Re:place Residency

RE:PLACE RESIDENCY PERFORMANCES, DISCUSSIONS & SCREENINGS
Culminating performances for a yearlong excavation of BIPOC and QT+ histories and futures of the region now known as Chicago 

Saturday, October 16th 2021, 2-5PM
Chicago Cultural Center, Randolph Street Lobby, 1st Floor North
& live on Lumpen.TV 

Buddy and Public Media Institute are proud to announce an afternoon of public programming: performance, screenings, and discussions, at the Chicago Cultural Center to culminate a yearlong excavation of BIPOC and QT+ histories and futures of the region now known as Chicago by five local artists and collectives. In Fall 2020, the artists embarked on a year of interdisciplinary research with librarians, historians, archivists, and scientists now culminating in a series of public performances using new technologies to engage history and place. 

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

1PM: The Great Chicago Circle Procession Screening by Marina Resende Santos

Documentation of this participatory processional performance from September 26th, 2021

1:45PM: The Tenders: Liner Notes for Undressing Cover Songs Performance by ATOM-r (Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery) in collaboration with Abraham Avnisan and featuring Dr. Ann Keating

This 45 minute event will comprise songs, texts, augmented reality environments and a lecture by Dr. Ann Keating on Chicago’s indigenous prehistory. 

3PM: The Wide-Ranging Importance of the First Nations Garden Multimedia Presentation by Josh Rios featuring audio narration from Adrien “AJ” Pochel (member of Chi-Nations Youth Council)

 This 45-minute event will feature audio narration, images, sonic elements, and historical contextualization related to relocation, and the kinds of important practices that take place in and in relation to this important garden.

3:45PM: Welcome to Bucktown: A Year with Felicia Holman (2020-2021) Screening by Felicia Holman, produced in collaboration with Ife Olatunji of Freedomlover Films followed by a pre-recorded  Conversation between Felicia Holman & Chicago Historian Daniel Pogorzelski

A creative video document of Re:Place resident artist Felicia Holman's first year of her hyperlocal 2020-2022 Threewalls/ RaDLOW artist fellowship project, Welcome to Bucktown.

"In this Colonial Fever Dream," LiDAR Image by ATOM-r + Abraham Avnisan

Co-Prosperity inaugurated Re:place, a performing artist residency program,  and experimental arts platform to support a small cohort in a yearlong excavation of BIPOC and QT+ histories and futures of the region now known as Chicago. Starting on last year’s Autumn equinox, September 22nd, the artists embarked on a year of interdisciplinary research with librarians, historians, archivists, and scientists which will culminate in a series of public site-specific performances using new technologies to engage history and place.

Each artist’s project will be broadcast via free media platforms supported by Public Media Institute including live streaming video, radio, and print publication. As they develop their works, artists will present works in progress, engage in technology skill shares, form reading groups, panel discussions, walking tours, and other programs, at Co-Prosperity, Buddy—PMI’s new store/space at the Chicago Cultural Center—and at sites across the region.

The inaugural artists, who will be in residence 2020-2021 will include:
ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality), in collaboration with Abraham Avnisan
Felicia Holman
Josh Rios
Marina Resende Santos
Santiago X

For more info on each resident and their research plans, click here 

The Buddy Research and Performance Residency is funded in part by generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and members and donors of the Public Media Institute.