Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 7pm CDT / GMT-5
Out of Site:
7:00pm - Michal Samama & Martine Viale
7:30pm - Allen Conkle
8:00pm - Jérémy Pauly & Jérome Pauly
8:30pm - Wannapa P-Eubanks
9:00pm - Free Air: Amy Sinclair & Regin Igloria
9:30pm - ieke Trinks
Random Acts of Wonder presented by Out of Site Chicago, May 26, 2020
Out of Site Chicago creates unexpected encounters in urban space. We present cutting edge performance art that is risk-taking and engages the public directly in conversation. We are excited to collaborate on the Quarantine Concert series to present the work international performance artists who we have worked with previously. This was an effort to reach out to our OoS alum community to create working opportunities for artists. Martine Viale (France) and Michal Samama (Israel) were invited to work collaboratively for this performance. Allen Conkle (San Francisco) and Jeremy Pauly (Belgium) have an ongoing international collaborative practice and Amy Sinclair and Regin Igloria are Chicago based artists who have a collaborative performance/ artistic practice. Wannapa P-Eubanks and ieke Trinks will be creating solo performances for this virtual live experience.
About the Artists:
ieke Trinks (Netherlands)
Netherlands based artist ieke Trinks largely focuses on performance art. In her recent works she reuses discarded materials, but also (re)uses (archive) material from other artists and makes this visible in a new context. Trinks is co-organizer of PAE (Performance Art Event) and member of the TRICKSTER performance collective.
Free Air: Amy Sinclair and Regin Igloria (Chicago, USA)
Free Air will exhale their breaths consistently into plastic tubing that feeds into a glass jar of ink and soap, creating a fountain of bubbles growing, escalating, and dissipating in an ongoing cycle of reflective, random forms. This breathing regimen will be performed for the duration of the exhibition reception.
Wannapa P-Eubanks (Chicago, USA)
Wannapa P-Eubanks is as a butoh inspired dance performer who creates movement based interactive performances. Her work often stems from a personal experience or a specific memory that grows into a poetic image that she imbues with the memory of the moment.
Allen Conkle (San Francisco, USA)
Allen Conkle uses the body, space and materials to investigate masculinity, sexual trauma, memory and transformation - exploring materiality as a means of constructing scores of actions and stations that are activated through ritual and movement.
Jérémy Pauly & Jérome Pauly (Belgium)
Jérémy Pauly is particularly interested in Minimal Art and Conceptual Art and began to utilize this learned technical language of art crafts and design to focus on performance and installation. His performance/installations are mainly executed in large scale, always ephemeral, and conceptualized to develop connections with the audience and eventually to be destructed by them. He is a recent graduate of the Performance MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Michal Samama (Israel)
Michal Samama creates works at the intersection of performance, choreography, theater and the visual arts. Rooted in body and movement and usually site-specific, her work moves between the gallery, the theater, and the public space, exploring the different dynamics by which these public sphares encounter the individual body.
Martine Viale (France)
Martine Viale performs internationally with a practice based in action art, her work is contextual and site-specific. Working in the public space and unusual places that can facilitate unpredictable encounters with passersby, she is interested in the momentary loss of bearings and the use of actions as a tool for examining personal and social conditionings. The body in action is at the center of her practice and she is inspired by the interval between art and the everyday and the multiple points where the two can intersect.
