Marvin Tate curates a salon-type atmosphere every last Monday night of the month where artists, thinkers, teachers, healers, lovers, family and friends gather to radiate, exchange ideas, celebrate and uplift each other. Picture Ted Talk meets SNL, with a whole lotta jazz.
Featuring performances by and conversations with:
Muso - voice
Irene Hsiao - performance/movement
Galina Shevchenko - live video
Bobby Price - barber
Serena Lander - tattoo artist
+ house band feat. Hunter Diamond and Paige Brown
Irene Hsiao is a dancer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist. She creates experimental performances in conversation with visual art in museums, galleries, and public spaces, a practice that includes site-specific interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Textile Week, EXPO Chicago, Jackson Park, Millennium Park, Ragsdale Foundation, Tiny Dance Film Festival, Pivot Arts Festival, and the Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, LA Review of Books, Newcity, SF Weekly, and other venues. She is a 2022-23 Fellow at High Concept Labs, first Artist in Residence at 21c Museum Hotel in 2022-2023, inaugural Artist in Residence at the Smart Museum of Art in 2020 and 2021, and a 2020 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist. By day, she works in science communications.
Faith Musonda aka Muso is a Zambian-born, Chicago-based singer, producer, & songwriter who utilizes poetry to deliver theatrical stories. She explores aspects of her human experience, societal issues, and weaves them with psychoanalytic and mystical concepts to create a dynamic landscape of storytelling. She’ll be joined pianist Paige Brown.
Galina Shevchenko is a multimedia artist and educator working across multiple modes of expression and image processing. Fluid, elusive and illusory entity of her video-scapes and permeable transparency of her constructed objects and environments manifest her ongoing exploration of post-feminist identity through mediation.
Galina holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Chicago. Her recent exhibitions include the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art (Moscow), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Hamilton MAS (Felixstowe, England) and The Franklin (Chicago). Shiva Gallery (New York City) and International Museum of Surgical Science(Chicago).
Galina has performed live video with music artists nationally & internationally. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Digital Multimedia Design at Harold Washington College.
https://www.instagram.com/instantgalina/
http://www.galinashevchenkosequences.com/
Serena Lander is a Chicago-based Visual artist, illustrator, and tattooist, creating work in the area for over twenty years. Her tattoo work is recognizable by her use of color. Her love for animals and nature forms many of her tattoos. Among the aesthetics, she loves merging realistic form with images inspired by textile print, urban and decorative folk art, botanical, mystical images, and nature.
Her compositions are fluid, complimenting body form with layered bold scale elements and respect for negative space. Working with clients is a collaborative process. Creating original compositions, based on the current themes manifested by her client’s imaginations.
Bobby Price is a professional barber who uses traditional barbering techniques to create an extensive range of styles for a diverse clientele. He is also a visual artist whose work in artistic expression influences his creativity in creating styles. Over time, he started to appreciate the profession of barbering and created a vision that has empowered him to do what he loves today.
