OBJECTS WHO HOLD
OBJECTS WHO LET GO
OBJECTS WHO LET GO
The group exhibition Objects Who Hold, Objects Who Let Go asks the viewer to suspend their senses into the life-world of objects, objects who carry and release personal stories of pain, pleasure, desire, and abundant afterlifes. How does holding onto a feeling, an entity, an idea, a moment in time, force one to also let it go? And how can we learn to both withhold and let go of the very memories that bridge the gap between permanence and ephemerality? This show compels viewers to embrace this tension of holding on and letting go as we also engage with difficult art, works that force a tender and critical understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and the exuberant life and death of all their differences.
Opening Night for the gallery show took place from 5:00-7:00PM on Friday & Saturday, December 13th & 14th.
The show was up through June 1st 2020.
Opening Night for the gallery show took place from 5:00-7:00PM on Friday & Saturday, December 13th & 14th.
The show was up through June 1st 2020.
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Photos by Alicia P. Rodriguez.
BREATHE, FORM, AND FREEDOM: A WORKSHOP WITH DR. PATRICIA NGUYEN
This workshop took place in La Estación Gallery from 5:00-6:30PM on Friday, November 1st.
Nguyen is an artist, educator, and scholar born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and has published work in Women Studies Quarterly, Harvard Kennedy School's Asian American Policy Review, Women and Performance, The Funambulist, and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian. As a performance artist, Nguyen has exhibited and performed at the Nha San Collective in Vietnam, Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Jane Addams Hull House, Prague Quadrennial, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile. She is also the co-founder and executive director of Axis Lab, a community arts organization based in Chicago. Currently, she is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Nguyen is also an award-winning memorial designer for the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project, the first monument in the United States to honor survivors of police violence.
Nguyen is an artist, educator, and scholar born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and has published work in Women Studies Quarterly, Harvard Kennedy School's Asian American Policy Review, Women and Performance, The Funambulist, and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian. As a performance artist, Nguyen has exhibited and performed at the Nha San Collective in Vietnam, Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Jane Addams Hull House, Prague Quadrennial, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile. She is also the co-founder and executive director of Axis Lab, a community arts organization based in Chicago. Currently, she is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Nguyen is also an award-winning memorial designer for the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project, the first monument in the United States to honor survivors of police violence.
RESONATING PRACTICES: A WORKSHOP IN RIGOROUS CONNECTIVITY ACROSS AESTHETIC LIFE-WORLDS WITH DR. HYPATIA VOURLOUMIS
Photos by Alicia P. Rodriguez.
This workshop took place in La Estación Gallery from 4:30-5:30PM on Friday, October 4th. You must RSVP by September 30th to our email: [email protected]
Hypatia Vourloumis is a performance theorist working across anticolonial, feminist, critical race theory, and queer studies; music, poetics, philosophies of language; aesthetic theory and practice. She teaches theory at the Dutch Art Institute. She received her Ph.D in performance studies at NYU, conducted postdoctoral research at the Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Centre at Freie University in Berlin, and was a 2016 fellow at the Research Center for the Humanities in Athens. She is co-editor of Performance Research journal 'On Institutions' and has published in journals, art catalogues and edited volumes including Women & Performance, Ephemera, and Theatre Journal. She is currently completing a monograph on postcolonial Indonesian paralanguage and a book on the politics of contemporary Greek art, crisis and performance.
Hypatia Vourloumis is a performance theorist working across anticolonial, feminist, critical race theory, and queer studies; music, poetics, philosophies of language; aesthetic theory and practice. She teaches theory at the Dutch Art Institute. She received her Ph.D in performance studies at NYU, conducted postdoctoral research at the Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Centre at Freie University in Berlin, and was a 2016 fellow at the Research Center for the Humanities in Athens. She is co-editor of Performance Research journal 'On Institutions' and has published in journals, art catalogues and edited volumes including Women & Performance, Ephemera, and Theatre Journal. She is currently completing a monograph on postcolonial Indonesian paralanguage and a book on the politics of contemporary Greek art, crisis and performance.
Photos by Alicia P. Rodriguez.
ERICA GRESSMAN: LIMBS
Since 2009, Chicago-based Latinx queer artist Erica Gressman has produced work that expounds on ideas of embodiment, sound, science, and technology by materializing everyday sentiments of the racialized, colonized, Brown, queer subject. Her work stages the labor of learning to respire, move, and remain in/visible under difficult systems of oppression and subjugation.
Gressman creates live biofeedback performances (blending science and aesthetics) that present the body in discrete forms—from cyborgs, monsters, and witches, to disembodied aliens and objects. Her costumes and interactive theatrical audible sets mix technology and art across expressions of difference.
Debuting at KAM, Limbs involves a metal cage doubling as a large-scale sound instrument. Violin-like electronic sounds will be controlled by Gressman’s body moving within the cage and through the removal of limbs, ligaments, body parts, and multiple-heads.
This performance asks, How does one exist in entanglement, outside recognizable categories of race, gender, and sexuality? When racial and sexual categories blur lines between humans and non-humans, how do we differently understand being queer, Brown, and colonized? How does disassociating from our many selves help us create an autonomous and new being from these multiple positions?
Gressman creates live biofeedback performances (blending science and aesthetics) that present the body in discrete forms—from cyborgs, monsters, and witches, to disembodied aliens and objects. Her costumes and interactive theatrical audible sets mix technology and art across expressions of difference.
Debuting at KAM, Limbs involves a metal cage doubling as a large-scale sound instrument. Violin-like electronic sounds will be controlled by Gressman’s body moving within the cage and through the removal of limbs, ligaments, body parts, and multiple-heads.
This performance asks, How does one exist in entanglement, outside recognizable categories of race, gender, and sexuality? When racial and sexual categories blur lines between humans and non-humans, how do we differently understand being queer, Brown, and colonized? How does disassociating from our many selves help us create an autonomous and new being from these multiple positions?
LIGAMENTS, PARTS: MY BODY IS THERE
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies has been busy over the summer creating a performance/art gallery on the first floor of our building. Please join us in revealing La Estación Gallery to the public on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, between 5:30-7:30pm. Our first exhibition will showcase the performance artist Erica Gressman in Limbs, Ligaments, Parts: My Body is There. In this solo exhibition of queer Latinx art, the gallery covers almost a decade of Gressman's work--photography, musical scores, videos, and installations. Ligaments, Parts: My Body is There, curated by Sandra Ruiz. This inaugural exhibition at La Estación Gallery located in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies showcases Gressman’s work over the past eight years. From sound pieces, photographs, and videos, the exhibition highlights how the artist turns to the posthuman to explore issues of difference across identity markers.
Organized by Sandra Ruiz, assistant professor of Latina/Latino Studies and English, with Amy L. Powell, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, this project is made possible in part by the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Student Cultural Programming Fee. The exhibition and related programming, including this performance, are also supported by the Department of Anthropology, Department of Asian American Studies, Center for Advanced Study, College of Fine + Applied Arts, Dance at Illinois, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, La Casa Cultural Latina, LGBT Resource Center, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Queer Studies Reading Group, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, Illinois Theatre, Women’s Resource Center, and Krannert Art Museum.
Organized by Sandra Ruiz, assistant professor of Latina/Latino Studies and English, with Amy L. Powell, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, this project is made possible in part by the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Student Cultural Programming Fee. The exhibition and related programming, including this performance, are also supported by the Department of Anthropology, Department of Asian American Studies, Center for Advanced Study, College of Fine + Applied Arts, Dance at Illinois, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, La Casa Cultural Latina, LGBT Resource Center, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Queer Studies Reading Group, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, Illinois Theatre, Women’s Resource Center, and Krannert Art Museum.
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