
goat island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it
HISTORIC CHICAGO-BASED THEATRE GROUP INSPIRES NEW PERFORMANCE SPACE AND ACTIVATIONS AT THE CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER
In
conjunction with the city's Year of Chicago Theatre, nine national and
international performance groups and artists will develop and present
new work inspired by Goat Island
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events is pleased to announce the details for goat island archive–we have discovered the performance by making it at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington St.). In
conjunction with the city's Year of Chicago Theatre, nine national and
international performance groups and artists have been commissioned to
develop and present new work, each inspired by one of Goat Island's
original performances. The exhibition archive will occupy adjacent galleries and open in two parts, with the performance space and activations open February 2–June 23 in the Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North, and the exhibition open March 30–June 23, in the Exhibition Hall, 4th Floor North.
Throughout
the 23 years of its existence (1986–2009), the Chicago-based Goat
Island contributed to the conception of nine major performance works,
accompanied by publications, film and video projects, workshops, summer
schools, lectures and symposia, inventing a complex institution bigger
than the individual works. Freed from prescribed narrative and dialog,
the work of Goat Island is built slowly in a creative process informed
by repetition, chance and individual perception. The company was known
for its sustained collaborative production approaches with work created
over the years by Karen Christopher, Joan Dickinson, Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson, Greg McCain, Tim McCain, Mark Jeffery, Bryan Saner and Litó Walkey. Their
democratic, shared activations continue to influence generations of
artists, theatre makers, cultural theorists, social philosophers and
teachers.
In
conjunction with the city's Year of Chicago Theatre, nine national and
international performance groups and artists have been commissioned to
develop and present new work, each inspired by one of Goat Island's
original performances. A tenth performance created from fragments of the
nine new responses will be presented in June during a week of
concluding events. These will take place at the Chicago Cultural
Center’s Sidney R. Yates Gallery, which will be transformed
into a to-scale re-imagining of Goat Island’s rehearsal space – a
church gymnasium – available for viewing and creative engagement on
February 2. Additionally, the works-in-progress will be presented at
partner cultural venues throughout Chicago as part of the IN>TIME
Festival and final world premieres at the Chicago Cultural Center's
Sidney R. Yates Gallery.
The accompanying exhibition in the Chicago Cultural Center’s adjacent Exhibit
Hall opens on March 30 and will display the physical archive of
materials, from drawings and choreographic scores to traveling cases and
costumes. The exhibition has been devised to replicate the
generative and pedagogic processes of Goat Island while reflecting upon
the extent of the company’s influences. This project is co-curated with
Nicholas Lowe, associate professor and curator of the Goat Island
Archive at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Performance and Exhibition Schedule
During
the exhibition run at the Chicago Cultural Center, final world-premiere
works will take place at the Chicago Cultural Center's Sidney R. Yates
Gallery, which has been transformed into a to-scale, re-imagined
rehearsal space of the church gymnasium where the collective rehearsed.
All performances and the exhibition are free admission.
Performance Space and Activations
February 2–June 23
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
The Chicago Cultural Center’s Sidney R. Yates Gallery will be transformed
into a to-scale re-imagining of Goat Island’s rehearsal space – a
church gymnasium. The space will host several residencies and
performances.
Exhibition Preview
Friday, March 29, 6–9 p.m.; performance at 7 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall & Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Exhibition
March 30–June 23
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor North
The accompanying exhibition will display the physical archive of materials, from drawings and choreographic scores to traveling cases and costumes. The
exhibition has been devised to replicate the generative and pedagogic
processes of Goat Island while reflecting upon the extent of the
company’s influences. This project is co-curated with Nicholas Lowe,
associate professor and curator of the Goat Island Archive at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago.
hancock & kelly (Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly, United Kingdom, now based in Germany)
World Premiere Performance: Performing the Archive: Jackie Kennedy Flees the Scene of Her Husband’s Murder responding to Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1986)
March 29-30, 7 p.m. and March 31, 2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Work-in-progress
will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on Saturday, March
23, 7 p.m. at 6018North, 6018 N. Kenmore Ave.
Augusto Corrieri (United Kingdom)
World Premiere Performance: Play to delete responding to We Got A Date (1989)
Friday–Saturday, April 12–13, 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Work-in-progress
will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on Monday,
February 18, 7:30 p.m., at High Concept Labs, Mana Contemporary Chicago,
2233 S. Throop St., 4th Floor
Robert Walton (Australia)
World Premiere Performance: Can’t Take Johnny to the Funeral responding to Can’t Take Johnny to the Funeral (1991)
Friday–Saturday, April 19–20, 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 21, 2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Work-in-progress
will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on Thursday,
February 21, 6 p.m., at Hyde Park Arts Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave.
Judith Leemann (Boston, MA)
World Premiere Performance: enter, the symptom [I will show self-control.] responding to It’s Shifting, Hank (1993)
Friday–Saturday, April 26–27, 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Work-in-progress
will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on Saturday,
February 16, 4 p.m., at Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Jefferson Pinder (Chicago, IL)
World Premiere Performance: This Is Not A Drill responding to How Dear To Me the Hour When Daylight Dies (1996)
Friday–Saturday, May 10–11, 7 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Work-in-progress will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on a date TBD at Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St.
BADco. (Croatia)
World Premiere Performance: Impossible Dances responding to The Sea & Poison (1998)
Friday–Saturday, May 24–25, 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 26, 2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Note: The May 24 performance is preceded by an artist talk at 7 p.m. with Erin Manning with the performance at 8 p.m.
Work-in-progress
will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on
Thursday–Saturday, February 21–23, 8 p.m., at Links Hall, 3111 N.
Western Ave.
Vlatka Horvat (United Kingdom)
World Premiere Performance: Third Hand responding to It’s an Earthquake in My Heart (2001)
Tuesday, June 4–Thursday, June 6, 7 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Work-in-progress
will be presented as part of the IN>TIME Festival on Thursday, April
4, 7 p.m., at Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies, 4 W. Burton Pl.
Ryan Tacata (San Francisco, CA)
World Premiere Performance: Minor Repair responding to When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy. (a double performance) (2004)
and
Ian Hatcher (New York, NY)
World Premiere Performance: Private Screening responding to The Lastmaker (2007)
Friday–Saturday, June 7–8, 7 p.m., and Sunday, June 9, 2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Ryan
Tacata’s work-in-progress will be presented as part of the IN>TIME
Festival on Sunday, February 10, 6 p.m. at Defibrillator Performance Art
Gallery (dfbrl8r), Zhou B. Art Center, 1029 W. 35th St.
Ian
Hatcher’s work-in-progress will be presented as part of the IN>TIME
Festival on Saturday, February 23, 7 p.m., at Red Rover Series, Outer
Space Studios, 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Archive Transitions
Most Wednesdays, April 10–June 12, noon–2 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor North
The
exhibition of the archive will change intermittently to allow a focus
on each of the original nine Goat Island performances as well as a
special framing of works included in the first international tour of the
company:
- Wednesday, April 10: We Got A Date
- Wednesday, April 17: Can't Take Johnny to the Funeral
- Wednesday, April 24: It's Shifting, Hank
- Wednesday, May 1: representing Goat Island’s first UK tour (first three shows are reorganized together)
- Wednesday, May 8: How Dear To Me the Hour When Daylight Dies
- Wednesday, May 22: The Sea & Poison
- Wednesday, May 29: It's an Earthquake in My Heart
- Friday, June 7: When will the September roses bloom? Last night was a only a comedy. (a double performance)
- Friday, June 7: The Lastmaker
- Wednesday, June12: Final program TBD
Convening Performance and Activities
Thursday, June 13–Saturday, June 15
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
Over
a three-day period, artists and members of the public are invited to
consider three ideas—environment, response and body—in proximity to the
archive of Goat Island. The Convening will re-articulate the archive through a series of reflections and echoes of Goat Island. A new tenth performance inspired by the original nine will be created and presented on the final day. Additional details will be released later this spring.
World Premiere Performance: nine missing scenes in response
Friday, June 14, 7 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 4th Floor North
This
multimedia event weaves the research and performative responses by the
nine commissioned artists into a singular happening.
All exhibitions and performances, including goat island archive–we have discovered the performance by making it,
at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., are presented by
the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). Building
hours are Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5
p.m.; closed holidays. Admission is FREE. For information, visit chicagoculturalcenter.org, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @ChiCulturCenter.
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