and One Foot Out; July 18: Jason Stein; July 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
Participe en una visita guía bilingüe el segundo martes de cada mes, para recorrer las exposiciones en español.
\r\n\r\n(Join a bilingual MCA docent on the second Tuesday of each month for a tour in Spanish.)
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\r\n\r\nThis program is copresented with Pitchfork as part of In Sight Out, a conversation series exploring new perspectives in music, art, and culture.
\r\n\r\nAbout the Speakers
\r\n\r\nThurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth and an icon of counterculture. Formed in 1981 and currently on hiatus, Sonic Youth were quintessential "downtown New Yorkers," drawing on noise, no wave, and hardcore punk to shape ideas of alternative, indie, and art rock in the underground and beyond. Their influence remains immeasurable. Moore has released many solo albums, most recently this year’s excellent 8Rock N Roll Consciousness. His wide-ranging collaborations include Yoko Ono, John Zorn, and Merzbow. Moore publishes poetry and music books through his Ecstatic Peace Library and released Stereo Sanctity, a collection of his lyrics and poems, in 2015. He lives in London.
\r\n\r\nJenn Pelly is an editor of reviews at Pitchfork, where she has been on staff since 2011. Her book on British feminist punk band The Raincoats will be published through Bloomsbury in October.
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\r\n\r\nOriginally from Long Island, New York, Jason Stein is one of the few musicians working today to focus entirely on the bass clarinet as a jazz and improvisational instrument. He studied at Bennington College with Charles Gayle and Milford Graves, and at the University of Michigan with Donald Walden and Ed Sarath. In 2005, Stein relocated to Chicago and has since recorded for such labels as Leo, Delmark, Not Two, Atavistic, 482 Music and Clean Feed. Stein has performed throughout the US and Europe as both a bandleader and sideman and has amassed a discography of over 30 albums.
\r\n\r\nThe Jason Stein Trio also features bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Mikel Avery.
\r\n\r\n Jazz schedule:
\r\nJuly 18: Jason Stein; July 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
For her first solo museum exhibition, Amanda Williams (American, b. 1974), an artist who trained as an architect, presents new bodies of work that use sculpture and photography to respond to changing urban environments. Williams, who was raised in Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood, transforms elements of architecture and design into immersive sculptures that draw attention to the ways context dramatically informs the value of material, and by extension, the value of cities. For Williams, architecture and its fragments serve as a microcosm for larger social issues, and the artist invites viewers to consider the social, political, and racial narratives that support the devaluation of certain neighborhoods, such as Englewood on Chicago’s South Side. Despite the regional focus of Williams’s work, the issues she raises are applicable to nearly every contemporary urban space, and her work encourages broad thinking about what the form of a house, a street, or a neighborhood says about its value to the people who live there, as well as to the larger society in which it exists.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition presents a new series that is an extension of her breakout Color(ed) Theory project, which was presented at the first Chicago Architectural Biennial in 2015. For that project, Williams painted eight houses slated for demolition in the Englewood neighborhood with vivid colors inspired by Chicago’s South Side in order to draw attention to the racial undertones of discussions about urban design and decay. At the MCA, Williams presents sculptures that extend from this formative work, using bricks and siding from the painted houses that have since been demolished. She highlights how demolition as a force of erasure and unmaking and the afterlife of building materials shape the lives of urban citizens. This artistic gesture holds the potential to raise difficult questions about the social and political fabric of our city.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is organized by Grace Deveney, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery and Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery on the museum’s third floor.
\r\n\r\nImage: Amanda Williams, Flamin’ Red Hots from Color(ed) Theory Suite, 2014–16, Color photograph, Edition of 10 aside from 2 artist proofs, 13 1/2 x 20 in. (47 x 50.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist/ McCormick Gallery
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\r\n\r\nAbout the Speaker
\r\n\r\nEckhaus Latta is a bicoastal fashion label designed and executed by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta. The two met while attending the Rhode Island School of Design, where they studied sculpture and textile design, respectively. After graduating in 2010, they designed and worked with many labels, artists, and institutions. Eckhaus designed men’s accessories at Marc by Marc Jacobs as well as for Opening Ceremony. Latta started her own textile development company, Prince Ruth, designing prints and knitwear for brands including Proenza Schouler, Calvin Klein, Opening Ceremony, and Marc Jacobs, among others. In addition, both designers have experience working in the art world, Eckhaus was a studio assistant for Matthew Barney and Latta was a fellow at The Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum, as well as in the world of academia; Eckhaus currently teaches fashion design at Parsons the New School for Design and Latta teaches digital textile methods at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2011, they founded Eckhaus Latta.
\r\n\r\nFashion shows function as a creative outlet essential to the brand’s ethos. Exploring casting, format, and the role of performance, Eckhaus Latta questions an established structure. In addition to their shows and presentations, Eckhaus Latta produces seasonal videos with the director Alexa Karolinski to further contextualize their collections. These are released through various media platforms and art institutions. The role of collaboration is innate in the company, and extends to having worked with numerous artists on various projects as well as collaborating with brands like Nike and Camper on shoe development. Eckhaus Latta has also exhibited projects, videos, and collections at the 55th Venice Biennale, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin), Gavin Brown’s enterprise (New York), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Kraupa–Tuskany Zeidler Gallery (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), MOCA LA, MoMA PS1 (New York), and the New Museum (New York).
\r\n\r\nTickets: $15/$15 Full/ $7/$7 Students
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nJuly 25: Willie Pickens Trio; Aug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nAug 1: Dee Alexander; Aug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nAug 8: Pharez Whitted; Aug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nAug 15: Twin Talk; Aug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
I Am You
\r\nAug 19, 2017–Apr 1, 2018
\r\nSylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Galleries, 2nd floor
You Are Here
\r\nOct 21, 2017–Jan 28, 2018
\r\nGriffin Galleries of Contemporary Art, 4th floor
We Are Everywhere
\r\nOct 21, 2017–Jan 28, 2018
\r\nGriffin Galleries of Contemporary Art, 4th floor
In honor of the MCA’s 50th anniversary, the museum presents We Are Here, a major three-part exhibition drawn from the MCA’s collection. We Are Here declares that contemporary art and culture have the power to change the way that we see the world. It considers the role of museums as repositories of knowledge and demonstrates how the collections they build shape art and its history. The exhibition overturns the traditional model of the anniversary exhibition, focusing instead on the relationship between artist and viewer through a series of thematic exhibitions that explore the potential of art to alter our perceptions. The multigenerational artists featured live around the world and work in a broad range of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, sound, film, and video.
\r\n\r\nI Am You, located on the museum’s second floor, gathers works that question how we relate to and shape our environments. It includes works by recognized artists such as Francis Bacon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marisol, and Shirin Neshat, as well as younger artists, such as Jonathas de Andrade and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye—all of whom rely upon personal experiences to illuminate the vastness of contemporary life.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition continues on the fourth floor, where You Are Here examines how the role of the viewer has changed over time, especially since the 1960s, from passive onlooker to active participant. Artists such as Pierre Huyghe and Robert Morris forge a new physical relationship between the viewer and the art object. Other artists, including Huang Yong-Ping, explore representations of political figures and political power—specifically, how the body may be subjected to power.
\r\n\r\nAlso on the fourth floor, We Are Everywhere, showcases artists who borrow from popular culture—soup cans, movie stills, neon signage, or floor tiles—to critique its workings. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bruce Nauman, as well as Chicago Imagists Karl Wirsum and Roger Brown, re-present and reveal social realities that may otherwise go unnoticed. Artists such as Stan Douglas, Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing, Jeff Koons, and others have engaged with new forms of media to extend the reach of their own viewpoints and experiences. Barbara Kruger and Lawrence Abu Hamdan further encourage us to think twice about the power structures in which we invest, be they the notion of the state or the corporation.
\r\n\r\nTogether, these three independently curated yet inter-related "chapters" tell an evolving story of contemporary art.
\r\n\r\nI Am You is organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Pamela Alper Associate Curator; You Are Here is organized by Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator; and We Are Everywhere is organized by Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
\r\n\r\nImage: Eddie Peake, Destroyed By Desire, 2014. © 2014 Eddie Peake. Photo © Eddie Peake (Mark Blower)
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nAug 22: Xavier Breaker Coalition; Aug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
From June 13 to September 26, 2017, Tuesdays on the Terrace features Chicago's quintessential jazz musicians performing outside on the MCA's terrace. Visitors can experience the musicians up close, enjoy dining al fresco, or relax with a cocktail on the sculpture garden lawn. The performances take place from 5:30-8 pm and are hosted by Al Carter-Bey and Richton Guy Thomas from WDCB 90.0 FM.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nAug 29: Rajiv Halim; Sept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nSept 5: Fred Anderson Legacy Project; Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet, Sept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens the MCA Stage season with The Fever by 600 HIGHWAYMEN, a performance that tests the limits of individual and collective responsibility and invites the audience to become part of the work. The performance begins with writers and directors Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone taking turns as narrator, describing an unremarkable party hosted by a woman named Marianne before an intimate audience of 75 people seated on an empty stage. As time passes, the performers slowly call upon volunteers to take part in the story, facilitating simple interactions that evolve the spectators into participants who influence the direction of the show. The Fever is 600 HIGHWAYMEN's most evocative study about the empathetic feelings between strangers, and how everyone is dependent on one another. The Fever runs from Thursday to Sunday, September 7 to 10, at the MCA Stage.
\r\n\r\nThe Fever grows organically with every interaction, with the audience both producing and experiencing the work in a new way each time it is performed. A performer asks audience volunteers to catch him as he falls; the audience has to make real-time decisions on whether or not they will help. The spotlight is on participation, and mutual responsibility to one another, illuminating the power of community, and its limitations. At another point, audience members are asked to move a performer from one end of the stage to another, forming a group procession that demands not only contact, but coordination among strangers
\r\n\r\nMCA Associate Curator of Performance Tara Aisha Willis says of The Fever, "This subtle but remarkable performance experience leaves each audience member with insistent, open-ended questions about our participation as individuals in the room and, by extension, society and the world. I'm excited to open this MCA Stage season - as the museum celebrates its 50th anniversary and unveils newly designed gathering spaces - with a work that asks us to attend to how we participate in community and common space.
\r\n\r\nOver the course of The Fever, the empty stage becomes the focus of a sophisticated lighting and sound design. Reflecting their own collaborative approach, Browde and Silverstone's performances blur the boundaries between performer and audience, allowing participation to feel unforced while pushing participants' willingness to be vulnerable together.
\r\n\r\n600 HIGHWAYMEN is a contemporary theater group based in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2009 by directors Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone. They have created eight original works that have been presented at national and international venues including the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival in New York; Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio; On The Boards in Seattle; Centre Pompidou and Parc de la Villette in France; Festival Theaterformen in Germany; Noorderzon Festival in the Netherlands; Zürcher Theater Spektakel in Switzerland; Onassis Cultural Centre in Greece; In BetweenTime International Festival in the United Kingdom; and the OzAsia Festival in Australia, among others. In 2014, the duo won an Obie Award, followed by Zurich's ZKB Patronage Prize in 2015. In 2016, Browde and Silverstone were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
\r\n\r\nTickets: $30
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Sept 12: Ari Brown Quintet
\r\n\r\nSept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project
\r\n\r\nSept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery
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\r\n\r\nSongwriter, recording and visual artist Solange Knowles engages in an evening of conversation with writer Britt Julious of Pitchfork. Following an early career of acting, dancing, and writing music for her older sister, Beyoncé Knowles, Solange's third solo album A Seat at the Table rose to number one in the United States in 2016. The album's hit single "Cranes in the Sky" won a Grammy award for Best R&B Performance. Solange ranks among the top 100 dance club artists of all time by Billboard magazine.
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Britt Julious is a writer whose work appears in the New York Times, Esquire, ELLE, GQ, Rolling Stone, W magazine, Vice, and the Guardian on topics ranging from music and art to race, politics, and feminism. She currently writes a column for the Chicago Tribune.
\r\n\r\nTickets: $20
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\r\n\r\nAlso on view is Spoils (2011), a project that saw the artist serve Iraqi date syrup and venison on Saddam Hussein's very own china, as well as The invisible enemy should not exist (2007-ongoing), a lifelong project to fabricate at full scale every single item looted from the Iraqi National Museum. The exhibition also includes a portion of Rakowitz's commission for Documenta 13, What Dust Will Rise? (2012), for which he worked with stone carvers to re-create items from the State Library of HesseKassel that were lost in the 1941 fire of the Fridericianum, using stone quarried from the ruins of sixth-century sandstone Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
\r\n\r\nThe title of the exhibition, Backstroke of the West, is a mistranslation of Revenge of the Sith, which was used for a Chinese bootleg version of the film and likely gleaned from a program such as Google Translate. The title speaks to Rakowitz's interest in translation as a means of traversing social and political boundaries as well as how popular culture can be used to access shared cultural narratives.
\r\n\r\nCollectively, this exhibition tells a story of restitution and reconstitution and positions Rakowitz as one of the most important artists of our time.
\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is organized by Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
\r\n\r\nImage: Michael Rakowitz, May the Arrogant Not Prevail, 2010. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Marshall Field’s by exchange. Image courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
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\r\n\r\nFri, Sep 22, 2017, 6:00 pm
\r\n\r\nSun, Oct 1, 2017, 2:00 pm
\r\n\r\nFri, Oct 6, 2017, 6:00 pm
\r\n\r\nSun, Oct 22, 2017, 12:00 pm
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\r\nMichael Rakowitz's Enemy Kitchen explores the connections between hostility and hospitality as veterans of the Iraq War serve Iraqi recipes to the public through a retrofitted food truck on the plaza.
Enemy Kitchen is open until the food runs out. Meals are free but limited.
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nSept 19: Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project; Sept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
Saturday, September 23, 7-11 pm
\r\n\r\nPrime Time: Off Rack is an evening of music, fashion, and dance that explores the intersections of fashion, design, and contemporary art with art activations and distinctive food and beverages. The evening features a performance by rapper and dancer Le1f in the museum's atrium, and Style Wars, a live design competition presented by fashion collaborative House of Diehl of New York. Other appearances include Eda Yorulmazglu's costumed 'creatures;' DJ sets from Rae Chardonnay and Cqqchitfruit; music and dance performances by Brandon Bullard and Sadie Woods; and Growing Concerns Poetry Collective performs their lyrically driven album We Here: Thank You for Noticing.
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MCA Prime Time is an after-hours series that taps into the creative pulse of Chicago with an eclectic mix of live music, performance art, film screenings, and interactive programs that transform the museum with artists and key cultural groups in the city. Prime Time: Off Rack is organized by January Parkos Arnall, curator, Public Programs and Ann Meisinger, assistant curator, Public Programs.
\r\n\r\nTickets: $20
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\r\nJazz schedule:
\r\nSept 26: Mikel Patrick Avery.
Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, discusses the importance of intergenerational learning opportunities and access to arts and cultural programming across barriers of age, ability, physical space, and geography. The presentation is followed by a discussion with Dr. Robert Nathan Mayer Director of Education Heidi Reitmaier.
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\r\n\r\nIn Progress is a new MCA series of public programs that give visitors a glimpse into the working practices of artists. It highlights Chicago artists with a focus on live art happenings, discussions, workshops, and screenings that expose the behind-the-scenes labor of art making.
\r\n\r\nThis series further positions the MCA as a platform for creative culture, providing a place for artists to test ideas and push their practices to new levels through audience engagement, and creating a forum for conversation and interaction in our new space, the Commons.
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\r\nOct 8, 2 pm
DEVELOPED WITH AND DIRECTED BY MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY STACEY PRINTZ, WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY TOMMY SHEPHERD. PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
\r\n\r\nInspired by soccer and the artist’s first generation American experience, Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s
\r\n/peh-LO-tah/—a futbol framed freedom suite . . . actively intersects global economics, fandom culture across borders, and the politics of joy. The work was initially conceived during Joseph’s first trip to South Africa, when the nation was preparing for the 2010 World Cup.
Along with spoken word poetry by Joseph, /peh-LO-tah/features interdisciplinary performances by Amara Tabor-Smith and native Chicagoan Traci Tolmaire as well as original music by Tommy Soulati Shepherd with selected vocal arrangements by Yaw Agyeman of the Black Monks of Mississippi. Filmed imagery from Joseph’s travels to South Africa and Brazil and video projection designed by visual artist and long-time collaborator David Szlasa accompany dancers who perform the movements of soccer players fused with hip-hop and modern dance as well as folkloric dances of South Africa and Brazil. The distinct physiologies and expressiveness of the dancers’ bodies offer a powerful meditation on egalitarianism “choreographed to the rhythm of the beautiful game.”
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Rapper Vince Staples talks of his difficult upbringing in Long Beach, California's Ramona Park neighborhood, and his rise to fame with the release of his critically acclaimed debut album, Summertime '06, in 2015. Now 24 years old, Staples's breakout career includes the popular EP Prima Donna, and his most recent LP, Big Fish Theory. Known for his straightforward lyrics, Staples touches on issues including gang violence, the music industry, and social inequity in his work.
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Chicago-based artist Edra Soto prompts visitors to consider the nature of urban space, cross-cultural dynamics, the legacy of colonialism, and personal responsibility in Open 24 Hours, an interactive installation punctuated with performances and workshops.
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\r\n\r\nSoto also invites visitors to submit content, which she then incorporates into a robust series of talks, performances, and workshops presented on select Friday evenings. These programs offer a platform to highlight the work of her creative community as well as the intellectual discourse within the exhibition’s space.
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\r\n\r\nDesigned to allow you to be mindful of your young ones as you look at and talk about art with other adults, these guided tours for moms, dads, and caregivers keep you up to date with contemporary art as you explore current MCA exhibitions.
\r\n\r\nTours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
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\r\n\r\nThis month, the past, present, and future collide: color history, dress yourself for the future, and make an audio time capsule.
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\r\nThis month, the past, present, and future collide: color history, dress yourself for the future, and make an audio time capsule.
Friday, November 17, 6pm
\r\n\r\nChicago-based recording artist, producer, and philanthropist Chance the Rapper comes to the MCA for an evening of conversation with Pitchfork's Adrienne Samuels Gibbs to discuss topics ranging from his interest in the art world to philanthropy. Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap gained the artist critical acclaim in 2013, followed by Coloring Book, which earned three Grammy awards, including one for Best Rap Album, in 2016.
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\r\n\r\nTickets: $20
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\r\n\r\nOn the first Wednesday of every month, the MCA offers guided tours to moms, dads, caregivers, and their little ones.
\r\n\r\nDesigned to allow you to be mindful of your young ones as you look at and talk about art with other adults, these guided tours for moms, dads, and caregivers keep you up to date with contemporary art as you explore current MCA exhibitions.
\r\n\r\nTours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
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\r\n\r\nThe program draws from twenty important works Tharp made between 1965 and 1970 created for different spaces, including museums and the outdoors, and performed in silence. These rigorous works were governed by systems for organizing time and space which were illustrated in a series of artworks for the dances, including Re-Moves, Disperse, Excess Idle Surplus, Group Activities, After 'Suite', Medley, and Dancing in the Streets of London and Paris, continued in Stockholm, and sometimes Madrid. Samples--drawn from more than one thousand pages of charts, drawings, and sketches she made in this era to plan and document the twenty dances--are shown for the first time and examined from the perspective of the New York art world at the time.
\r\n\r\nTICKET INFORMATION
\r\nMinimalism and Me takes place at 7:30 pm on Thursday-Saturday, December 7-9, with additional 2 pm shows on Saturday and Sunday, December 9 and 10. Tickets for the performances are $45 and are available at the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010 or www.mcachicago.org.
ASL INTERPRETATION
\r\nSunday, December 10, 2 pm
\r\nThis performance of Minimalism and Me includes ASL interpretation.
Edra Soto discusses Open 24 Hours, the Commons' inaugural Artist Project, with curator January Parkos Arnall. Soto’s project brings to the Commons reflections regarding our surroundings, identities, and communities.
\r\n\r\nFollowing the talk, join us for a live performance by Felicia Holman.
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\r\n\r\n(Join a bilingual MCA docent on the second Tuesday of each month for a tour in Spanish.)
\r\n\r\nLos martes son GRATIS para los residentes de Illinois.
\r\n\r\n(Tuesdays are always FREE for Illinois residents.)
\r\n\r\n*Monthly on the 2nd Tuesday 6–7 pm
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\r\n\r\nIn Progress is a new MCA series of public programs that give visitors a glimpse into the working practices of artists. It highlights Chicago artists with a focus on live art happenings, discussions, workshops, and screenings that expose the behind-the-scenes labor of art making.
\r\n\r\nThis series further positions the MCA as a platform for creative culture, providing a place for artists to test ideas and push their practices to new levels through audience engagement, and creating a forum for conversation and interaction in our new space, the Commons.
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\r\n\r\nJoin us for free music, snacks, zine-making, a scavenger hunt, and more!
\r\n\r\nFEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE:
\r\n\r\nZimra Chickering
\r\nAshley Cruz
\r\nAngelina Echevirria
\r\nTea Floyd
\r\nAmber Goliath
\r\nMelany Gomez
\r\nKamryn Grey
\r\nNoel Gutierrez
\r\nArmaria Hughes
\r\nAmy Huske
\r\nNikayla Johnson
\r\nKopano
\r\nRuby Luz
\r\nMichelle Morales
\r\nVictor Musoni
\r\nAshley Perez
\r\nandrea reyes
\r\nSimone G. Reynolds
\r\nJoshua Rodriguez
\r\nMariela Ruiz
\r\nStacy Salazar
\r\nLuis Soto
\r\nDeJiah Tinzie
\r\nJennifer Villanueva
Join Mykele Deville and Jeffrey Michael Austin as they produce spoken word and musical performances using content and testimonials gathered from audience participants in Edra Soto’s Artist Project Open 24 Hours. These works consider, amplify, and react to the public’s shared thoughts and concerns around topics of community.
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\r\n\r\nPaul Pfeiffer (American, b. 1966) is best known for video-based artwork in which he manipulates media footage from sports and music culture. Through repetition and omission, his works expose the absurdity, complexity, and violence of popular spectacles. This exhibition highlights one of Pfeiffer’s newest works, Three Figures In A Room (2015–16), on view for the first time in a museum. The two-channel video deconstructs the infamous boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, in May 2015.
\r\n\r\nThree Figures In A Room is presented alongside works from the MCA’s permanent collection selected by the artist and the exhibition’s curator, Grace Deveney, based on their ongoing dialogue about the relationships between image, sound, anthropology, and autobiography.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is organized by Grace Deveney, Curatorial Assistant at the MCA. It is presented in the Turner Gallery on the museum's fourth floor.
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\r\n","type":"Event","state":"published","slug":"in-progress-speech-and-museums","created_at":"2018-10-22 20:42:15.831939","updated_at":"2018-12-20 22:48:03.449461","excerpt":null,"is_timeless":false,"organization_id":115,"highlighted":false,"opening_starts_at":null,"opening_ends_at":null,"searchable":"'arbit':28B 'art':32B 'artist':22B 'conduit':20B 'convers':9B 'facilit':8B 'histori':33B 'join':6B 'museum':5A,11B,17B 'narrat':30B 'practic':12B 'progress':2A 'role':15B 'speech':3A 'unpack':13B 'voic':23B 'well':25B","thumbnail":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1721668417/xmszrmcxrxga2dl62wcq.jpg","calendar":"https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/raw/upload/v1721669482/event_ics_1721669482489.ics","carousel":null,"category_name":"Talks"},{"id":5542,"title":"Muralla Alta/High Wall: Daniel Hojnaki (In collaboration with Edra Soto)","starts_at":"2018-01-12 18:00:00","ends_at":"2018-01-12 20:00:00","body":"Audiences are invited to sift and meander through a visual experience that includes a narrative installation of 35 mm slide projections. Muralla Alta/High Wall forefronts subjective narratives and evokes the particularities of memory by presenting domestic and public architectural scenes.
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\r\n\r\nThe MCA presents the first solo museum exhibition of Chicago-based artist Paul Heyer (b. 1982). In his most immersive installation to date, Heyer creates a multisensory, dream-like realm that combines his ethereal paintings and sculptures, which are rooted in his experiences as an active participant of rave and club culture within the LGBTQ community, to explore out-of-body experiences and psychedelic highs.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is organized by Erin Toale, Curatorial Assistant, and Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. It is presented in the Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery and Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery on the museum’s third floor.
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\r\n\r\nTICKET INFORMATION
\r\nLas Ideas runs 60 minutes with no intermission and is performed in Spanish with English supertitles. The performance takes place at 7:30 pm on Thursday-Saturday, January 25-27, with an additional 2 pm show on Sunday, January 28. Tickets for the performances are $30 and are available at the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010.
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\r\nRELATED PROGRAMS
\r\nPost-Show Talk
\r\nFriday, January 26, following the performance
\r\nJoin Federico León and Julián Tello for a conversation moderated by Curator of Performance, Yolanda Cesta-Cursach.
Rashayla Marie Brown premieres an interactive movie that is part-performance, part-scripted monologue, and part-theatrical spectacle. The artist invites audiences to perform a series of images and texts based on the topics of alcoholism and addictive maladies that disproportionately affect people of color, the impossibility of decolonization, and the death of the archive.
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\r\n\r\nTaking its title from the classic Bruce Brown surf movie from 1966, Endless Summer offers a snapshot of the hedonistic minimalism that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Alternatively called “Finish Fetish” or “Light and Space,” these works were influenced by the surf industry, custom car culture, and the legendary climate of Southern California and characterized by slick surfaces and dreamy, sometimes atmospheric color. Distinct from the East Coast variant of minimalism that was emerging at the same time, the West Coast artists embraced new materials such as fiberglass, plastic, and resin instead of steel, iron, and lead, and they reveled in the vagaries of perception rather than objective facts. Peter Alexander, for instance, is best known for his delicate wedges of translucent colored resin that taper off at their tops to blend with its surroundings. Craig Kauffman experimented wildly with vacuum-formed plastics and automotive paint to make works that merge painting and sculpture but also allude to commercial signage and customized car designs. Likewise, Billy Al Bengston borrowed his material palette of bent metal, high sheen paints, and stenciled symbols from hot rod culture to push painting into a new direction.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is organized by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling. It is presented in the Cohen and Stone Family Galleries on the museum’s fourth floor.
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\r\n\r\nTICKET INFORMATION
\r\nThe Way You Look (At Me) Tonight runs 95 minutes and takes place at 7:30 pm on Thursday-Saturday, February 8-10, with an additional 2 pm show on Sunday, February 11. Tickets for the performances are $30 and are available at the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010 or www.mcachicago.org.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the first major survey of the work of groundbreaking, multidisciplinary artist Howardena Pindell. The exhibition spans the New York-based artist's five-decades-long career, featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life-threatening car accident in 1979. The exhibition traces the themes and visual experiments that run throughout Pindell's work up to the present, exemplifying how her artistic development reflects a larger shift from Modernism to contemporary art practices.
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\r\n\r\nIn work on paper and textiles, the artist creates landscapes and figures with clean, hard-edged lines that address the social and ecological impacts of Nigeria's oil business. Her works also reference West African cultural artifacts and resources, which Nkanga locates within the context of Nigeria's economy, raising questions about their cultural value and use. The exhibition is organized by MCA Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives Omar Kholeif.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Bellowing Sun, an audio-visual performance by composer Jaime Fennelly as part of his evolving project, Mind Over Mirrors. Divided into twelve passages, Bellowing Sun is an investigation into the celestial cycles of the natural world and a dialogue between acoustic and electronic musical traditions. Commissioned for its Chicago premiere by the MCA, the production features a large, cylindrical light sculpture suspended above the performers with a translucent textile skin. Designed and hand-built in collaboration with artists Timothy Breen, Eliot Irwin, and lighting designer Keith Parham, the visual centerpiece is an internally illuminated zoetrope with patterns and abstract figures. While the quartet performs, encircled by the audience, the light sculpture rotates and reveals a kaleidoscope of organic shapes and color, evoking astronomical objects and microscopic life forms. Bellowing Sun runs for two nights, April 6-7, 2018 at the MCA Stage.
\r\n\r\nBellowing Sun features vocalist and percussionist Janet Beveridge Bean, violinist Jim Becker, and percussionist Jon Mueller, along with a harmonium and analog synthesizers in Mind Over Mirror's first venture as a full ensemble. Paired with the ambient tones of Fennelly's Indian pedal harmonium, this performance expands Fennelly's compositional approach of layering acoustic and electronic instruments, which complements the ever-changing colors and animations illuminating the audience. Every vantage point is exposed to a unique pairing of sounds and images as Bellowing Suntransforms the theater into one synthesized and energized body.
\r\n\r\nABOUT THE ARTIST
\r\nMind Over Mirrors is the ongoing project of Jaime Fennelly, who has been making work under the name since 2010, following a three-year period spent living on a remote island off the coast of Washington state. Now based in Chicago, his recordings have debuted on a number of labels, including Paradise of Bachelors which released Undying Color (2017), and the studio recording of Bellowing Sun (2018). A multidisciplinary artist, Fennelly is known for incorporating his own photography on his album covers and often collaborates with other performers. Most notably, Fennelly has worked closely with choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, and together they produced Sabotage(2001-04), a touring duet of music and dance improvisation, and Storing the Winter (2013). In 2002, he co-founded the musical group Peeesseye in Brooklyn. Fennelly received his MFA from Bard College in 2006, where he studied music and sound with Maryanne Amacher, David Behrman, and Pauline Oliveros, among others.
TICKET INFORMATION
\r\nBellowing Sun takes place at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7. Tickets for the performances are $30 and are available at the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010.
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1330 N. Milwaukee Ave.
\r\n\r\nInspired by the art and life of Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen (on view at the MCA until May 20), the MCA invites you to step back into the year 1979 at a two-day experiential pop-up in Wicker Park, where attendees can interact with the music and pop culture of 1979.
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\r\nPick up some timely swag from the era only available during this event, like t-shirts inspired by the artist, or listen to some vinyl from the year—all while learning about the work and life of Howardena Pindell via a number of exclusive Made You Look moments.
1330 N. Milwaukee Ave.
\r\n\r\nInspired by the art and life of Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen (on view at the MCA until May 20), the MCA invites you to step back into the year 1979 at a two-day experiential pop-up in Wicker Park, where attendees can interact with the music and pop culture of 1979.
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\r\nPick up some timely swag from the era only available during this event, like t-shirts inspired by the artist, or listen to some vinyl from the year—all while learning about the work and life of Howardena Pindell via a number of exclusive Made You Look moments.
Where: The Standard Club, 320 South Plymouth Court
\r\nWhen: Wednesday, April 11, 12:00 pm
\r\nVIP Reception 11:30 am
The MCA is thrilled to announce that renowned photographer, Annie Leibovitz, will serve as the keynote speaker for the premiere Visionary luncheon to be held on Wednesday, April 11.
\r\n\r\nAnnie Leibovitz is one of the great observers of the contemporary world, capturing the personalities of the past half-century in images that are both iconic and intimate. In an exclusive Chicago event, she will present a selection of defining works from her newly published Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005–2016.
\r\n\r\nThis event is hosted by the MCA Women’s Board in celebration of their 50th anniversary. Proceeds from this event will support the museum's Learning and Public Programs initiatives.
\r\n\r\nEvent Co-Chairs: Rena Sternberg and Kristin Binder Stevens Women's Board President: Marjorie K. Staples
\r\n\r\nFor more information, please call (312) 397-4017
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\r\n\r\nBessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili debuts at the MCA with Poor People's TV Room, a kinetic history of collective action and resistance movements in Nigeria. The performance draws from an historical incident -- the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls in 2014 -- in order to unearth buried stories of the country's women-led resistance campaigns. Okpokwasili performs with a cast of women from different generations in this collaboration with director/designer Peter Born that fuses choreography, song, text, and film to build a potent narrative around the impact of that erasure on Nigerian society today. Blended with Okpokwasili's aesthetic, Poor People's TV Room crosses disciplines to make a visceral performance where the past is alive and unleashed
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Chicago-based photographer Kenneth Josephson changed the way we think about pictures with conceptual photographs that push the boundaries of the medium. By playing with the unique ability of a photography to be cropped, reproduced, circulated, or archived, his work demonstrates that photographs can convey an idea in addition to a picture.
His methods are the result of Josephson's years at the Illinois Institute of Design, where he studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind before going on to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for nearly 40 years. Examining Josephson's production from roughly 1960-80, Picture Fiction presents his four main ongoing series: Images within Images, Marks and Evidence, History of Photography Series, and Archaeological Series.
Largely drawn from the MCA's collection, the exhibition reveals concerns shared by Josephson and conceptual artists emerging in the 1960s, and draws parallels between his practice and those of other contemporary artists, including Roe Ethridge, Jessica Labatte, Marlo Pascual, Jimmy Robert, and Xaviera Simmons. The exhibition is organized by Lauren Fulton, former MCA Curatorial Research Fellow with MCA Chief Curator Michael Darling.
In association with the MCA Stage performance JACK &, hear from artists who are engaging with the cycles of oppression and violence that lie at the heart of America’s ever-expanding carceral state as well as professionals in the prison and education fields who are working toward ending these cycles of incarceration.
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\r\n\r\nJACK & is a multimedia comedy of errors directed by Kaneza Schaal and starring Cornell Alston that looks at society's attempts to structure and disseminate social codes. With a focus on entering-society rituals like prison reentry programs and debutante balls, the performance explores markers of transition and transformation, and the liminal ritual spaces that bridge worlds. Addressing new challenges to societal integration brought by the twenty first century -- immigration and migration, the US prison crisis -- JACK & draws on infamous comedy duos with artists such as Buster Keaton, Elaine May, Flip Wilson, and Key and Peele, in addition to aspirational class stories like those of the 1950's sitcoms The Honeymooners and Amos and Andy. With stage design by Christopher Myers and live music by Rucyl Mills, JACK & exposes the complexities and downfalls of training humans to successfully co-exist.
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This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the landmark exhibition I Was Raised on the Internet, an immersive and participatory show examining the impact of the internet and how it has changed the way we experience the world. With nearly 100 interactive artworks from 1998 to the present, I Was Raised on the Internet spans photography, painting, sculpture, film and video, as well as emerging technologies, interactive computer works, and virtual reality. I Was Raised on the Internet presents a global range of artists working in new media such as Oculus Rift and platforms like Facebook and Snapchat, looking at culture and 'trending' content and how interacting with the world has shifted through constant exchange on the internet. Organized by Omar Kholeif, MCA Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives, I Was Raised on the Internet runs from June 23 to October 14, 2018 and is supported by a lead grant from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation.
\r\n\r\nI Was Raised on the Internet examines the influence of gaming and entertainment, as well as social media and smart phones, on everyday life. Taking 1998 as a starting point, the exhibition decodes a generation of artists and viewers who have come to speak a unique vocabulary that has emerged with the new millennium. In addition to the idea of a millennial, the exhibition explores terms such as 'post-internet' and 'post-digital,' used by artists to imply a new, instant culture. Throughout the exhibition, the viewer becomes an active agent, engaging in new forms of technology and participating with the works both in the galleries and the digital works hosted online.
\r\n\r\nHighlights of the show include a series of photographs from artist Amalia Ulman's four-month Instagram project Excellences & Perfections, examining the influence of social media on attitudes toward the female body; an immersive, glowing matrix-like space by Hito Steyerl called Factory of the Sun; a hub connected to a private network by MacArthur genius grantee Trevor Paglen, called Autonomy Cube, in which visitors can surf the web anonymously; and a sculpture and video installation by Simon Denny that critiques the politics of cyptocurrencies, including bitcoin, and the economics of the internet.
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Members of the curatorial team lead in-depth tours exploring the work and themes in I Was Raised on the Internet.
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\r\n\r\nThe evening features a special set by Chicago footwork legend RP Boo and the music of SUZI ANALOGUE. Appearances by DJ Spinn of Teklife, Jana Rush, The Era, and I Am the Queen punctuate the evening, creating an incredible outdoor dance party on the museum’s terrace. Throughout the evening, treat yourself to summer cocktails and savory bites, be among the first to visit the museum’s new internet-themed exhibition, and have a custom T-shirt screen printed while you wait by Spudnik Press. As always, GlitterGuts memorializes the occasion with a free photo booth.
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Zach Stafford, editor-in-chief of Grindr and INTO, the app's recent foray into publishing, is joined by scholar and author Jack Halberstam for a frank conversation about the role that technology can play in collecting and disseminating queer narratives in a media landscape that has traditionally devalued these stories.
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\r\n\r\nPlease note: This event is a walking program that begins at the MCA and travels a mile and half to the Art Institute with a few scheduled stops. Participants may also rejoin the group at the Art Institute of Chicago if preferred. Tickets include admission to both museums.
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Herrero's practice as a painter constantly shifts in scale, but his immersive landscapes are as impactful in small-sized canvases as they are in monumental urban spaces. His inviting, brightly hued landscapes of organic blocks of color often break free of their frames, growing beyond the canvas or wall to the horizontal surfaces on the floor and ceiling. Inspired by his observations of everyday Costa Rican life, Herrero is interested in extending his abstract color fields into urban space and public life. In this way, the artist sees his paintings as a continuous, open-ended landscape that is always growing, transgressing, and morphing into new forms.
ABOUT FEDERICO HERRERO
Federico Herrero lives and works in San José, Costa Rica, where he was born. His work has been exhibited around the world, including the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, the Guggenheim in New York, Diablo Ross Gallery in Panama City, Art Basel in Switzerland and Miami, Watari Museum for Contemporary Art in Tokyo, and the Moscow Biennale. Recently, Herrero has had solo exhibitions at Sies + Höke in Düsseldorf, Galeria Luisa Strina in São Paulo, Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City, Sultana Galerie in Paris, and La Casa Encendida in Madrid. He received the Venice Biennale's Special Prize for a Young Artist in 2001, and studied painting at the Pratt Institute in New York from 1997 to 1998.
Join Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, for an in-depth tour of Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography on the museum’s second floor. Kenneth Josephson’s pioneering approach to conceptual photography changed the way we think about pictures.
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The exhibition takes inspiration from the ephemeral 'earth-body' works staged by Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta during the 1970s, in which she imprinted shapes of her silhouette into sites in Mexico and Cuba and preserved them as a series of photographs titled Siluetas. Drawing on her experience as an immigrant, the series explores themes of displacement and re-establishing lost connections with place, history, and identity, and reflects Mendieta's belief in the body as the artist's most powerful medium.
Mendieta's work is shown alongside that of her contemporaries, Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, who pioneered the field of \"walking art\" which documented their walks through nature using photography and text. These artists worked in dialogue with the larger Land Art movement, in which artists considered the landscape as both a site and a material for art production. In Turtle Pond, Michelle Stuart uses the earth as a medium, bringing the ground directly into the gallery.
The exhibit weaves the legacies of these artists alongside more recent work in conceptual photography and video. A photograph from Maria Gaspar's acclaimed Disappearance Suits series depicts the artist in a suit that was designed to literally disappear and reappear into a specific landscape, considering the relationship between the politicized body and the remote, romantic landscape. The legacy of migration is present in Carrie Mae Weems' 1992 triptych, Ebo Landing, which uses text and landscape photography to tell the story of a mass suicide by Igbo people destined for slavery in the American South. Jeanne Dunning's photographic series, Studies After Untitled Landscape further articulates a relationship between the body and the earth by drawing parallels between the surface of the skin and the surface of the land.
Prime Time - the MCA's after-hours series that taps into the creative pulse of Chicago with an eclectic mix of live music, performance art, film screenings, and interactive programs - returns this fall with #FutureSelf, featuring concerts by Japanese Breakfast and Ought.
\r\n\r\nVisitors can experience the museum as a lively and immersive backdrop for a diverse array of art encounters staged by Chicago artists and key cultural groups in the city. This 21+ event takes place during the last few weeks of the immersive, tech-focused exhibition I Was Raised On the Internet and offers a kaleidoscope of opportunities to engage with and dream of the future.
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Themes of physical transition and transformation are tangible throughout David's work, for example in his small-scale sculpture, The Assumption of Weee. The sculpture shows figures in phases of development as the figure grows out of the ground, or decline as it descends into a shapeless mass. With this and other works, such as The Incessant, David explores the circular evolution of life in a way that resembles stop-motion animation, or a sci-fi scene of zombie regeneration.
Gradations of Slow Release features drawing, sculpture, painting, tapestry, and installation works in conversation with each other--often as variations of similar ideas, shapes, and forms. Rooted in the act of drawing, this survey showcases the range of David's processes and technical skill in a wide variety of materials and styles, from the figurative to the abstract.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with a special visual contribution from Enrico David, an essay by MCA Chief Curator Michael Darling, and a conversation between Mark Beasley, Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the artist.
ABOUT ENRICO DAVID
Enrico David (Italian, b. 1966) lives and works in London, where he obtained his BA in sculpture from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in 1994. David has exhibited at venues around the world, including the Saatchi Gallery, Galerie Neu, and the Venice Biennale, and has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum, Tate Britain, the Hammer Museum, and Seattle Art Museum. His work is in the collection of the MCA Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Hammer Museum, and Tate Modern among others. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2009 and exhibited at the Turner Contemporary that year alongside other nominees.
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Rwandan performance artist Dorothée Munyaneza traveled to her homeland to create this testimonial about female strength, drawing from stories told to her by women who are survivors of the genocide of the Tutsis. In Unwanted, Munyaneza performs original choreography in collaboration with the American punk rocker Holland Andrews, a.k.a. Like a Villain; French electronic composer Alain Mahé, who mixes from the house; and South African visual artist Bruce Clarke, a recognized figure in the anti-apartheid movement who provides the central totemic artwork.
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PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Open rehearsals for Groundings take place from January 15 to April 6, 2019 on Tuesdays from 1 to 6 pm and Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5 pm. In progress performances take place at 6 pm on Fridays.
PERFORMERS-IN-RESIDENCE
Anna Martine Whitehead
Open rehearsals January 15-19, In progress performance on January 18
For her residency, Anna Martine Whitehead works on Notes on Territory, a performance lecture about architecture and freedom centered on ideas of space, surveillance, sound, and light. Whitehead explores the architecture of the museum as well as the constraints and flexibilities of the Groundings gallery, adding to her research on how certain architectures - such as prisons and public housing - shape bodily movement.
Mariana Valencia
Open rehearsalsJanuary 29 - February 2, In progress performanceon February 1
Mariana Valencia uses her own stories of growing up in Chicago to explore various ways of making sound. The dance for her Groundings project will be developed from different stepping forms of American folk dances, tap, and flamenco, and prompts her audience to learn, listen, and think about their own narratives and production of sound.
Rosé Hernandez
Open rehearsals February 26 - March 2,In progress performance on March 1
Rosé utilizes the gallery space as a performance lab for the creation of Viscera, a durational performance that uses movement to ask questions about personal identity. The piece draws from themes of early Italian Renaissance sculpture, such as the draped nude, to explore the various ways the human figure has been monumentalized in history.
Jennifer Harge
Open rehearsals March 19-23,In progress performance on March 22
Jennifer Harge is in the process of developing TOMBOY, an immersive exhibition exploring black space and black queer liberation practices. During her residency, Harge develops and experiments with a series of written prompts or 'scores' that cultivate intimacy within the public gallery space, investigating how mundane interactions take on new meaning in the context of a museum gallery.
Patricia Nguyen
Open rehearsals March 26-30,In progress performance on March 29
Patricia Nguyen sews herself into moving sculptures, experimenting with her own breath and khăn tang, a white fabric used in Vietnamese death ceremonies to honor lost lives. During this residency, the fabric's measurements are based on the dimensions of various detention centers across the US, while the thread is sourced from the flags of countries that have signed repatriation agreements with the US. Nguyen imagines possibilities for transgression as her body slips across the cracks, fissures, and holes created by these materials, investigating gestures of resistance within and through conditions of capture.
Brandon Markell Holmes
Open rehearsals April 2-6,In progress performance on April 5
Brandon Markell Holmes turns his five hours a day, five days a week spent in theGroundingsgallery into a piece called Office Hours. Diligently marking time, Holmes investigates how time passes, how the present moment can be suspended, and the ways time can be used as an artistic medium and manipulated through music and photography.
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\r\n\r\nOn the opening weekend of West by Midwest, groundbreaking conceptual artist Al Ruppersburg and contemporary artist Amanda Ross-Ho use their collaborative artwork, The Meaning of Plus and Minusas a launch point to a larger conversation on their individual practices and careers spanning the Midwest to the West Coast.
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West by Midwest traces how artists with ties to the American Midwest helped shape art and culture on the West Coast where they found creativity and freedom, in addition to warmer weather and career opportunities, in California. Starting in the 1950s and 60s, against a backdrop of the national interstate and the lure of Beat culture and the influence of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the thriving art schools of California were a powerful draw for young artists. Artists with Midwest connections found a collaborative spirit that developed into social networks that spread their artistic practices across generations and geographies. Artists such as Billy Al Bengston, Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, and Ed Ruscha, participated in the emerging gallery scene in Los Angeles, the city which also served as a site of improvisation and performance for artists involved in Studio Z, including David Hammons and Senga Nengudi. Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley started the band Destroy All Monsters while attending art school at the University of Michigan, and later moved to the West Coast as graduate students at CalArts. Kelley went on to teach another generation of artists with Midwestern affiliations, such as Sterling Ruby and Aaron Curry, who once shared studio space in LA with friend and former Chicagoan Amanda Ross-Ho. Farther north, choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin, who was born and raised in Illinois and attended the University of Wisconsin, eventually moved to San Francisco to found her own experimental dance studio. West by Midwest presents over 80 works, primarily drawn from the MCA Collection, and is organized by MCA Curatorial Fellow Charlotte Ickes with MCA Chief Curator Michael Darling. An extensive microsite accompanies the exhibition.
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Award-winning journalist, author, and former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, Elaine Welteroth kicks off the 2019 Dialogue season with a keynote address considering diversity and inclusion and how museums can engage the next generation of changemakers. Welteroth has consistently broken ground in her career as the youngest person, and only the second African American person, to hold the editor-in-chief title in Condé Nast’s 107-year history. She brought an emphasis on social justice concerns to the teen magazine and made it a relevant news source in today’s frenzied journalistic field.
ABOUT THE DIALOGUE SERIES
Dialogue is a museum-wide commitment to sustained inquiry into museum practice, access, and inclusion. Each annual series includes eminent speakers presenting innovative work happening across disciplines, panel discussions, and opportunities for open dialogue between local arts professionals and audiences.
Elaine Welteroth is an award-winning journalist, author, and the former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. Throughout her magazine career Welteroth broke new ground as the youngest person and the second African American to hold this title in Condé Nast’s 107-year history. Under her leadership, Teen Voguenotably increased coverage of news and politics, encouraging readers to become civically engaged, specifically during the 2016 United States presidential election. She's now a leading expert, advocate, and voice for the next generation of changemakers. She has written for the hit television show Grown-ish and has appeared on-camera for a range of media outlets including ABC News and Netflix.
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In Progress is a series designed to give patrons a look into the process of artists, thinkers, and curators organized by Curator of Public Programs January Parkos Arnall and Assistant Curator of Public Programs Christy LeMaster.
Brendan Fernandes, The Master And Form, 2018. Performance and sculptural installation designed in collaboration with Normal Kelley Architects. Pictured: Satoru Iwasaki, Yuha Kamoto, Andrea de León Rivera, Antonio Mannino, and Leah Upchurch. Photo: Brendan Meara. Image courtesy of the Graham Foundation, Chicago.
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\"What is to be done?\" This question, which vexes every human being, is the title of Vladimir Lenin’s most famous book, with which he initiated the Russian Revolution of 1917. One hundred years later—though Communism as a political system seems outdated—Argentinean theater maker Mariano Pensotti turns those very human and at the same time political words into a question for our time. The stories of an exhausted university teacher, a young communist guerrilla fighter, and a journalist who covers the hopeless existence of Russian immigrants—Pensotti ingeniously weaves them together.
At its essence Arde brillante is a revolutionary combination of puppet-theater, film, and theater performance inspired by Soviet revolutionary and feminist Alexandra Kollontai and her concerns about freedom, the body, and sexuality, as well as the ways that capitalist society shapes a woman’s identity.
The performance explains the paramount concern of Mariana Tirantte, coauthor with Pensotti, to play up representation in creating the design and film for Arde brillante. Her approach questions how one looks at another body and the limitations to visualizing how looking at someone else can change one’s own story.
Arde brillante also probes the limits of a play by using puppets, and turns into a theater performance that turns into a film and vice versa—catalyzing the different stories and disciplines to influence each other in surprising ways. Puppets tell the story of a female university professor who teaches the Russian Revolution in Buenos Aires. A film follows another woman, a TV journalist on vacation in Misiones, in the north of Argentina, where young and poor descendants of Russian emigrants work as strippers and prostitute themselves to middle-class women.
Pensotti and Tirantte make theater to test metafiction. Characters are not only transformed by watching the lives of other people employed in the creative field, but also begin to question their role in history. By structuring fictions inside fictions, their latest work takes on the formal ideas of the Russian avant-garde—placing the body and its representations in conflict, discussing the dichotomy between being a spectator to or participant of history, and researching the validity of biopolitics and the political control of the body by power.
This performance contains mature content.
This performance is presented in Spanish with English supertitles.
Copresented with the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
Image: Mariano Pensotti, Arde brillante en los bosques de la noche. Photo: Loderndes Leuchten.
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This exhibition is curated by MCA Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith.
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Presented in partnership with the Departments of Fashion Design, Exhibitions, and Performance, and the Fashion Resource Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and IN>TIME 19
PROLOGUE
STATE and Diorama are designed to be experienced within seven days. The combination of these works aims for a new choreography as social experience—one that builds desire for new structures and in turn shapes social life.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
In STATE, a small society manifests itself through ritual dances, music, and costumes. Ingri Fiksdal’s provocative collaboration with Danish director Jonas Corell Petersen introduces the critical role that ritual performs in the creation—and flourishing—of the state, as well as its continuing relevance today.
The atmospherically dense design of STATE is co-created by noise/extreme metal artist Lasse Marhaug and Danish avant-fashion designer Henrik Vibskov. Marhaug’s score fluctuates between acoustic sound and sound from instruments that he built specifically for STATE—all of which is then processed through various electronic devices. Vibskov’s costumes consist of five large structures that double as scenography and transform the dancers’ bodies and abilities to move. As sumptuous sculpture, they recall his work exhibited at MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, and ICA London, as well as his extremely anticipated annual show for Paris Men’s Fashion Week.
Fiksdal’s interest in a new choreography stems from the less conscious image realm and the dream world of popular imagination. One of today’s most original and perceptive choreographers, her work is both inspired by a wide range of dance origins and interdependent with the experience of design, sound, and architecture. She believes above all that people need community, a sense of accessibility, visual stimulation, and some connection to nature—particularly in terms of natural light and open space. Her dance, design, and musical experiments enmesh patterns and colors for people to experience sensual satisfaction in the built environment.
Image: Ingri Fiksdal, STATE. Photo © Anders Lindén.
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Performance Times:
Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 4:30 pm
Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 4:30 pm
Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 4:30 pm
PROLOGUE
STATE and Diorama are designed to be experienced within seven days. The combination of these works aims for a new choreography as social experience—one that builds desire for new structures and in turn shapes social life.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Diorama moves ritual outdoors and is timed to follow the Chicago winter sunset and the city’s shimmering skyscape from the perspective of Millennium Park. Marhaug’s live mix features vocals by art-pop and gothic metal artist Jenny Hval. To reframe the urban panorama, Fiksdal’s performers—in sequined costumes by Fredrik Floen—incorporate and absorb the reflective power of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate.
Diorama is meant to provoke particular views of natural and urban landscapes across different cities and contexts. The word diorama often refers to a three-dimensional model of a landscape, such as those displayed in museums of natural history. Another use of the word is for the French diorama theater invented by Louis Daguerre in 1822, for which the audience watched large landscape paintings transform through skillfully manipulated light, sound effects, and live performers.
The Chicago version is Diorama’s North American premiere and incorporates MFA students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who perform alongside Fiskdal’s dancers. The first performance, in 2017, took place by the sea in the fishing village Brixham in Torbay, England, where trails through hidden coves and historic preserves inspired the ideas of writer and filmmaker Philip Hoare.
Image: Ingri Fiksdal, Diorama for Huk. Photo: Istvan Virag.
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Local arts professionals guide an open conversation with audiences in the Commons to consider the ways that museums benefit from true collaboration with young people.
The Dialogue Series is a museum-wide commitment to sustained inquiry about museum practice, access, and inclusion. Each annual series includes eminent speakers presenting innovative work happening across disciplines, panel discussions, and opportunities for open dialogue between local arts professionals and audiences.
Image: Youth from the Chicago Park District’s program TRACE (Teens Reimagining Art, Community, and Environment) hosting an event in the MCA Commons, Aug 2018. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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On Saturday, February 23 enjoy free admission to the MCA and be of the first to see Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera. Have your face made up to look like a piece of Laurie Simmons’s work, then schedule a session with experiential photography studio Aura Aura to capture the day with an unforgettable portrait.This exhibition showcases four decades of work by Laurie Simmons, a pioneer of new directions in art photography.
Since the late 1970s, when she began to develop her mature style using props and dolls as stand-ins for people and places, Simmons has explored archetypal gender roles, especially women in domestic settings. The exhibition follows her work and continues to use the theme of the doll and costume play, making her early ideas about private life and public presentation as poignant today as they were in her early career. Often isolating the dolls and photographing them situated in tiny, austere settings, Simmons uses fictional scenes to make observations about real life. These works are now iconic of her career. In addition to her photography, there is a small selection of sculpture and two films: The Music of Regret (2006), starring Meryl Streep interacting with vintage puppets; and My Art (2016), written and directed by Simmons playing the role of an artist who is frustrated with her work and lack of recognition. Simmons's more recent series, such as The Love Doll, feature life-size Japanese dolls in day-to-day scenarios, and How We See, where Simmons hired make-up artists to paint open eyes on her sitters' closed eyelids, examines cultural trends of masking in everyday online interactions. Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Artist Laurie Simmons leads audiences on a journey through the history of anti-feminist films on the opening day of her exhibition.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Country Road: Kentucky, 1984 Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94 © Laurie Simmons.
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Image: Laurie Simmons, Country Road: Kentucky, 1984 Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94 © Laurie Simmons.
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February 26
March 26 & 31
April 7 and 9
MCA Theater
Screened as part of the exhibition, My Art is a feature-length film written, directed by, and starring Laurie Simmons who plays Ellie Shine, a single artist living in New York City. As her decades-old dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent. When she is offered the summer house and studio of a famous friend she seizes the opportunity to hit the reset button on her life and work.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Walking House, 1989 Photo courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons.
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In Progress is a series designed to give patrons a look into the process of artists, thinkers, and curators organized by Curator of Public Programs January Parkos Arnall and Assistant Curator of Public Programs Christy LeMaster.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jeanette Andrews is a contemporary illusionist/magician who explores how illusions construct reality and highlights astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible. Combining influences not typically seen in magic performances such as immersive theater, quantum physics, and philosophy, Andrews has invented a unique take on this ancient art form.
Hailed as one of the most innovative illusionists today, Andrews has staged hundreds of performances at museums, theaters, and universities across the United States, including sold-out and standing-room-only crowds at the MCA, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and recent performances for the International Museum of Surgical Science and Chicago Ideas Week. She is the only magician worldwide known to be awarded an artist’s residency, including being a High Concept Labs Sponsored Artist and an artist in residence for The Institute for Art and Olfaction.
Jeanette Andrews, Invisible Roses. Photo: Amanda Abernathy.
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MCA Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith leads an in-depth tour of Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera and discusses the artist's practice.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Orange Hair/Snow/Close Up, 2014 Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94 © Laurie Simmons.
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In Progress is a series of public programs designed to give artists, thinkers, and curators a platform for developing new works and to give patrons a glimpse into the creative process. This program is produced by Gibran Villalobos, Partnerships and Engagement Liaison, in partnership with Move Me Soul.
ABOUT MOVE ME SOUL
Move Me Soul is a youth dance company founded by Ayesha Jaco in 2008. The company is committed to providing an innovative platform for inner-city youth to train and evolve as the next generation of dancers, choreographers, and teachers. Performers are engaged in dancemaking, storytelling, and character development that allows them to curate their own aesthetics of the past, present, and future.
Image: Move Me Soul performance with Damon Locks at the MCA, 2017. Photo: MCA Chicago
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Join chef Jason Hammel of Marisol and winemaker Martha Stoumen for a collaborative dinner on March 21.
The menu features wine pairings from Stoumen’s small Northern Californian label which produces organic, minimal intervention wines.
Tickets to this special event are $100 (includes tax and gratuity). Purchase tickets by emailing: info@marisolchicago.com
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Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:30 pm Sold Out
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For writer-director Annie Dorsen, The Great Outdoors connects ideas of infinity and the unknown from romanticism to today’s networked, hyper-connected technologies. “The internet is a new Romantic landscape where we can go exploring, as explorers did in the nineteenth century. Now we are sitting in front of our computer, with the same view of an infinite, mythological landscape. Who knows what we will find there? Hackers? NSA spies? Internet trolling?”
In The Great Outdoors audiences are invited to lie on yoga mats inside an inflatable planetarium and imagine the internet’s infinite possibilities as a new form of celestial authority. As we voyage under a digital starry sky—a 360-degree simulation of the universe designed by Dorsen with Ryan Holsopples—we become the new century’s explorers. Set to Sébastien Roux’s live-mixed composition (inspired by the theory that the universe’s energy is constantly being expended), this digital infinity articulates the same anonymity of the living rooms where, at any given moment, millions of people launch countless comments into virtual space.
To give voice and body to the thoughts of this aggregate of individuals, a female performer reads aloud 4chan and Reddit comments from the previous 24 hours. These fragments of chatter, which Dorsen selects and runs through an algorithm she created, emerge as the internet’s id—unrestrained and protected by anonymity.
The work is one of a number of projects that Dorsen calls “algorithmic theater,” in which digital tools shape the script and experience of live theater. Though the algorithm draws on human-made content, its actions run independent of human intervention, which seems to hint at how, even when we cease to exist, these hyper-connected technologies will continue on.
In an interview with Christopher Tibble for Medium, Dorsen describes the dualities that informed the work: “a theater stage is a very ambiguous space. . . . It is a simulation of life, but also actual life; it is at the same time totally fake and real.” Additionally, “the internet is both an inner and an outer space. . . . It’s a kind of node of connection between ourselves and the world beyond our physical self, our physical location. On the other hand, it also functions as an inner space, almost like a projection of ourselves that exists in the screens of our iPhones or laptops. A kind of very personal dreamscape, a cinema for one that is constantly changing, that’s responsive to us. It’s a space of fantasy in a certain way, even when it’s telling us horrible things about the world. It was this contradiction that I was thinking of with the title The Great Outdoors.”
With music by Sébastien Roux.
Image: Annie Dorse, the Great Outdoors photo by Julieta Cervantes
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As part of Groundings, Jennifer Harge presents an in progress rehearsal of TOMBOY, an immersive exhibition that premieres in Detroit later in 2019. The work invests in the creation of black space and black queer liberation practices through the mundane, the intimate, and the domestic.
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Edlis Neeson Theater
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Screened throughout the run of Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, My Art is a feature-length film written, directed by, and starring Laurie Simmons who plays Ellie Shine, a single artist living in New York City. As her decades-old dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent. When she is offered the summer house and studio of a famous friend she seizes the opportunity to hit the reset button on her life and work.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Country Road: Kentucky, 1984. Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons.
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Free, with RSVP. Two tickets maximum. RSVP HERE
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Edlis Neeson Theater
A panel of activists and artists working with young people discuss the ways that youth voices enter into public discourse and change our perspectives on the future. The group will include Patricia Frazier, National Youth Poet Laureate; DeRay Mckesson, author, activist, and Rock the Vote board member; and José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal and Teaching Artist Fellow at Young Chicago Authors.
The Dialogue Series is a museum-wide commitment to sustained inquiry about museum practice, access, and inclusion. Each annual series includes eminent speakers presenting innovative work happening across disciplines, panel discussions, and opportunities for open dialogue between local arts professionals and audiences.
Image: Stage view, Talk: Queer Narratives with Zach Stafford and Jack Halberstam, MCA Chicago July 15, 2018. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Free
Second Floor, East Side
Digital filmmaker Nellie Kluz presents a rough cut of a new short documentary with the working title If You Lived Here You’d be Home by Now, a video looking closely at various real estate workers in Chicago. As they hustle day in and day out and keep up with trends and market forces, Kluz's film examines the ways these workers transform buildings into new sets for living in.
In Progress is a series of public programs designed to give artists, thinkers, and curators a platform for developing new works and to give patrons a glimpse into the creative process. In Progress is organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
Image: Nellie Kluz, Photo Frame, courtesy of the artist
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Over the run of the exhibition Groundings, performers hold open rehearsals in which they create performances and physical objects that speak to the themes of the exhibition. Informal performances occur at 6 pm on Fridays and will be followed by an opportunity for artists to solicit feedback from assembled participants and audiences.
Patricia Nguyen explores the cartographies of refuge and containment through her series of meditations on detentions and deportations of Southeast Asian Americans. Nguyen sews herself into moving sculptures, experimenting with her own breath and white fabric, or khăn tang, used in Vietnamese death ceremonies to honor lives lost. The fabric’s measurements are based on the dimensions of various detention center cells across the US. The thread is from the flags of countries that have signed repatriation agreements with the US, which can expedite deportation. During this residency, Nguyen will imagine possibilities for transgression as her body slips across the cracks, fissures, and holes created by these materials, investigating gestures of resistance within and through conditions of capture.
In Progress is a series of public programs designed to give artists, thinkers, and curators a platform for developing new works and to give patrons a glimpse into the creative process. The exhibition Groundings is organized by Assistant Curator Grace Deveney and Associate Curator of Performance Tara Aisha Willis. It is presented in the Turner Galleries on the museum's fourth floor.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Patricia Nguyen is an artist, educator, and scholar born and raised in Chicago. She earned her PhD in performance studies at Northwestern University. Her research and performance work is deeply shaped by critical refugee studies, transnational feminist studies, and black studies to investigate histories of violence, forced migration, inherited trauma, torture, and nation-building in the United States and Vietnam. She has published work in Women Studies Quarterly, Women & Performance, the Asian American Policy Review published by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays. Nguyen has performed at the Nhà Sàn Collective, Mission Cultural Center, Jane Addams Hull House, Links Hall, Prague Quadrennial, Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She is also the cofounder and executive director of Axis Lab, a community-centered art, food, and design studio based in Chicago that focuses on inclusive and equitable development for the Southeast Asian community. Currently, she is a visiting assistant professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University.
Image: Patricia Nguyen, at the cusp of night, February 2018. Photo: John Lee
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Edlis Neeson Theater
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Join Manilow Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith in a conversation with local media scholars Terri Francis and Kara Keeling to consider the ways in which artist Arthur Jafa mines imagery from popular media to tell the story of a contemporary black experience.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Terri Francis directs the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University Bloomington. In 2011, Francis published her research on Jamaican nontheatrical films in “Sounding the Nation: Martin Rennalls and the Jamaica Film Unit, 1951-1961” in Film History. She guest edited a special close-up on Afrosurrealism in film and video for the 2013 fall issue of Black Camera: An International Film Journal. Her book Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.
Kara Keeling is an associate professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. Keeling works in the areas of film and media studies, black studies, women’s and gender studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. Keeling’s book, The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense, explores the role of cinematic images in the construction and maintenance of hegemonic conceptions of the world and interrogates the complex relationships between cinematic visibility, exploitation, and the labor required to create and maintain alternative organizations of social life. Keeling is coeditor (with Josh Kun) of Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies and (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) of a selection of writings by the late James A. Snead entitled European Pedigrees/ African Contagions: Racist Traces and Other Writing. Keeling also is the author of several articles that have appeared in the journals GLQ, Cultural Studies, Qui Parle, The Black Scholar (TBS), Women & Performance, and elsewhere.
Image: Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, anonymous gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Image courtesy of Arthur Jafa and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.
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The work of Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade intimately explores aspects of Brazilian culture - from food to farming - through its people and the relationships between them. The exhibition takes as its centerpiece a never-before-seen film set in a culinary school inspired by Josué de Castro's highly influential book Geopolitics of Hunger, that looks at access to food as a political, economic, and social issue. Both personal and historical, the work of de Andrade addresses Brazil's ongoing conversations tied to race, class, and labor, and is charged with an undercurrent of physicality and sexuality. A large-scale installation, Working up a sweatincludes 120 used t-shirts of Brazilian laborers displayed on wooden supports, each serving as a trace of an interaction in which the artist asked them to remove their shirt. This exhibition, organized by MCA Associate Curator José Esparza, is the artist's first major solo show at a US museum, and showcases de Andrade's work across a range of mediums including photography, sculpture, written word, and film.
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Edlis Neeson Theater
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Screened throughout the run of Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, My Art is a feature-length film written, directed by, and starring Laurie Simmons who plays Ellie Shine, a single artist living in New York City. As her decades-old dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent. When she is offered the summer house and studio of a famous friend she seizes the opportunity to hit the reset button on her life and work.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Country Road: Kentucky, 1984. Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons.
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Free with Admission
Edlis Neeson Theater
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Screened throughout the run of Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, My Art is a feature-length film written, directed by, and starring Laurie Simmons who plays Ellie Shine, a single artist living in New York City. As her decades-old dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent. When she is offered the summer house and studio of a famous friend she seizes the opportunity to hit the reset button on her life and work.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Country Road: Kentucky, 1984. Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons.
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MCA Theater
Laurie Simmons has sometimes been cast as a \"reluctant feminist.\" In this conversation, the artist brings together a panel of next-generation thinkers to consider the tension between personal politics and the making of feminist art in a moment when gender is increasingly deconstructed. They also address how the feminist reading of her work by younger artists has changed her own perspective and her work.
Image: Laurie Simmons, Tourism: Parthenon/First View, 1984 Photo: courtesy the artist and Salon 94 © Laurie Simmons.
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The exhibition is curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, former Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Nina Wexelblatt, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum’s second floor.
Image: Jonathas de Andrade Still from Jogos dirigidos (Directed games), 2019. HD video (color, sound). Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Commission.
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MCA Family Days is a monthly program for kids and their grown-ups to learn, play, and engage in hands-on activities together in an artistic environment. Families enjoy free admission while taking part in workshops, open studio sessions, performances, gallery and stroller tours that are all designed and led by Chicago artists. MCA Family Days take place from 11 am to 3 pm the second Saturday of the month, from September through May. Upcoming dates are: December 8, January 12, February 9, March 9, April 13, and May 11.
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Still in Paradise by Yan Duyvendak and Omar Ghayatt—the prologue to Made in Paradise (2008)—was conceived in the swelling tide since 9/11 in which the Arab world as a whole has become suspect and, for many Westerners, neoliberal values are the only guarantee of a functioning society.
Ghayatt, who is from Egypt and resides in Bern, envisioned his works with Duyvendak, who is from the Netherlands, to stage their encounters, their doubts, and their differences through a series of scenes that audiences vote for each night. Shared space, time, and dialogue gradually undo preconceived cultural and ideological notions that feed fear and negation.
Still in Paradise is a show of the history of their project itself that reflects, in its own small way, history at large. Since the end of the Arab Spring, nations have degenerated into either stifling dictatorship or war and disintegration. Europe seems to answer only with fear and the erecting of both inner and outer barriers. Unlike its fragments, Still in Paradise’s finale cannot be voted for; it is imposed.
Image: Yan Duyvendak and Omar Ghayatt, Still in Paradise, Avignon, 2017. Photo: Agnes Mellon
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Local arts professionals guide an open conversation with audiences in the Commons to consider the ways that popular culture and activism intersect museum practice.
The Dialogue Series is a museum-wide commitment to sustained inquiry about museum practice, access, and inclusion. Each annual series includes eminent speakers presenting innovative work happening across disciplines, panel discussions, and opportunities for open dialogue between local arts professionals and audiences.
Image: Installation view, BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Jason Lazarus, MCA Chicago, Mar 19–Jun 18, 2013. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Copresented with the Chicago Humanities Festival
Please, Continue (Hamlet), written and directed by Yan Duyvendak with Roger Bernat, is framed as a homicide trial in which a Chicago cast performs in the roles of Gertrude, Ophelia, and Hamlet. The starring roles of each performance, however, are those of the court officials: roles played by actual members of the judiciary including prosecutors, trial judges, and public defenders, who endeavor in earnest to succeed in the trial and convince a jury of audience members of Hamlet’s guilt or innocence.
The trial is unscripted, and all participants have access to the same, unchanging dossier of evidence. Since the project’s inception, Please, Continue has been performed hundreds of times with wildly varying verdicts, drawing attention to the theatrical nature of justice systems and raising the specter of subjectivity in our ostensibly most objective institution.
The run time of this performance is between 3 hours and 3 hours and 45 minutes, with one 30 minute intermission.
Image: Yan Duyvendak and Roger Bernat, Please, Continue (Hamlet), Théâtre Forum Meyrin, Meyrin, 2014. Photo © Magali Girardin
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The exhibition is organized by Bana Kattan, Barjeel Global Fellow. It is presented in the Cohen and Stone Family Galleries on the museum’s fourth floor.
Image: Ann Hamilton, (the capacity of absorption.video), 1988/1993. LCD monitor with color-toned image, 30-minute video laser disc, and laser disc player; screen: 3 ½ × 4 ½ in. (8.9 × 11.4 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Bernice and Kenneth Newberger Fund; restricted gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow and Howard and Donna Stone, 1995.12. Photo © MCA Chicago, © 1993 Ann Hamilton and Sean Kelly Gallery.
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Tickets on sale March 13, 2019
Show Times
Thu, May 2, 2019, 7:30 pm
Fri, May 3, 2019, 7:30 pm
Sat, May 4, 2019, 7:30 pm
Sun, May 5, 2019, 2 pm
Adrienne Truscott’s Bessie-nominated work THIS is propelled by both blistering satire and choreographic composition as radical tools for capturing and holding an audience’s attention. Truscott mines her own genre-straddling oeuvre—as comedian, choreographer, cabaret performer, performance artist, and activist—in a brash, non-linear confessional that bounces from contemporary feminism to the presidency to unconventional urban living. THIS is a solo performance that may not always be a solo; it is a dance that may not be a dance; it is a comedy that may not always be funny. It is a performance of writing (and reading) that alters to reflect the moment at hand—the venue and location, the current news cycle—and to reflect the experience of time as it is transformed by memory and embellishment, intention and execution. It plays with assumptions about authorship, linear narrative, truth, fiction, failure, and autobiography. Maybe, like it or not, performance is just another form of memoir, and maybe that fact is weird. THIS tries to make a piece of art about trauma while being traumatized by the inadequacy of making art in the current political landscape. Treating both her monologues and the theater as a kind of choreography, Truscott stages her self with impeccable timing.
Image: Adrienne Truscott, THIS. Photo: Ian Douglas.
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Leopard's Lane is organized by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator. It can be seen in the second-floor atrium.
Image: Ellen Berkenblit, Leopard’s Lane, 2019. Oil on linen; 48 × 76 in. Courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York / © Ellen Berkenblit, Photo: Object Studies.
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Estado Vegetal (vegetable state) is the latest genre- bending work by writer-director Manuela Infante—her first “vegetable play, not an animal play” that tests the limits of anthropocentrism, which has been her prime artistic interest for ten years.
Created with an all-woman team, the play uses Infante’s sublime sense for comedy and theater in service of philosophical concepts about plant intelligence and vegetative soul. The individual stories of Estado Vegetal branch out from a collision with a tree and proceed to imagine a scenario in which plants decide to reclaim their kingdom.
Experimental performer Marcela Salinas (shown here) plays all of the characters by recording and building on her voice with live looping. Infante, who is also a musician, designed and operates the sound. Rocio Hernandez’s dynamic, expressive stage design renders the plants onstage effectively as coactors rather than mere props, establishing an undeniable network of similarities between humans and plants.
In one sense, Estado Vegetal probes the human need to communicate; alternately, by staging the possibility of communication between plants, it also anticipates a post-anthropocentric theater. The work raises Infante’s concerns with time and image, how perception is shaped, and the cognitive effects of something vanishing. Attuned to both the durational being and hidden language of plants, Estado Vegetalinterrogates the value of a life that takes more time to process information or translate it into motion. It is hard to look at difference in people, or anything that photosynthesizes, in the same light after this.
Estado Vegetal draws inspiration from the revolutionary thinking of plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso and plant philosopher Michael Marder, who has said that “to recognize a valid ‘other’ in plants is also beginning to recognize that vegetal other within us.” Infante responds: “In accepting plants have other ways of being is to insist on the independence of things. Our notions are transformed, and we need to learn to not subjugate ethics to similarity. We must find ways to develop an ethical thinking towards that which is radically different from us, in any way.”
During a 2015 residency at The Watermill Center, a laboratory for investigation founded by Robert Wilson, Infante began to process ideas of the Nonhuman Turn and Object-Oriented Philosophy, which studies the moment of independence from subjectivity possessed by things and nonhuman forces.
With Realismo, which premiered 2016, Infante challenged the idea of humanity as the only measure for everything. The play proposes objects as vibrant things with a certain effectivity and voice of their own—things that acquire an irreducible degree of independence from the words, images, and feelings they provoke in the humans. It was her first take on a new form of “realism” that engages ideas infused by the Speculative Realists. Other important influences are the video art of Peter Fischli and David Weiss (Der Lauf der Dinge), the ideas of Graham Harman, Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Manuel DeLanda, and the genre of slapstick.
Presenting Estado Vegetal at the MCA, a place for contemporary art and culture, also creates ties between the work and American pop culture and history in unexpected ways. The North American tour is exactly 40 years after Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. This platinum-selling soundtrack accompanied the film The Secret Life of Plants, which was based on a 1973 book of the same title by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. To translate the book’s complex information, Wonder adapted the breakthroughs of African American agriculturalist George Washington Carver and experimented with the scientific findings of Jagadish Chandra Bose, who developed instruments to measure plants’ responses to stimuli. Wonder is also an early adherent of digital sampling synthesizers and famously used this technology for The Secret Life of Plants. Infante and Salinas experiment similarly for the music and sound design of Estado Vegetal.
Since starting her first group, Teatro de Chile, Infante has often declared that she uses theater in service of philosophical inquiry; in order to build fictions, she dissects the construction of reality itself. While Chile has a long, ongoing history of directly political theater, Infante’s is better described as ontological. Moreover, as her career has gone on, her work reveals growing investment in what she calls the “contemplative dimension” of theater. She celebrates art’s resistance to utility or consumption; rather than clarifying what is unclear, she says, it should make mysterious what is mundane.
Infante’s early breakthrough plays were bold reinterpretations of historical figures and narratives. With Estado Vegetal she is challenging anthropocentrism and making a claim for the nonhuman and otherness, questioning modern man’s superiority and autonomy.
Image: Manuela Infante, Estado Vegetal. Photo: Maida Carvallo.
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Listen as multidisciplinary artist AJ McClenon shares a segment of their new work, VEGA. McClenon blends singing with live-mixed archival audio and projected illustrations to envision a future world where a group of revolutionaries hope to secure the survival and freedom of oppressed peoples as Earth is swallowed by oceans. Through time travel, ancestral tappings, and advanced sonic communication, VEGA
presents an undercover plan to survive after the Great Earth Flight.
Image: AJ McClenon, documentation from Black Water: Twilight, performed at Filmfront. Photo: Ally Almore.
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Full Spectrum Features premieres their annual collection of Chicago-made short movies, Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 5, in the Edlis Neeson Theater. The screening is followed by a reception with the artists in the Commons. This year’s program, curated by Raul Benitez, Emily Eddy and Melika Bass, includes recent works by Jennifer Boles, Jiayi Chen & Cameron Worden, Lonnie Edwards, Meredith Leich, Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Ashley Thompson, and Marisa Tolomeo.
Full Spectrum Features is a Chicago-based organization committed to increasing diversity in the independent film industry by producing, exhibiting, and supporting the work of women, LGBTQ, and minority filmmakers. Full Spectrum Features works to transform the entire media landscape—from the actors on screen, to the crew behind the camera, to the people in the audience.
MCA Screenings feature experimental works of contemporary cinema that expand traditional notions of moviegoing and are organized by Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
More information on each film here
Image: Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden, still from Sheebop! Shebopp! Sheebopp!, 2018, super 8mm, 2:37 min. Image courtesy of the artist.
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This event takes place at Stony Island Arts Bank.
Tomeka Reid, a cellist and composer, is concerned with the reception of jazz and improvised music. Toggling between speech and performance, Reid asks who is responsible for assembling and disseminating the history of the music, and how languages and communities of speakers can look backward while moving forward.
Image: Parts of Speech contributor Tomeka Reid. Photo: Iztok Zupan. courtesy of the artist and Public Fiction.
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Learn the corporate philosophy of New Eelam, a subscription-based housing service set to launch in 2019. Thomas argues that New Eelam can reshape the global real-estate market as well as the distribution of housing as an asset.
Image: Parts of Speech contributor Christopher Kulendran Thomas, still from New Eelam, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Drawing on his experience as a comic and writer for shows such as Saturday Night Live, Torres considers how stand-up routines and sketches establish expectations, roles, and styles of communication for performers as well as audiences.
Image: Parts of Speech contributor Julio Torres, still from Mundo de Krisha (Krisha’s World) for Zappos Latino. Photo courtesy of the artist and Public Fiction.
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Artists have used the crucifixion of Christ as a powerful symbol to address suffering and redemption in the history of racial violence in the United States. Fragments of a Crucifixion explores the continuing relevance of the crucifixion, even as our society becomes increasingly diverse in its religious beliefs. Rather than depict the image of the crucifixion itself, artworks in this exhibition offer only fragments—incomplete images and narratives. These works invoke agony and ecstasy through bodily traces and scenes of absence and loss. Featuring works in the MCA Collection, this show is dedicated to the spiritual in art, and to art’s capacity to evoke life and love in the face of brutality.
The exhibition is organized by Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow. It is presented in the McCormick Tribune Orientation Gallery on the museum’s second floor.
Image: Titus Kaphar, Ascension, 2016. Oil on canvas with brass nails; 108 × 84 × 1 ½ in. Collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, 21c Museum Hotels. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Raid your attic or basement for old video tapes and then join in the fun as we laugh and cry together at the beguiling world of home movies made public. Participants are invited to bring home video tapes to share treasured footage and glean expertise on how to digitize and preserve tapes from video specialists. The event is co-organized with Video Data Bank and Media Burn.
Image: MCA Archive, Still from Options 16 mm film by Jerry Aronson and Howard Sturges of the exhibition Options, 1968, © MCA Chicago.
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Designed to allow you to be mindful of your young ones as you look at and talk about art with other adults, these guided tours for moms, dads, and caregivers keep you up to date with contemporary art as you explore current MCA exhibitions.
Stroller tours take place on the first Wednesday of each month, 11:30 am–12:15 pm. Tours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research, and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Free with museum admission.
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ArtEdge, Chicago’s most exclusive gala, builds upon the MCA’s legacy of unforgettable events dedicated to celebrating contemporary art in Chicago. In 2019, we will continue this tradition as we celebrate Virgil Abloh, multihyphenate artist and current artistic director of men’s fashion at Louis Vuitton. Join us for an exclusive preview of the highly anticipated MCA exhibition Virgil Abloh: \"Figures of Speech,\" curated by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling. Guests will enjoy a lavish cocktail reception, dinner, and a live concert.
ARTEDGE COCHAIRS
Dr. Julius Few
D’Rita and Robbie Robinson
Mary Ann and Ben Weprin
TICKETS
Platinum Table
$100,000
Gold Table
$50,000
Silver Table
$25,000
Patron Ticket
$2,500
For more information, please contact Katie Prince at 312-397-4017 or eventsrsvp@mcachicago.org
Image: Virgil Abloh. Photo: Fabien Montique.
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Timed tickets are now available for all MCA Members. General admission tickets are on sale now.
Circle and DVC membership levels have unlimited access to the exhibition and do not need to reserve timed tickets. These levels will also be eligible for additional yet-to-be-announced benefits. Please contact the office of Individual Giving at 312-397-4044 for further information and exhibition sponsorship opportunities.
Groups of 10 or more must call the MCA Box Office at 312-397-4010 for advance admission.
Please note: By purchasing tickets online, you are agreeing to pay the full, suggested admission price. For discounted tickets, or for pay-what-you-can admission, please purchase walk-up tickets at the admission desk or the MCA Box Office. Entry is not guaranteed more than 30 minutes after the specified entry time. You can also check out all of our other exhibitions at any time during your visit.
Tables and tickets are still available for ArtEdge: Virgil Abloh: \"Figures of Speech\".
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Virgil Abloh: \"Figures of Speech,\" the first museum exhibition devoted to the work of the genre-bending artist and designer Virgil Abloh (American, b. 1980). Abloh pioneers a practice that cuts across media and connects visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, and architects.
Abloh cultivated an interest in design and music at an early age, finding inspiration in the urban culture of Chicago. While pursuing a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, he connected with Kanye West and joined West’s creative team to work on album covers, concert designs, and merchandising. In 2013, Abloh founded his stand-alone fashion brand Off-White™ in Milan, Italy, and in 2018 assumed the position of Men’s Artistic Director of Louis Vuitton.
Set in an immersive space designed by Samir Bantal, the Director of AMO, the research studio of Rem Koolhaas's renowned architectural firm OMA, the MCA exhibition will offer an in-depth look at defining highlights of Abloh's career including a program of cross-disciplinary offerings that will mirror the artist’s range of interests across music, fashion, architecture, and design.
The exhibition is organized by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, with curatorial assistance from Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow. It is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Art on the museum’s fourth floor.
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Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 6–7 pm
$15 Full / $10 Member / $8 Student
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street, Edlis Neeson Theater
Traverse the history of streetwear with RSVP Gallery’s Don C. A key streetwear influencer, Don C reflects on the creative voices of Chicago’s early streetwear community and the moments when he and Virgil Abloh dreamed of streetwear infiltrating the ivory towers of high fashion.
Tickets for this event do not include tickets to the exhibition Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” Timed tickets are required to visit the exhibition. More information can be found on the FAQ page.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
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Brendan Fernandes’s dance-based installation in the Commons, entitled A Call and Response, explores the ways society sees and values different kinds of bodies. Using language, architecture, and gesture to understand the nature of being seen, Fernandes encourages dancers–and visitors–to collaborate and generate new forms of physical language that move and attract other bodies in space.
Fernandes (Kenyan, b. 1979) seeks to isolate everyday actions, such as running for the bus or slinging a bag over your shoulder, considering individuals’ movements in social spaces as a kind of choreography. Over the course of the exhibition, the artist poses the question: How do the shapes of our bodies and our physical proximity to others affect our sense of visibility?
The Commons Artist Project: Brendan Fernandes is organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, with Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
The Commons Artist Project is a biannual exhibition series that provides a platform for artists to create commissioned installations that consider the big issues of our time. The projects provide direct opportunities for visitors to interact with the works and ideas of local and regional artists of national recognition.
A Call and Response consists of three movement-based projects, all of which encourage visitors to participate in their formation.
THE INSTALLATION IN THE COMMONS
A series of prompts invite visitors to explore together the ways our appearances and movements convey social meaning.
OPEN CALL
Fernandes asks visitors to answer a “call to movement” and participate in a collectively generated performance alongside professional dancers in the Commons and on the Terrace. While this piece has been performed before at other venues and institutions, it’s a totally unique experience created in the moment, with the people in the room.
CALLING TIME
With the keen eyes of visitors to the museum, Fernandes and three dancers create a new movement piece over the course of open rehearsals throughout the summer. Culminating in two final performances in the fall, Calling Time is catalyzed by architectural constructions, prompts, and visitor input.
See the schedule below for all of Fernandes’s rehearsals, activations, and performances to collaborate in the creation of new work.
Tue, June 18: Exhibition opens
Wed, June 19, 6 pm: Talk: Brendan Fernandes with January Parkos Arnall
Sun, June 23, 11 am–1 pm: Opening Brunch & Open Rehearsal
Sat, June 29, 7–11 pm: Activation at Prime Time: \"Question Everything\"
Tue, July 9, 11 am–1 pm: Open Rehearsal
Fri, July 19, 6 pm: Open Call Performance
Tue, July 23, 11 am–1 pm: Open Rehearsal
Tue, Aug 6, 11 am–1 pm: Open Rehearsal
Thu, Aug 22, 7–11 pm: Activation at Prime Time: TM™
Tue, Aug 20, 11 am–1 pm: Open Rehearsal
Tue, Sep 10, 1–3 pm: Open Rehearsal
Tue, Sep 24, 1–3 pm: Open Rehearsal
Fri, Sep 27, 6 pm: Calling Time Performance
Tue, Oct 8, 6 pm: Calling Time Performance
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Brendan Fernandes, Hit Back. Performance and installation (series of open dance rehearsals, customizable dance platforms, original costumes, coat hangers, clothing racks, and sound). Pictured: John Alix, Khadija Griffith, and Oisin Monaghan. Photo: Wendy Ploger
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First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Edlis Neeson Theater
TICKETS: 2 tickets maximum per person
Artist Brendan Fernandes speaks with curator January Parkos Arnall about his exhibition in the MCA Commons. The dance-based exhibition explores the ways that society sees and values different bodies through a series of prompts and design and architectural interventions.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya) lives and works in New York and Chicago. His work has been exhibited and performed at venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada; the Brooklyn Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; MASS MoCA, Massachusetts; The Andy Warhol Museum; Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; SculptureCenter, New York; Manif d’art¬–The Québec City Biennial; and the Guangzhou Triennial. Fernandes is currently represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and recently presented solo projects with the High Line, New York (summer 2018) and the DePaul Art Museum (fall 2018). He is currently an artist-in-residence and faculty member at Northwestern University in the Department of Art Theory and Practice.
Image: Brandan Fernandes, 2019. Photo: Luke Davis.
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This event is 18+.
Prime Time tickets include a timed entry to the exhibition Virgil Abloh: \"Figures of Speech.\" Times are reserved upon purchase of ticket.
Influenced by Virgil Abloh’s “question everything” ethos, this after hours museum takeover features performing artists, local designers, and live music, DJ sets, and more.
Experience fashion shows with pop-up shopping, opportunities to perform alongside Chicago dance and skate crews, and an incredible soundscape. Dance your way through the museum and enjoy an exclusive viewing of the exhibition Virgil Abloh: \"Figures of Speech,” delightful snacks, and compelling cocktails.
About the Artists:
THE ILLUSTRIOUS BLACKS
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not far away, there lived two kings. Each was the ruler of his own deliciously glorious planet. The first king, Manchildblack, was well known throughout the cosmos for his ethereal vocals, celestial sonics and earthy musical messages. The other king, Monstah Black, was a star in the solar system known for his gravity defying performances, gender bending fashions, and spacey disposition.
One magical night, an inexplicable ultra magnetic pull forced the two planets to collide. A technicolored explosion occurred, turning night into day, with a feast of aural and visual delights. It was then that the universe was changed forever. Manchildblack and Monstah Black united and became The Illustrious Blacks.
Inspired by artists like Prince, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Boy George, and George Clinton, The Illustrious Blacks have arrived with a mission to fuse futuristic funk, hypnotic house and cosmic pop into pulsating positivity for the planet. The real life married couple are not only copilots on their artistic voyage, but are united in their fantastical journey through life.
DUANE POWELL
DJ and curator Duane Powell entered into the world of street promotions in 1985, pounding the pavement and promoting events for prominent DJs within Chicago's burgeoning house music scene. By 1990, Powell led street promotions and served as marketing manager and consultant for many clubs and DJs, including the historic Powerhouse. As a promoter, he launched the Soundrotation brand in 1999, further cultivating the underground soul scene in Chicago.
As a DJ, he has spun at and has held residencies at many of Chicago's most popular music venues and hot spots including the House Of Blues, Virgin Hotels Chicago, Ace Hotel Chicago, Boleo at Kimpton Gray Hotel, The Promontory, Stony Island Arts Bank, and Reggie's Chicago.
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LINEUP:
Performances: The Illustrious Blacks, Duane Powell, Glide8orz Skate Crew, Brendan Fernandes, Tatiana Hazel, South Shore Drill Team
DJ Sets: The Illustrious Blacks, Duane Powell
Fashion Show with Pop-Up Shops: Sheila Rashid, Brandon Breaux, Tatiana Hazel, Sir and Madame, TRAP HOUSE CHICAGO, Abigail Glaum Lathbury
Experiences: Roller skating rink, timed entry to Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” photobooth by GlitterGuts
Food and Drink: Dinner options by Marisol, two full bars
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Stroller tours take place on the first Wednesday of each month, 11:30 am–12:15 pm. Tours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research, and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Free with museum admission.
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This exhibition includes new works based on the artist’s photographs of structures and spaces in both Israel and Chicago that feature the meander, a ubiquitous decorative motif derived from the natural curves of rivers and streams. Untitled (Kikar Rabin, American Accents) (2019) references the Greek key motif, a type of meander, used on the stone pavement of Tel Aviv’s Kikar Rabin (Rabin Square)—the seat of city hall and the site of political protests, state-sponsored rituals, and former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination. Evron’s sculpture meditates on how the Greek key serves as both a surface announcing democratic ideals around civic assembly (associated with ancient Greece) and an urgent reminder of what the artist considers to be Israel’s deep and ongoing democratic failures. For a series of related photographs, Evron trained his lens on some of Chicago’s iconic skyscrapers, including the southern and eastern facades of the Monadnock Building, the world’s largest office building at the time of its construction in 1893 and an early testament to the technological ingenuity and capitalist ambition during a period of rapid modernization and urbanization. Evron invites viewers to compare the historic and continued significance of the Greek key and other decorative surfaces that meander and meet as images across the world, accruing new significance in each encounter.
The exhibition is organized by Charlotte Ickes, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. It is presented in the Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery and Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery on the museum’s third floor.
Image: Assaf Evron, Untitled (Sodom and Gomorrah), 2018. Pigment print; 40 × 40 in.
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Free with Admission
Join Charlotte Ickes, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, for an in-depth tour of Chicago Works: Assaf Evron on the museum’s third floor. Assaf Evron investigates local histories through the intersections of architecture, design, and place.
Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Image: Assaf Evron, Untitled (13 Hess St./17 Bar Ilan St., Herzliya), 2017. Painted plywood and magnets; 472 × 98 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
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FREE FOR FAMILIES
Join Teen Artists’ Creative Oasis (TACO) founders Bella Kiser and Bella Masterson for an intergenerational panel about youth agency in arts institutions and how young people are organizing their own spaces.
Teen Artists' Creative Oasis (TACO) is a project started in 2014 by Bella Masterson and Bella Kiser dedicated to creating an inclusive space for local Chicago youth artists to display and perform their art on the web and at events. TACO was created for teens by teens to create spaces for youth artists to exhibit their artwork, outside of the typical school setting.
Second Floor, East Side
The Commons
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Tickets – $15 Full / $10 Member / $8 Student
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street, Edlis Neeson Theater
Designers are increasingly thinking beyond the rigid categorizations of size and gender in high fashion to build truly beautiful and wearable pieces for every body. Hear from the founders and designers of NO SESSO and Universal Standard on their unique approaches to expanding the available options in contemporary design.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
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About the Designers:
Italian for 'no gender', NO SESSO is the Los Angeles fashion house founded by Pierre Davis in 2015. She helms the brand with Arin Hayes and together, they’ve created a line that challenges the conventions of fashion, art, culture, and design. A community-powered brand that focuses on empowering people of all colors, shapes, and identities, NO SESSO stole the spotlight with collections featuring a wide range of prints, fabrics, reconstructed materials, and most notably, their signature hand embroidery. Making nonconformity as beautiful and inclusive as it can possibly be, NO SESSO celebrates the community it serves with their collections, fashion presentations, parties, educational activities, and more.
Alexandra Waldman, is the cofounder and creative director of Universal Standard. Waldman founded the company with friend, cofounder, and CEO Polina Veksler after a catalyzing conversation about the lack of fashion available in her size on Fifth Avenue. She and her business partner set out to close the infamous size gap in the fashion industry by creating a brand of uniquely modern essentials for women of all sizes. At Universal Standard, Waldman develops the creative vision for the brand and oversees both the design of all collections and the visual direction of the brand overall.
Tickets for this event do NOT include tickets to the exhibition Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” Timed tickets are required to visit the exhibition. More information can be found on the FAQ page.
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First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street, Edlis Neeson Theater
Ben Gorham, founder of multinational bespoke fragrance studio Byredo, discusses the power of scent as style, evoker of memory, and fashion statement, as well as his recent collaboration with Virgil Abloh.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Prime Time: TRADEMARK™, a vibrant after-hours event featuring concerts by Vic Lloyd, HXLT, and DJ Pharris, with cameo performances by Chicago-based artists.Hosted and co-conceived with Virgil Abloh, this dynamic museum takeover brings together live music and dancing with interactive artist-led projects, food and drink, and special late night access to the Virgil Abloh: \"Figures of Speech\" exhibition and its accompanying pop-up store \"Church & State.\" With a silent disco and hands-on design labs, visitors can experience a diverse array of art encounters that are inspired by the exhibition and activated by Chicago artists. Open to visitors 18 years and older,Prime Time: TRADEMARK™ takes place Thursday, August 22, from 7-11 pm at the MCA and is organized by the museum's department ofPerformance and Public Practice.
Co-hosted by Virgil Abloh, whose genre-blending practice connects visual artists, musicians, designers, and architects,Prime Time: TRADEMARK™ taps into the creative pulse of Chicago with immersive experiences across a range of media. In addition to performances by rapper/producers Vic Lloyd and HXLT, as well as Power 92.3FM's DJ Pharris, a highlight of the evening includes an activation designed by the MCA's Teen Creative Agency, a group of 25 creative youth who engage in contemporary art and ideas at the MCA every Saturday. Abloh is celebrated for captivating a large youth following and influencing young creatives to question, deconstruct, and rebuild their cultural surroundings.
Other hands-on experiences include a photo booth by Glitterguts and artist projects by Jacklynn Kelsey Works and Brendan Fernandes, whose project A Call and Response in the museum's Commons features dance-based prompts for visitors to perform alongside professional dancers.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets to Prime Time: TRADEMARK™ will go on sale on Thursday, July 25 at 12 pm CST and are$60 in advance and $65 at the door. Tickets are available for purchase through the MCA Box Office (312.397.4010) or at mcachicago.org. Prime Time: TRADEMARK™ is for visitors 18 and older and IDs are required.
Image: Vic Lloyd for Leaders 1354 x BBC collaboration. Photo: Shaun Andru
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First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Edlis Neeson Theater
Tickets on sale soon.
Artist and designer Virgil Abloh discusses his current exhibition at the MCA, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” with exhibition curator Michael Darling. Abloh and Darling discuss the works on view, the process of building the exhibition, and their shared passion for contemporary music, fashion, and art.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, and Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
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Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research, and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Free with museum admission.
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More information TBA
This talk explores the limits between inspiration and infringement in the arts. A range of professionals including designers, legal professionals, and artists discuss the boundaries of ownership and creative expression in music, fashion, and contemporary art, often referred to as homage, appropriation, and knock-offs.
Image: Ola Maciejewska,LOIE FULLER: Research,Photo: Martin Argyroglo.
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In a panel conversation led by MCA Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith, luminaries in Chicago's art world discuss the past and future of black space in Chicago. Starting with the Great Migration, the panel explores the ways that black artists are finding space and community in the contemporary art world, diving into the particularities of how Chicago has been shaped by its racial history. This conversation is presented in partnership with the HistoryMakers, a non-profit research institution committed to preserving and making accessible the untold personal stories of African Americans, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
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Second Floor, South Side, Bergman Family Gallery
Using absurdist satire to address critical issues of our time, Mika Rottenberg (Argentinian, b. 1976) offers subversive allegories for contemporary life. Her videos and installations interweave documentation with fiction, and often feature protagonists in factory-like settings who manufacture goods ranging from cultured pearls to millions of brightly colored plastic items sold wholesale in Chinese superstores. Presenting several recent projects including Rottenberg’s newest video installation Spaghetti Blockchain (2019), which explores ancient and contemporary ideas about materialism, the exhibition traces central themes in the artist’s oeuvre, such as labor, technology, and the interconnectedness of the mechanical and the bodily.
The exhibition is organized Margot Norton, curator at the New Museum, New York. The MCA’s presentation of the exhibition has been coorganized by Bana Kattan, Barjeel Global Fellow. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum’s second floor.
Image: Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator (still), 2017. Video, sound, color; 26:37 min. © Mika Rottenberg. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
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Designed to allow you to be mindful of your young ones as you look at and talk about art with other adults, these guided tours for moms, dads, and caregivers keep you up to date with contemporary art as you explore current MCA exhibitions.
Stroller tours take place on the first Wednesday of each month, 11:30 am–12:15 pm. Tours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research, and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Free with museum admission.
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The exhibition is organized by Nina Wexelblatt, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Cohen and Stone Family Galleries on the museum’s fourth floor.
View collection HERE
Image: Richard Misrach, Tennis Courts and Pyramids, Giza, Egypt, 1989/1995. Chromogenic dye coupler print 40 1/8 × 49 7/8 in. (101.9 × 126.7 cm) Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Bernice and Kenneth Newberger Fund, 1996.37. Photo: James Isberner, © MCA Chicago.
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Edlis Neeson Theater
The annual edition of the Lit & Luz Festival culminates in a world premiere Live Magazine Show in Chicago, before continuing on to Mexico City this winter. Each year, Lit & Luz supports the creation of new collaborative artworks between writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico City. Expect storytelling, live music, poetry, video art, and extemporaneous performances that explore the relationship between the languages, art forms, and cultures of the United States and Mexico.
Join the hosts and artists after the show for a reception in the Edlis Neeson theater.
This program is organized by the Lit & Luz Festival in collaboration with MCA Assistant Curator Christy LeMaster.
Image: Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show with Jimena González and José Olivares, MCA Chicago. Oct 20, 2018, Photo: Lisa Korpan
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This event is sold out. Please note our waiting list policy.
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s late-1970s images of legendary musician Patti Smith have become iconic glimpses into a unique moment in music and performance history. In celebration of a new TASCHEN book combining Goldsmith’s photography and Smith’s poetry and text, the two come together for a unique event on the MCA Stage combining conversation and live performance.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines and are organized by Curator January Parkos Arnall and Assistant Curator Christy LeMaster with the Performance and Public Practice team.
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Edlis Neeson Theater
Image: Lynn Goldsmith & Patti Smith, Photo: Michael Putland, courtesy of TASCHEN
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Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art
Fourth Floor
Our lives are shaped by language: the signs we follow, the news we read, and the grammar of these forms all dictate how we experience the world. Direct Message: Art, Language, and Powerfocuses on the ways artists reveal patterns within communication, exploring how shared media platforms shape our lives. Proceeding from a belief in the power of language as the basis for our outlook and actions, the exhibition considers the ways artists rearrange and reconfigure communication structures as starting points for social critique and political inquiry.
Media- and language-based art, often considered to be separate strands of artistic practice, are brought together for this exhibition. This exhibition looks back to the ways artists used text in visual art beginning in the 1960s, providing a useful lens for understanding the ways language and media operate today. By inviting audiences to both read and look, artists and collectives such as Art & Language, Mel Bochner, and Charles Gaines emphasized the importance of grammar, structures, and systems as foundational for the representation of all forms. Their work informed subsequent generations of artists featured in this exhibition who conceal, annotate, and remix conventional modes of communication, challenging the standards that structure language and, by extension, power.
The exhibition is divided into four thematic sections exploring shared approaches and processes among intergenerational artists. The first section, Remove, explores the erasure of text from sources such as newspapers and the ways this gesture reveals new meanings and subtexts embedded in the original forms. Review presents a sampling of artists transforming historic materials such as television broadcasts and written narratives in order to uncover how the past continues to inform the present in subtle and unacknowledged ways. Reframe focuses on the ways artists appropriate a myriad of communication forms including logos, slogans, and other forms of public information as a means of turning a critical lens on these structures. Recode, the final section, considers the ways artists rearrange and reconfigure language and its symbols in order to uncover hidden information and difficult truths. The exhibition demonstrates the ways that artists across generations directly address the relationship between our shared language and a range of systemic issues—including censorship, surveillance, and state-sanctioned violence—while envisioning alternative possibilities.
This exhibition is organized by Grace Deveney, Assistant Curator, with Jack Schneider, Curatorial Assistant.
Image: Stan Douglas, Evening, 1994, color video installation. Photo: Michal Raz-Russo, © MCA Chicago.
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Free with Admission
Noon–4:30 pm
Selections of rare performance footage from the Nouvelle Cinémathèque de la Danse screen in the Commons
12:15–12:45 pm
Trajal Harrell performs Okidoki in the Kovler Atrium
2–2:40 pm
Ola Maciejewski performs LOIE FULLER: Research in the Kovler Atrium
3:30–4 pm
Trajal Harrell performs Okidoki in the Kovler Atrium
Two solo pieces, by choreographers Trajal Harrell and Ola Maciejewska, unfold over an afternoon in the museum’s public spaces. Each artist approaches performances of the past through their own physical practices and philosophical perspectives in the present, to intervene into dance history—and into the white walls of the museum itself.
Additonally, selections from the Nouvelle Cinémathèque de la Danse screen in the Commons over the course of the day featuring a program of rare performance clips that resonate with thematic and historical threads presented in the on-site performances.
This program is a part of Between Gestures, a one-week festival connecting Chicago to international contemporary performance and dance through performances, workshops, conversations, and screenings, proposed by the Cultural Service of the Consulate of France in Chicago and the Goethe Institut Chicago.
Ola Maciejewska’s LOIE FULLER: Research considers the agency of objects and actions, and reflects on the relationship between sculptor and sculpture. Human movement sculpts matter into form in this sparse performance based on the works of Loïe Fuller, often regarded to be a precursor to American modern dance.
Trajal Harrell’s Okidoki is the latest solo in his series of works made for gallery spaces that interrogate the cracks and fissures of history. It emerges from his research into runway movement as a dance vocabulary that proposes a theoretical conversation between postmodern dance, voguing, and Japanese butoh.
Image: Ola Maciejewska, LOIE FULLER: Research, Photo: Martin Argyroglo
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Edlis Neeson Theater
First Floor, Accessible via the Griffin Entrance on Pearson Street
Celebrate Halloween with a double-feature centered around evil women characters. Watch two historical art house horror films, Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) and Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981) hosted by Chicago horror drag queens Kat Sass and Siichele.
MCA Screenings feature works of contemporary cinema that expand traditional notions of moviegoing and are organized by Assistant Curator Christy LeMaster and Communications Coordinator Georgie Morvis, with the Performance and Public Practice team.
Suspiria runs for 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Possession runs for 2 hours, 7 minutes.
Image: Still from Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, 1981. Color, sound; 127 mins. Distributed by Metrograph. Courtesy of Film Desk/TF1
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Across the world, human migration is a hotly contested issue rooted in longstanding histories of cultural displacement. MCA Collection works by Noe Martínez, Andrés Pereira Paz, and Nohemí Pérez explore the legacy of colonialism across Latin America. These artists interrogate contested sites—the Huasteca region in Mexico, the Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia, and the Catatumbo region in Colombia, respectively—where personal, social, and territorial dynamics shape identity. Together, the works construct a critical interpretation of displacement and migration in Latin America.
The exhibition is organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Former Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Nina Wexelblatt, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Turner Galleries on the museum's fourth floor.
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Image: Noe Martinez, Las cosas vividas antes de nacer (The Lived Things Before Being Born), 2017. 4K color video and stereo sound; Edition 1 of 3, 1 AP. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Fernando Yañez, 2018.36. Image courtesy of the artist and PARQUE Galería.
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Human migration takes place across the world, but its stories and circumstances vary. The experiences of people who have left their country of origin to establish a new life elsewhere are rooted in longstanding—and myriad—histories of displacement. Routes and Territories brings together three works from the MCA Collection that address human migration by focusing on a particular region, Latin America, where colonialism and the forced movement of entire cultures have deeply affected communities.
The exhibition is divided into two rooms. Panorama Catatumbo (2012–16) by Noemí Pérez (Colombian, b. 1962) fills the interior gallery space with vast canvases that transport the viewer to Colombia’s lush Catumbo jungle—and centuries-old politics. Pérez’s long, horizontal landscapes recall the “panoramic painting” that sixteenth-century Spanish colonizers used to document and romanticize unfamiliar territories of the American continent. Meanwhile, tucked into the verdant vegetation, scenes of present-day activities outside the law, such as smuggling and paramilitary activity, reflect the current societal complexity of the area between contemporary Colombia and Venezuela, where political and economic struggles take place within the countries’ alluring natural environment.
Fragments of Latin America’s fraught past, both distant and recent, also appear in the additional two works in the exhibition. To make Guamán 1 (2016–17), Andrés Pereira Paz (Bolivian, b. 1986) excerpted images from an illustrated manuscript written in the 1610s by Felipe Guamán Poma de Alaya, a nobleman who documented the brutal treatment of Andean indigenous peoples by Spanish settlers. To recreate the disturbing images, Paz molded wire into the shape of kicking legs, pushing arms, and hands holding a whip and rock. In Las cosas vividas antes de nacer (The Lived Things Before Being Born) (2017), Noé Martínez (Mexican, b. 1986) films his mother and father as they return to the land in Mexico where they once lived. When Martínez’s parents were young adults, changes in governmental policy forced them to migrate to Mexico City and displaced their indigenous community, called Calmecayo, to a neighboring location. For Martínez, excavating this lost history meant investigating his family’s roots. Over the course of the video, we see the couple visit the former site of Calmecayo to reconstruct their memories of their life and indigenous language.
Personal, social, and political dynamics can turn a territory into a site of controversy and loss—and shape individual identity. By constructing a critical interpretation of displacement and migration in Latin America, these artists explore the ways that land retains history and memory, and cultures forge new routes across boundaries.
The exhibition is organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy, former Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Nina Wexelblatt, former Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Turner Galleries on the museum's fourth floor.
Image: Noe Martinez, Las cosas vividas antes de nacer (The Lived Things Before Being Born), 2017. 4K color video and stereo sound. Edition 1 of 3, 1 AP. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Fernando Yañez, 2018.36. Image courtesy of the artist and PARQUE Galería
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Human migration takes place across the world, but its stories and circumstances vary. The experiences of people who have left their country of origin to establish a new life elsewhere are rooted in longstanding—and myriad—histories of displacement. Routes and Territories brings together three works from the MCA Collection that address human migration by focusing on a particular region, Latin America, where colonialism and the forced movement of entire cultures have deeply affected communities.
The exhibition is divided into two rooms. Panorama Catatumbo (2012–16) by Noemí Pérez(Colombian, b. 1962) fills the interior gallery space with vast canvases that transport the viewer to Colombia’s lush Catumbo jungle—and centuries-old politics. Pérez’s long, horizontal landscapes recall the “panoramic painting” that sixteenth-century Spanish colonizers used to document and romanticize unfamiliar territories of the American continent. Meanwhile, tucked into the verdant vegetation, scenes of present-day activities outside the law, such as smuggling and paramilitary activity, reflect the current societal complexity of the area between contemporary Colombia and Venezuela, where political and economic struggles take place within the countries’ alluring natural environment.
Fragments of Latin America’s fraught past, both distant and recent, also appear in the additional two works in the exhibition. To make Guamán 1(2016–17), Andrés Pereira Paz (Bolivian, b. 1986) excerpted images from an illustrated manuscript written in the 1610s by Felipe Guamán Poma de Alaya, a nobleman who documented the brutal treatment of Andean indigenous peoples by Spanish settlers. To recreate the disturbing images, Paz molded wire into the shape of kicking legs, pushing arms, and hands holding a whip and rock. In Las cosas vividas antes de nacer (The Lived Things Before Being Born) (2017), Noé Martínez (Mexican, b. 1986) films his mother and father as they return to the land in Mexico where they once lived. When Martínez’s parents were young adults, changes in governmental policy forced them to migrate to Mexico City and displaced their indigenous community, called Calmecayo, to a neighboring location. For Martínez, excavating this lost history meant investigating his family’s roots. Over the course of the video, we see the couple visit the former site of Calmecayo to reconstruct their memories of their life and indigenous language.
Personal, social, and political dynamics can turn a territory into a site of controversy and loss—and shape individual identity. By constructing a critical interpretation of displacement and migration in Latin America, these artists explore the ways that land retains history and memory, and cultures forge new routes across boundaries.
The exhibition is organized by José Esparza Chong Cuy, former Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Nina Wexelblatt, former Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Turner Galleries on the museum's fourth floor.
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Free with admission
Join Curatorial Assistant Jack Schneider for an in-depth tour of Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power on the museum’s fourth floor. Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power is a selective survey of artists working with language as a means of revealing power structures inherent to mass media and public discourse.
Inspired by the MCA collection, the works in Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power highlight the ways artists use text in visual art beginning in the 1960s, providing a useful lens for understanding the ways language and media operate today. Their work informs subsequent generations of artists featured in this exhibition who conceal, annotate, and remix conventional modes of communication, challenging the standards that structure language and, by extension, power.
Image: Lorna Simpson, Necklines, 1989. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift from The Howard and Donna Stone Collection. © 1989 Lorna Simpson. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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Working primarily in performance, installation, and sculpture, artist Emilio Rojas explores the relationship between artist and audience especially around topics of colonialism and displacement. For this In Progress, Rojas seeks feedback on ideas and movements for a new work currently in development.
In Progress is a series of public programs designed to give artists, thinkers, and curators a platform for developing new works, and to give patrons a glimpse into the creative process. In Progress is organized by Curator January Parkos Arnall and Assistant Curator Christy LeMaster with the Performance and Public Practice team.
Image: Emilio Rojas, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s Monuments, wood structure, inflatable, 35 mm slides, durational performance, 2018-2020
Photo: Miao Wang
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Designed to allow you to be mindful of your young ones as you look at and talk about art with other adults, these guided tours for moms, dads, and caregivers keep you up to date with contemporary art as you explore current MCA exhibitions.
Stroller tours take place on the first Wednesday of each month, 11:30 am–12:15 pm. Tours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research, and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Free with museum admission.
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The sell-out hit comedy show Cards Against Humanity: Late Night Writers Room is back at the MCA!
The show is an irreverent night of improv comedy based on the party game Cards Against Humanity, hosted by its creators. After audience members pitch their card ideas, the best suggestions are acted out by the Cards Against Humanity writers and improvisers. The worst suggestions will be mercilessly ridiculed. The show will also highlight the MCA Community Partner, TRACE and the work they do in Chicago.
TRACE is a jobs-focused, teen leadership program run by the Chicago Park District’s Division of Culture, Arts and Nature. TRACE promotes civic engagement and strives to cultivate creative, environmental and community-based youth activists. Using the arts to engage, inspire and persist, TRACErs create, advocate and enact change for a better world.
This program is organized in partnership with Cards Against Humanity and Gibran Villalobos, Assistant Curator, Performance and Public Practice.
Image: Image courtesy of Cards Against Humanity
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Chicago artists transform the museum for children and their grown-ups. Play with the power of language in projects inspired by Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power.
This Family Day, play with the power of language.
ARTIST-LED PROJECTS
Ongoing (11 am–3 pm)
Gallery Lab
Translate work into dance.
Blok by Blok
Participate in interviews and make beats for a podcast.
Sadie Woods
Make protest songs on music boxes.
Free Street Pocket Con
Explore comicbooks by artists of color.
Family Days are free monthly programs for kids and their grown-ups. Enjoy free admission while taking part in workshops, open-studio sessions, gallery tours, and performances, all designed and led by Chicago artists.
Family Days are organized by Grace Needlman, Manager of Youth and Family Programs, and Emily Gallaugher, Coordinator of Family, Youth, School, and Teacher Programs.
Image: Families participate in projects led by Chicago artists in the October 13, 2018 Family Day: Short Circuit. Photo: Victoria Bornstein, © MCA Chicago
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More information, bidding, and tickets HERE
The Benefit Art Auction is an essential part of realizing the MCA’s ardent commitment to creating exhibitions and programs that champion revelatory art and spark civic transformation, making it one of the museum’s most significant fundraising events. In this crucial moment we are honored to present a collection of works generously donated by the world’s most influential artists of the day to support the MCA’s mission.
Unlike the works in a typical museum exhibition, the works assembled here go on sale for one night only—November 16. Enjoy the electric atmosphere of bidding among other collectors in person, or bid by phone or online. The Benefit Art Auction offers a rare opportunity to support the MCA while adding a stunning work of contemporary art to your collection. We wish you all the best at the auction block!
Download a PDF of the Benefit Art Auction Catalogue:
MCA Benefit Art Auction 2019 Catalogue
Image: Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2019, oil on linen
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Human beings are natural collectors, be it of souvenirs found on vacations, heirlooms passed down from grandparents, or birthday cards received over the years. The items we hold on to reflect our social, cultural, and personal values. Likewise, museums tell stories by presenting all kinds of collected objects, which reflect the way they prioritize different social and cultural values.
In this Commons Artist Project, Folayemi Wilson and Norman Teague’s Chicago-based, socially focused design studio blkHaUS studios asks if understanding the stories of personal collections can transform the priorities of museums in forming their collections.
Historically, collections in contemporary art museums have preserved and revealed specific art historical lineages. These stories, however, are ultimately influenced by the social and political context in which museums collect. Over the last few years, some have deaccessioned works—a practice of collection care where some objects are routinely removed from their collections—with the specific intent to make room for works by artists whose ideas and art have been left out of the established canon, especially artists of color.
Over the course of the exhibition, blkHaUS brings together Chicago community members and local museums. Through thoughtfully constructed interactive experiences they collate and assess patterns of collecting, inviting audiences to share their personal objects and narratives in the Commons and take part in dialogues around their modular artwork the commons table, focusing on key questions regarding collecting, archives, and museum practice. At the end of the project, the artists share their findings with representatives from the MCA and other local museums to provide tools for museums to better reflect the communities with which they share space.
This exhibition is organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator of Public Programs, with Christy LeMaster, Assistant Curator of Public Programs.
Image: Documentation of blkHaUS studios, Sounding Bronzeville, 2016-present. Site-specific installation, Burnham Wildlife Corridor, Chicago. Photo © Sandra Steinbrecher
Artists Seed Lynn and Sadie Woods present their ongoing research and performance project, Ghoema: When the Party is a Protest. Ghoema (named for a Cape Malay drum and rhythm motif), is a study of diasporic carnival traditions. As the drum centers the ceremony's spirit, Gheoma centers the role of communal memory and creolization in the wake of slavery, colonization, and systemic oppression.
Lynn and Woods chronicle their folk research practice through documentary photography, sound, and video works from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. When The Party is a Protest is part discourse and part proposal: inviting the audience to ask, \"How do you remember? How do you carnival?\"
Ghoema is supported in part by the Propeller Fund.
In Progress is a series of public programs designed to give artists, thinkers, and curators a platform for developing new works, and to give patrons a glimpse into the creative process. In Progress is organized by Curator January Parkos Arnall and Assistant Curator Christy LeMaster with the Performance and Public Practice teams.
Image: Sadie Woods and Seed Lynn, Ghoema: When the Party is a Protest, digital photography, 2018. Photo: Sadie Woods.
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Artworks by Alexander Calder are often asked for by name at the MCA—understandable as they have frequented spaces in the museum for more than 25 years. For this exhibition, we invited Chicago-based artist Alex Chitty to interject in the display of Calder’s work. Here, Chitty proposes a reframing for how we look, think, and interact in both museums and the world at large.
In Becoming the Breeze: Alex Chitty with Alexander Calder, Chitty challenges the conventions of museum display by directly engaging with Calder’s modern artworks. Working in close collaboration with the museum staff to produce this exhibition, Chitty’s interjections evoke the same playful spirit the modernist sculptor brought to his own practice. Much like the breezes that activate Calder’s mobiles, the visible and invisible forces that drive exhibitions—how artworks are stored, who chooses them, and more—are revealed in ways that allow us to see Calder’s work anew.
Becoming the Breeze: Alex Chitty with Alexander Calder is organized by Raven Falquez Munsell, independent curator, and Jack Schneider, MCA Curatorial Assistant, in collaboration with Alex Chitty and with the support of MCA staff.
Image: Alex Chitty, The Workaround (screenshot), 2019 Digital jpg file. Courtesy of the artist
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The MCA's 2019 Benefit Art Auction is co-chaired by Cari B. Sacks and Kenneth C. Griffin
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents its premier art event, the 2019 Benefit Art Auction, on Saturday, November 16, 2019. The museum's most significant fundraising event features work by some of the world's most influential contemporary artists working today, including Nick Cave, Judy Chicago, Jacqueline Humphries, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami, Howardena Pindell, Richard Prince, Laurie Simmons, and Charline von Heyl, as well as work by promising emerging artists such as Jessica Campbell, Petra Cortright, Jonathas de Andrade, Brendan Fernandes, Pope.L, and Amanda Williams. Tickets for the 2019 Benefit Art Auction, starting at $500, are available and can be purchased at mcachicago.orgor by calling 312.397.4017. The Benefit Art Auction is generously sponsored by Sotheby's.
Created especially for the Benefit Art Auction are several works by major artists including a commissioned work by Takashi Murakami, who will work with the winning bidder on a portrait, and new works created for the auction by Andrea Bowers and Howardena Pindell.
Co-chaired by Cari B. Sacks and Kenneth C. Griffin, the 2019 Benefit Art Auction is supported by an honorary committee of Sara Albrecht, Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand, Nancy and Steven Crown, Marilyn and Larry Fields, Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, Ashley and Pamela Netzky, Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert, Michael J. Sacks, and Helen and Sam Zell.
In 1968, the MCA was the first museum in the country to have a Benefit Art Auction, and it influenced art museums across the country to look to works of art as sources for funds to benefit institutional ideals. MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn said, \"The extraordinary generosity that takes place at each of our storied auctions is an essential part of realizing the MCA's ardent commitment to creating exhibitions and programs that champion revelatory art and spark civic transformation.\"
This unique event welcomes more than 500 guests to the MCA at 6:30 pm for an elegant cocktail reception while guests are invited to view nearly 100 auction works as part of the silent auction. Guests are then escorted to the museum's sculpture garden for a seated dinner in an enormous customized tent with stunning red, black, and white décor by HRM Designs, Frost Lighting, Pro Em, and Hall's.
Following dinner, the live auction takes place, led by the esteemed Senior Director and Chairman of Sotheby's Europe Oliver Barker, who will auction off 14 works of art from an impressive roster of art galleries from the United States and Europe. To complete the evening, guests make their way back into the museum to enjoy dessert and submit their final bids on the silent auction items. All proceeds from the auction support the MCA's exhibitions and programming, which offer compelling opportunities to explore, challenge, discuss, and reflect on contemporary art and culture.
In advance of the event, the works from the live and silent auctions are on view to the public during museum hours in the second-floor galleries from Tuesday, November 12, to Saturday, November 16. The MCA has partnered with premier online art platform Artsy to help national and international audiences have access to the exceptional silent auction works featured at the Benefit Art Auction. Artsy has a public preview online at www.artsy.net/feature/mca-chicago-benefit-auction-2019 and will be open to bidders starting on Friday, November 1.
There is limited availability for this event, so if you are interested in attending or writing about the Benefit Art Auction, please let me know -- Karla Loring, kloring@mcachicago.org, 312.397.3834
Please visit the MCA's press page for images and press releases.
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Celebrate the opening of the latest iteration of the Commons Artist Project with Fo Wilson and Norman Teague of blkHaUS Studios in this opening brunch and discussion around the care and creation of collections. Participants are encouraged to bring small items they feel represent their community to be photographed, catalogued, and added to Teague and Wilson’s ongoing archive, The Commons Collection.
Image: Performance view, Back Alley Jazz (BAJ), 2018. Cocurated by blkHaUS studios in collaboration with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival and Hyde Park Art Center. Photo: Marc Monaghan.
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Designed to allow you to be mindful of your young ones as you look at and talk about art with other adults, these guided tours for moms, dads, and caregivers keep you up to date with contemporary art as you explore current MCA exhibitions.
Stroller tours take place on the first Wednesday of each month, 11:30 am–12:15 pm. Tours meet at the second-floor admissions desk.
Live interpretation events are organized by Rosie May, Associate Director of Interpretation and Visitor Research, and Meagan Burger, Manager of Interpretation.
Free with museum admission.
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Youth and emerging artists, designers, and architects are invited to hang out and share strategies for making a career in the arts. Participate in a panel conversation with three leading architects, then mingle and meet other young creatives.
Passion to Profession is a workshop series created by artists Anisa Olufemi and Jada-Amina Harvey that aims to create a welcoming, informative, and productive space for youth and professional artists to imagine pathways to a sustainable career in the arts.
Youth-led events highlight Chicago artists under 21 years old and are organized by Grace Needlman, Manager of Youth and Family Programs.
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ABOUT THE CURATORS
Jada-Amina is an interdisciplinary visual artist, art worker, teaching artist, and curator interested in creating alternative and experimental spaces for youth and other crucial community stakeholders to explore and enrich their creative understandings, possibilities, and aspirations.
Anisa Olufemi is an independent curator and interdisciplinary artist pursuing her BFA with a focus in art histories of the African Diaspora. She hopes to contribute to the ongoing conversation around arts education accessibility and POC art space inclusion through Passion to Profession, a series of workshops.
Image: Passion to Profession youth-led panel and workshop. May 4, 2019. Photo: Mikayla Delson
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This exhibition features work from the MCA Collection that speaks to humanity’s politically and economically driven intervention in the environment. The exhibition’s centerpiece is the MCA’s recent acquisition, filmmaker John Akomfrah’s major video installation Vertigo Sea(2015): a spellbinding three-screen montage that brings together the poetics and traumas of the ocean. The exhibition reflects on the human constructs pervading even the most supposedly pristine places, exploring the tangles of culture and nature, human history and deep time, and exploitation and transcendence.
The exhibition is organized by Nina Wexelblatt, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Galleries on the museum's second floor.
Image: Judy Ledgerwood, Composition in Yellow and Grey, 1987. Oil and encaustic on canvas. 90 × 120 in.
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Celebrate new zines (DIY publications) by Chicago artists under 21.
Get copies of new zines by members of the Teen Creative Agency about urgent topics in contemporary culture and life.
This event is free and open to everyone, regardless of age.
TCA is assisted by Grace Needlman, Manager of Youth and Family Programs and Emily Gallaugher, Coordinator of Family, Youth, School, and Teacher Programs.
Eat free snacks.
Enjoy live performances.
Browse zines by teens from all over Chicago.
Image: Teen Creative Agency Zine Release Party 2018, Photo: Torie McMillan, © MCA Chicago.
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Drop-in to make queer, anti-Valentine’s Day art with members of the MCA Teen Creative Agency. Collage with crushed candy hearts, deconstruct Valentine's Day cards, and talk about gender, feminism, and capitalism.
Stick around for the Odd Pleasures variety show at 7pm.
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Location: MCA Commons
Conversation Leads: Paola Aguirre, Ann Lui, Patric McCoy, Lynne McDaniel, Bess Williamson
This convening gathers insights from all of the previous dinner discussions and shares them with MCA staff and other local museum professionals.
Image: Image: Documentation, In Progress: Folayemi Wilson and Norman Teague. Photo: Michael Courier © MCA Chicago.
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Nigerian-born British designer Duro Olowu is internationally recognized for his womens wear label launched in 2004. Characterized by unique fabrics, evocative patterns, and impeccable construction, the London-based designer’s garments are informed by his international background and curator’s eye. Olowu’s multinational and multicultural viewpoint has translated into wildly popular platforms and projects from his dynamic Instagram account to his revelatory curatorial projects in London and New York.
Now Olowu turns his cosmopolitan eye to Chicago. Drawing from the city’s public and private art collections including works in the MCA’s collection, Olowu curates a show that reimagines relationships between artists and objects across time, media, and geography. Moving away from traditional exhibition formats, Olowu combines photographs, paintings, sculptures, and films in dense and textural scenes that incorporate his own work.
The exhibition is organized with MCA Manilow Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith and is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Art on the museum’s fourth floor.
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Top image: Duro Olowu, Spring/Summer 2020, Look 7. Photo: Christina Ebenezer
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On the opening day of the exhibition Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Olowu discusses the themes, process, and revelations of building this exhibition with curator Naomi Beckwith.
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Join Naomi Beckwith, MCA Manilow Senior Curator for a tour of Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, an exhibition in which designer Duro Olowu turns his cosmopolitan eye to Chicago.
Drawing from the city’s public and private art collections including works in the MCA’s collection, Olowu curates a show that reimagines relationships between artists and objects across time, media, and geography. Moving away from traditional exhibition formats, Olowu combines photographs, paintings, sculptures, and films in dense and textural scenes that incorporate his own work.
Live interpretation events are organized by Meagan Burger, Manager of Adult Learning Programs.
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This exhibition includes a special chapter 12: a re-creation of Stud Terkels's WFMT featuring audio from his interviews.
The exhibition is organized by Jack Schneider, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery and Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery on the museum’s third floor.
Image: Deborah Stratman, Still from The Illinois Parables, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP. 60 min. Image courtesy of the artist
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Naomi Rincón Gallardo's The Formaldehyde Trip, a cycle of psychedelic songs and videos that imagines martyred Mixtec activist Alberta \"Bety\" Cariño on a journey through the underworld where she encounters women warriors, witches, widows, the dual-gendered goddess of death, and animals that are all preparing her rebirth party. The music is performed live with ornate props and costumes that echo Mexican B-side sci-fi films of the 1960s and 70s, addressing indigenous women's struggles and dispossession of their bodies, cultures, and territories. An axolotl, or Mexican salamander, preserved in formaldehyde is the storyteller, with sounds and voices from the past meandering throughout the songs. The Formaldehyde Trip takes place in the Edlis Neeson Theater at the MCA from Thursday, April 2, to Saturday, April 4, at 8 pm.
The Formaldehyde Trip is comprised of a screening with its music performed live on stage by the artists in the film. The story of Bety Cariño's life is delivered through lyrics written by Gallardo that are performed in different styles, ranging from opera to pop to punk rock. The lyrics interweave anecdotes from the life of Bety Cariño, who was assassinated in 2010 for her activism regarding women's, indigenous, and queer rights, with questions about identity politics and the distribution of privilege in Latin American communities. Cariño's utopian vision and radical beliefs are explored through DIY costume, psychedelic scenery, musical theater, and movement.
The songs are performed in a series of scenes that take place in various Latin American landscapes and settings. In one vignette, performers in animal masks sing and 'mosh' to metal music inside of a cave made with DIY materials. In another, they present a pop ballad about queer experience on an illuminated rainbow dance floor and wear costumes featuring fake breasts and genitalia. The film culminates in Cariño's rebirth party, which features a pyrotechnics show exalting a larger-than-life salamander sculpture with psychedelic lighting and effects. With references to Latin American traditions and indigenous rituals throughout, the performance has scenes in both Spanish (with subtitles) and English.
Naomi Rincón Gallardo is a transdisciplinary artist, teacher, and researcher who is known for her music-based narratives that draw on countercultural forms like punk, DIY aesthetics, and queer identities to reframe touchstones in Mexican and Mesoamerican politics. She is a 2019-2022 Beneficiary of the National System of Art Creators, a program of the National Fund for Culture and Art in Mexico. Her work has been shown in venues around the world including the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art in Texas and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. Born in North Carolina and based in Mexico City, Rincón Gallardo earned her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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Inspired by Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, exhibition curator Naomi Beckwith leads a conversation with local artists, musicians, and scholars of FESTAC '77, the pivotal Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture that took place in Lagos, Nigeria and was co-led by Chicago-based artist Jeff Donaldson of AfriCOBRA. Through live performance and discussion, the assembly asks pivotal questions about ongoing research into this important transcultural moment.
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Join the MCA Family Day community online for special artist-created activities for all ages.
Participate in live workshops via Zoom. RSVP for this free program to receive pre-show information, virtual viewing tips and tricks, and to stay connected to the MCA community. All programs will happen in the same Zoom Room at the listed times. Only one RSVP is needed to attend all three programs.
All programs will also be on Facebook Live.
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This is a virtual event on Facebook Live. To watch and participate in a moderated chat, tune in at 6 pm CST.
The performance will also be available to stream on Vimeothrough Monday, May 18, however participation in the live chat will only be available on Facebook Live.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyricand Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; numerous video collaborations; and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Her most recent play, The White Card, premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/American Repertory Theater). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’s Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and National Endowment for the Arts. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. In 2016 she cofounded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Will Rawls is a choreographer, writer, and lifelong performer based in Brooklyn. His practice combines dance with other media to investigate the poetics of blackness, ambiguity, and abstraction. His inquiries into bodily states and humanity aim to redraw notions of power and form. The recipient of the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer, Rawls has presented his work at The Chocolate Factory Theater, MoMA PS1, Performa 15, the Whitney Museum of American Art, ImPulsTanz, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. In addition to his own performances, he collaborated with Ishmael Houston-Jones to cocurate the Danspace Project Platform 2016, Lost and Found, which focused on the intergenerational impact of the AIDS epidemic on dancers, women, and people of color; Rawls helped organize performances, reconstructions, and discussions, and coedited the catalogue Lost and Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now. His writings have been published by Artforum, Triple Canopy, Les Presses du Réel, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Hammer Museum. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert RauschenbergFoundation Residency, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. He has held teaching fellowships at Wesleyan University and Williams College, and continues to lecture widely at universities and festivals.
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This event will be hosted on Zoom on May 20. This virtual event is free!
RSVP for Zoom Link.
The MCA's 2020 Dialogue Series asks, what does inheritance mean in the public sphere? In this culminating keynote, designer Kerby Jean-Raymond addresses the audience with a keynote presentation on inheriting creative legacies and leads an immersive discussion that imagines our collective future. Jean-Raymond is in conversation with James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling and introduced by Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn.
This conversation takes place over Zoom video conference and will be streamed on the MCA's Facebook page. The speakers and moderator will be visible, all other participants in the Zoom room will be invited to share their thinking via the chat function and may be asked to ask questions verbally using their computer's audio lines.
DIALOGUE SERIES 2020: INHERITANCE
When one thinks of \"inheritance,\" images of passed-down wealth and privilege may come to mind, but what does inheritance mean more broadly to the public? The spring 2020 Dialogue Series brings together artists, scholars, and audiences to consider the riches, debts, and cultural realities we inherit as social beings. We will discuss the status of accumulated art objects as treasures in our public institutions; life in a capitalist society built on colonialism and slavery; the generational experience of migration; and the inheritance of a global environmental crisis for future generations. The 2020 Dialogue Series asks how we contend with our cultural inheritance, and what are we leaving for the future?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kerby Jean-Raymond is an American fashion designer who uses his label, Pyer Moss, as a vehicle to address larger concerns in society. His \"American, Also\" collection series was recognized for its powerful messages and groundbreaking fashion shows. In addition to designing for his label and Reebok, Raymond has collaborated with several brands including Sean John and FUBU.
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.paint examines how the traditional art form of painting is being redefined with digital tools, opening up unprecedented new possibilities. By merging and maintaining the craft of painting with digital technologies including photoshop, mobile devices, and inkjet printing, these artists bridge the physical and digital worlds.
.paint is organized by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling, with Harry C. H. Choi, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow.
Image: Petra Cortright, fox999arizona@morning-pro(versionfinalHirva).execute, 2016. Digital painting on anodized aluminum; 47 1/16 × 92 in. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Private Collection, 2017.39
© 2016 Petra Cortright
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To celebrate the launch of his second capsule collection for the MCA, designer and creative director Joe Freshgoods invites us into his studio to explore his creative process. Hear about his COVID-19 response project, “Community Goods,” an exclusive line of clothing that directs 100% of all proceeds to small Chicago businesses and non-profit organizations. Learn more about Joe’s co-ownership of Fat Tiger Works, his passion for Chicago, and his philosophy on storytelling and streetwear in this virtual experience moderated by Michael Darling, MCA Chief Curator.
This virtual studio visit was organized by the MCA Store and the Strategic Communications team.
Joe Freshgoods is a designer and creative director from the West Side of Chicago. He uses a unique blend of brand narrative, historical, and cultural references, which allow him to create authentic connections with streetwear lovers all over the world. A co-owner of Chicago creative hub Fat Tiger Works, Freshgoods’s unique approach has led to partnerships with brands across the world like AT&T, McDonald’s, the Chicago Bears, and New Balance. His collections feature in magazines like Vogue, GQ, and Complex. An avid proponent of arts education, his real mission is to tell stories through his collections.
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Alien vs. Citizen draws from the MCA Collection to explore how an individual's value is understood in relationship to community, and the social and cultural biases embedded in the ways worth is perceived and measured. With works by Jennifer Bornstein, Sophie Calle, Marlene Dumas, Glenn Ligon, Howardena Pindell, Andres Serrano, Yinka Shonibare, Lorna Simpson, and Nedko Solakov, the exhibition places an emphasis on works that encourage active viewing and participation. The exhibition prompts visitors to choose to enter the exhibition from the viewpoint of an 'alien' or a 'citizen,' inviting them to embody diverse narratives of social worth and challenge the mechanisms that factor into social belonging.
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The global pandemic has forced us to put intense scrutiny on the things we touch, the spaces we inhabit, and the people we come into contact with. The connections that make up our daily lives have become less familiar. In response, our curators have selected artworks from the MCA Collection that explore how we connect. The resulting exhibition reflects on the connections we share with others and the world around us, as well as the bond we feel most acutely in solitude—with ourselves.
Just Connect brings together artworks from artists across generations, nationalities, and media that respond to the idea of connection. Just Connect reminds us of what we have in common now, all that we had in common when we were separated, and the humanity we will continue to share as we rebuild our lives after a global crisis.
This exhibition is organized by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator; Harry C. H. Choi, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow; and Line Ajan, Barjeel Global Fellow and the Visual Arts department. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the second floor.
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This is a virtual event on Facebook Live. To watch and participate in a moderated chat, tune in at 4 pm CST.
The performance will also be available to stream on Vimeo through Monday, July 20, however, participation in the live chat will only be available on Facebook Live during the event.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Get a rare look at performance footage from the MCA’s archive in a livestreamed watch party of Relations, an evening of improvised dance by influential choreographers Ishmael Houston-Jones, Ralph Lemon, and Bebe Miller. This landmark performance was organized specifically for the MCA and was one of the highlights of the 2018 season. Relive the moment alongside your fellow online viewers with live discussion prompts during the screening and a brief post-show hangout.
ABOUT RELATIONS
In Relations, three legendary shapers of experimental dance came together for the first time to perform as a trio. Part family reunion and party first-time encounter, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Ralph Lemon, and Bebe Miller paid homage to their past selves and gestured toward the future of dance in this evening of improvisation. Relive the kinship celebrated in this moment on stage after nearly 40 years of influencing each other from afar throughout their prolific careers.
This virtual watch party is organized by Tara Aisha Willis, Associate Curator and Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Assistant in Performance and Public Practice.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ishmael Houston-Jones is an improvisational and often-collaborative choreographer, curator, and teacher. In 1982 he curated Parallels at Danspace Project, asking, “What is post-Alvin Ailey Black Dance?” Thirty years later, with PLATFORM 2012: Parallels, he offered an updated reflection on the relation between dance makers of the African diaspora and postmodern choreography. After a decade-long hiatus from choreographing, during which he performed in the works of Miguel Gutierrez, Yvonne Meier, Lionel Popkin, and others, in 2010 Houston-Jones restaged THEM, a 1985 collaboration with writer Dennis Cooper and composer Chris Cochrane, which explored aggression and sexuality and had premiered during the AIDS epidemic. Houston-Jones was honored with the Doris Duke Impact Award in 2015 and received the CalArts Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 2016.
Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, writer, visual artist, curator, and the artistic director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation. His most recent works include Scaffold Room (2015), Four Walls (2012), and How Can You Stay in The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere? (2008–10), a work with live performance, film, and visual art that toured throughout the US. The immersive visual art installation Meditation, which was part of How Can You Stay, was acquired for the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center in 2012. In January 2011 a reimagined section of How Can You Stay was performed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in conjunction with On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. Lemon curated the fall 2012 performance series Some sweet day at MoMA and the acclaimed 2010 performance seriesI Get Lost at Danspace Project in New York. His solo visual art exhibitions have been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; The Kitchen, New York; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He is the recipient of three \"Bessie\" Awards, two Foundation for Contemporary Art Awards, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a CalArts Herb Alpert Award. Lemon has held teaching positions or residencies at Harvard University, Krannert Center, Princeton University, Stanford University, Temple University, and Yale University. He is currently Professor of Practice of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University and a Visual Arts Mentor at Columbia University School of the Arts. He was the 2014 Annenberg Fellow at MoMA, where he curated a series of “performance essays” titled Value Talks. His book Come home Charley Patton, the final installment in the series The Geography Trilogy, was published in 2013 by Wesleyan University Press. He was shortlisted for the 2016 Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize and received a 2015 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. The first monograph of his work was published by MoMA as part of their new Modern Dance series in 2016.
Bebe Miller, a native New Yorker, first performed her choreography at NYC’s Dance Theater Workshop in 1978. She formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Known for its mix of virtuosic dancing and fundamental humanity, her choreography has been produced at major dance centers across the country and in Europe and Africa. Her work has been commissioned by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, PHILADANCO, Ailey II, and the Phoenix Dance Theatre in the United Kingdom, among others. She has been honored with four New York Dance and Performance “Bessies” and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, and Guggenheim Foundation, and was named a United States Artists Ford Fellow in 2010. A professor in Dance at Ohio State University from 2000–16, Miller was a Distinguished Professor in their College of Arts and Humanities, received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College in 2009 and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Franklin & Marshall College in 2019. In 2012, she was designated as one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artists, a program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Performing Artist Awards. Most recently, she was honored by Movement Research as an honoree at their 2015 Gala along with Tere O’Connor and Moira Brennan. Miller currently lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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Marion & Jerome H. Stone Gallery, Fourth Floor, North Side
Lines are the first gesture in writing, drawing, and sculpture making them central to representation. While we often describe lines as definitive—“a line in the sand,” or “crossing the line”—artists in this exhibition play with these limits, revealing how they can change and move.
Taking the title from a Sol LeWitt artist’s book, The Location of Lines further examines the form of a line in the context of space and politics. Through a variety of representations in the prints, drawings, photographs, and videos that make up the exhibition, viewers are invited to reconsider the line and its meaning, both in imagination and in reality. These uses span from the abstract to the concrete: the line as a form, as a symbol, as a concept, and ultimately as a geographic border. Each artwork reveals how lines, limits, and borders are constructed and how they can change. After all, for those in power, lines can be erased just as easily as they are drawn.
The exhibition is organized by Line Ajan, Barjeel Global Fellow. It is presented in the Cohen Gallery and Stone Family Gallery on the fourth floor.
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Kick off the school year virtually with the season’s first Family Day that commemorates the season’s shift with meditations on change.
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Joshua Vides × MCA × Converse Chuck 70
Today, Nov 9, through Nov 13
Thirty pairs of limited-edition Converse are available on Heritage Auctions. Each hand-painted shoe is unique. Bidding ends on Nov 13.
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Join artist and choreographer Darling “Shear” Squire for an online tour and chat about creative processes, kicking off a two-week residency in the MCA’s Edlis Neeson Theater.
Join
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Sat, Nov 14, 10 am–noon
Look closely at what stories are told in public spaces in Chicago neighborhoods with artists and other families.
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McCormick Tribune Gallery, Second Floor, North Side
Unfinished Business presents artworks that are perpetually incomplete. They exist in a state of ongoing change based on their surrounding environment, human intervention, or pure chance. Curated around a selection of Alexander Calderworks from the Horwich Family Loan and from the MCA Collection, the artworks in Unfinished Business celebrate incompleteness and question the very idea of being “finished.”
Unfinished Business is organized by Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator. It is presented in the McCormick Tribune galleries on the museum’s second floor.
Image: Alexander Calder, Black: 17 Dots, 1959. Sheet metal, paint, and steel wire; 38 × 48 in. diameter (96.5 × 122 cm diameter). Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan, EL1995.9. ©2020 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Nathan Keay
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This exhibition's content is available in both Spanish and English.
London-born Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo (b. 1978) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Through her studio practice and fieldwork with riverside communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure projects around the world, Caycedo makes work that addresses humanity’s relationship with nature. She works on the front-lines of social and environmental justice, gathering materials, experiences, objects, and feelings to make her multidisciplinary work.
Informed by Indigenous philosophies, Caycedo’s work challenges us to understand nature not as a resource to be exploited, but as a living and spiritual entity that unites people beyond borders. Her innovative approach integrates an art-making practice in the studio with actions in communities affected by the large-scale extraction of natural resources by corporations and governments, inviting viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism—and how we might bolster resistance, solidarity, and cultural and environmental biodiversity.
Carolina Caycedo: From the Bottom of the Riversurveys the last ten years of Caycedo’s artistic practice and prominently features Be Dammed(2012– ), an ongoing multimedia project that examines the impact of hydroelectric dams and other major infrastructure projects on riverine communities and the natural world. It also features Caycedo’s powerful Cosmotarrayas, a series of net sculptures produced through fieldwork in areas where the privatization of waterways has irrevocably altered the ability of local communities to live and work. The exhibition encompasses video, drawing, photography, sculpture, and performance and reflects the importance of process and participation in Caycedo’s work.
The exhibition is organized by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum's second floor.
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In Sulfur Cycle 2.0, Dan Peterman (American, b. 1960) excavates the walls of an MCA gallery to reveal that the museum itself is built in part with materials produced from fossil fuels. Through this investigation, Peterman asks the viewer to think more deeply about the systems that fuel their lives: whether for their car, their home, their workplace, or their city.
In 1994, the MCA hosted Options 48: Dan Peterman, featuring a multimedia artwork titled Sulfur Cycle. The artwork was composed of six stacks of synthetic gypsum drywall, which collectively contained one ton of sulfur captured from coal-burning power plant emissions—thereby diverting this airborne pollution from entering the atmosphere. After the exhibition, Peterman intended for the drywall to be used in the construction of the building that currently hosts the museum, at 220 E Chicago Ave.
Peterman revisits this request in Dan Peterman: Sulfur Cycle 2.0 by removing pieces of the gallery walls in search of the original drywall. Using the museum building itself, Peterman demonstrates how capitalism reorganizes nature—and how fossil fuels are so ingrained in our production and consumption cycles, they disappear into the environment we occupy.
Dan Peterman: Sulfur Cycle 2.0 is organized by Jack Schneider, Curatorial Assistant, and is presented in the Turner Gallery on the museum’s fourth floor.
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In his first solo museum exhibition, artist and musician Omar Velázquez (Puerto Rican, b. 1984) presents recent paintings and sculptures that address the intersection of painting, music, and folklore.
In a series of large-scale paintings, Velázquez—who lives between Ponce, Puerto Rico and Chicago—explores the lush, tropical landscape through vibrant colors and thick oil paint smears, known as impasto, creating surreal scenes from memories, dreams, and his daily walks and drives through the Puerto Rican countryside. In Velázquez’s paintings, the landscape and its creatures are mystical entities that reveal the dark legacies of colonialism and the experience of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
The exhibition also features string instruments, carved by Velázquez, in the shape of tropical fruits. These instruments accompany small-scale paintings of Jíbaro music album covers, a popular style of string music from the mountainous regions of Puerto Rico. Presented alongside Velázquez’s work are two sculptures made by fellow artists and musicians Rafael Ferrer (Puerto Rican, b. 1933) and Carmelo Martell Luciano (Puerto Rican, 1907–1990), tracing a genealogy of Puerto Rican artists who share Velázquez’s interest in shape, color, and sound.
Chicago Works: Omar Velázquez is organized by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Sternberg and Rabin galleries on the museum’s third floor.
Image: Omar Velázquez, Caguama, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas; 72 × 84 in. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Photo: Julio Lugo Rivas
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Orkideh Torabi (Iranian, b. 1979) continues the MCA’s Atrium Project series with Peach House’s 5 Bucks Morning Special(2020). Torabi rendered a vividly detailed bathhouse filled with characters based on men she encountered during her upbringing and visits to Iran. Inspired by traditional Persian miniature paintings, Torabi depicts the rooms of the bathhouse in a split-scene style. After transferring paint dye onto cotton fabric, Torabi dries it with an everyday hairdryer, resulting in the saturated colors in her artworks. For this exhibition, in which her work is presented at a larger scale than it has been before, Torabi’s work on cotton fabric has been transferred to vinyl.
Now based in Chicago, Torabi purposefully paints men—often with bulbous features, clown-like expressions, and exaggerated limbs—in humorous situations. Through her work, Torabi seeks to rebalance patriarchal societies using humor.
Peach House’s 5 Bucks Morning Special is organized by Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, in the second-floor atrium.
Orkideh Torabi Peach House’s 5 Bucks Morning Special, 2020, Fabric dye on stretched cotton 85 × 54 in. Courtesy of the artist and Western Exhibitions, Chicago Photo: Farid Memar
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Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 6–7 pm
This virtual event is hosted on Facebook Live and Zoom. To join, tune into the the MCA's Facebook page at 6 pm CT.
This event is pay-what-you-can, and suggested price is $10. RSVP for pre-event reminders.
In celebration of the exhibition Carolina Caycedo: From the Bottom of the River, join a lively conversation between the artist, exhibition curator Carla Acevedo-Yates, and Wayuu filmmaker David Hernández Palmar. This discussion explores Caycedo’s Geocoreographies, artistic process, and the exhibition's themes of environmental justice, feminine genealogies, and the shifting of perspectives in relation to the territory.
The conversation is held in Spanish. Interpretation is available for English speakers in Zoom. RSVP for details about English interpretation.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines. This presentation is organized by the MCA's Visual Art and Performance and Public Practice teams.
This event takes place at 6 pm Central Time.
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FREE FOR FAMILIES
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Explore hands-on activities inspired by Chicago artists and MCA exhibitions. This month, sign up to receive a special set of at-home activity prompts via email inspired by current MCA exhibitions.
Subscribe to our monthly Family Programs Newsletter to stay up-to-date on upcoming virtual family activities!
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Artists help us see our world more clearly. What aspects, which might have gone ignored in the past, can they help us see now?
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and a renewed reckoning over racial justice and inequality, The Long Dreaminvites visitors to see the city of Chicago, the world, and themselves, through the eyes of more than 70 local artists whose work offers us ways to imagine a more equitable and interconnected world.
Named after the 1958 novel by socially committed author Richard Wright, The Long Dream brings together work by both emerging and established Chicago artists, and includes painting, performance, sculpture, video, and sound art. The exhibition extends beyond the gallery walls into the digital space, culminating in a live arts event in January where artists from across the exhibition will share their work.
The Long Dream is organized collectively by the Artistic Division, which includes the museum's curatorial, learning, and content teams. It is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum's fourth floor.
Top image: Edra Soto Tropicalamerican, 2014. Inkjet print on silk 5 pieces, each: 67 × 43 in, Photo: James Prinz. Courtesy of the artist
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Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 6–7:30 pm
Continuing to unpack their years-long conversation around race, theater artists Marcella Murray and David Neumann, along with collaborator Tei Blow, weave imagery, short bursts of dance, and the act of being in dialogue itself to reveal the effort needed for two people to actually be in the same place at the same time. The performance event includes an in-depth conversation with Chicago’s own Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism\" and Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for their Rights, to kick off the museum’s annual Dialogue Series, this year exploring the power of dialogue and dissent to bring us together in a fractured world.
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Dependent Objects highlights the connections between individual works of sculpture and surrounding bodies and spaces, revealing that the contexts surrounding these works are as significant as the physical objects.
The sculptures in the exhibition, while seemingly complete on their own, depend on outside factors for their display, form, or meaning. Some were created to be used for performances, while others are adaptable forms that are shaped by the choices of display.
The exhibition is organized by Harry C. H. Choi, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow. It is presented in the Cohen and Stone Family Galleries on the museum’s fourth floor.
Image: Katinka Bock, Miles and Moments for Paris, 2011. Fired clay. Approximately 4 × 86 ½ × 13 ¾ in. (10.2 × 219.7 × 34.9 cm), 8 ¾ × 87 × 13 ¼ in. (22.2 × 221 × 33.7 cm) and 4 ¼ × 85 ½ × 13 ¼ in. (10.8 × 217.2 × 33.7 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin by exchange, 2011.28.a-x
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles (American, b. 1985) paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Her ambiguous and evocative scenes feature figures whose limbs, torsos, and faces collide and merge with familiar domestic objects made strange through her color choices and experimental painterly gestures. Her work explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as well as the ways race, gender, and sexuality intersect to form complex identities.
The largest presentation of her work to date, the exhibition at the MCA brings together a selection of her work made over the last three years, as well as a new, large-scale installation that explores illusions and histories of painting.
The exhibition is curated by Grace Deveney, former Assistant Curator, and Jack Schneider, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum’s second floor.
Image: Christina Quarles, Can Yew Feel? Tha Days Are Gettin’ Shorter, 2018, © Christina Quarles, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
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In a time of increasingly divisive national politics, the impossibility of consensus calls us to find ways of working together in difference. In this immersive and open conversation, participants hear from transformative justice scholar adrienne maree brown and venture into breakout rooms for group discussions on the topic of how we talk with one another. The second event of the Dialogue Series, this program follows the opening performance, Primer for an Impossible Conversation, and furthers our collective inquiry into the topic of dissent as a mode for building social bridges.
A prolific writer and impassioned activist, adrienne maree brown is well known for her essential texts that explore activism, pleasure, and transformative justice. Brown’s books include Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; and most recently We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice. The next text in her Emergent Strategy Series, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, will be released in April of 2021.
ABOUT THE 2021 DIALOGUE SERIES ON DISSENT
What happens when the legacies we inherit are not the ones we would choose? Building on last year’s exploration of inheritance, the 2021 Dialogue Series provides a space to think about dissent and how pushing against existing structures strengthens our social bonds.
Throughout the spring, we’ll consider how we talk with each other, nurture each other, call each other out, and ask more of each other and the structures that are built around us. Through a series of live virtual events, invited speakers and audience members discuss the power of dissent and disagreement paired with connection and mutual care. For the first time, the Dialogue exploration begins with an artwork, a performance built out of a years-long conversation and configured for this contemporary moment and virtual environment. Series speakers include theater-makers, scholars, chefs, media personalities, and artists.
The Dialogue Series is a museum-wide commitment to sustained inquiry about museum practice, access, and inclusion. Each annual series includes eminent speakers presenting innovative work happening across disciplines, panel discussions, and opportunities for open dialogue with audiences.
The Dialogue Series is organized by January Parkos Arnall, Curator, with the Performance and Public Practice team.
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Join a virtual conversation between Chicago Works artist Omar Velázquez and Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates as they discuss Velázquez's work and the process of putting together his first solo museum exhibition, now on view at the MCA.
Join In
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Join in as acclaimed singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, and actor Justin Vivian Bond chats, riffs, and improvises with installation artist Jim Hodges in Hodges’s studio in Queens, with Bond’s band in the background.
On Friday, March 26, listen to a Soundtrack cocreated by the two collaborators.
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Talk: Hebru Brantley
Moderated by MCA Assistant Curator Gibran Villalobos
Join us on May 27 at noon CT for a virtual talk on Instagram Live with multidisciplinary artist Hebru Brantley.
Multidisciplinary artist Hebru Brantley provides a peek into his creative process in this virtual event moderated by Gibran Villalobos, MCA Assistant Curator. Hear Brantley discuss his characters, which address complex ideas around nostalgia, the mental psyche, power, and hope. Known for his inspiring murals and the recent installation, Nevermore Park, Brantley discusses his creative process and what’s in the works, as well as debuting a new capsule collection for the MCA Chicago Store.
Check out our dedicated site for Hebru’s new collection.
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Chicago has been a center for comics for decades—a haven not only for making and publishing cartoons, but also for innovating on the medium. Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now tells the story of the art form in the influential city through the work of Chicago’s many cartoonists: known, under-recognized, and up-and-coming.
The exhibition traces the evolution of comics in Chicago, as cartoonists ventured beyond the pages of newspapers and into experimental territory including long-form storytelling, countercultural critique, and political activism. Chicago Comics examines styles, schools of thought, and modes of publication across six decades of cartooning, including works from artists who are changing the medium today. The exhibition seeks to bring to the fore artists of color who were previously under-recognized throughout their careers. In this pursuit, the exhibition features archival material previously not seen in museums and offers a revised history of the art form. Represented throughout this timeline are special sections that highlight key artists including Kerry James Marshall, Lynda Barry, and Chris Ware.
How do cartoonists work? How do they collaborate? What tools do they use to build rich worlds and characters? Alongside familiar three-panel cartoons, Chicago Comics showcases developmental sketches, dioramas, and even sculptures, offering a glimpse into the artistic processes of cartoonists. By tracing the relationships between these artists—as thinkers, makers, and often teachers—the exhibition reveals how Chicago emerged as a vibrant community and center for innovation in the medium.
Through deep research into the many communities of makers, Chicago Comicsoffers an unprecedented portrait of sixty years of cartooning and celebrates an artistic community that continues to thrive today—one that could have only been fostered here in Chicago.
The exhibition is guest-curated by Dan Nadel. The exhibition is designed by Norman Kelley and is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum’s fourth floor.
Image: Lynda Barry, 100 Demons: Dancing, 2000-02. Watercolor on board; 8 × 10 in. Courtesy Adam Baumgold Fine Art
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GRAIN OF A HAND: DRAWINGS WITH GRAPHITE
July 17, 2021 - April 3, 2022
Featuring works in the MCA Collection, Grain of a Hand: Drawings with Graphite presents a selection of artworks that challenge the traditional uses of graphite, the carbon-based material in the common pencil. While drawing is typically seen as a preparatory medium to quickly sketch out ideas, many of the artists in Grain of a Hand: Drawings with Graphite explore drawing and graphite as their main medium and material of choice and consider graphite drawings as finished works. Works in this exhibiton use drawing and graphite as a means to clarify or abstract experiences of sight, knowledge, and memory, and explore the use of graphite for language and recording.
Jul 17–Dec 12, 2021
Dec 16, 2021–Mar 27, 2022
Tony Lewis, roc an r, 2014. Pencil and graphite powder on paper; framed: 86 ¼ × 62 13/16 in. (219.1 × 159.5 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Marilyn and Larry Fields, 2016.24.
© 2014 Tony Lewis. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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How does language structure our world? Who gets to be inside or outside a language? What would it mean to invent a new mode of communication? And what social conditions make creating a new language necessary? These are questions that Chicago artist Caroline Kent (American, b. 1975) explores through paintings, drawings, sculpture, and performance works that speak in an abstract visual vocabulary she developed over years of practice. In Chicago Works: Caroline Kent Victoria/Veronica: Making Room exhibition, Kent encourages visitors to engage with her invented language of abstraction—one that defies easy interpretation or translation.
Caroline Kent (b. 1975 Sterling, IL) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Kent received a MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BS from Illinois State University. Upcoming and recent solo exhibitions include: Chicago Works (2021), MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL; Caroline Kent (2021), University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; A Sudden Appearance of the Sun (2020), Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Victoria/Veronica: The figment between us (2020), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL;Writing Forms (2020), Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI; A Forms Walks Toward You In The Dark (2020), The TCNJ Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ; Beyond the Kármán Line (2020), St. Catherine University, MN; and Disappearance of the word, Appearance of the world (2018), The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, among many others. Upcoming and recent solo exhibitions include: Constructed Mysteries (2021), Bethel University Art Galleries, St. Paul, MN; Duro Oluwu: Seeing Chicago (2020), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; LatinXAmerican, The DePaul Art Museum (2020), Chicago, IL; Five Ways In (2019), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; So Close, Far Away (2018), Paint School, Flag Art Foundation, NY; Out of Easy Reach(2018), DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; and Axes for Abstraction (2016), Saint Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, among many others. Kent is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant, the 2020 Artadia Award Chicago, the McKnight Fellowship for Visual Arts (2016), and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (2015). Her work resides in the public collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN.
Installation view, Chicago Works: Caroline Kent
Victoria/Veronica: Making Room
August 3, 2021–April 3, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Photo: Evan Jenkins
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Nereida Patricia, La Sirena, 2021
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ALFREDO JAAR: THE STRUCTURE OF IMAGES
August 28, 2021 - July 3, 2022
Featuring works from the MCA Chicago’s Collection and beyond, The Structure of Images gathers together a small but representative selection of Jaar’s works which include such diverse arrangements as triptychs, spotlights, and mirrors. Describing his work in terms of the “politics of images,” Jaar’s prolific career has not only addressed the political and social injustices of our time but also critiqued the representation of such issues. Thinking deeply about the circulation of information and images, Jaar obscures, reveals, and highlights the subjects of his photos, with recent projects such as 100 Women that uses dramatc portraiture and lighting to highlight remarkable women who have been overlooked by Western media. The exhibition also includes earlier works such as R, in which an image of an Ethiopian refugee is reflected in a mirror back at the viewer.
Alfredo Jaar, R, 1990. Silver dye-bleach transparency in light box and mirrors; installed, approximately: 132 × 40 × 24 in. (335.3 × 101.6 × 61 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift from The Howard and Donna Stone Collection, 2002.35.
© 1990 Alfredo Jaar. Courtesy Galerie LeLong, New YorkPhoto: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is pleased to announce Bani Abidi: The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared, an exhibition that brings together nearly two decades of the work of the multidisciplinary Pakistani artist Bani Abidi. Organized by Sharjah Art Foundation and originally presented in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2019, the exhibition uses humor to explore transcultural connections. Informed by her upbringing in Karachi and experiences in other metropolitan cities including Chicago, where she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Abidi approaches cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism as a master storyteller, using video, photography, sound, and installation to uncover the influence of cultural and political power struggles on everyday life. Abidi’s unexpected protagonists blur the lines between actors and non-actors, scripted and spontaneous moments, exposing the absurd theater of our social fabric. Bani Abidi: The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared takes place at the MCA from September 4, 2021 to June 5, 2022 and is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation; Natasha Ginwala, Associate Curator at Gropius Bau, Berlin; and Bana Kattan, Associate Curator at MCA Chicago.
Over twenty years of her career, Abidi has become internationally recognized for her satirical critiques of those who hold power and the many ways they wield it. Drawing inspiration from history, literature, mass media, and current events, Abidi’s practice explores the construction of sociopolitical realities and the impact of these narratives on individual experiences.
The exhibition presents several of her formative video works, such as Mangoes, The News, and Anthems, that feature the artist playing a semi-fictional version of herself on camera, as well as more recent works that show the evolution of the artist’s practice and interests over time. Abidi explores the spectacle of state authority and uses her work in film and other media as a potent, sometimes subversive means to address problems of nationalism and militarism and the elaborate drama of control.
A commission for Sharjah Art Foundation, Death at a 30 Degree Angle was featured in documenta 13 and marked a major international debut for the artist. Showing this work for the first time in North America, the multimedia installation constructs a fictional narrative about a small-time politician who commissions a monumental sculpture of himself. Power, self-aggrandizement, inauthenticity, and paranoia are explored in conversations between the politician and the sculptor, Ram Sutar, who in real life is renowned for his monuments to historic figures and national heroes.
The exhibition also features the debut of a new work, The Reassuring Hand Gestures of Big Men, Small Men, All Men (2021). The series features gestures and traits that create the image of power and are often associated with masculinity, such as charisma, comradeship, and patriotic fervor.
Another highlight of the exhibition, The Address is displayed on television monitors at multiple sites throughout the MCA. The work features a single static image of an empty politician’s office with blue curtains, a desk, and a microphone. While the scene suggests the politician’s arrival and an impending announcement, the politician never arrives.
Similarly, in Reserved, crowds anxiously await the red-carpet entrance of a state dignitary and his motorcade. One side of the two-channel projection displays scenes of children waving paper flags, a street vendor selling balloons, and police managing traffic. The other projection shows the motorcade arriving, but never the dignitary himself. Through Abidi’s critical lens, these works reflect the uneasy, nervous waiting associated with bureaucracy and the production of public image.
Bani Abidi: The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared explores Abidi’s deep engagement with various mediums. The exhibition features works on paper with her series of watercolors The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared, which lends its title to the exhibition, as well as prints and installation with works such as Security Barriers A-Z and Exercise in Redirecting Lines. The latter work involves intersecting queue lines on the gallery floor, building on the theme from her film The Distance From Here.
Abidi shows that reality is sometimes stranger than fiction—and that humor, when shared collectively, becomes a way to understand each other.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bani Abidi was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1971. She studied painting and printmaking, earning a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1994. She later attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning an MFA in 1999. She completed residencies with the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2000), Fukuoka Art Exchange Program, Japan (2005), and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2011–12). Solo exhibitions of Abidi’s work have been presented at V. M. Art Gallery, Karachi (2006 and 2010); Oberwelt, Stuttgart (2006); Gallery TPW, Toronto (2007); Gallery SKE, Bangalore (2008); Green Cardamom, London (2008 and 2010); Project 88, Mumbai (2010); Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (2011); and Experimenter, Kolkata (2012–13). Important group exhibitions include: Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial (2005); Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2007); Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008); Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Asia Society, New York (2009); The Spectacle of the Everyday, Lyon Biennial, France (2009); Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2010); The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2011); Making Normative Orders: Demonstrations of Power, Doubt and Protest, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2012); and Documenta 13 (2012). Abidi lives and works between Karachi and New Delhi.
ABOUT SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION
Sharjah Art Foundation is an advocate, catalyst, and producer of contemporary art. Established in 2009 to expand programmes beyond the Sharjah Biennial, which launched in 1993, the Foundation encourages a shared understanding of the transformational role of art through the annual March Meeting, year-round exhibitions, film, and music programmes, education and community outreach programmes, grants, residencies, commissions, and publications. Sharjah Art Foundation is a legally independent public body established by Emiri Decree and supported by government funding, grants from national and international nonprofits and cultural organizations, corporate sponsors, and individual patrons.
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Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
How do we defy categorization? Continuing the MCA’s Dialogue Season on Dissent, join a virtual conversation between artist and activist Patrisse Cullors and artist Alice Sheppard that explores the ways individual identities are framed in activism, art, and dissent. Museums are typically built on basic categories that help us frame our experience—historical time periods, media, or geographic areas—yet individual artists and their work often defy easy categorization. Likewise, activism and advocacy are often framed through clear categories, even when these impulses are intersectional.
In this discussion moderated by MCA Associate Curator Tara Aisha Willis, the speakers—both artists whose work interrogates and frustrates these fixed boundaries—share their strategies for holding multiple viewpoints and pushing against the impulse to frame and label what they are doing as one thing or another. Together we will consider the ways we as viewers can hold multiplicity and how as a community forged around the MCA we can embrace the complexity of individual experience in our relationships with each other.
The Dialogue Series is a museum-wide commitment to sustained inquiry about museum practice, access, and inclusion. Each annual series includes eminent speakers presenting innovative work happening across disciplines, panel discussions, and opportunities for open dialogue between local arts professionals and audiences. The 2021 Dialogue Season on Dissent is organized by Curator January Parkos Arnall with Curatorial Assistant Otez Gary, and the Performance and Public Practice team.
This virtual event is free or pay-what-you-can. MCA's suggested price is $15. Your ticket purchase enables the MCA to directly support the work of living artists.
Register below to participate in the interactive discussion, receive pre-show information, virtual viewing tips and tricks, and to stay connected to the MCA community.
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For over thirty years, multidisciplinary visual artist Andrea Bowers (American, b. 1965) has made art that activates. Bowers works in a variety of mediums, from video to colored pencil to installation art, and speaks directly to pressing national issues. Her work combines an artistic practice with activism and advocacy, giving voice to stories rarely seen or heard.
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Bowers received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She built an international reputation as a chronicler of contemporary history, documenting activism as it unfolds and collecting research on the frontlines of protest. Her subject matter contends with issues like immigration, workers’ rights, environmentalism, and women’s rights, presented in a range of media. Her empathetic and labor-intensive practice draws attention to the humanity impacted by injustice—shifting the conversation from politics to people.
This is the first museum retrospective surveying over two decades of Bowers’s practice. Highlights of the exhibition include Courtroom Drawings (Steubenville Rape Case, Text Messages Entered As Evidence, 2013), (2014) and My Name Means Future, (2020). These two works speak to the range of issues in Bowers’s work, the former emerged from her work as an embedded observer in a landmark sexual assault case; the latter from her involvement in activism around the Dakota Access Pipeline project.
Andrea Bowers is co-organized by Michael Darling, MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator and Connie Butler, The Hammer Museum Chief Curator. It is presented in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on the museum's fourth floor.
Image: Andrea Bowers Church Banners (Adalberto United Methodist Church, Chicago, Member of New Sanctuary Movement), 2007/2008 Color pencil on paper Diptych; Each 50 × 74 in. (127 × 187.96 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles, Photo: Robert Wedemeyer
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Photo by Michael Green © MCA, Chicago
Admission is free
Walk-ups are welcome
Sensory-Friendly Morning at the MCA is a free, sensory-friendly program for neurodiverse visitors of all ages. Preregistered individuals and their families can visit the museum before it opens to the public and explore exhibitions at their own pace. Lobby lights are less intense and a quiet space is available for breaks.
Sensory-Friendly Morning aims to be a welcoming space to experience contemporary art in a judgment-free environment.
For more information or to reserve tickets, click here.
Or Contact the Box Office at 312-397-4010
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BASED ON A TRUE STORY
February 12 - August 14, 2022
Based on a True Story features works drawn from the MCA Collection that play with the overlap between reality and fiction. The artists in this exhibition use fiction in a variety of ways, from staging scenes, to manufacturing identities, to imaginging alternative realities, using deception to comment on real issues, contexts, histories, and identities. With works by Rashid Johnson, James Luna, Claes Oldenburg, Walid Raad, Michael Rakowitz, Wendy Red Star, Lorna Simpson, Salman Toor, among others, Based on a True Story invites viewers to question the truth of images and their influence on understandings of everyday life.
The exhibition is curated by Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum’s second floor.
Mariko Mori. Birth of a Star, 1995. 3D Duratrans, acrylic, light box, and audio CD
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Gift of The Peter Norton Family Foundation,
1996.6.a-c
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This MCA will preview its Spring performances featuring performances that offer timely reflections on the theme of human connection, with a focus on care, responsibility, and vulnerability, and the shifting social dynamics of a post-pandemic world. On Stage is organized by MCA Curator of Performance Tara Aisha Willis.
When: Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 4:00PM CT
4:00 PM - Artist Conversation and Preview
5:00 PM - Reception in the Marisol Lobby
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art
Edlis Neeson Theater
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
*** Virtual option available ***
All attendees are required to show proof of full vaccination and ID at this event.
Please email: lherrera@mcachicago.org to RSVP.
The following Spring shows will be previewed:
Mammalian Diving Reflex, All the Sex I’ve Ever Had
Starring six everyday Chicagoans over the age of 65 from all walks of life, All the Sex I’ve Ever Had offers the experiences of a generation to the audience—specifically, their personal relationships to love and sexuality from the perspective of life’s later years.
Thursday, March 24 to Wednesday, March 30
Autumn Knight, M _ _ _ ER
In M _ _ _ ER, Autumn Knight guides her audiences through the controlled chaos of unpredictable group interactions. In this performance, entanglement is experienced in social dynamics and emotional proximity to ourselves, others, and objects.
Thursday, April 14 to Saturday, April 16
Alice Sheppard and Kinetic Light, Wired
Using disability aesthetics, aerial and contemporary dance, and the visual symbolism of barbed wire, Wired reveals the complex relationship between separation and interdependence.
Thursday, April 14 to Saturday, April 16
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for are on sale on mcachicago.org or by calling the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010. For the full schedule, including livestreamed and accessible performances, visit mcachicago.org.
Autumn Knight performs M___ER at OnTheBoards, Seattle WA, 2019.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
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All attendees are required to show proof of full vaccination and ID at this event.
About
Starring six everyday Chicagoans over the age of 65 from all walks of life, All the Sex I’ve Ever Had offers the experiences of a generation to the audience. Specifically, they reveal their relationships to love and sexuality from the perspective of life's later years. Featuring all the memories they care to share about their romantic and sexual lives over the course of decades, these six courageously open up their personal lives to one another and to strangers in the audience. This cast of real-world elders share secrets of first crushes, turbulent affairs, unexpected pregnancies, and deaths of loved ones. They chat with the audience, toast to important milestones, and dance on stage. One of Chicago's favorite DJs will share the stage with them, spinning songs from each decade.
The performance offers a new understanding of intimacy, acknowledging that aging can yield deep knowledge—and a way of being in society that is open and fearless. All the Sex I’ve Ever Had invites everyone in the room to be generous and to find commonality in shared experiences that are usually left in the privacy of the bedroom. As these Chicagoans describe how they found their way into and out of intimate entanglements over a lifetime, bigger connections between social histories and power dynamics—as well as an entire generation's worth of historical moments—come into the theater.
This project was organized by Tara Aisha Willis; Curator, Performance and Public Practice; with Otez Gary, Curatorial Assistant.
About the Artists: Mammalian Diving Reflex/Darren O’Donnell
Based in Germany and Canada, Mammalian Diving Reflex views innovative artistic interventions as a way to trigger generosity and equity across the universe. Founded by Artistic Director Darren O’Donnell in 1993, Mammalian is a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences. We are a culture production workshop that creates site- and social-specific performances, theater-based productions, gallery participatory gallery installations, videos, art objects, and theoretical texts. Mammalian’s body of work is interconnected, varied, and vibrant, reflecting our unique and growing body of knowledge and expertise on the use and function of culture. We create work that recognizes the social responsibility of art, fostering a dialogue between audience members, between the audience and the material, and between the performers and the audience. In all its forms, the company’s work dismantles barriers between individuals of all ages, cultural, economic, and social backgrounds; we collaborate with non-artists and offer both participatory opportunities for the audience as well as the traditional option of simply watching the proceedings as they unfold. It is our mission to bring people together in new and unusual ways, in Toronto, Canada, our home base, and around the world, to create work that is engaging, challenging, and gets people talking, thinking, and feeling.
Photo: Christopher Shea.
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FIRELEI BAEZ
March 26, 2022 - April 9, 2023
In the latest iteration of the MCA Chicago's Atrium Project, Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; lives and works in New York) fills the museum's two-story atrium with a large-scale reproduction of her painting Untitled (Drexciya) (2020). The work's title refers to the myth of Drexciya, a Black, water-breathing nation within the Atlantic Ocean populated by the descendants of pregnant African women who were thrown overboard from slave ships when they entered labor. Originally imagined by Gerald Donald and James Stinson of the experimental, Afrofuturist techno band of the same name, Drexciya is \"a science-fictional retelling of the Middle Passage,” as writer Kodwo Eshun has described it. Báez used expressive pours of paint to depict the subaquatic realm, covering the canvas in shapes and patterns that resemble algae and hairlike coils. Untitled (Drexciya) beckons visitors to look closer and deeper into this oceanic terrain, where human forms emerge in a complex reimagination of Black Atlantic diaspora.
Image: Firelei Báez, Untitled (Drexciya), 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 90 x 114 3/4 in (228.6 x 291.5 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York
Photo: Dan Bradica
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Photo by Michael Green © MCA, Chicago
Admission is free
Walk-ups are welcome
Sensory-Friendly Morning at the MCA is a free, sensory-friendly program for neurodiverse visitors of all ages. Preregistered individuals and their families can visit the museum before it opens to the public and explore exhibitions at their own pace. Lobby lights are less intense and a quiet space is available for breaks.
Sensory-Friendly Morning aims to be a welcoming space to experience contemporary art in a judgment-free environment.
For more information or to reserve tickets, click here.
Or Contact the Box Office at 312-397-4010
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In M _ _ _ ER, Autumn Knight guides her audiences through the controlled chaos of unpredictable group interactions. In this performance, entanglement is experienced in social dynamics and emotional proximity to ourselves, others, and objects.
This program is improvised. Content may include profanity and discussions about sex. Seating will be onstage and any participation will follow COVID-19 guidelines.
About
Combining improvisation with sculpture, sound, and lights, M___ER taps into the tangled relationships we have with familiar people and things to examine the shifting dynamics of intimacy between audience members' senses of self, others, and objects. The title suggests various interpretations of its missing letters; the performance itself addresses ideas such as “mother,” “murder,” and “matter,” while still leaving room for ambiguity. M___ER is a nonlinear, scenic examination of entanglements, from mothers to matter. Investigating relationships that are common to almost everyone, the performance probes the precarity inherent to physical proximity or emotional closeness.
Using her training as an improviser and the inexhaustible possibilities each audience member brings, Knight’s work regularly puts Black femmes—often herself—in contested and confrontational positions of power. Knight guides her audiences through indeterminate situations that illuminate the relationships at play in performance and in our everyday lives. The controlled chaos of these mysterious group interactions provokes laughter and occasional discomfort, using irrationality to make meaning out of our contemporary culture.
This project is organized by Tara Aisha Willis; Curator, Performance and Public Practice; with Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Assistant. The livestreamed performance is coproduced by On the Boards, contemporary performance center, Seattle, Washington.
Autumn Knight performs M___ER at OnTheBoards, Seattle WA, 2019.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
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Purchase Tickets Here ($10 - $30)
Using disability aesthetics, aerial and contemporary dance, and the visual symbolism of barbed wire, Wired reveals the complex relationship between separation and interdependence.
Wired honors histories of race, gender, and disability in America through an exploration of barbed wire. At times, the performance includes depictions of violence, as well as disability-based and racial injustice.
This program includes additional accessibility considerations.
To purchase discounted group tickets or for more information, call the Box Office at 312-397-4010.
Live Stream: Kinetic Light, Wired
More about Wired
Wired is an immense and intimate experience that traces the fine line between “us” and “them” through aerial and contemporary dance and the metaphoric use of barbed wire. The dancers of Wired spin and soar together in this meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in the United States, showing how this material shapes common understandings of who belongs. Barbed wire is designed as a material for containment. It is used, time and again, to limit individual and community movements and delineate boundaries as large as a nation state and as small as a personal fence. In Wired, this fraught material comes to highlight not only danger and contradiction, but also beauty and interconnection.
To create Wired, the artists of Kinetic Light—Alice Sheppard, Laurel Lawson, Jerron Herman, and Michael Maag—and their collaborators—composers Ailís Ní Ríain and LeahAnn Mitchell and scenic designer Josephine Shokrian—defy both gravity and assumptions about what dance can be. The artists of Kinetic Light see interdependence as a political position as well as an approach to making dance from a disability aesthetic: in which disability is a powerful creative and cultural force, and the many ways of accessing the performance are the art itself.
For a list of all Wired collaborators and funders, visit kineticlight.org/wired.
About the Artists
Kinetic Light is an internationally recognized disability arts ensemble featuring Alice Sheppard, Jerron Herman, Laurel Lawson, and Michael Maag. Working in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the nexus of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race. In the company’s work, intersectional disability is an aesthetic, a culture, and an essential element of artistry. Access is integral to the company’s work and is part of the art itself.
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This exhibition looks at the work of Alexander Calder (b. 1898, Lawnton, PA; d. 1976, New York, NY) not only through the poetic nature of his artworks but also through his intuitive demonstration of scientific principles. Using the framework of four different concepts in physics—balance, fulcrums, inertia, and drag—a new layer of complexity and beauty is revealed in Calder’s artistic practice. Eight of his works are on display in Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science, each an illustration of how instinct and precision create the effortless kinetic movement for which Calder’s works are known.
Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science utilizes a selection of works from The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation gifts, extended loans, and Ruth Horwich gifts. The exhibition is curated by Lynne Warren, guest curator and former MCA curator.
Image: Alexander Calder, Little Face, c. 1943. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Foundation, 2019.12. © 2022 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Reflecting the artist’s three-dimensional approach, the exhibition is designed as an immersive journey that begins with Spinner Forest and continues in the galleries with the artist’s cast bronze sculptures, tapestries made of sequined garments, color-saturated videos, and breath-taking installations such as the larger-than-life Beaded Cliff Wall that is comprised of millions of colorful pony beads threaded into shoelaces by hand. Displayed against a backdrop of floor-to-ceiling geometric vinyl wallpaper collaboratively designed with the artist’s partner Bob Faust, Forothermore traces artistic themes and Cave’s evolving interests over three decades, with works from as early as 1989.
Leading up to the exhibition, the MCA will be releasing short videos produced by the artist featuring sneak peeks of new works in the exhibition and behind-the-scenes glimpses into Cave’s collaborative creative process. The most comprehensive survey of Cave’s work to date, the exhibition will kick off with the ArtEdge: Forothermore gala on May 21, 2022.
Nick Cave: Forothermore is organized by former MCA Senior Curator Naomi Beckwith.
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Photo by Michael Green © MCA, Chicago
Admission is free
Walk-ups are welcome
Sensory-Friendly Morning at the MCA is a free, sensory-friendly program for neurodiverse visitors of all ages. Preregistered individuals and their families can visit the museum before it opens to the public and explore exhibitions at their own pace. Lobby lights are less intense and a quiet space is available for breaks.
Sensory-Friendly Morning aims to be a welcoming space to experience contemporary art in a judgment-free environment.
For more information or to reserve tickets, click here.
Or Contact the Box Office at 312-397-4010
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is thrilled to announce the opening of Chicago Works: Gregory Bae. The exhibition will be on view from June 28, 2022, through January 29, 2023 in the Sternberg and Rabin galleries on the museum’s third floor. A public opening reception will take place at the museum on Saturday, July 9 from 1:00 to 3:00pm. The exhibition is organized by Nolan Jimbo, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow.
The MCA will host an opening reception of the Gregory Bae exhibition in early July and will share those details closer to the date.
Bae’s kinetic sculptures, drawings, and videos undertake the romantic yet futile project of pausing time, imagining the possibility of resisting the forces of aging, decay, and separation. Throughout the exhibition, everyday objects loop, stutter, or fail: a tire spins atop a treadmill, clocks tick in place, and acrylic frames preserve torn sheets of paper. Meticulously rendered landscapes also appear within Bae’s work, which attempts to overcome distances both physical and cultural. In particular, translation and travel between the United States and South Korea are recurrent themes throughout the show.
“Chicago Works: Gregory Bae gathers a focused selection of Bae’s work, which melds the language of conceptual art with urgent discussions related to race and the limits of representation. While the artist’s work speaks in the broadest terms of time and space, it subtly alludes to his personal experience as a first-generation Korean American, moving seamlessly between the universal and the culturally specific,” says Nolan Jimbo, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow.
The first solo museum presentation of Bae’s work, the show is part of the MCA’s Chicago Works exhibition series, which spotlights Chicago-based artists who are shaping the local contemporary art scene.
“Over the past decade, the Chicago Works series has served as a platform for the city’s most experimental artistic practices, reflecting the diversity of Chicago’s artist communities and the rigor of the work made here. Chicago Works: Gregory Bae spotlights Bae’s meticulously crafted conceptual projects, which contemplate the poetics of time and distance through a diasporic lens. In light of the artist’s recent passing, we hope this exhibition will both acknowledge Bae’s lasting impact on artists in Chicago and build awareness of the poignant work he left behind,” says René Morales, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator.
About the Artist:
Gregory Byungho Bae (b. 1986, Salt Lake City, UT; d. 2021, Chicago, IL) received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also served as a lecturer.
In 2021, he founded Chicago API Artists United (CAAU) in response to anti-Asian sentiment in the United States. In 2018, he co-founded exhibition space Bill’s Auto, Chicago. Solo exhibitions of Bae’s work were presented at table, Chicago (2019); 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago (2018); Federico Luger Gallery, Milan (2017); The Mission Projects, Chicago (2017); Chicago Urban Art Society (2015); and Opsis Art, Seoul (2015).
He received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; Chicago Artists Coalition; and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York.
About The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago:
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The museum is generously supported by its Board of Trustees; individual and corporate members; private and corporate foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and government agencies.
Programming is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Museum capital improvements are supported by a Public Museum Capital Grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The MCA is a proud member of Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District.
The MCA is located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue, one block east of Michigan Avenue. The museum and sculpture garden are open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm and Tuesday from 10 am to 8 pm. The museum is closed on Monday. Tuesdays are Community Free Days with free admission for Illinois residents. Suggested general admission is $12 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. Children 12 years of age and under, MCA members, and members of the military are admitted free.
Tickets are available on the MCA website.
Information about MCA exhibitions, programs, and special events is available on the MCA website at mcachicago.org or by phone at 312.280.2660.
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In recent years, many museums and galleries have attempted to represent historically marginalized people by displaying works that depict their bodies. Responding to the limits of this approach, Interiors considers the potential of geometric abstraction—a form of art that relies upon simplified shapes—to obliquely allude to the body. Primarily drawn from the MCA’s collection, the works in this exhibition use basic shapes, curves, and grids to imply the sensual presence of a figure. At the same time, these abstract elements fragment, obscure, or distort the body, allowing subjects to remain indeterminate. Lush yet withholding, the works in Interiors adopt aesthetic strategies that turn inward and preserve interiority, resisting pressures to be publicly visible and definable within static categories of identity.
Interiors was inspired by Miyoko Ito’s painting, Chiffonier (1971), which was acquired by the MCA in 2005 and is on view for the first time. The paintings, sculptures, and photographs in the exhibition share themes and techniques with Ito’s work, particularly its use of layering, reflections, and dreamscapes—all of which refuse easy legibility.
The exhibition is curated by Nolan Jimbo, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow. It is presented in the Cohen and Stone Family Galleries on the museum’s fourth floor.
Image: Miyoko Ito (b. 1918, Berkeley, CA; d. 1983, Chicago, IL), Chiffonier, 1971. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Peg Corwin, in loving memory of her late husband, Robert B. Smith. Photo © MCA Chicago.
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The exhibition is organized by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Curatorial Associate.
Image: Erika Rothenberg, America’s Joyous Future, 1990–91. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Bergman by exchange, 1991.75. © 1990-91 Erika Rothenberg. Photo © MCA Chicago.
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Online through Zoom
This event is co-presented by the MCA Chicago and Public Art Fund
Join us for a conversation with Wendy Red Star, an artist who interrogates histories and misunderstandings of Indigenous culture with humor and care.
Red Star—whose work was recently featured in the MCA exhibition Based on a True Story...—currently has a major public art exhibition on view at 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in three cities, including 150 in Chicago organized by Public Art Fund. The project highlights the art of parfleches— intricately designed carrying cases that were historically made and decorated by Indigenous women. Red Star will be in conversation with Gaylord Torrence, an expert on parfleche, and Katerina Stathopoulou, an adjunct curator at Public Art Fund, who will examine Red Star’s practice and its meaning for art in the public sphere.
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Edlis Neeson Theater at the MCA Chicago
This event is a collaboration between the MCA Chicago and the Chicago Humanities Festival
Join us for a conversation with one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander.
In her latest book The Trayvon Generation, Alexander tenderly writes about the young people whose worldview has been indelibly shaped by persistent and visible racially motivated violence and asserts the unresolved problem of the color line at the center of the American experience. Join Alexander for a wide-ranging discussion about the power of art and culture to understand and confront issues of race, class, and injustice, and the ways in which Black artists, scholars, and activists have always revealed the “problem, the hope, and the possibility of America.” Moderated by Romi Crawford, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The 1990s were a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation. From the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc to the rise of transnational trade agreements, the decade’s large-scale shifts ushered in an era of international connectivity and social upheaval. In the cultural sector, art exhibitions expanded and turned global, and dialogues around identity, especially by those who have suffered systemic oppression, were featured front and center in cultural debates. The forces of this pivotal decade also had a major effect on the production, circulation, and presentation of art from the Caribbean.
Taking the 1990s as its cultural backdrop, Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today is the first major group exhibition in the United States to envision a new approach to contemporary art in the Caribbean diaspora, foregrounding forms that reveal new modes of thinking about identity and place. It uses the concept of weather and its constantly changing forms as a metaphor to analyze artistic practices connected to the Caribbean, understanding the region as a bellwether for our rapidly shifting times.
The exhibition is curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Assistant, Isabel Casso, former Susman Curatorial Fellow, and Nolan Jimbo, Susman Curatorial Fellow. It is accompanied by an expansive catalogue featuring scholarship as well as extensive plate sections reproducing exhibition artworks in full color. Authors include Carlos Garrido Castellano, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Aaron Kamugisha, and Mayra Santos-Febres, as well as a roundtable conversation with Carla Acevedo-Yates, Christopher Cozier, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Teresita Fernández. The exhibition is designed by SKETCH | Johann Wolfschoon, Panamá.
Image: Suchitra Mattai, an ocean's cradle, 2022. Vintage saris, fabric, and ghungroo bells. 10 x 15 ft.
Edlis Neeson Theater at the MCA Chicago
A Collaboration with the Chicago Humanities Festival
Join us for a conversation with two of Chicago’s preeminent voices on public space in the city, Lee Bey and Blair Kamin.
Lee Bey and Blair Kamin are known for their deep understanding of Chicago’s successes and failures in architecture and urban design. Chicago’s architectural legacy includes a civic ideal that has produced prized public spaces. In reality, however, public spaces for many of the city’s Black and Brown residents were—and, in some cases, continue to be—inferior to spaces used by white and affluent Chicagoans, while gentrification near new public spaces has made adjoining neighborhoods unaffordable for many of their longtime residents.
Moderated by American Institute of Architects’ Laurie Peterson and Jen Masengarb, the conversation will explore the past, present, and future of the public use of Chicago’s built environment.
Major support for Dialogue is provided by Julie and Larry Bernstein, the Zell Family Foundation, and Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund.
Generous support is provided by Lois and Steve Eisen and The Eisen Family Foundation, Caryn and King Harris, and D. Elizabeth Price.
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Please Note: This talk takes place at Greenstone United Methodist Church, located at 11211 S. St Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL, 60628, and online via Facebook Live.
Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood is filled with an abundance of cultural and historical knowledge and is surrounded by a diverse community and innovative history that is often overlooked. In this talk, Pullman artists F.A.B.L.E, Joe Nelson, Steve Soltis, and Nailah Stevenson gather for a conversation moderated by Otez Gary, Community Engagement Manager at the MCA. All four artists are awardees of Pullman: Laboring Together, an initiative of the Chicago arts alliance Voice of the City, which aims to bring Pullman residents together in dialogue around the work of the neighborhood’s artists. The 2022 series is themed around the past, present, and future of Pullman, and in this final event—titled “Where We Are Going?”—the artists reflect on the work, community, diversity, art, and culture of Pullman, and what it meant to be laboring together through each phase of the yearlong project.
The talk is free to the public and takes place at Greenstone United Methodist Church, located at 11211 S St Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL, 60628, and online via Facebook Live. If you are attending the in-person person, enjoy some refreshments beforehand, from 4 to 4:25 pm. Then stay afterwards for a reception sponsored by the MCA Community Engagement Team from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
Voice of the City was awarded a Neighborhood Access Grant by the Department of Cultural Affairs for Pullman: Laboring Together.
This talk is organized by Community Engagement Manager Otez Gary and the Community Engagement team in collaboration with Dawn Marie Galtieri and Christopher E Ellis from Voice of the City.
This event is free and open to the public. Attend in person at Greenstone UMC, located at 11211 S St Lawrence Ave in Chicago, or virtually via Facebook Live.
ASL interpretation and CART captioning provided.
Photo credit: Joe Nelson, Fire
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Family Day | Inspire
January 14, 202311:00 am - 3:00 pm
Admission is free to Family Day attendees; use promo code FAMILYDAY. ASL interpretation is provided.
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On the occasion of Chicago Works: Gregory Bae, which presents a focused selection of Bae’s work, join artists Josh Dihle, Mika Horibuchi, and Tony Lewis—all of whom were close friends with Bae—for a broader look at his practice, as they share memories of his past projects, community organizing, and the context in which his work emerged. The discussion is moderated by Nolan Jimbo, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow and curator of the exhibition.
MCA Talks highlight cutting-edge thinking and contemporary art practices across disciplines. This program is organized by Daniel Atkinson, Manager of Learning, Adult Interpretive Programs, and Nolan Jimbo.
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February 05, 2023
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Edlis Neeson TheaterThe Commons
About the Event
The MCA is proud to collaborate with Mike “Orie” Mosley, founder and creative director of Afrotrak, to present Black x Art, an immersive art experience featuring discussions and screenings at the intersection of Black art, film, photography, and visual arts. This event coincides with several MCA exhibitions that include contemporary Black and brown artists, including Martine Syms: She Mad Season One and Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today. Looking towards the future in bridge building between institutions, artists, and community, Black x Art highlights Black artists in Chicago from various practices who are blazing the trail and pushing the boundaries on what contemporary art looks like today.
As part of Black x Art’s partnership with the MCA, this daylong event also features a live DJ set from Mike Orie, digital art exhibits, and an artist-led session by Tonika Johnson, creator of the Folded Map project, further highlighting the works of Black artists, creatives, DJs, visual artists, curators, and more.
This program is organized in collaboration with Mike Orie, Founder and Creative Director of Afrotrak/ Black x Art, and Otez Gary, Community Engagement Manager at the MCA.
About the Work
Black x Art serves as a community where Black people are encouraged and empowered to elevate one another through (Black) art. Known event curator, Mike “Orie” Mosley, created Black x Art in 2022 after witnessing the challenges Black artists face in accessing well-needed and well-deserved resources and opportunities. Mosley was driven to make way for Black artists to focus on creating rather than worrying about the unfair struggle to advance in the art industry.
Black x Art will continue to amplify Black art, in its various mediums, to the world.
Image: Black x Art. Photo: @fashphotos.
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Deem—a global platform focused on design as social practice—will host a symposium called \"Designing for Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities\" in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago). The symposium, which builds on the themes covered in the first four issues of Deem Journal; Dignity, Pedagogy, Equity, and Place, will explore how design can create systems that foster large-scale social impact. The event will feature presentations and discussions from industry leaders in fields such as design thinking, urban planning, education, art, and culture. In addition, Deem will host the second edition of The Reference Room at MCA Chicago from March 3 to 5.
The day will begin with introductory remarks by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and two of Deem’s three co-founders, Alice Grandoit-Šutka and Nu Goteh.
● Architect and artist Amanda Williams, whose practice employs color theory to probe anti-Black racism, will begin the day with an exploration of the notion of design as a social practice.
● Pulling from his award winning research and design practice connecting architecture and identity, Germane Barnes will be in conversation with Toni L. Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, to discuss place and placemaking.
● Focusing on pedagogy, designer and educator Ramon Tejada will speak from his hybrid design/teaching practice which centers collaboration, inclusion, unearthing, and the responsible expansion of design, a practice he has named “puncturing.”
● Annika Hansteen-Izora who explores ways we can create kinder, more fluid generative online worlds in Deem’s Issue Four will explore dignity.
● The symposium will close with a conversation on equitable community design in Chicago, moderated by Otez Gary alongside Paola D. Aguirre, Maya Bird-Murphy, and Tonika Lewis Johnson.
Fittingly following the launch of Issue Four: A Sense of Place, \"Designing for Dignity: A Convening of Possibilities\" offers a highly anticipated in-person gathering for the design community. In Issue Four, Theaster Gates states, “Place. It’s the ability to locate oneself where one belongs. Place is the manifestation of care. With location alone, you’ve got space. With location and familiarity, intention and love, you’ve got place. I think that the work that I’m involved in is constantly trying to bring intention, beauty, and love back to location.” This is the ethos Deem will bring to the MCA Chicago this spring.
“Part of the MCA’s mission is to provide a place to contemplate and discuss contemporary art, culture, and the issues of today,” said Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn. “This collaboration with Deem will allow audiences from within and around Chicago to gather, learn, and find inspiration in exploring means to a true sense of place.”
The LA-based Deem has always admired Chicago for its legacy of social justice movement builders, its pioneering approach to modern design and its historical status in the print industry–especially as the home of Ebony and Jet Magazine’s Johnson Publishing. These characteristics make the city a fitting home for the inaugural conference. As America’s third largest city, Chicago has historically undergone many changes to its built environment, fittingly, Deem explores how the diverse nature of design can draw more equitable outcomes for communities and futures. Chicago can offer mindful approaches to promote a world with greater solutions for all.
“We’re excited to partner with MCA Chicago on this occasion. The institution has always been a point of inspiration for us at different points in our creative practice, always giving essential space for the most prominent artists of our time, from hosting Kerry James Marshall’s first retrospective in 2016, to organizing Virgil Abloh’s ‘Figures of Speech’,” say Deem co-founders Nu Goteh & Alice Grandiot-Šutka.
Deem’s three-day Reference Room will be a public gathering space for visitors to experience reading materials that have inspired their four issues. The Reference Room will feature a curated selection of publications, ranging from best-sellers to rare gems from various scholars, organizers, poets, visual artists, and more. These materials will provide context and access to educational tools around the publications processes and beliefs, as well as serve as a haven for reflection and repose. First held in LA to coincide with Issue Three: Envisioning Equity, this will be the second edition of The Reference Room. Held in the MCA’s Commons, community members will find a place for artistic and civic exchange; they will be encouraged to engage in formal and informal dialogue among themselves, other visitors, and communities. ABOUT DEEM JOURNAL
Deem Journal is a Los Angeles-based biannual print publication and online platform which positions design as social practice. Deem is a bi-annual journal exploring the world through the value of design. Born out of the belief that design is a constant part of our daily lives, founders Nu Goteh, Alice Grandoit-Šutka, and Marquise Stillwell, along with their collaborators, realized a disconnect in the way people talk and think about design. The founders share the perception that humans are often preoccupied with aesthetics and the tangible output of design as opposed to the diverse, process-oriented practice that it is. In response, they established Deem to reimagine design as the process of adding value as well as a fundamental, shared experience. The journal provides an in-depth look into the function of design within communities through careful consideration of their histories, exploring futures where design forges inclusive dialogue and intersectional dignity.
Centering design as a social practice allows for non-traditional designers to identify with the field, expanding the consciousness of design as a complex lived experience, accessible to an array of audiences across disciplines. Deem is available worldwide in select locations such as Reparations Club and Skylight Books in Los Angeles; Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco; Flower Press in Detroit; magCulture in London; Do You Read Me in Berlin. The publications can also be purchased online alongside its digital companion, at deemjournal.com which will also house archives of Deem Forum.
ABOUT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The MCA interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs while providing a place for audiences to contemplate and discuss contemporary art in pursuit of a creative and diverse future. The MCA believes in the values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) as a platform to enact structural change. The museum is generously supported by its Board of Trustees; individual and corporate members; private and corporate foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and government agencies. Museum capital improvements are supported by a Public Museum Capital Grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The MCA is a proud member of Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District.
The MCA is located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue and is open 10 am to 5 pm Wednesday to Sunday and Tuesdays (free for IL residents) from 10 am to 9 pm. The museum is closed on Mondays. Suggested general admission of $15 for adults and $8 for seniors. Admission is free for all youth 18 and under, members of the military and veterans, and MCA members. Find more information about MCA's exhibitions, programs, and special events at mcachicago.org or at (312) 280-2660.
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Duane Linklater: mymothersside features the work of Duane Linklater (b. 1976, Moose Factory, Ontario), whose multimedia practice addresses the contradictions of contemporary Indigenous life within—and beyond—settler systems of knowledge, representation, and value. Opening the institution of “the museum” to Indigenous content, the exhibition brings together sculptures, video works, and digital prints on linen from the past decade of the artist’spractice, as well as new adaptations of installations that he has continually revisited and revised.
With his draped and folded tepee cover paintings, Linklater transforms the semicircular canvas wrapping of the traditional Cree dwelling into a support for digitally printed imagery that he tints with natural dyes. Appearing amid these culturally significant forms and materials, references to the artist’s family, childhood home, and favorite bands, films, and garments suggest an expansive constellation of attributes that defies reductive notions of identity. Linklater counters the ongoing processes of erasure, extraction, and dispossession that impede Indigenous people’s potential with what he calls “a zone of non-interference”—a space of sovereignty and self- determination through art.
This exhibition is organized by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates.
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Early in her career, Mona Hatoum’s work took the body as both subject and material. Using performance as her primary medium, her works from this period afforded her an inexpensive and direct way of communicating with her audience, often employing technology like video and radio in innovative ways. In this exhibition, three key performance works—all produced in the 1980s, and all part of the MCA Collection—engage themes that continue to be fundamental to her practice, from the body to the impetus to connect with viewers. Twenty-five years after hosting Hatoum’s first US solo museum exhibition in 1997, the MCA is pleased to revisit three foundational works from the vantage of the present.
This exhibition is organized by Pamela Alper Associate Curator Bana Kattan.
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Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED
Set inside a contemporary boxing ring, this duet for two Black men explores Black multiplicity and human connection.
Image: Shamel Pitts and Tushrick Fredericks, Touch of RED. Performed at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, October 22, 2022. Photo: The Adeboye Brothers.
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To purchase tickets, visit mcachicago.org.
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McCormick Tribune Gallery
Endless brings together works from the MCA collection that touch upon the concept of infinity. Impossible to convey in full, this idea prompts artists to acknowledge the limits of what they can depict and to develop open-ended ways of working. The artists featured in Endless use repetition, abstraction, and processes of change to poetically imply spatial, temporal, and spiritual expansiveness. Throughout the exhibition, horizons suggest boundless space, sculpture embodies eternal change, and waters reflect the immeasurable depth of our inner lives.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Etel Adnan, Charles Gaines, David Lamelas, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
This exhibition is organized by Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow Nolan Jimbo.
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Free with museum admission
At the invitation of Duane Linklater, cellist Katinka Kleijn performs in response to “Santu’s Song,” a musical fragment, in the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside. The performances occurs at regular intervals in early May, but at unannounced times, creating the opportunity for a serendipitous encounter. Linklater conceived these performances in connection with his 2011 project Sunrise at Cape Spear, on view in the exhibition at the MCA. “Santu’s Song” and Sunrise at Cape Spear each present spare yet poignant elegies to the Beothuk, Newfoundland’s Indigenous inhabitants, who were falsely thought to have perished in 1829.
“Santu’s Song” is a fragment of a song as remembered by Santu Toney, a Beothuk woman who learned it from her father when she was a child. In 1910, just prior to Toney’s death at age 75, anthropologist Frank Speck recorded the song on wax cylinder. However, having long since left Newfoundland where she lived among other Indigenous peoples, Toney could no longer recall its meaning or context for the Beothuk. As a translation several steps and many years removed from cultural practice, this performance touches on both loss and survival.
Soundtrack is a series that invites contemporary sound-based artists to transform your MCA experience on a select day of the month with custom soundtracks reflecting their perspective of works on view in the museum. DJ sets and bands occupy spaces in the museum as the building itself amplifies their sound constructions.
About the Artist
Hailed by the New York Times as “a player of formidable expressive gifts,” Dutch-born cellist Katinka Kleijn has enjoyed a genre-defying, interdisciplinary career. Classically trained, she has since cultivated an exploratory, interactive creative practice at the fertile intersection of improvisation, composition, and performance art.
Much of Kleijn’s work illuminates the cello’s anthropomorphic qualities, often by placing the instrument in thought-provoking new contexts. In 2019, Kleijn and cellist Lia Kohl waded in Chicago’s Eckhart Park Pool with 30 cellos for their devised piece Water On the Bridge. Similarly, Kleijn’s The Body as a Variable Resistor (2021) uses a shared-circuit synthesizer to articulate parallels between the human and cello body. RESIDUUM (2022), a film made in collaboration with Aliya Ultan, pairs Kleijn’s cello with trash of epic proportions, like 600 feet of Mylar or a dress made of soda cans.
An active musician in classical and contemporary classical spheres, Kleijn is a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and International Contemporary Ensemble. She has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Hague Philharmonic, and the Chicago Sinfonietta, and presented her solo multimedia presentations at the Library of Congress, North Carolina Performing Arts, and the Chicago Humanities Festival. Kleijn’s 2016 world premiere performance of Dai Fujikura’s cello concerto at Lincoln Center was released by SONY Japan. As an improviser, she has collaborated with musicians like Bill MacKay, Ken Vandermark, Macie Stewart, Joe McPhee, Claire Rousay, Caroline Davis, Damon Locks, and Du Yun.
Kleijn is a Drag City recording artist, releasing STIR with Bill MacKay (2019), Momentum 5: Stammer with Ken Vandermark (2021), An Ayler Xmas with Mars Williams (2017), and SINE NOMINE with Mark Feldman (2022).
Image: Duane Linklater, Sunrise at Cape Spear (still), 2011. Single-channel HD digital video, text from Wikipedia conversations, artist story (handout);
12 minutes, 39 seconds.
Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.
This newly commissioned work amplifies the presence of Black neurodiverse and disabled bodies in the museum's spaces.
Image: Performance view, Barak adé Soleil, a series of movements, Claremont, California. Photo: Marcus Polk.
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May 13, 2023
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Admission is free to Family Day attendees; use promo code FAMILYDAY.
Freedom From and Freedom To
11 am–1 pm
Edlis Neeson Theater*
Watch movement and sound performers fuse their diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique interactive experiences in a celebration of movement and sound. The audience is invited to randomly select a combination of artists, who must then perform together.
Artist-Led Activity: Poems While You Wait
1–3 pm
2nd-floor atrium
Receive a typewritten poem on a theme of your choosing from poets with Poems While You Wait.
ASL interpretation is provided.
Find live updates on #OTVTonight.
Your favorite intersectional Late Show, #OTVTonight, returns with another genre-defying evening of premieres and stunts to take us to a new dimension, this time . . . in person. That’s right! For the first time since 2019, Open Television (OTV) is back; live and in living color right here at the MCA.
For this special edition of #OTVTonight, witness the world premiere of hand-picked shorts and pilots created by 2021–2022 #OTVFellows. These dynamic storytellers are recipients of OTV’s annual fellowship program, now in its fifth year, providing support, mentorship, and education to intersectional filmmakers from Chicago and beyond.
Join us for this special night of performances, creator interviews, a live DJ, a few special surprises, and of course, a return to fellowship. Remember, the future of television is intersectional. If you don’t believe it, let OTV show you.
For live updates on OTVTonight: A Return to Fellowship, visit bit.ly/areturntofellowship.
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June 10, 2023
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm
$250 | Tickets on sale May 19.
Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate the MCA and 10 years of ArtEdge with a live concert by Chicago native and 10-time GRAMMY® Award–winning musical artist Chaka Khan. Tickets include curated desserts and cocktails from the bar along with a live concert in the sculpture garden (entrance at E. Chicago Ave and N. Fairbanks Court).
Proceeds from this event support the MCA’s collaborative efforts to provide a platform for living artists, in pursuit of a creative and diverse future.
For more information, please visit the ArtEdge event page.
Image: Chaka Khan. Photo: Allen Cooley. © 2023 All Rights Reserved Daija Inc.
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Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art
Gary Simmons: Public Enemy is a comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York, NY). Among the most respected artists of his generation, Simmons has played a key role in situating questions of race, class, and gender identity at the center of contemporary art discourse since the late 1980s. He is notable for his early application of conceptual artistic strategies involving the critical deployment of pop-cultural imagery toward the aim of exposing and analyzing histories of racism inscribed in US visual culture. Over the course of his career, Simmons has revealed traces of these histories in the fields of sports, cinema, literature, music, architecture, and urbanism while drawing heavily on popular genres such as hip-hop, horror, and science fiction.
This exhibition—the most in-depth presentation of Simmons’s work to date—covers thirty years of highly disciplined production, encompassing sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and installations, as well as a number of large-scale wall drawings the artist will create on- site. The selected works will offer audiences a timely opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of the complex and profoundly moving work of this groundbreaking and influential artist.
Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalogue with newly commissioned texts by the exhibition curators and an esteemed group of art historians, writers, curators, artists, and critical thinkers. The exhibition is organized by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator René Morales, and Assistant Curator Jadine Collingwood, with Curatorial Associate Jack Schneider
Image: Gary Simmons, Hollywood, 2008. Pigment, oil paint, and cold wax on canvas; 84 × 120 in. (213.4 × 304.8 cm). Courtesy Rubell Museum, Miami. © Gary Simmons.
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For the first time, Tuesdays on the Terrace expands beyond its jazz focus to include more diverse genres and styles that have unique Chicago roots. This year’s series includes hip-hop, house, blues, bomba, and more, while maintaining a set of jazz performances.
Visitors can enjoy light fare and refreshments from the bar or bring their own food while relaxing on the terrace and sculpture garden lawn. Please note, outside alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
The 2023 presentation of Tuesdays on the Terrace is organized by Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Associate, Otez Gary, Community Engagement Manager, and Daniel Atkinson, Manager of Learning, Adult Interpretive Programs.
Reservations for individuals and groups are limited and will be available starting Wednesday, May 24. In the event of inclement weather, concerts will be held in the Edlis Neeson Theater on the museum’s first floor.
June 13: Coco Elysses
June 20: Victor Garcia: Tribute to Tito Puente
June 27: Mzz Reese & The Reese’s Pieces Band
July 4: Club Crib / TRIBE
July 11: Thaddeus Tukes: Tribute to Milt Jackson
July 18: Alysha Monique and the Family Divine
July 25: F.A.B.L.E
August 1: Honey Water Band
August 8: The Jazz Hoofing Quartet
August 15: SolDial
August 22: Bomberxs D’Cora of La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón
August 29: Rajiv Halim
Image: Tuesdays on the Terrace, Sep 4, 2018. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
June 17, 2023
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The event is free for people ages 21 and under and their families, though all are welcome to attend.
Designed by Chicago youth and curated and hosted by the MCA’s Teen Creative Agency (TCA), 21Minus is the MCA’s annual exposition of youth creativity and control. This year’s theme, What Was, What Is, engages our pasts, our histories, and ourselves in order to recognize the realities of our experiences and environments.
The 2023 return of 21Minus welcomes a record number of contributors!
Join us at the MCA Chicago on June 17th, 2023 from 1-6 pm for an afternoon of performances, workshops, art installations, film screenings and more!
The event is free for people ages 21 and under and their families, though all are welcome to attend.
Musical Performances
Performances led by:
Dream Sequence
100% Sonic Youth Cover
Ugly Nate
D-Composed
Enjoy an evening of free music on the MCA’s Anne and John Kern Terrace Garden with our annual summer concert series highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned music community.
For the first time, Tuesdays on the Terrace expands beyond its jazz focus to include more diverse genres and styles that have unique Chicago roots. This year’s series includes hip-hop, house, blues, bomba, and more, while maintaining a set of jazz performances.
Visitors can enjoy light fare and refreshments from the bar or bring their own food while relaxing on the terrace and sculpture garden lawn. Please note, outside alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
The 2023 presentation of Tuesdays on the Terrace is organized by Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Associate, Otez Gary, Community Engagement Manager, and Daniel Atkinson, Manager of Learning, Adult Interpretive Programs.
Reservations for individuals and groups are limited and will be available starting Wednesday, May 24. In the event of inclement weather, concerts will be held in the Edlis Neeson Theater on the museum’s first floor.
June 20: Victor Garcia: Tribute to Tito Puente
June 27: Mzz Reese & The Reese’s Pieces Band
July 4: Club Crib / TRIBE
July 11: Thaddeus Tukes: Tribute to Milt Jackson
July 18: Alysha Monique and the Family Divine
July 25: F.A.B.L.E
August 1: Honey Water Band
August 8: The Jazz Hoofing Quartet
August 15: SolDial
August 22: Bomberxs D’Cora of La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón
August 29: Rajiv Halim
Image: Tuesdays on the Terrace, Sep 4, 2018. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
From 10–11:30 am, visitors of all ages will be able to enjoy the museum with lower lights, minimal sounds, and a sensory-friendly art-making experience. Advance registration is required.
Get More Information and Tickets
Enjoy an evening of free music on the MCA’s Anne and John Kern Terrace Garden with our annual summer concert series highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned music community.
For the first time, Tuesdays on the Terrace expands beyond its jazz focus to include more diverse genres and styles that have unique Chicago roots. This year’s series includes hip-hop, house, blues, bomba, and more, while maintaining a set of jazz performances.
Visitors can enjoy light fare and refreshments from the bar or bring their own food while relaxing on the terrace and sculpture garden lawn. Please note, outside alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
The 2023 presentation of Tuesdays on the Terrace is organized by Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Associate, Otez Gary, Community Engagement Manager, and Daniel Atkinson, Manager of Learning, Adult Interpretive Programs.
Reservations for individuals and groups are limited and will be available starting Wednesday, May 24. In the event of inclement weather, concerts will be held in the Edlis Neeson Theater on the museum’s first floor.
June 27: Mzz Reese & The Reese’s Pieces Band
July 4: Club Crib / TRIBE
July 11: Thaddeus Tukes: Tribute to Milt Jackson
July 18: Alysha Monique and the Family Divine
July 25: F.A.B.L.E
August 1: Honey Water Band
August 8: The Jazz Hoofing Quartet
August 15: SolDial
August 22: Bomberxs D’Cora of La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón
August 29: Rajiv Halim
Image: Tuesdays on the Terrace, Sep 4, 2018. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Join curator Jennifer Carty for a close look at Mark Rothko’s No. 2 followed by a film screening that explores Rothko’s color field paintings.
FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance »
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Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Galleries
Entre Horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico is an interdisciplinary exhibition that seeks to recognize and critically examine the affinities between the social justice movements and the artistic genealogies of the Puerto Rican diaspora between Chicago and Puerto Rico from the 1960s to the present. It will feature painting, sculpture, photography, video, and other mediums by an intergenerational group of artists, alongside documentation of the social movements that advocated for the rights of these underrepresented communities. Anchoring the exhibition is the horizon line that connects Chicago with Puerto Rico, over Lake Michigan and Caribbean waters respectively, which is used as a metaphor to make connections across place and identity, visual art, and social justice.
The exhibition will also trace the emergence and expansion of Puerto Rican anticolonial activism and resistance starting with the Young Lords, which was founded in Chicago in the 1960s by José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez as part of broader movement of social justice groups advocating for civil rights in Chicago and around the country. It will also include documentation of important events and organizations, including the Division Street uprising and the unprecedented activism that founded the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Entre Horizontes will include historic photographs and other ephemera that tell the story of the anticolonial resistance of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago.
This exhibition is organized by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates.
Image: Candida Alvarez (b. 1995, Brooklyn, NY; lives in Baroda, MI), Licking a Red Rose, 2020. Acrylic on linen; 80 1/4 × 68 1/8 in. (203.8 × 173 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Katherine S. Schamberg by exchange, 2021.4. Photo: Tom Van Eynde, courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.
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The MCA collaborates with ChiBrations for a unique experience in honor of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
The event features contemporary artists and musicians covering different lenses of Chicago’s hip-hop history. Learn more.
Rebecca Morris:2001-2022 is a 21-year survey of Los Angeles-based painter Rebecca Morris (b. Honolulu, HI; based in Los Angeles, CA), an artist known for her large-scale paintings and inventive approach to composition, color, and gesture. Her first major museum survey since 2005, the exhibition is an examination of the artist’s innumerable contributions to the field of painting and contemporary art. With a marked commitment to experimentation and abstraction, Morris has become one of the most formidable and inventive painters working today. With 28 works, the exhibition provides audiences with an opportunity to see the artist’s progression of style through work produced after 2000. The exhibition also marks Morris’s return to the MCA, who previously exhibited in West by Midwest in 2018 and Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections in 2006.
Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 is organized by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator.
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Experience the large-scale, abstract paintings of Rebecca Morris in this twenty-one year survey of her work. Known for her inventive approach to composition, color, and gesture, Morris’s work offers a glimpse into new ways forward for the constantly evolving and expanding field of painting. Learn more.
Don't miss a talk with Rebecca Morris and Senior Curator Jamillah James in celebration of the exhibition opening! Get tickets.
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Designed and led by Chicago artists, Family Day is a monthly program that allows families and youth of all ages to engage with contemporary art. Enjoy FREE admission while taking part in workshops, open studio sessions, gallery tours, performances, and more.
October's Family Day activities include finger knitting, radio broadcasting, and karaoke! See the full schedule.
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Join chef-author Jason Hammel for a conversation with Amy Cavanaugh, dining editor at Chicago Magazine, in honor of the publication of The Lula Cafe Cookbook. Hammel is the culinary spirit behind the MCA’s restaurant, Marisol, which he helped open in summer 2017. Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn kicks off the event with an introduction and a book signing with Hammel follows the talk.
The Lula Cafe Cookbook is on sale now at the MCA Store.
ASL and CART captioning is available.
The Lula Cafe Cookbook is the story of 20 years of cooking, love, friendship, and community told through food, with each recipe taking a particular moment in time as its inspiration. Chapters include Brunch, Soups, Snacks, Salads, Vegetables, Pasta, Meat/Fish, and Desserts, along with dozens of “building block” recipes and “classic” signature dishes.
With 90 all-day recipes, each marked with the date of their creation, and all-new photography, this first book about Hammel’s bustling hotspot, Lula Cafe, gives a vibrant insight into the food and story of this iconic Chicago restaurant, written by its admired chef-author owner.
The Lula Cafe Cookbook is available at the MCA Store now and will be available at bookstores across the US on October 11.
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Over the past three decades, writer, curator, and podcaster Helen Molesworth’s singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influential voices in the art world.
At this inspiring event, MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn will join Molesworth on stage for a conversation about her new book Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art.
Spanish translation, ASL, and CART captioning is available.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is pleased to announce Faith Ringgold: American People, a career-spanning survey of artist Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, Harlem, NY; lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey), opening in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art on November 18, 2023, and running through February 25, 2024. This exhibition will be Ringgold’s first solo presentation in Chicago.
With a career that spans six decades, artist, author, educator, and organizer Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation. This major retrospective presents a comprehensive assessment of the artist’s impactful vision, which bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.
Originally organized by the New Museum, New York, the MCA adaptation of Faith Ringgold: American People will showcase many of her best-known pieces, including paintings, quilts, and sculptures, as well as archival materials from her activist work in the late 1960s and 1970s. It will examine Ringgold’s art as it evolved in response to politics and society, including the artist’s indelible works of the civil rights era, her radical explorations of gender and racial identity, and her focus on collective struggles for social justice and equity. A part of the MCA’s Women Artists Initiative, this timely exhibition provides a new opportunity to experience the art of an American icon.
“The MCA is proud to give Faith Ringgold and the city of Chicago a platform for this important retrospective,” Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn said. “A key artistic influence throughout the twentieth century, Ringgold captured catalytic moments throughout American racial, social, and feminist history. These stories still resonate today. Continuing to share them is key, now more than ever.”
The exhibition will also further contextualize Ringgold’s continuing impact on art history through the inclusion of works from the MCA Collection by artists who were influenced by Ringgold or explore similar themes in their work.
“Faith Ringgold: American People is an overdue examination of an iconic artist whose work has been underseen in Chicago,” Manilow Senior Curator Jamillah James said. “Ringgold’s centering of social critique and personal and familial narrative in her work has been profoundly influential to later generations of artists, and we are thrilled to partner with the New Museum to bring this thought-provoking and timely exhibition to the MCA.”
Top Image: Faith Ringgold (b. 1930, New York, NY), American People Series #16: Woman Looking in a Mirror, 1966. Oil on canvas; 36 × 32 in. (91.4 × 81.3 cm). Baz Family Collection. © 2023 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
FAITH RINGGOLD (b. 1930, Harlem, NY; lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey) earned a bachelor’s degree from City College of the City University of New York in 1955 and a master’s degree from City College in 1959. Her artwork resides in over fifty prominent public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, DC; Baltimore Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Newark Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; and St. Louis Art Museum. Her achievements as an artist, teacher, and activist have been recognized with numerous honors, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and in painting; a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; an NAACP Image Award; a Caldecott Honor; a Peace Corps Award bestowed by President Barack Obama; and sixteen honorary doctorates.
CREDITS
The MCA Chicago presentation of Faith Ringgold: American People is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator. The exhibition was originally organized by the New Museum, New York, and curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, with Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant.
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November 18, 2023, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Faith Ringgold, Black Light Series #7: Ego Painting, 1969. Oil on canvas; 30 x 30 in. (76 x76 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Wilson L. Mead Trust Fund; Claire and Gordon Prussian Fund for Contemporary Art; Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; Ada S. Garrett Prize, Flora Mayer Witkowsky Purchase Prize, Gordon Prussian Memorial, Emilie L. Wild Prize, William H. Bartels Prize, William and Bertha Clusmann Prize, Max V. Kohnstamm Prize, and Pauline Palmer Prize funds, 2019.184. © 2019 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy of ACA Galleries, New York. Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY.
About the Event
Join us for a conversation on how Faith Ringgold’s aesthetic and political practices continue to reverberate across generations of artists.
English/Spanish CART and ASL are provided.
Event is free with admission, but registration is required. Stay tuned for updates on tickets.
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/live-arts-mwc-mca/
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This exhibition brings together new works and old favorites—including mixed media, photographs, sculpture, and an automaton—revealing ongoing conversations among past and present artists. Descending the Staircase also celebrates the MCA’s active participation in these conversations as an institution that has collected and supported groundbreaking work by contemporary artists for nearly sixty years. Artists featured include Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Rashid Johnson, and Robert Gober, among others.
This will be the MCA’s first exhibition to feature select works from two recent major gifts: the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift (2022), a collection featuring 100 extraordinary works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, gifted and jointly held between the MCA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Marilyn and Larry Fields Gift, a donation of 79 works from Chicago-based collectors Marilyn and Larry Fields (2023) which significantly expands the scope of the MCA’s collection.
Descending the Staircase is curated by Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, and Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
Image: Julie Curtiss, La Machine, 2020. Oil and vinyl on canvas; 48 3/16 × 60 1/16 in. (122.4 × 152.6 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Tony Salame, Aishti Foundation - Beirut, Lebanon and Elie Khouri - Elie Khouri Art Foundation, Dubai UAE, 2021.7
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For the next iteration of its Chicago Works series, the MCA presents the first solo museum exhibition of artist Maryam Taghavi (b. Tehran, Iran; based in Chicago, IL).
Taghavi’s practice insists on positionality: where one stands determines what—and how—one sees. For the past several years, her work with talismans, calligraphy, and the Islamic occult has coalesced into a series of sculptures and paintings that strive to signify the unseen. In her upcoming MCA exhibition, Taghavi creates new works that expand her interest in perception by interrogating the space between the illusive vanishing point of the horizon and the immutability of distance.
Taghavi’s exhibition will take over the MCA’s Turner Gallery on the fourth floor, culminating in an immersive installation that invites audiences to close one eye and peer with the other, to adjust their gaze to new spatial possibilities, and to imagine a relationship with what is imperceptible.
About the Artist
Maryam Taghavi is an artist and educator born in Tehran, Iran, and a resident of Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she was the recipient of The New Artist Society Scholarship. Her art engages with a range of disciplines such as painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, publication, and installation. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as LAXART, Queens Museum, Exterressa Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, and Driehaus Museum, among others. In 2023 her sculpture work was commissioned by the City of Chicago to be permanently installed at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5.
Maryam Taghavi is the 21st artist to be part of Chicago Works, a solo exhibition series at the MCA that features artists who are shaping the contemporary art scene both in the city and beyond. This exhibition will be the first MCA exhibition to be fully translated into Persian.
Chicago Works: Maryam Taghavi is organized by Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, with Kamala GhaneaBassiri, Visual Arts Intern.
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Sowing Change: Creativity and Food Sovereignty is a collaboration between the MCA and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 5). This program brings together artists Erika Allen, founder of Urban Growers Collective in Chicago, and Linda Goode Bryant, founder of the pathbreaking gallery, Just Above Midtown (1976-1984) and Project EATS in New York City. Allen and Goode Bryant will discuss how the arts—and tending to the imagination—have guided their visionary leadership in transforming urban space as sites for food sovereignty and collective change.
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Erika Allen is the cofounder and CEO for Chicago’s Urban Growers Collective, president of Green Era Educational NFP, and co-owner of Green Era Sustainability Partners. She uses her experience as a visual artist to consult with individuals and organizations to support their visioning of social and economic change. She is passionate about social justice and working with multicultural groups towards the elimination of racism and related oppressions, as well as the root causes of poverty, by integrating creative and therapeutic techniques alongside food security and community development.
Previously, Allen founded Growing Power – Chicago and served as director for fifteen years, from 2002 to 2017. Allen is the cofounder of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council, serves on the board of Grow Greater Englewood, sits on the Leadership Council for Growing Home, and is an advisor for the Community Food Navigator project. Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker appointed Allen to the Illinois Leadership Council for Agricultural Education (ICAE) for a three-year term (2022–2024), and she was recently appointed by the Biden administration to join the USDA Farm Service Agency State Committee for Illinois. In 2022 she received a James Beard Leadership Award for her work to create a better food world. She is also a cochair of the Food Equity Council for the City of Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA in art psychotherapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Linda Goode Bryant founded Project EATS, an urban farming initiative aimed at sustainable food production in Black and brown communities in New York City, in 2009. Her decades of art-based activism began in 1974 with her founding of Just Above Midtown (JAM) gallery, a self-described laboratory that foregrounded the work of African American artists including David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, and many others. After closing JAM in 1986, Linda dedicated herself to filmmaking, directing the Peabody Award-winning documentary Flag Wars (2003), which explores the tensions between preservation and gentrification. Over her nearly fifty-year career, Goode Bryant has and continues to advocate for a connection to “our innate ability to use what we have to create what we need.”
In 2020, she received an Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a United States Artists Berresford Prize. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2021, Bryant collaborated with architect Liz Diller to create the installation Are We Really That Different for the exhibition Social Works at Gagosian Gallery, New York. In 2022, she was lead faculty for the RAW Académie Session 9 and related exhibition, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia. She collaborated with curator Thomas J. Lax to organize the exhibition Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces (2022–23) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Goode Bryant received her BA in studio art with a minor in drama at Spelman College. In 1980, she received her MBA in management from Columbia University.
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An early work from Do Ho Suh’s career, Who Am We? (Multicolored) is a floor-to-ceiling work that consists of thousands of 1/8 inch portraits from his high school yearbooks, consolidated and arranged in uniform rows. When viewed from a distance, faces within the composition are almost indistinguishable, appearing as a speckled mass of sepia-toned dots. As guests approach the piece, individual identities begin to emerge from the blur, simultaneously affirming and destabilizing the relationship between the individual and the collective.
This exhibition is organized by René Morales, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, with Luke Immins, Curatorial Intern.
Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, Seoul, South Korea; lives in London, United Kingdom) has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and Tate Modern, London. In 2017, Suh was awarded the Ho-Am Prize, considered South Korea’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize. He holds a BFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art, among other degrees.
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Throughout the year, the MCA hosts high-quality professional development programming, open to teachers of all subjects, grade levels, and disciplines. These events are educator-specific, skills-based, training on contemporary art integration. Programs are designed in connection with the cultural assets of the MCA and the needs of the Chicago area educators. In keeping with addressing issues of relevance, the 2023–24 Learning Series is a four-part series exploring “The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education.”
The term “apartheid” is used as it acknowledges the existence of economic and racial segregation systems. And as history has shown us, apartheid systems can be dismantled through collective action.
This workshop, titled “Harnessing Narrative for Food Sovereign Futures,” is meant to help us to understand food apartheid: how it impacts our lives and how we can leverage power in order to mobilize towards food sovereignty. Through experiential storytelling, collective imagination exercises, and power-mapping strategies, teachers work alongside food justice advocates to learn how they can make a difference in their classroom, their school, and their food system. This session includes a making and a writing activity.
The front of the building is on Mies van der Rohe Way, between Chicago Avenue and Pearson Street; located four blocks east of the Chicago Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line
This event is free for teachers with registration.
MCA Phone: (312) 280-2660
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1650 N Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60611
03/08/24, 03/09/24, 03/14/24, 03/15/24, 03/16/24 at 8PM
$11-33 per ticket
MCA Phone: (312) 280-2660
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/the-next-cup-of-tea/
About the Performance
Copresented with the Steppenwolf LookOut Series
The Next Cup of Tea is a solo dance-theater performance by Anjal Chande that investigates how to make sense of the never-ending impulses that run through our hearts, our everyday moments, and our contradictory experiences. Through improvisational dance and storytelling, Chande reflects on money, her grandfather, the politics of art, and more. Zigzagging between the gnawing inner world and daily physical routine, The Next Cup of Tea traverses through all that is ordinary, appalling, and enchanting.
This performance was originally scheduled as a part of the MCA’s 2023 Chicago Performs series, organized by Tara Aisha Willis, former curator, with Laura Paige Kyber, Assistant Curator.
Special Thanks from the Artist
Gratitude to all the collaborators who have contributed to previous iterations of this work across seven years of process. Shout out to the following individuals who shaped recent versions during the pandemic (2021) and a live showing at Tanztage in Berlin (2019): Gina Hoch-Stall (dramaturg), Jesse Hunter (musician), Karl Olson (musician), Josh Anderson (cinematographer), Emese Csornai (lighting design), David Ofori-Amoah (material design), Jorge Rodolfo De Hoyos Jr. (dramaturg), and Sophia New (mentor).
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March 9, 2024 | 11 am–3 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Free tickets to Family Day are available online and on-site.
This month’s Family Day features a Libreria Donceles pop-up with artist Pablo Helguera leading Spanish and English readings to promote bilingual learning. Additionally, Poems While You Wait writes poems specifically for you, and families can participate in illustration workshops facilitated by two local children’s book illustrators, Jacqueline Alcántara and Denise Holmes.
Image: Family Day, Oct 14, 2023. Photo: Shelby Ragsdale, © MCA Chicago.
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Join us for a conversation with artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, who discusses her politically poignant films and videos that use enactment, improvisation, and sensorial approaches to a history that we otherwise have no complex access to. Santiago Muñoz’s work is currently on view as part of entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico.
ASL, CART, and Spanish language captioning and audio are provided.
The front of the building is on Mies van der Rohe Way, between Chicago Avenue and Pearson Street; located four blocks east of the Chicago Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line
Tickets range from $10-19
MCA Phone: (312) 280-2660
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This is an opera, but what is an opera? If opera is defined simply as “big work,” what could be blacker? FORCE! features a live band that blends gospel, folk, pop, and jazz, with experimental dance, song, and the spoken word. As the work unfolds, characters reveal layered interiors creating a strange sisterhood with the power to disintegrate walls that blooms in the shadows of the prison industrial complex. As the artists manifest the free worlds of which they dream on stage, their voices resound with collective power. A meditation on often-overlooked spaces—prison waiting rooms—FORCE! travels through silence, sound, and rhythm to dissipate borders between performers and audience members and question who truly controls how their time is spent.
Comprised of a Chicago-based cast, FORCE! is created by Anna Martine Whitehead alongside co-music directors, Ayanna Woods and Teiana Davis; co-composers, Phillip Armstrong and Angel Bat Dawid; and is devised in collaboration with performers Zachary Nicol, Jenn Freeman, Rahila Coats, Eva Supreme, Nexus J, Daniella Hope, Brittany Brown, Kai Black, and Wyatt Wadell; with extra help from Tramaine Parker and Jasmine Mendoza.
Since late 2019, FORCE! has developed as an iterative re-imagining of performance practice, constantly re-centering care, consent, queer divergence, and rest. The creative team re-imagines rehearsal protocols and releases disciplinary categories to build an abolitionist feminist theater practice. This project gathers lessons from lichens and other emergent strategies, direct actions, and mutual aid societies and leverages sound and movement as vectors for processing state violence and racial capitalism. Using the prison as a particular prism through which we can bear witness to the ways carceral systems replicate themselves. FORCE! is also an attempt to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex in the audience and artist’s heads, hearts, and houses.
Libretto by Anna Martine Whitehead. Composed by Ayanna Woods, Anna Martine Whitehead, Angel Bat Dawid, and Philip Armstrong.
Runtime: approx. 80 min.
This performance is part of On Stage: Resonance, organized by Tara Aisha Willis, former Curator in Performance, with Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Associate.
The front of the building is on Mies van der Rohe Way, between Chicago Avenue and Pearson Street; located four blocks east of the Chicago Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line
Tickets range from $10-30
MCA Phone: (312) 280-2660
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/anna-martine-whitehead-force-an-opera-in-three-acts/
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Sensory-Friendly Morning aims to be a welcoming space to experience contemporary art in a judgment-free environment.
The front of the building is on Mies van der Rohe Way, between Chicago Avenue and Pearson Street; located four blocks east of the Chicago Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line
Admission is free, but attendees must register for tickets in advance.
MCA Phone: (312) 280-2660
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/sensory-friendly-morning-8/
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This Is My Place is a fictional documentary about the itinerant life and conceptual artwork of artist David Lamelas, whose sculpture Situacíon de cuatro placas de aluminio (Four Changeable Plaques) (1966), is currently on view in Endless. Commissioned by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), the film features Lamelas interviewed by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla Acevedo-Yates. Lamelas reflects on a life defined by migration between cultures and countries, and how those experiences shaped his artistic practice, which for decades has centered explorations of time and place.
Lamelas speaks with Endless curator Nolan Jimbo after the screening.
ASL interpretation is provided for this event.
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This exhibition, which traces the entirety of Eisenman’s career to date, begins with murals and drawing installations from her time in the New York art scene in the 1990s, and ends with a selection of large vertical paintings that address key political and social concerns shaping the world today. Despite the massive cultural shifts that have taken place in the decades since Eisenman began working, what remains constant throughout her work is the unfailing determination to hold space for resistance, to hold space for community, and to almost always meet the viewer with an anarchic sense of humor.
The exhibition is organized by Museum Brandhorst and Whitechapel Gallery, London, and curated by Monika Bayer-Wermuth and Mark Godfrey. The MCA presentation is curated by Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, and Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
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About the Event
Join us for a reading with poet CAConrad in celebration of the new series Politics of Poetics.
ASL and CART captioning are provided.
About the Series
Politics of Poetics is a new quarterly program series held in the MCA’s Edlis Neeson Theater that highlights today’s leading poets whose practices traverse the political through writing, teaching, and activism. The series invites poets from across the globe to give readings and be in conversation with artists and other thinkers about the themes in their work. Historically, poets and visual artists have benefitted from close collaboration and artistic exchange, sharing in technical approaches and critical ideas of the day. Like many of the artists exhibited at the MCA, these poets take up critical issues in their work while propelling voices, stories, and thoughts under-seen and under-regarded in traditional canons.
About the Speaker
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by the artist Augusto Cascales. Visit them at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88.
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Admission is free to Family Day attendees.
Join us on a fantastic journey into the world of alebrijes! Renowned masters of folk art from Oaxaca, Mexico, Jacobo and Maria Angeles, and their son and daughter Sabina and Ricardo Angeles experts in wood carving and creators of the popular figures known as alebrijes, will guide you through a unique experience of color and creativity. In this interactive hands-on workshop, you will learn to color your own Tonas and Nahuales using natural pigments and dyes while exploring authentic techniques passed down through generations.
Artist Moises Salazar will leads a hands-on workshop as part of this month’s Family Day and create your own figures and characters through puppet making.
Designed and led by Chicago artists, Family Day is a monthly program that allows families and youth to connect and engage with contemporary art through activities and performances for all-ages. Enjoy FREE admission while taking part in workshops, open studio sessions, gallery tours, performances, and more.
Activities are facilitated in English and Spanish with ASL interpretation provided.
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/family-day-spring-blooms/
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The 2023-24 Teacher Institute culminates in a public symposium presenting the cohort’s projects and related resources produced during the year, and celebrating and reflecting on their time together.
ASL is provided.
About Teacher Institute
Teacher Institute is the museum’s most immersive and collaborative professional development program for educators. The design of this free, year-long program is aimed at helping educators investigate, design, incubate, and implement an innovative, contemporary curriculum. The emphasis of the Teacher Institute is on supporting teachers in developing student-centered projects that give students an active role in the development, implementation, and documentation of socially engaged curricula.
For more information about the MCA Teacher Institute, please email abracey@mcachicago.org, or call 312-397-4020.
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General admission is $30.
Tremor is artist and composer Samita Sinha’s latest performance work. In the piece, Sinha explores what she describes as “the practice of attuning oneself to the raw material of vibration and its emergence in space, as well as unfolding the possibilities that arise from encounters between this sonic material and other individuals.” Tremor is born from Sinha’s practice of decomposing, distilling, and transforming Indian vocal traditions through the body, employing sound as a vessel that harnesses and liberates energy through oneself. Through this practice, what emerges is a new language with the potential to challenge our thinking, reconfigure our relationships, and open new forms of collaboration. In Tremor, Sinha asks how we might reactivate our relationship to life itself through our sense of vibration, despite the numbing and distorting effects of coloniality and modernity. How can our voices be vessels to repair the fabric of our interconnection and open generative possibilities? How can we relearn to listen?
Performed in relationship to a live sonic environment created by composer Ash Fure, and within a space designed by architect Sunil Bald, Sinha is joined on stage each night by a rotating cast of sound-and movement-based collaborators. The casting schedule will be announced in the coming months.
Tremor was co-commissioned by Western Front (Vancouver, CA) and Danspace Project (New York).
Runtime: approx. 45 min.
This performance is part of On Stage: Resonance, organized by Tara Aisha Willis, former Curator in Performance, with Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Associate.
About the Artist
Artist and composer Samita Sinha creates multidisciplinary performance works that unravel Indian vocal traditions through the body to create a decolonized, multivalent language of voice and vibration. Sinha’s works have been commissioned by Performance Space, Asia Society, Danspace, Rubin Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Queens Museum, Gibney Dance, and Western Front, and presented by The Kitchen, Wexner Center for the Arts, REDCAT, PICA, National Sawdust, and others. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, National Performance Network, and New York State Council on the Arts.
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/samita-sinha-tremor/
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General admission is $30.
Renowned composer and multi-instrumentalist Laura Ortman performs two evenings of live, solo, multimedia concerts. Informed by her practice as a sculptor and installation artist, Ortman bridges the gap between music and fine art in her performances, describing her musical approach as “sculpting sound.” An accomplished violinist, her work encompasses a variety of textures and atmospheres created with the Apache violin, effects pedals, piano, guitar, and voice. In the MCA’s Edlis Neeson Theater, Ortman’s original music is presented alongside her video work.
Runtime: approx. 45–60 min.
This performance is part of On Stage: Resonance, organized by Tara Aisha Willis, former Curator in Performance, with Laura Paige Kyber, Curatorial Associate.
About the Artist
A soloist musician, composer, and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Martha Colburn, and New Red Order, as well as part of the trio In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, and often sings through a megaphone. She is a producer of capacious field recordings.
Ortman has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, The Stone residency, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008, She founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.
Ortman is the recipient of the 2023 Institute of American Indian Arts Fellowship, 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. Ortman was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/laura-ortman/
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This event is free for teachers with registration.
Gardening, not Architecture
Throughout the year, the MCA hosts high-quality professional development programming, open to teachers of all subjects, grade levels, and disciplines. These events are educator-specific, skills-based, training on contemporary art integration. Programs are designed in connection with the cultural assets of the MCA and the needs of the Chicago area educators. In keeping with addressing issues of relevance, the 2023-24 Learning Series is a four-part series exploring on “The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education”.
The term “apartheid” is used as it acknowledges the existence of economic and racial segregation systems. And as history has shown us, apartheid systems can be dismantled through collective action.
For Session Three, Eric “Manny” Von Haynes and Ramon “Radius” Norwood, core organizers of Love Fridge Chicago, conduct a workshop titled “Gardening, not Architecture,” which delves into the impactful work of Love Fridge. Love Fridge Chicago is a mutual aid network that aims to combat food apartheid and provide essential resources to the Chicago community.
The workshop covers the strategies and practices this mutual aid network uses to address systemic challenges and addresses initiatives to create sustainable systems that empower individuals and communities. This interactive session include group discussions, hands-on activities, and a creative writing exercise to promote collaboration and understanding.
ASL is available upon request.
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Tickets are pay what you can.
Access Praxis is an annual collaboration between Bodies of Work and the MCA that puts ideas around disability culture and access into action. This iteration features interdisciplinary Chicago-based artist Ariella Granados, whose work draws on advertising, telenovelas, and other media to portray her lived experience as an artist who is disabled and bicultural. Granados will engage in conversation on a custom-built set made for the event.
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Taking shape in New York and Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970s—amid mass political movements and heated debates in the art world around representation and the relevance of painting—Jaramillo’s work has long engaged with the formal and social potential of abstraction. Drawing on a continued study of physics, science fiction, mythologies, and modernist design, Jaramillo’s work reaches for the fundamentals of comprehension: how our experience of the physical forms the basis of ideas, and how abstraction can offer alternate ways of understanding our world. Alongside her iconic Curvilinear series, the exhibition features works made during her decades-long collaboration with the Dieu Donné Papermill in New York, as well as a series of recent works that follow Jaramillo’s return to painting on canvas, furthering her long-standing interests in quantum physics, geography, and time.
Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence was originally organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and curated by Erin Dziedzic, Director of Curatorial Affairs. The MCA’s presentation is organized by René Morales, former James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.
This exhibition is presented in the Bergman Family Gallery on the museum’s second floor.
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In celebration of the opening of Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, join us for a roundtable conversation on Jaramillo’s profound commitment to abstraction with the exhibition’s originating curator, Erin Dziedzic, Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Iris Colburn, MCA Curatorial Associate.
English and Spanish CART captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) will be provided.
Image: Ariella Granados. Photo: Daniel Delgado.
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https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/prophet-the-order-of-the-lyricist/
About the Performance
A multi-genre storytelling project about the life journey of a lyricist, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist illuminates the distinctive practices, systems, philosophies, and political ideologies that have shaped hip-hop’s emcees and lyricists. Combining craft, prose, oration, and exposé, the work presents the coming-of-age story of an emcee, immersing audiences in a world of courage, self-determination, and devotion. Using text, sound, film, and performance, Prophet stands as a critical and embodied offering to the scholarly, civic, and ancient bodies of radical Black expression.
The MCA’s presentation of Prophet represents the culmination of a year of relationship-building with organizations, artists, and archives. It features audio clips from the Sun Ra Archive within the Experimental Sound Studio.
This performance is part of On Stage: Resonance, organized by Tara Aisha Willis, former Curator in Performance, with Laura Paige Kyber, Assistant Curator of Performance.
Run time: 60 min.
Stay after the May 11 performance for a conversation and Q&A with the artists, moderated by Tara Aisha Willis, Former MCA Curator of Performance.
Image: 7NMS | Everett Asis Saunders and Marjani Forté Saunders, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist, REDCAT, September 21, 2023. Photo: Angel Origgi.
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Hosted in collaboration with the Mexican Consulate of Chicago, May’s Family Day will include a screening of an animated documentary, Home is Somewhere Else, centered on migrant experiences. Families will be able to gather and listen to migration stories told through artist workshops, such as sustainable weaving led by Salvador Andrade, transcultural anime storytelling with Mr. Pintamuro, and a workshop on different print techniques with Atlan Arceo.
Image: MCA Family Day, Nov 11, 2023. Photo © MCA Chicago.
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Image: Installation view, Trade Windings: De-Lineating the American Tropics, MCA Chicago, May 18–December 1, 2024. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.
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About the Event
This spring, Deem presents its second live symposium: Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities. In continuation with last year’s inaugural gathering, this hybrid in-person/online event will be co-hosted by the MCA Chicago on May 17, 18, and 19, 2024. Deem will expand on the guiding premise of dignity as the intrinsic lens for liberatory design practices with two days of presentations and conversations, as well as interactive workshops and on-site experiences happening both at the museum and throughout the city of Chicago. This year’s program will bring together innovative and acclaimed artists, designers, scholars, and organizers to reflect on a range of design-related topics, disciplines, methodologies, and agendas.
Deem will again organize a three-day Reference Room to provide a public gathering space in which anyone can encounter and experience reading materials that have inspired our five print issues. Literature in the form of books, articles, and essays will reflect thoughtlines in our research, specific mentions from our pages, and recommendations from our contributors. We hope to create context and access to educational tools around Deem’s processes and beliefs, as well as a haven for reflection and repose. The Reference Room will be located at the MCA and open to any visitor from 10 am to 6 pm on May 17–19.
English and Spanish CART captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) will be provided.
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https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/sensory-friendly-morning-9/
About the Event
Join us for Sensory Friendly Morning and join Bodies of Work and Hubbard Street Dance Company with art making activities and movement exercises for all bodies and abilities.
Sensory-Friendly Morning is a free program for all people who benefit from visiting the MCA without large crowds and other sensitive environmental elements. This includes visitors with sensory sensitivities, disabilities, autism, PTSD, dementia, and more. On these mornings, lighting at the museum is dimmed, sounds from artworks and environmental noise is kept at a minimum, and a quiet space is available to visitors for breaks. During Sensory-Friendly Mornings, preregistered individuals and their families can visit the museum to explore exhibitions at their own pace.
Sensory-Friendly Morning aims to be a welcoming space to experience contemporary art in a judgment-free environment.
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Nicole Eisenman creates irreverent work that captures the intimacy of everyday life while confronting the most urgent political issues of our time. Join a 35-minute interactive tour of Eisenman's first major career survey—free with museum admission.
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MCA Phone: (312) 280-2660
About the Event
Throughout the year, the MCA hosts high-quality professional development programming, open to teachers of all subjects, grade levels, and disciplines. These events are educator-specific, skills-based, training on contemporary art integration. Programs are designed in connection with the cultural assets of the MCA and the needs of the Chicago area educators. In keeping with addressing issues of relevance, the 2023-24 Learning Series is a four-part series exploring on “The Impact of Food Apartheid in Education”.
The term “apartheid” is used as it acknowledges the existence of economic and racial segregation systems. And as history has shown us, apartheid systems can be dismantled through collective action.
In the final Learning Series, join Alexy Irving, Alexandra Antoine, and Taryn Randle as they discuss the importance of garden education in school and out of school. The benefits of having a school garden are insurmountable and very much possible for every school. We’ll discuss how to tie gardening with art, how a successful school garden can lead to healthier eating, mindfulness, entrepreneurship and community togetherness, and we’ll share some hands-on activities you can do with your students.
As the culminating session of our four-part series addressing the impact of Food Apartheid in Education, we hope to provide educators with an introduction to some of the numerous ways gardening programs combine arts, civic action, and agriculture in communities across the city.
ASL is available upon request.
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About the Event
Love is a universal language; it transcends identity and culture. Love is more than a feeling; it is a tough invitation that encourages sacrifice and commitment. Love is a never-ending journey that is always beginning. But what is love in the absence of compassion and wonder?
#OTVTonight, your favorite intersectional Late Show, returns to MCA Chicago for an intimate evening filled with care and admiration for the stories that help us to cultivate a bond that is strong enough to heal, prepare, and transform unstable foundations.
Join us in the Edlis Neeson Theater for the premiere of handpicked titles inviting us to open a window into love, interspersed with artist interviews, live DJ sets, pop-up performances and more — all hosted by OTV’s Co-Founder and Executive Diva, Elijah McKinnon. Remember, the future of television is intersectional. If you don’t believe it, let OTV show you.
For live updates on #OTVTonight: A Window Into Love, visit bit.ly/otvtonight.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago today announced the upcoming exhibition Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection. Opening on June 1, 2024, and running through March 2, 2025 in the Neil and Fischel Galleries on the museum’s second floor, the exhibition pulls from the MCA collection, which holds one of the largest collections of Jafa’s work, to create a survey of his artistic practice over roughly the last ten years.
This immersive exhibit features four video works, linked together by connecting corridors, that envelope the viewer in the broad range of Jafa’s references, subjects, and themes. The exhibition explores Jafa’s use of found imagery, music, and artistic techniques such as montage and collage to construct videos, sculptures, and photographic works that are layered and arranged in ways that reveal the diverse and complex realities of Black being. Jafa’s multidisciplinary work seeks to encompass what he describes as “the full complexity, specificity, beauty, and potentiality of what Black folks have made and continue to make out of the bleak existential circumstance we’ve attended to over the past several hundred years.”
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection contains a selection of artworks held in the MCA’s collection, including the videos APEX (2013), Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (2016)—last seen in the MCA’s 2019 exhibition Prisoner of Love— The White Album (2018), and Akingdoncomethas (2018). Accompanying the videos are key sculptural and photographic works that further underscore Jafa’s unique approach to visual culture and image making, in which the lines between popular and high culture blur and the personal collides with the political.
Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection is organized by René Morales, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
Lead support is provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, Zell Family Foundation, and Cari and Michael Sacks.
Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, MS; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is an artist and filmmaker. Jafa’s films have garnered acclaim at the Los Angeles, New York, and Black Star Film Festivals, and his artwork is represented in celebrated collections worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Luma Foundation, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.
Image: Arthur Jafa, Mickey Mouse was a Scorpio, 2017. Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum; 52 × 83 in. (132.1 × 210.8 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Marilyn and Larry Fields, 2023.61. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
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Talk | Arthur Jafa and Theaster Gates
Jun 1, 2 pm
Tickets on sale April 10 at noon!
On the opening of Arthur Jafa: Works from the MCA Collection, long-time friends and artists Arthur Jafa and Theaster Gates gather for a conversation on Black archives, spiritual traditions, and aesthetics.
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In conjunction with the exhibition Trade Windings: De-Lineating the American Tropics, Mexico City–based artist Noé Martínez stages an evening performance at the MCA. Through his multi-faceted practice, Martínez uncovers the history of forced displacement and migration through research and personal narrative.
The audience is invited to walk in the space during the performance. Limited seating is available.
Copies of the poetry spoken as part of the performance by Martínez are available in Spanish and English.
ArtEdge, Chicago’s most anticipated gala, builds on a legacy of unforgettable events that fuel philanthropic support of MCA exhibitions and programs. This year, enter the daring world of cabaret, where live music, performances, and a curated menu of cocktails and decadent fare capture the spirit of this unique art form.
Image: The Illustrious Blacks performing at ArtEdge, Jun 10, 2023. Photo: Braxton Black for Jeremy Lawson Photography, © MCA Chicago.
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The event is free.
Drop by the MCA Store to meet Chicago street artist Don’t Fret, who is signing his new collection of essays, This is No Quiet City, as well as his monograph Life Thus Far. He is joined by Chicago-based writer and poet Kevin Coval, who wrote the forward for Don’t Fret’s new book. Coval is also signing copies of his illustrated collection of poems Everything Must Go.
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“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom.”
—bell hooks
Liberation is defined as the act of being freed from imprisonment, slavery, or some type of captivity. Love and liberation are two things that go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. There are different kinds of love: self, familial, platonic, romantic, community, cultural–– the bounds are limitless. How has love acted as a liberating force in your life? Contributing youth artist are asked to consider the theme of “Love and Liberation” broadly and to interpret this prompt creatively in their submissions.
About 21Minus
21Minus is a one-day showcase curated and produced by Teen Creative Agency (TCA) with support from Lead Artists Olive Stefanski, Miguel Limon, and Ahmad Bracey, Manager of Youth and Schools.
During 21Minus, museum admission is free for people ages 21 and under and their families.
The event is free for people ages 21 and under and their families, though all are welcome to attend.
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Students from the New Art School Modality “festac course” share a 25-minute film documenting their research and artistic responses to studying FESTAC 77’, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977. A discussion follows the screening.
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Summer Tuesdays come alive on the MCA terrace with free concerts highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned music community. Enjoy live music while relaxing on the lawn with your own picnic, or savor snacks and drinks available for purchase. Then head inside to catch the MCA’s summer exhibitions—we’re open late on Tuesdays and free for Illinois residents.
In conjunction with the Guatemalan Consulate, this Tuesday we will be joined by Jorge Morataya-Marimba, whose band will grace the MCA stage to serenade us with the sounds of the Guatemalan national instrument: marimba.
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Summer Tuesdays come alive on the MCA terrace with free concerts highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned music community. Enjoy live music while relaxing on the lawn with your own picnic, or savor snacks and drinks available for purchase. Then head inside to catch the MCA’s summer exhibitions—we’re open late on Tuesdays and free for Illinois residents.
After a two-year hiatus, beloved Chicago vocalist Maggie Brown returns to the MCA Terrace with her seasoned quintet.
About the Artist
Maggie Brown is an accomplished singer, songwriter, stage director, producer, and educator. Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune has called her “one of the most fiercely committed artists in Chicago.” Brown embodies a powerful and passionate performance whether she is presenting with her own trio or with Orbert Davis’s full 60-piece Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra. She has recorded with Abbey Lincoln, Jonathan Butler, Ramsey Lewis, Stevie Wonder, and her legendary father Oscar Brown, Jr. Brown is called on to bring authenticity and integrity to whatever the job calls for by a diverse list of band leaders including: Tom Tom Washington (South Side Big Band), Joan Collaso (11 Jazzy Divas), Art “Turk” Burton (Congo Square), and Douglas Ewart (AACM Inventions Ensemble). Though her upbringing is rooted in jazz, Brown is comfortable singing various genres including blues, gospel, pop, and even rapping—with impressive conviction and flow. It is hard to put Miss. Brown in a single category or genre. It is however, easy to see that this seasoned artist is a true entertainer—not just another singer.
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Cripping the Galleries is a series of live public programs featuring local artists activating museums through the lens of crip culture, access, and belonging.* Cripping the Galleries is hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art, in close collaboration with Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Art and Culture.
For this edition of Cripping the Galleries, artist Janhavi Khemka performs Impress/ion, 2024. During this intimate, participatory performance, Khemka invites audience members to sit with her, three at a time, as she asks each audience member to “teach her” their individual first names. Depending on vision and vibrations perceivable through touch, participants can expect to spend a total of four minutes each until the group reaches a consensus on each learned name. The performance lasts three hours, until the artist is depleted of energy.
Please note: While this is a participatory performance, we invite audience members to choose to engage with it or remain a viewer of the work.
American Sign Language (ASL) and English CART captioning are available for this event.
About the Artist
Born in 1993 in Varanasi, India, Janhavi Khemka is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, in 2015, and an MFA in Graphics from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, in 2017. She also studied Studio Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, in 2023.
With her impaired hearing, Khemka looks at disability not as a disadvantage, but as a lens through which one can see, understand, and negotiate with the world in a different way. Each work is an expression of her unique ways of interacting with the world without acoustic sensation. Khemka’s art practice is characterized by her thoughtful choice of medium to translate her perception. Most of her work is rooted in personal memories, her physic, and physical life. She calls her works as small dots in the vast map of mind and memory, constituted by the particular use of the medium. The shifting from one medium to another, from printmaking to stop-motion to vibrational installation, is, therefore, understood as the expanse of the sensory map. However, although autobiographical elements are strongly present, her work speaks of her dreams of overcoming the shortcoming, creating a space for spontaneous dialogue between the artist and the audience. Presently working from Chicago, Khemka has been creating live performances that question the meaning of language and how we understand it.
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Summer Tuesdays come alive on the MCA terrace with free concerts highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned music community. Enjoy live music while relaxing on the lawn with your own picnic, or savor snacks and drinks available for purchase. Then head inside to catch the MCA’s summer exhibitions—we’re open late on Tuesdays and free for Illinois residents.
This Tuesday get ready to move your body with house music mainstay Shaun J. Wright as they turn up the heat on the MCA Terrace.
About the Artist
Born and raised in west suburban Chicagoland, Shaun J. Wright spent most of their teen years immersed in the sounds of house music. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, house music was a powerful force, permeating the mainstream airwaves of Chicago’s most prominent radio stations. With Wright being raised in the epicenter of house culture during this era, their love for dance music began to expand throughout their high school years as they partook in the underground dance scene now globally known as Juke.
While in undergrad at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Wright developed their skills as a dancer in the vogue ballroom scene and professional dance companies. After acquiring an MA Fashion Curation from the London College of Fashion, Wright enjoyed an active career in fashion in New York City. That is where they met Andrew Butler, founder of Hercules and Love Affair, in 2008, and began a whirlwind collaboration with the ensemble as a vocalist. They spent nearly three years touring with the outfit, performing in major venues & festivals throughout North & South America and Europe. They’re also featured prominently on the ensemble’s lauded sophomore album, Blue Songs.
Returning to Chicago in 2012 to forge their solo career, Wright began to collaborate with respected DJ and producer Alinka. Promptly after beginning their party Twirl in the spring of 2013, Wright & Alinka released their first EP, Twirl Vol. 1, on the celebrated Classic Music Company led by luminaries Luke Solomon and Derrick Carter. They continued to expand upon the brand in late 2014 with their Twirl Records debut release Journey Into The Deep EP, which included remixes from Kim Ann Foxman and Stereogamous. The label’s output has received much critical acclaim and has been supported by DJ Mag, XLR8R, Mixmag, BBC Radio 1’s Heidi and Annie Mac, and a plethora of notable DJs.
Wright continues to collaborate with other sought after producers including Chrissy, Kiki, System Of Survival, Stereogamous Bell Boys, Bobmo, and Nicholas, and has been released on Freerange, BPitch Control, Honey Soundsystem & Cocktail D’Amore, Discovery, Marble, and 4Lux, respectively. Wright steadily exhilarates dance floors internationally as a DJ weaving live vocals throughout their sets in locations as far and varied as: Sydney, Berlin (Panorama Bar), London, Auckland
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About the Performers
Ramin Roshandel is a composer and setar improviser. He grew up in a family surrounded by artists; his luthier dad, his painter uncle, and his setar instructor Farshid Jam had strong influences on him as a teenager. Roshandel worked with the renowned Mohammad Reza Lotfi at Maktab-Khāne-ye Mirzā Abdollāh and won second place in the 7th National Youth Music Festival in Tehran, Iran. As a composer, Roshandel works with indeterminate, improvisatory, and liminal structures to contrast or converge with post- or non-tonal forms. On the one hand he is inspired by Persian music intervals, on the other he is mindful of phenomena such as instability, cultural identity, and communicational language.
Jean-François Charles is Associate Professor of Composition and Digital Media at the University of Iowa. He creates at the crossroads of music and technology. As a clarinetist, he has performed improvised music with many artists, from Maurice Merle to Douglas Ewart and Gozo Yoshimasu. He worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen for the world premiere of Rechter Augenbrauentanz.
Ramin Roshandel and Jean-François Charles have worked on several projects together. Roshandel was the setar soloist for the premiere performances of Charles’s opera Grant Wood in Paris in 2019. They performed together as part of the live soundtrack composed by Charles and Nicolas Sidoroff to the 1923 Hunchback of Notre Dame movie, a commission by FilmScene with premiere performances in November 2023 in Iowa.
As the Jamshid Jam duet, Ramin Roshandel and Jean-François Charles have developed a unique sound combining the traditions of Persian classical music and live electronic music. They have been creating this new shared musical language since their first concert in December 2019. They have been invited to perform in Ames, IA; Chicago, IL; Iowa City, IA; Omaha, NE; New York, NY; Tucson, AZ; and Warrensburg, MO. Their debut album, Jamshid Jam, is available on streaming platforms and CD.
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Summer Tuesdays come alive on the MCA terrace with free concerts highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned music community. Enjoy live music while relaxing on the lawn with your own picnic, or savor snacks and drinks available for purchase. Then head inside to catch the MCA’s summer exhibitions—we’re open late on Tuesdays and free for Illinois residents.
For this Tuesdays on the Terrace, Heliacal Rising of Sothis performs some selections written by Sharon Udoh. The evening also features Yaw Agyeman, a Chicago-born and bred interdisciplinary performing musician, sound designer, cultural researcher, improvisor, and actor known most recently for his own work as a Mellon Fellow and as a vocalist in the band The Black Monks, led by internationally known artist Theaster Gates.
About the Artists
Adam Zanolini’s Heliacal Rising of Sothis is a project dedicated to the work and teaching of Kelan Phil Cohran, one of the cofounders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) as well as the founder of the Affro Arts Theatre. Cohran’s seminal group, the Artistic Heritage Ensemble, generated numerous recordings and launched many careers. He was a prolific composer, bandleader, and father of all the members of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. His exploration of culture, history, astronomy, music, herbalism, mathematics, and language were highly influential among the community of musicians that rose during the Black Arts Movement and subsequent artistic schools in Chicago. However, Cohran’s importance as a musician, organizer, teacher, and scholar has still not yet been fully appreciated.
Heliacal Rising of Sothis performs works Zanolini composed while studying with Bro. Phil, or with inspiration from his teaching with the goal of spreading this knowledge and continuing his investigations. The ensemble, formed in 2022, is comprised of three current AACM members—Zanolini, Ben Lamar Gay (cornet), and Fred Jackson, Jr. (sax)—along with Sharon Udoh (piano) and Naydja Bruton (drums), two participants in Elastic Arts’ Dark Matter Residency program for emerging artists of color. Heliacal Rising of Sothis has performed locally at Elastic Arts, Transition East, the Promontory, Old Town School of Folk Music, Rebuild Foundation’s Kenwood Gardens, and Oakland Museum and Garden as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival’s Artist Corps program. The ensemble has also recently toured South Africa, performing at several venues in Prince Albert, Capetown, Johannesburg, and the State Theatre in Pretoria, while also working with young people in local community programs and several universities in those cities.
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Artist Willie Cole, whose work is currently on view in Descending the Staircase, discusses his practice of assembling everyday consumer products into surreal forms. Cole is joined in dialogue by the exhibition’s organizer, Associate Curator Jadine Collingwood.
English CART captioning and American Sign Language (ASL) are provided.
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Vocalist Michelle Coltrane, daughter of Alice Coltrane, and harpist Brandee Younger come together for An Oral History of Alice Coltrane. Part conversation, part performance, the event features oral histories and biographical stories of Alice Coltrane interwoven with performances and demonstrations from Brandee Younger, bringing the stories to life.
Through creative works and masterful performances, Alice Coltrane’s pioneering practice has changed the music world. She grew up playing music in her Baptist church, and by the 1950s established herself as a proficient bebop pianist in the Detroit scene. She met John Coltrane in 1963 and was his primary musical collaborator until his death in 1967. Prolific in her creation, Alice’s innovative style incorporated both gospel and jazz, leading to iconic works like Journey in Satchidananda (one of Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums). Once a profound musician, beloved spiritual leader, and pragmatic businesswoman, Alice Coltrane is now remembered as deeply giving human, known for her emphasis on charity work, education, and spiritual guidance.
MCA Music Talks pair powerhouse musicians with artists, activists, writers, and thinkers to take on big ideas in art and culture. These intimate evenings of performance and conversation reveal art world anecdotes, shared ideas, and creative inspirations.
This program is organized by Laura Paige Kyber, Assistant Curator of Performance, in partnership with The John & Alice Coltrane Home.
English CART Captioning and ASL are provided.
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Grammy-nominated harpist, Brandee Younger returns to Chicago for a rare intimate concert. A leading voice on the harp today, performer, composer, educator, and curator Brandee Younger defies genres and labels.
Don’t miss Brandee with Michele Coltrane on July 21st for a special program honoring the life and legacy of Alice Coltrane.
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This Tuesday enjoy the soulful sounds of Rudy de Anda, whose romantic bilingual songs are the perfect company for a summer night.
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This workshop helps participants learn how they can connect with care practices through their artistic lineages. Participants are invited to research creative traditions from personal, family, and political histories to discuss how these practices can relate to care and wellbeing. Participants learn strategies to create art that is inspired by remembering these stories. This workshop affirms the leadership of BIPOC, queer, disabled communities who preserve their legacies of care work through art.
ASL is available upon request.
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Justin Dillard is no stranger to the Terrace having performed numerously with different bands, but this year makes his Terrace debut as band leader. Together with his band, The Aggregation, Dillard plays legendary tunes with original arrangements, creating a new experience for those who love the classics with a new sensibility.
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This Tuesday, the MCA is thrilled to present Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, a revolving all-women collective of multi-instrumentalist artists who explore the outer fringes of jazz and beyond.
The front of the building is on Mies van der Rohe Way, between Chicago Avenue and Pearson Street; located four blocks east of the Chicago Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line
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Chicago-based pianist, vocalist, and composer, Alexis Lombre closes out our 25th Tuesdays on the Terrace season with new material from her forthcoming album, which features her singular blend of avant-garde, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and jazz.
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Lykanthea is a multidisciplinary collective led by artist Lakshmi Ramgopal, whose performances and installations use pop idioms to experiment with traditional South Asian art forms. Her latest work, Some Viscera, is a collection of song and movement that revolves around the death of her maternal grandmother, the births of her nieces, and her own ambivalent relationship with motherhood to explore childhood, kinship, and memory in the contemporary Indian American diaspora after Indian independence. Presented through an immersive stage design, the project features a multidisciplinary ensemble starring Asha Rowland, Erica Miller, Johanna Brock, Ben Zucker, Lucy Little, Kinnari Vora, Shalaka Kulkarni, and Tuli Bera. Together, they integrate elements of Carnatic music, Bharatanatyam, ballet, medieval Sanskrit and modern Tamil poetry, Baroque chamber music, and free improvisation to perform rich, intimate dance theater.
Some Viscera occurs within the frame of the arangetram, a Tamil word meaning “ascending the stage.” It describes the arduous, long-form, solo performance through which students of classical Indian dance and music debut as mature artists. A celebrated yet fraught rite of passage, it is a profound, complex feature of life in the Indian American diaspora. The arangetram of Some Viscera consists of four principal movements that invoke South Asian avian and floral motifs from a range of influences. Creating a fanciful, dreamy world, Some Viscera reflects on cultural knowledge and breakdown.
Lykanthea presented an early iteration of Some Viscera in 2019 as a part of the MCA’s In Progress series.
Masks must be worn during the performance per the artist’s request.
Access Information
English CART captioning is available for the performance on Friday, September 27.
Live plants, including roses and marigolds, are present during the performance. If you are concerned about allergies, please call the MCA Box Office for more information.
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Lykanthea is a multidisciplinary collective led by artist Lakshmi Ramgopal, whose performances and installations use pop idioms to experiment with traditional South Asian art forms. Her latest work, Some Viscera, is a collection of song and movement that revolves around the death of her maternal grandmother, the births of her nieces, and her own ambivalent relationship with motherhood to explore childhood, kinship, and memory in the contemporary Indian American diaspora after Indian independence. Presented through an immersive stage design, the project features a multidisciplinary ensemble starring Asha Rowland, Erica Miller, Johanna Brock, Ben Zucker, Lucy Little, Kinnari Vora, Shalaka Kulkarni, and Tuli Bera. Together, they integrate elements of Carnatic music, Bharatanatyam, ballet, medieval Sanskrit and modern Tamil poetry, Baroque chamber music, and free improvisation to perform rich, intimate dance theater.
Some Viscera occurs within the frame of the arangetram, a Tamil word meaning “ascending the stage.” It describes the arduous, long-form, solo performance through which students of classical Indian dance and music debut as mature artists. A celebrated yet fraught rite of passage, it is a profound, complex feature of life in the Indian American diaspora. The arangetram of Some Viscera consists of four principal movements that invoke South Asian avian and floral motifs from a range of influences. Creating a fanciful, dreamy world, Some Viscera reflects on cultural knowledge and breakdown.
Lykanthea presented an early iteration of Some Viscera in 2019 as a part of the MCA’s In Progress series.
Masks must be worn during the performance per the artist’s request.
Access Information
English CART captioning is available for the performance on Friday, September 27.
Live plants, including roses and marigolds, are present during the performance. If you are concerned about allergies, please call the MCA Box Office for more information.
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Anne & John Kern Terrace Garden (Outer east side of the MCA, accessible via the back gate and the Commons)
Broken Aquarium surveys an impossible ecosystem of endangered or extinct sea creatures. Featuring handmade costumes by Finnish artist Essi Kausalainen and live music by Tim Kinsella and Jenny Polus, this performance presents the intricacies and particulars of non-human life as a foundation for human transformation.
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Access Information: English CART captioning is available for the performance on Sunday, September 29.
Closest Public Transportation: We are located four blocks east of the Chicago Avenue stop on the CTA Red Line. You can also take the #3 King Drive, #10 Museum of Science and Industry, and #66 Chicago Avenue buses, as well as several Michigan Avenue bus routes.
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This talk is organized by visiting curator Mariana Fernández as part of the MCA DNA Research Initiative, which supports new short-term research projects examining the MCA Collection.
ASL interpretation and English CART captioning are provided for this talk.
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Event URL: https://experience.mcachicago.org/6789/6790
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120 East Delaware Place, Chicago, IL 60611
Join us for a dynamic and in-depth conversation between artist Sarah Sze and the MCA’s Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn, and the presentation of the 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards honoring BMO Bank N.A. for its support of arts education in Chicago, with Darrel Hackett, President and Chief Executive Officer, accepting the award on behalf of the bank. The 2024 Arts Philanthropy Awards also honor Darrel Hackett and MCA Trustee Nickol Hackett for their generous philanthropy in Chicago.
King Harris, the event cochair, is pleased to partner with the MCA’s Women’s Board to support and host this gathering.
For tickets or more information, please contact Visionary@mcachicago.org or 312-397-3871.
English ASL interpretation and CART captioning in English and Spanish are available for this event.
Price: $500
Event URL: https://experience.mcachicago.org/6767/6770
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Participating artists include Shira Torrech and Sishi Wang.
ASL interpretation is provided at this event.
Price: Free
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This short documentary reveals the motivations behind the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift (2022), which donated over 350 works by 142 artists, including around 100 jointly to the Guggenheim and the MCA, 140 to National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (ΕΜΣΤ), and 110 to Tate. The joint donation to the Guggenheim and the MCA initiates a close exchange of curatorial ideas and technical knowledge. Featuring art by some of the most influential artists of the postwar period and interviews with Dimitris Daskalopoulos, collector; Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim; and Madeleine Grynsztejn, MCA Pritzker Director, the documentary explains how the innovative collaboration facilitates a close exchange of curatorial ideas and technical knowledge.
Directed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Run time: approximately 10 minutes (looping)
Price: Free for Illinois Residents, $22 for non-Illinois residents
Event URL: https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/screening-the-d-daskalopoulos-collection-gift/
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Arceneaux’s performance is a homage to a homage. It is based on Ben Vereen’s controversial 1981 performance at President Ronald Reagan’s inaugural ball. In the original 1981 performance, Vereen performed a two-act tribute to the work of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century vaudevillian performer Bert Williams, who was forced to perform in blackface throughout his entertainment career. In the first act, Vereen appears in blackface, performing one of Williams’s signature songs, “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee,” after which the audience erupts in applause. In the second act, however, Vereen’s character offers to buy a member of the audience a drink—but is denied due to his skin color. After this scene, Vereen sings “Nobody,” another song popularized by Williams, as he removes his blackface. The ABC television broadcast only aired the first half of Vereen’s performance, leaving out the crucial second half and its criticism of racial dynamics in America. A public backlash against Vereen’s use of blackface and minstrel-derived performance followed, effectively ending his career.
In Until, Until, Until…, Arceneaux recreates the original 1981 performance with collaborator Frank Lawson, who acts as a double for Vereen. Lawson performs an abstracted, dreamlike, fragmentation of Vereen's experience, which also includes blackface. However, Until, Until, Until… takes place from Vereen’s perspective, restaging fragments of the original performance to explore what was lost when the ABC television broadcast was cut short, obscuring Vereen’s message to the public. Audience members will be immersed in the piece, taking on the role of guests at the inaugural celebration from forty years ago, complete with a fully staffed, hosted bar. In Arceneaux’s re-telling, now unfiltered, previously censored criticisms address the persistence of discrimination from Williams’s time in the early 19th century to today, permeating American racial dynamics. Until, Until, Until… examines how collective memories are formed—and challenges us to become cognizant of how they are warped by time, power, and media.
Edgar Arceneaux's Until, Until, Until... was commissioned by Performa and MIT's Vera List Visual Arts Center for the Performa 15 Biennial. This presentation is organized by Laura Paige Kyber, Assistant Curator of Performance.
To purchase tickets, please visit the event ticketing page.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edgar Arceneaux (b. 1972, Los Angeles, CA; lives in Los Angeles, CA) works in the fields of drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and video; often exploring connections between historical events and present-day truths. Arceneaux has had solo exhibitions at The Kitchen (NYC), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Vera List Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria. His work has also been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Bronx Museum, Performa 15, the Whitney Museum, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art in Oslo, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among other venues. Arceneaux's work has been collected at the Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Arceneaux attended the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 2001), Fachhochschule Aachen (2000), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1999), and Art Center College of Design (BFA, 1996).
SUPPORT
Lead support for the 2024-25 season of MCA Performance and Public Programs is provided by Elizabeth A. Liebman.
The MCA is a proud member of the Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District.
Image: Performance view, Edgar Arcenaux: Until, Until, Until. . . featuring Frank Lawson, 3-Legged Dog, New York, 2015. Photo: Paula Court.
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56 W Adams St.
Chicago, IL 60603
Politics of Poetics is a series of readings and workshops that highlights influential contemporary poets whose practices traverse the political through writing, teaching, and activism. Poet Heid E. Erdrich gives an intimate poetry workshop at the Center for Native Futures. Registration for the workshop is required.
Later, Erdrich joins artist Andrea Carlson for a conversation.
Event URL: https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/workshop-politics-of-poetics-heid-e-erdrich-and-andrea-carlson/
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Each year, the Lit & Luz Festival supports the creation of new, collaborative art by placing writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico in conversation with one another. The theme of the 2024–25 festival is “Saturation/Saturación,” and features work presented in both Spanish and English.
CART captioning in English and Spanish are provided for this event.
Image: Mexican artist Huehuecoyotl (Fernando Palma Rodríguez) and Chicago playwright Nancy García Loza performing their collaboration, El coyote y la chiva, at the Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, October 21, 2023. Photo: Natasha Moustache.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago today announced The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020, an international, intergenerational group exhibition opening on November 9, 2024, and running through April 13, 2025, in the Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art. The exhibition examines the different methods artists have used to challenge or intervene in the practice of painting and the role of painters over the past 50 years. Countering the recycled discourse that “painting is dead,” the exhibition suggests that painting remains in a constant state of renewal and rebirth.
The Living End considers the impact of various representational technologies and production methods, such as the use of video and still cameras; computers, the internet, and screens; automation; and the performing body. Comprising paintings, performance, video, and installation, the exhibition examines the ways artists working across media have challenged the mythologies of painting, ultimately changing our understanding of what constitutes a painting, how they can be produced, and who can be considered a painter. The Living End emphasizes a critical reading of painting, its tropes, its prominence in the Western canon, and its historical associations with privilege. As technology increases access to the means of production, the model of the painter as singular “genius” is being decentralized, opening abstract and representational painting to new perspectives.
The exhibition surveys the early role of computers in painting and image production, following experiments with computer-assisted graphics in the mid-1960s, and connecting to the prevalence of screens and artists mining online digital and social media culture today. The Living End also examines the cyclical relationship between still photography and painting, as well as how video has allowed artists working in performance the possibility of critiquing the trajectory and status of painting. Lastly, the exhibition looks toward the automation of painting, where the artist’s hand is largely absent, complicating the role of artist as producer and the market’s enduring interest in painting as commodity. The Living End assembles a body of work that cuts across geographies, histories, and contexts, reflecting the progression of not only technology and time, but the field of painting itself.
The Living End is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
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Later that same evening, join us at smartbar for a DJ set from Hood.
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The sculpture Balabild 5 (c. 1975–2005), made in collaboration with Björn Roth, is a complex portrait of their shared creative life, expressed through an array of artifacts that passed through their family art studio in Iceland. Made of materials including wooden flooring from the original studio, canvas, paint and paint tubes, brushes, lightbulbs, photographs, and other found items, Balabild 5 was developed over decades and is intended to look forever unfinished, as if the artists have frozen the energy of their studio and could step in at any moment to keep working. Björn Roth has called their studio “a laboratory, to search for beauty in nothing.”
Dieter Roth and Björn Roth: Balabild 5 is curated by Jason Foumberg, Daskalopoulos Collection Manager.
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Participants of the New Art School Modality spring 2024 course “Making New Monuments” share their works in progress.
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This dreamy, intense performance blends Indigenous languages and pop, reshaping the way we experience music. Tickets are on sale now!
See more and save! Get tickets for $20 each when you see all On Stage performances—$40 in savings! The four featured performances delve into colonial histories and cultural roots, offering profound insights into art and society today.
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Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me opens February 1 and runs through October 19, 2025.
Indulge Me is a major survey of renowned artist Wafaa Bilal (b. 1966, Najaf, Iraq; lives in New York, NY). Crucially, the exhibition will take a comprehensive look at Bilal’s myriad practice, highlighting the development of his work across decades and placing it in conversation with broader art histories. It will also explore cultural cannibalism—that is, how culture (specifically the culture of the other) is used, disassembled, and consumed.
Working in performance, sculpture, and with online and interactive technologies, Bilal’s interdisciplinary practice investigates the dynamic between international and interpersonal politics while highlighting the tension between the United States, which he has deemed the “comfort zone,” and the “conflict zone” of Iraq. Through methods such as using his own body to interrogate notions of power and using innovative technologies to rectify acts of cultural destruction, Bilal shows us what it means to consciously engage across cultures while highlighting negative global implications of consumption, exploitation, and profiteering.
The exhibition will be organized into five immersive sections, each of which focuses on a major work from Bilal’s practice. Artworks on display include a reconstruction of a room in Chicago’s FLATFILE Gallery that the artist confined himself to for a month-long performance in Domestic Tension (2007). During this performance, Bilal invited the audience to shoot at him with a paintball gun that was operated virtually by viewers who could also interact with him via camera feed and live chat. Over the course of thirty days, a total of 60,000 shots were fired by \"shooters\" from 128 countries. Also included in the MCA exhibition is a large-scale, towering video displaying images from Bilal’s year-long performance 3rdi (2010–11), wherein Bilal surgically implanted a camera into the back of his head that, every minute on the minute, captured photographs. The photos included in the MCA display will correspond to the minute, hour, and day they were taken.
Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me will also present Thumbsat Satellite (2024), which comprises a golden bust of Saddam Hussein fixed to a satellite and launched into Earth’s orbit as part of the exhibition. Developed as a critique of the former Iraqi president’s rumored desire to launch a bust of himself into space, the work will also feature a number of in-gallery components, including a model of the satellite and bust and a way for visitors to track the artwork’s location through live-captured images before it is destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere.
Additionally, the exhibition will feature In a Grain of Wheat: Cultivating Hybrid Futures in Ancient Seed DNA, Bilal’s response to ISIS’s destruction of the Winged Bull of Nineveh sculpture, or Lamassu, in 2015. The piece involves inserting high-resolution 3D scans of the sculpture into the DNA of heirloom Iraqi wheat seeds. A commission by the MCA will see the project activated in a new, sculptural form, which will consider if it is possible for a wheat seed to transform terrorist violence into restorative agency.
The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication, the first to survey multiple projects by the visionary artist.
A series of exhibition-related programs will be announced closer to the opening.
Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me is curated by Bana Kattan, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.
Image: Wafaa Bilal (b. 1966, Najaf, Iraq; lives in New York, NY), Rendering of Thumbsat Satellite, 2023. © Wafaa Bilal. Courtesy of the artist.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s upcoming exhibition Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv will open on February 22 and run through September 14, 2025, in the Turner Gallery on the museum’s fourth floor.
This exhibition focuses on a single artwork by Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives in Zürich, Switzerland), the 2001 video installation Supersubjektiv. In the artwork, Rist takes digital surveillance footage she filmed during a month-long trip to Japan and morphs it into a dream-like space for contemplation and curiosity, pairing the hallucinatory video with an artist-made pillow and sheepskin seating. The artwork examines nature, the built environment, and technology with wide-eyed wonder. While viewing the large-scale, wall-to-wall video, visitors are encouraged to relax in the darkened gallery and listen to its ambient electronic soundtrack, made in collaboration with composer Anders Guggisberg and featuring the familiar sounds of a dial-up internet modem as well as lyrics written and sung by Rist. Made at the turn of the millennium, Supersubjektiv traces Rist’s longing for connection in an increasingly digital and globalized world.
Supersubjektiv is part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift, which was jointly donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2022.
Pipilotti Rist: Supersubjektiv is curated by Jason Foumberg, Daskalopoulos Collection Manager.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland; lives in Zurich, Switzerland) used her childhood nickname, Lotti, with the first name of the Swedish children’s story character Pippi Longstocking to create her artistic moniker in 1982. She attended the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna from 1982 to 1986 and the Schule für Gestaltung Basel from 1986 to 1988. She produced her first video, I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), while still at school in Basel. In it, she bounces up and down, falling out of her dress, as she repeatedly sings the title line (derived from the lyrics to a Beatles song). From 1988 to 1994, she played in a rock band called Les Reines Prochaines, at the same time developing an aesthetic language quite close to that of music videos in her art. The artist appears in many of her own videos and often sings on the soundtracks; her mother, brother, and three sisters frequently assist on the production. Rist has also developed installations such as Flying Room(1995) and Himalaya’s Sister’s Living Room (2000), in which video cameras and monitors are wittily deployed in furnished gallery spaces.
Since Rist’s first solo exhibition, in 1984, she has had shows at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (1995), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1996), SITE Santa Fe (1998), Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (2000), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2001), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004), Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2007), and Museum of Modern Art in New York (2008), among other venues. Her work has also appeared in the Venice Biennale (1993, 1999, and 2005), São Paulo Biennial (1995), Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, France (1997), Berlin Biennial (1998), International Biennial Exhibition at SITE Santa Fe (1999), Sydney Biennial (2000), and International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama (2001). She was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. Rist lives and works in Zurich and in the mountains of Switzerland.
SUPPORT
This exhibition is made possible by a gift from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, a collection of more than 100 artworks donated jointly to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The MCA interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs while providing a place for audiences to contemplate and discuss contemporary art in pursuit of a creative and diverse future. The MCA believes in the values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) as a platform to enact structural change. The museum is generously supported by its Board of Trustees; individual and corporate members; private and corporate foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and government agencies. The MCA is a proud member of Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District. Free admission for 18 and under is generously provided by Liz and Eric Lefkofsky and Northern Trust.
The MCA is located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue and is open 10 am to 5 pm Wednesday to Sunday and Tuesdays (free for IL residents) from 10 am to 9 pm. The museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is free for all youth 18 and under, members of the military and veterans, and MCA members. Find more information about MCA's exhibitions, programs, and special events at mcachicago.org or at 312.280.2660.
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Consider the crucial role of publishing during this panel featuring perspectives from emerging, established, and sunsetting print and digital media platforms for arts criticism. Panelists include Brian Andrews (founding producer and host, Bad at Sports), Camille Bacon (co-Editor-in-Chief, Jupiter Magazine), Tempestt Hazel (cofounder, Sixty Inches from Center), and Sarah Higgins (Executive + Artistic Director, Art Papers).
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Join us for a screening of Out of the Picture (2024)—the first documentary film about art critics in the United States. The film takes us inside the lives of some of the most relevant writers on art today, thinkers who are making sense of a period of unprecedented change to art and media.
For more than a decade, the filmmakers turned their cameras on critics navigating these rapidly changing landscapes, including Carolina Miranda, of the Los Angeles Times; Hrag Vartanian, of Hyperallergic; Jen Graves, of The Stranger; Jeneé Osterheldt of The Boston Globe; and Seph Rodney, independent critic. Out of the Picture is poised to prompt a conversation about the nature of art, modern life and how meaning gets made in the 21st century.
A Q&A with director Mary Louise Schumacher and writers Jen Graves and Lori Waxman follows the screening.
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Curated by Assistant Curator Jack Schneider, The Free Clinic is a large-scale architectural representation of a clinic, whose prismatic colors reflect the full spectrum of gender expression beyond the binary. It confronts widespread political efforts to restrain, scapegoat, and repress transgender and nonbinary people in the United States, an issue that is personal to Fake. To him, “gender affirming care has been hard-won and life-changing . . . this mural is meant to meet the threat—and often reality—that has positioned gender affirming care as scarce, under-resourced, and underground with an aspirational and celebratory vision.”
The installation coincides, and is in conversation with, City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago, an upcoming exhibition at the MCA opening on July 5, 2025, also curated by Schneider. City in a Garden examines Chicago's underacknowledged role in the histories of queer art and activism beginning in the 1980s, when activists radically mobilized in response to the US government’s disastrous handling of the AIDS crisis and reclaimed the historically pejorative epithet “queer” as a liberatory term encompassing all who purposefully deviate from heteronormative society. With works drawn from the MCA Collection and other local collections, the exhibition features over thirty artists—including Fake.
Edie Fake’s work has previously been exhibited at the MCA in Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now (2021).
Atrium Project: Edie Fake is curated by Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edie Fake’s (b. 1980, Evanston, IL; lives in Twentynine Palms, CA) multimedia work—drawings, paintings, installations, comics, books, and zines—has been exhibited in solo shows at Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; and in New York City at The Drawing Center, Broadway Gallery, and Marlborough Gallery. Fake recently exhibited publications, paintings, and a large wall installation in Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His 2018 show at Western Exhibitions was reviewed in Art in America. Fake’s work is held in the collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Columbus; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; RISD Museum, Providence; KADIST, San Francisco; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter’s Awards for Artists, and his Gaylord Phoenix collection of comics won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. His work has been written about and featured in Artforum, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Art News, Art 21, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, The Comics Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Fake’s work is held in the collections of the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, the RISD Museum in Providence, RI, KADIST in San Francisco, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS. Edie fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980 and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. Fake is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and Broadway Gallery in New York, and he currently lives and works in Twentynine Palms, California.
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April 12, 202511:00 am - 3:00 pm
Wait . . . did that sculpture just move? Celebrate spring as Chicago’s natural world comes to life again.
Admission is free to Family Day attendees.
ASL interpretation provided
Join us for a conversation and making activity with Pooja Pittie, a self-taught painter and fiber artist based in Chicago. Access Praxis is an annual event that brings ideas about disability culture into reality.
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KLII exorcizes the ghost of King Leopold II in a mytho-biographical performance by theater-maker Kaneza Schaal. By exploring the invisible historic roots of racism, misogyny, and misinformation, Schaal searches for ways of handling these everyday threats in the present.
Designed by Christopher Myers, KLII is inspired by Mark Twain’s 1905 work King Leopold’s Soliloquy, a fictional monologue reflecting on Twain’s visit to the Congo Free State. It also draws from Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism and Patrice Lumumba’s 1960 independence speech in Congo. Featuring East African musicians and African American opera singers, the production’s dynamic sound design—rooted in La Muette de Portici—explores the lasting impact of colonialism in our daily lives.
A reclamation of history and canon, Schaal and Myers propose an exorcism in theater, starring one of the villains of the 19th century whose actions resonate through the present day. KLII explores the nature of evil and what is required to unroot legacies of catastrophic events.
For media inquiries and interview requests, please email the MCA media team no later than April 14, 2025.
To purchase tickets, please visit the event ticketing page.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announces Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom, opening May 3 and on view until August 31, 2025. Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is a survey that covers twenty-five years of work from artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, HI; lives in New York), whose practice interrogates ideas of spectacle, celebrity, and mass culture. The exhibition brings together works from across Pfeiffer’s career, spanning from his early photo and video works to his latest experiments in sculpture and installation. Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom focuses on the artist’s use of media manipulation to reveal audiences’ participation in both adoration and objectification.
Mining imagery from our media-saturated world, Pfeiffer recontextualizes global icons such as pop stars, film actors, and athletes through careful acts of cutting, splicing, and masking. Throughout his work, Pfeiffer interrogates what it means to consume images and culture. For Pfeiffer, the basketball court, the boxing ring, and the stadium not only serve as platforms for grand spectacles but as sites where the body politic—of a nation, of a community, of society—is imagined, defined, and contested.
Spanning two and a half decades of work, the exhibition features Pfeiffer’s works in the MCA Collection, including Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon) (1999) and Self-Portrait as a Fountain (2000), which is part of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift. This exhibition is the MCA’s fourth that centrally features Pfieffer’s work, following his career-defining solo show Paul Pfeiffer in 2003, MCA Screen: Paul Pfeiffer in 2018, and Fragments of a Crucifixion in 2019. The accompanying catalogue for this exhibition includes an interview from Fragments of a Crucifixionbetween Pfeiffer and former MCA Marjorie Susan Curatorial Fellow Chanon Kenji Praepipatmangkol, and features contributions from University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Tom Gunning, artist Julie Mehretu, and historian Lawrence Chua.
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curated by Clara Kim, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Paula Kroll, Curatorial Assistant. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presentation is curated by Bana Kattan, former Pamela Alper Associate Curator, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an artist living and working in New York City, who has been making work in video, photography, installation, and sculpture since the late 1990s. Known for his innovative manipulation of digital media, Pfeiffer recasts the visual language of mass media spectacle to examine how images shape our awareness of ourselves and the world. Sampling footage from YouTube and other sources, he uses these to plumb the depths of contemporary culture, assessing its racial, religious, and technological dimensions. At the same time, Pfeiffer's objects and images function diachronically, establishing profound genealogies that connect contemporary culture and its many particularities to the long, seemingly remote histories of art, media, religion, and human consciousness.
Pfeiffer has had many one-person exhibitions at Whitney Museum of American Art (2001); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2003 and 2017-18); the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2005); MUSAC León, Spain (2008); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2009); Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila (2015); Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil (2018); and The Athenaeum, Athens, GA (2023). He has presented work in major international exhibitions, most recently the Performa Biennial and the Honolulu Biennial in 2019 and the Toronto Biennial and Seoul Mediacity Biennale in 2022. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; M+, Hong Kong; The Guggenheim; Tate Modern; and the Pinault Collection, among many others.
Pfeiffer’s first large-scale retrospective of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023-24) will travel to the Guggenheim Bilbao and open November 2024.
SUPPORT
Lead support is provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, the Zell Family Foundation, and Cari and Michael Sacks.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The MCA interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs while providing a place for audiences to contemplate and discuss contemporary art in pursuit of a creative and diverse future. The MCA believes in the values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) as a platform to enact structural change. The museum is generously supported by its Board of Trustees; individual and corporate members; private and corporate foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and government agencies. The MCA is a proud member of Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District. Free admission for 18 and under is generously provided by Liz and Eric Lefkofsky and Northern Trust.
The MCA is located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue and is open 10 am to 5 pm Wednesday to Sunday and 10 am to 9 pm Tuesday. Tuesday evenings (5 to 9 pm) are free to Illinois residents. The museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is free for all youth 18 and under, members of the military and veterans, and MCA members. Find more information about MCA's exhibitions, programs, and special events at mcachicago.org or at 312.280.2660.
Image: Paul Pfeiffer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (09), 2004. Fujiflex digital C-print; 48 × 60 in. (121.9 × 152.4 cm). Collection of Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard. © Paul Pfeiffer. Courtesy of the artist; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Perrotin; and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
Family Day | Playoffs
May 10, 202511:00 am - 3:00 pm
End the Family Day season with a sports-themed celebration tied to Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom. Create art inspired by Pfeiffer’s work while exploring how sports build community and spectacle.
Family Days occur every second Saturday, October through May, from 11 am until 3 pm.
Admission is free to Family Day attendees.
ASL interpretation provided
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City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago is curated by Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.
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In the fall of 2024, the MCA invited twenty individuals with different backgrounds and life experiences to meet and discuss the role of art in moments of uncertainty and possibility. This exhibition, which is curated by Helguera and representatives from the MCA’s curatorial and learning teams in response to the group’s discussions, will be organized by theme throughout the three floors of the MCA’s stairwell galleries, confronting trauma, resistance, complicity, and the power of individuals and movements during times of uncertainty. Each floor of the exhibition will be accompanied by the voices of individuals whose unique perspectives from the conversations informed the selection of works. With this exhibition, the MCA experiments with a new mode of presenting its permanent collection—in conversation with the people it is meant to serve.
Chicago participants include Olivia Gude, Tempestt Hazel, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Ankit Khadgi, Maira Khwaja, S. Y. Lim, Stephanie Manriquez, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Nissa Rhee, Monica Rickert-Bolter, Mérida M. Rúa, Pia Singh, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, Sufyan Sohel, and several others who wish to remain anonymous.
Collection in Conversation with Pablo Helguera is organized by guest curator Pablo Helguera with Miguel Aguilar, Manager of Learning, School Partnerships and Curriculum, and Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Pablo Helguera (b. 1971, Mexico City, lives in New York) is an artist working in installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art, and performance. Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory, and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances, and written fiction. His project, The School of Panamerican Unrest, is one of the most extensive socially engaged public art initiatives on record. Helguera has exhibited at major institutions worldwide and received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has held key roles in museum education, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museum. Currently, he teaches at The New School and writes the weekly column Beautiful Eccentrics. He is the author of Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference(2014).
SUPPORT
Lead support is provided by the Pritzker Traubert Collection Exhibition Fund, Cari and Michael Sacks, and the Zell Family Foundation.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The MCA interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs while providing a place for audiences to contemplate and discuss contemporary art in pursuit of a creative and diverse future. The MCA believes in the values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) as a platform to enact structural change. The museum is generously supported by its Board of Trustees; individual and corporate members; private and corporate foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and government agencies. The MCA is a proud member of Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District.
The MCA is located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue and is open 10 am to 5 pm Wednesday to Sunday and Tuesdays from 10 am to 9 pm. Tuesday evenings (5-9 pm) are free for Illinois residents. The museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is free for all youth 18 and under, members of the military and veterans, and MCA members. Free admission for anyone 18 and under is generously provided by Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, and Northern Trust. Find more information about MCA's exhibitions, programs, and special events at mcachicago.org or at 312.280.2660.
Howardena Pindell, Free, White and 21,1980. Single-channel video (color, sound). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; gift of Garth Greenan and Bryan Davidson Blue, 2014.22. © 1980 Howardena Pindell. Image courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery.
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Traveling from Tate Modern in London, where it achieved record-breaking attendance, and developed in close collaboration with Ono’s studio, this groundbreaking retrospective spans seventy years of Ono’s innovative career. The exhibition features over 200 works, including participatory instruction pieces and scores, installations, a curated music room, films, music, photography, and archival materials.
The exhibition highlights significant works from throughout Ono’s decades-long career, including the landmark performance piece \"Cut Piece\" (1964), a foundational work in performance and feminist art; her collaborations with prominent musicians such as John Cage, Ornette Coleman, and her late husband, John Lennon; selected activations of instruction-based artworks from her influential book \"Grapefruit\"(1964); innovative films from the 1960s and 1970s such as \"FLY\" (1970–71) and the once-banned \"Film No.4 (Bottoms)\" (1966–67), which she created as a \"petition for peace\"; recent works like her ongoing installation \"Wish Tree\" (1996–present); and public artworks emblematic of Ono’s enduring commitment to peace activism.
On Saturdays, Sundays, and select Tuesdays throughout the full run of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, performers from all walks of life will activate Ono's deceptively simple \"event scores\" from her groundbreaking 1964 book Grapefruit.
Teen Creative Agency | Zine Fest 2025: The Power of Prints
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Dec 20, 2025 | 1–6 pm
The MCA’s Teen Creative Agency (TCA) is celebrating fourteen years (and counting) of DIY publications by teens! This event showcases the original artwork, activism, and social practice of Chicago-area youth in zine form. Join the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Teen Creative Agency for an afternoon of events and activities highlighting the past, present, and future of print making by Chicago teens. Visitors are invited to participate in activities organized by the TCA, such as zine making and on-site merch giveaways.
Kovler Atrium
Nov 4, 2025 | 6 pm
Experience the musical context of Yoko Ono’s early work with performances of five 1960s scores—by Mieko Shiomi, Nam June Paik, Takehisa Kosugi, and George Maciunas—and a new commission by MCA Chanel Fellow, Andrew Hansung Park. The performances track the destruction of a violin, smashing boundaries between everyday sound and music.
The MCA DNA Research Initiative is a multi-year curatorial program, supported by the CHANEL Culture Fund, that invites early-career curators and writers to the museum for interdisciplinary research projects related to the institution’s collection. Focused on the intersection of visual art and performance, this initiative surfaces overlooked art historical narratives within the organization’s history while foregrounding the cross-disciplinary ethos that has been integral to the museum since its founding in 1967.
Image: Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer, 1967, from Half-A-Wind Show, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 1967. Artwork © Yoko Ono. Photo © Clay Perry.
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Spanning two decades of Báez’s spirited practice, this landmark exhibition showcases her vibrant and captivating paintings and installations. Through a bold visual language that blends folklore, fantasy, mythology and science fiction, Báez constructs layered worlds that challenge dominant historical narratives and unsettle the often-fixed categories of race, gender and nationality. In this exhibition, Báez also emphasizes resilience and creative agency, especially among marginalized communities who have always found ways to create refuge and power in defiance of systems of repression.
Known for her richly pigmented, multidisciplinary approach, Báez combines saturated colors, intricate patterns and expressive figuration with abstract gestures, architectural plans, colonial-era maps and culturally resonant symbols. Her work draws deeply from Afro-Caribbean traditions and acts as a cultural and historical crossroads for the enduring legacies of colonialism across the Americas, the African Diaspora and the cultural nexus of the Caribbean. This major exhibition reaffirms Báez’s place as one of the most compelling and visionary artists of her generation.
In addition to her dynamic paintings, the exhibition will feature one of her more immersive pieces, A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways) (2019), which will occupy an entire gallery at the MCA. This large-scale work consists of paintings, mesh, papier-mâché, cutout tarp and plants that, together, transport visitors into one of Báez’s created worlds. Chicago is also highlighted in the exhibition: The trace, whether we are attending to it or not (a space for each other’s breathing) (2019) features a ciguapa (a feminine, trickster creature from Dominican folklore) bending over an architectural plan of the Illinois Central Railroad, uniting both sides of the tracks, which run between New Orleans and Chicago, to restore the divisions left by colonial trade.
Firelei Báez is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Programs, Vancouver Art Gallery (former Barbara Lee Chief Curator, ICA/Boston), with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator, ICA/Boston. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presentation is organized by Carla Acevedo-Yates, former Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, with Cecilia González Godino, former Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, and Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Firelei Báez (b. 1980, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; lives in New York) was born to a Dominican mother and a father of Haitian descent. Her upbringing between Hispaniola’s two countries, which have a longstanding history of tension predicated on ethnic difference, informs her concerns with the politics of place and heritage. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Báez received an M.F.A. from Hunter College, a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union’s School of Art, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is the subject of her first major US survey, which originated at the ICA/Boston, curated by Eva Respini, and is now traveling. Her work has been presented in many significant international exhibitions, including the inaugural installation of the ICA Watershed, Boston (2021), curated by Eva Respini, which traveled to The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas; and The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), curated by Cecilia Alemani. Recent solo presentations of Báez’s work include exhibitions at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; and Pérez Art Museum Miami. The artist has recently participated in a number of group exhibitions at major institutions, such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Cleveland Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Baltimore Museum of Art; and Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. She is the recipient of many awards, most recently the Cooper Union President’s Citation (2022), Artes Mundi Prize (2021), and Philip Guston Rome Prize (2021). Báez’s work is held in many significant private and public collections; the latter include the Baltimore Museum of Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Dallas Museum of Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo; Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda,
Angola; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
SUPPORT
Major support for Firelei Báez is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
This project is supported in part by Karen and Brian Conway, David and Jocelyne DeNunzio, Mathieu O. Gaulin, The Kotzubei-Beckmann Family Philanthropic Fund, Lise and Jeffrey Wilks, and an anonymous donor.
Lead support for Firelei Báez at MCA Chicago is provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, the Zell Family Foundation, Cari and Michael Sacks, and R. H. Defares.
Major support is provided by Laura and Tony Davis and Linden Capital Partners, Newcity, Robin Loewenberg Tebbe and Mark Tebbe, and Charlotte R. Cramer Wagner and Herbert S. Wagner III of Wagner Foundation.
Generous support is provided by Nickol and Darrel Hackett, Hauser & Wirth, the Margot and W. George Greig Ascendant Artist Fund.
This exhibition is supported by the MCA’s Women Artists Initiative, a philanthropic commitment to further equity across gender lines and promote the work and ideas of women artists
ABOUT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The MCA interweaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs while providing a place for audiences to contemplate and discuss contemporary art in pursuit of a creative and diverse future. The MCA believes in the values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) as a platform to enact structural change. The museum is generously supported by its Board of Trustees; individual and corporate members; private and corporate foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and government agencies. The MCA is a proud member of Museums in the Park and receives major support from the Chicago Park District.
The MCA is located at 220 E. Chicago Avenue and is open 10 am to 5 pm Wednesday to Sunday and Tuesdays from 10 am to 9 pm. Tuesday evenings (5-9 pm) are free for Illinois residents. The museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is free for all youth 18 and under, members of the military and veterans, and MCA members. Free admission for anyone 18 and under is generously provided by Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, and Northern Trust. Find more information about MCA's exhibitions, programs, and special events at mcachicago.org or at 312.280.2660.
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Admission is free to Family Day attendees.
Folklore, fantasy, and fortune! Take inspiration from Firelei Báez and Yoko Ono to venture forth into a mythical land.
Designed for children under 12 and their grown-ups, MCA Family Days invite our youngest visitors to be the museum’s artists, thinkers, and collaborators.
Image: Participants at Family Day: Unfreeze, April 13, 2019. Photo: Grace Duval, © MCA Chicago.
Admission is free to Family Day attendees.
What does your heart beat for? Honor passion, textiles, and those who came before us.
Designed for children under 12 and their grown-ups, MCA Family Days invite our youngest visitors to be the museum’s artists, thinkers, and collaborators.
Image: Family Day | Screen Time, MCA Chicago, November 9, 2024. Photo: Ricardo Adame.
Concert | A Birthday Celebration for Yoko Ono
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Feb 18, 2026 | 7:30 pm
On her 93rd birthday and coinciding with the close of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, an array of performers come together for an intimate tribute to Ono's life and legacy. Iconic instruction-based artworks, including Sky Piece to Jesus Christ (1965), will be enacted, culminating in a musical set. Northwestern University's Contemporary Music Ensemble, led by renowned conductor Alan Pierson, will perform.
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Designed for children under 12 and their grown-ups, MCA Family Days invite our youngest visitors to be the museum’s artists, thinkers, and collaborators.
Image: Family Day | Pocket Con, MCA Chicago, December 9, 2023. Photo: Alexis Ellers.
Navy Pier Festival Hall
Apr 9, 2026 | 10 am–12 pm
The Women’s Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago invites you to attend this year's spectacular benefit, the Vernissage Champagne Brunch, on the opening day of EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair at Navy Pier's Festival Hall. The MCA is proud to participate in the 13th year of EXPO CHICAGO, which presents artwork from more than 170 leading galleries from around the world.
Proceeds from Vernissage raise significant funds in support of the MCA Learning department, whose programs offer compelling opportunities to explore, challenge, discuss and reflect on the MCA’s exhibitions and programs, as well as the world of contemporary art and culture.
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Designed for children under 12 and their grown-ups, MCA Family Days invite our youngest visitors to be the museum’s artists, thinkers, and collaborators.
Image: Family Day | It’s Alive!, MCA Chicago, April 12, 2025. Photo: Natasha Moustache, © MCA Chicago.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is thrilled to announce Dancing the Revolution. This exhibition is the first of its kind to explore and expand the visual, political and spiritual histories of dancehall and reggaetón through contemporary art—two dynamic genres that have transcended their grassroots origins to shape global culture. From Kingston to San Juan through London, Toronto, New York City and Panama, Dancing the Revolutionpositions music and dance as a revolutionary practice for collective liberation rooted in the struggle against colonial oppression.
Dancehall and reggaetón are not only musical genres but cultural practices and powerful expressions of resistance and joy—reminders of the Caribbean's centuries-old traditions of dance and music as means of liberation and protest rooted in Black Atlantic history and culture. Dancing the Revolution showcases pivotal moments and themes from these histories, starting with the sound system—a mobile disco that embodies both a community experience and a vital civic institution.
Presenting work across varied mediums, Dancing the Revolution includes painting, sound sculptures, installations, photographs, and video, showcasing how artists have been and continue to be inspired by these histories and the visual forms that emerge from them. The exhibition features more than 35 artists, including Isaac Julien, Jean Michel Basquiat, Edra Soto, Alberta Whittle, Carolina Caycedo, supakid and Lee \"Scratch\" Perry. A special commissioned mixtape project invites visitors to learn about the evolution of these popular genres in Panama and hear iconic songs that have paved the way for the global phenomenon of reggaetón. Audiences also will be able to purchase the exhibition’s bilingual catalogue (Spanish/English), which features scholarship on topics such as sound system and sonic aesthetics in painting, dancing and protest during Puerto Rico's Verano del 19, or Summer of 2019, and Panama’s reggae en español, as well as extensive illustrations reproducing exhibition artworks.
Dancing the Revolution considers music and dance as powerful tools for sexual and political liberation. The exhibition’s title is inspired by the shifting RPMs (revolutions per minute) that mark the tempo and history of Caribbean popular music, including historic events like Verano del 19 (which famously included protests attended by singers iLe, Residente, Ricky Martin, and Bad Bunny). At this critical moment of collective action, LGBTQ+ and feminist activists led perreo combativo, or “combative twerking,” on the steps of San Juan Cathedral prior to Governor Ricardo Roselló’s resignation, transforming reggaetón’s characteristic dance into a form of political protest. This reclamation of public space through dance—an act deeply rooted in dancehall history and culture—demonstrates how music and dance can serve as bold acts of collective resistance and emancipation.
Dancing the Revolution is curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, former Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, with Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate, Nolan Jimbo, Assistant Curator, Cecilia González Godino, former Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, and nibia pastrana santiago, Curatorial Consultant.
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Designed for children under 12 and their grown-ups, MCA Family Days invite our youngest visitors to be the museum’s artists, thinkers, and collaborators.
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Anne & Kern Terrace Garden and Edlis Neeson Theater
Bad at Sports, the world’s oldest contemporary art podcast, wraps its 21-year first season with a series of interview events around the museum. Tailgate in the afternoon with episodes live on the MCA Terrace, followed by a celebratory recording of the climactic and unforgettable episode 999 in the Edlis Neeson Theater.
Read CGN's interview with BAS from our fall 2026 issue.
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On Saturday, October 3, Bad at Sports is taking over the lawn behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for The Great Art Tailgate—a free, sprawling, live-broadcast celebration of art, conversation, friendship, and approximately twenty-one years of questionable decision-making.
We want the lawn FULL.
Not “respectable art-event attendance” full.
Tailgate full.
Bring a blanket. Bring a lawn chair. Bring your friends. Bring somebody who has never listened to Bad at Sports. Bring somebody who thinks contemporary art is ridiculous. Bring somebody who thinks contemporary art is the only thing worth talking about.
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From 11 AM to 3 PM, we’ll be broadcasting live conversations across the MCA lawn as we count down toward the end of Bad at Sports Season One.
There will be artists.
There will be critics.
There will be beer.
There will be radios.
There will be blankets, lawn games, art people behaving like sports people, and whatever else we manage to assemble between now and October 3.
And yes:
Baddie will be there.
Come get your picture with Baddie and provide future historians with documentary evidence that you participated in one of the stranger art events of 2026.
This is free. This is outside. This is for everyone.
Saturday, October 3
11 AM–3 PM
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
HELP US MAKE THE LAWN BIGGER
The easiest thing you can do for us right now is tell somebody.
Text the event to your friends.
Bring five people.
Bring ten.
If you know somebody who likes art, podcasts, Chicago, tailgating, radio, beer, cultural chaos, or large-scale experiments that probably should have required more adult supervision—invite them.
Let’s see how big an art tailgate we can actually make.
WANT TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND WEAR THE SHIRT OF THE TEAM YOU SUPPORT!
Bad at Sports has been independently making conversations about contemporary art for more than two decades.
Represent with something from the Bad at Sports Threadless store.
Shirts. Hoodies. Bags. Stickers. Things bearing evidence of your questionable skill and unwavering commitment to culture.
Buying B@S stuff puts money directly back into making Bad at Sports.
It also makes you considerably easier to identify at the tailgate.
Come to the lawn.
Bring your friends.
Get a picture with Baddie.
Wear something stupid.
Help us finish Season One by making something enormous together.
October 3. MCA. 11 AM.
See you there.
Duncan, Brrian, Ryan, and this time, Jesse @ Bad at Sports
Tickets and Sponsorship Opportunities
Please note that this event is held at The Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, 120 East Delaware Place.
The Visionary luncheon celebrates arts philanthropy in Chicago and extraordinary women artists. The 2026 event features a program with multidisciplinary artist and MacArthur Fellow Amanda Williams and the presentation of the 2026 Arts Philanthropy Award to Bank of America for its commitment to arts and culture in Chicago.
For tickets or more information, please contact Visionary@mcachicago.org or 312-397-3871.
Image: Amanda Williams. Photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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