Friday, July 24, 2020 (Times TBA)
Curated by Out of Site:

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] (Ghana)
Sara Zalek (Chicago/US)
CV Peterson (Eau Claire/Chicago)
Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Canada) & Mar Serinyà Gou (Spain)
Sheila Toledo (Switzerland)
 


Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] (Ghana)
Pronoun: "sHit”
Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] works internationally and lives in Kumasi, Ghana.
sHit is a multidisciplinary “artivist”, founder and artistic director of perfocraZe International
Artists Residency (pIAR). As a performer and installation artist, crazinisT investigates gender stereotypes, prejudices, queerness, identity politics and conflicts, sexual stigma and their consequences for marginalized groups or individuals. With rituals and a gender-fluid persona, sHit employs sHits own body as a thought-provoking tool in performances, photography, video, and installations, ‘life-and-live-art’ confronting issues such as disenfranchisement, social justice, violence, objectification, internalized oppression, anti-blackness, systemic indoctrination and many more.
crazinisT has performed and exhibited across the globe including countries such as Nigeria,
Togo, Ghana, Switzerland, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, Cape Verde, USA, Spain,
Brazil, France and UK

Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Canada)
Vanessa is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse artist. She graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 with an MFA in performance. She has exhibited across Canada and the US in the fall of 2020 Dion Fletcher is a Jackman Humanities Institute Fellow. 

CV Peterson (Eau Claire/Chicago)
CV is a mad-scientist storyteller who explores human-caused environmental devastation. They’ve exhibited at spaces such as CICA Museum, S. Korea; Shanghai Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, China; Out of Site Chicago, USA; and The Performance Arcade, New Zealand. They are the Founder/ Executive Director of Envisage Art Retreat.

Mar Serinyà Gou (Spain)
Mar is a visual artist and performer born in Catalonia (Spain) in 1986. PhD in Fine Arts and MA from the University of Barcelona. Her passion is to study the rhythms of the human body, the nature and the society and how they can live together in harmony.

Sheila Toledo (Switzerland)
Sheila is constantly searching for the condition of freedom that the human being was born
with. Through mirror glass she reflects her own never-ending stream of questions. Possibly these questions and reflections are a dialectical confrontation between the vision of the world and the one’s own internal construction. An incessant duality that makes us human.

Sara Zalek (Chicago/US)
Sara Zalek (they/them/we/us) is a performing artist and facilitator. Rooted in physical investigations of trauma, resilience, and hybrids, their work challenges the capitalist quest for the eternal elixir, and asserts that disruption has the ability to create social and ecological change.