Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances

Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances features work from the citywide retrospective of the same name commemorating a decade of queer nightlife, artworks and interventions by Chances organizers, community members, and Critical Fierceness grantees and finalists. The Platforms catalogue, published at the end of 2015, features full color documentation of all eight Platforms exhibitions, the three-month schedule of performances and parties, and ephemera from Chances' ten-year herstory. Edited by Aay Preston-Myint and designed by Bojan Radojcic. Photography by Robert Chase Heishman, Emily Henson, and Karmen Wettlin. Contributing writers Kemi Adeyemi, Claire Arctander, Gordon Hall, Megan Milks, Matt Morris, John Neff & Lorelei Stewart, Roy Perez, Sharmyn Cruz Rivera, Micah Salkind, and Anna Martine Whitehead offer critical and creative responses to the work in the exhibitions and to Chances as an entity/experience.
Dimensions: 6.75 x 9", 252 pages
Materials: Paperback, full color

Chances Dances / Latham Zearfoss
(McKinley Park)

Latham Zearfoss works in Chicago, where they produce time-based images, objects and experiences about selfhood and otherness. Outside of the studio, they contribute to collective motions toward joy and reflection through social projects such as a queer dance party (Chances Dances), a critical space for white allyship (Make Yourself Useful), and an itinerant conference on socially-engaged art (Open Engagement). Latham graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA in 2011.