Saturday October 16th 4:30-7pm in Logan Square, Chicago
Third Annual Exquisite Crawl
presented by MAKE Literary Productions and Homeroom with
guest curator The Guild Complex

Join us for an in-person venue crawl on Logan Square's storied Milwaukee Avenue, featuring exquisite corpse performances from Chicago-based writers, musicians, filmmakers, and interdisciplinary artists and performers. The crawl kicks off at *Cafe Mustache*, Galerie F, then heads to stays at Galerie F, and closes at The Whistler.

Each performance features three artists performing short, sequentially-linked, multidisciplinary works in the spirit of the "exquisite corpse. “ All the performances begin with this line from "The Current Isolationism" by poet Camille Rankine:

In the next yard

over, honeybees swarm

and their sound is huge.

Masks and proof of vaccination required for this in-person event

First Stop:
* Cafe Mustache will be closed on 10/16 so the crawl will kick off at Galerie F, 2415 N Milwaukee Ave*
Cafe Mustache
2313 N Milwaukee
Doors: 4:30 p.m., Performance: 5:00 p.m.
FREE

Alex Wells Shapiro
J. Howard Rosier
Ian Wojcikiewicz/Mary Cerney

Second Stop
Galerie F
2415 N Milwaukee
Performance: 5:30 p.m.
FREE

Logan Lu
Crystal Vance-Guerra
Lester Rey

Third Stop
The Whistler
2421 N Milwaukee
Doors: 6:00 p.m., Performance: 6:15 p.m.
FREE

Jenna Lyle
Takashi Shallow
Satan2000

About the participants

Mary Cerney
Mary Cerney is a poet who dabbles in nonfiction, collage, and trying to keep her houseplants alive. She earned her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she’s currently working on a hybrid-genre book about family trauma and hereditary illness.

Logan Lu
Logan Lu is a Chicago-born Puerto Rican spoken word artist.

Jenna Lyle
Taking on long-term collaborations drawing upon her background in theater and vocal performance, composer/performer Jenna Lyle focuses on relationship dynamics, tactility, and bodies in a state of listening and critical response. She is a co-artistic director of Mocrep and a co-founder of Parlour Tapes+.

Lester Rey
Lester Rey strips down familial Caribbean rhythms and combines them with the modern sounds observed in his upbringing as a Chicago kid. In 2019, NPR World Cafe listed Lester Rey on Latin Roots: The Best Alternative Songs Of 2019 and Chicago’s very own Vocalo 91.1 FM, listed Lester Rey on “Live from Studio 10: Our 20 Favorite Performances of the Decade.” In 2020, Lester Rey released a collaborative EP with Nino Augustine called “De Paseo a la Luna” and in 2021 a collaborative EP with MoonDoctoR called CCFX (Chicago Caribbean FX) both on the Austin, TX based record label Discos Peligrosa.

J. Howard Rosier
J. Howard Rosier’s writing has appeared in The New Criterion, Art in America, Kenyon Review, Bookforum, 4Columns, Poetry, The Nation, and elsewhere. He is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a lecturer in the New Arts Journalism Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Takashi Shallow
Takashi Shallow’s experiments intersect visual art with new media and performance. He operates an indie electronic music label called Gesamt and is part of a collective of mixed heritage artists called Percent. He also teaches and strives toward a socially engaged art practice of conceptual pedagogy.

Alex Wells Shapiro
Alex Wells Shapiro is a Chicago poet. He’s Business and Grants Manager for Another Chicago Magazine and co-curates Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His debut poetry collection is forthcoming Spring 2022 with Unbound Edition Press. More of his work may be found at www.alexwellsshapiro.com.

Crystal Vance Guerra
Crystal Vance Guerra is a chicana poet, historian, and educator based in and between Chicago and Mexico City. She is the founder of Chicago’s only poetry slam in Spanish, Slam Diáspora, which brings together Latinx poets in the US and Latinamerican poets across South America and the Caribbean, to foster unity between our poetic communities. She has bene honored with several prizes in poetry at festivals both in Mexico and the US and continues to lead poetry workshops on both sides of the border. Previous poems have been published in Acentos Review, Contratiempo, and Mono Ediciones.

Ian Eric Wojcikiewicz
A member of the Bum Sophisticate, Ian Eric Wojcikiewicz writes from Chicago. He has a dog.