Thursday August 6th 7-8PM streaming @ Elastic Arts, Arts + Public Life, and the Hideout
MAKE Literary Productions and Homeroom Chicago present
A Virtual Exquisite Crawl
Through this arts-packed, virtual crawl across three online venues, audiences will witness the unveiling of three distinct exquisite corpse video pieces—each created by a group of three artists and beginning with the same line of poetry from Nate Marshall’s “Imagine”
we imagine
being together & that is the first step.
Using the well-known exquisite-corpse drawing method as the format, each of nine participants created a short, multimedia video, resulting in three final group videos, each one streamed through a different venue successively from 7-8pm.
7:00PM - Deidre Huckabay/Carla Gruby/Jasmine Henri Jordan @ Elastic Arts
7:15PM - Sam Lewis/Jennifer Ligaya/Maya Odim @ Arts + Public Life
7:30PM - Tselanie Townsend/Kristin Lueke/Nandini Khaund + Artist Talk @ the Hideout
Artist Bios (in order of appearance)
Deidre Huckabay (lead artist) is a performer, writer, and flutist living in Chicago, the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: The Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi Nations. A sixth-generation Texan on both sides, Deidre is the descendent of white British and Scottish settlers who squatted on lands belonging to Wichita, Comanche, and Apache people near present-day Dallas, Lubbock, and Amarillo. Huckabay is one of eleven equal Artistic Directors at Mocrep, co-owner of Parlour Tapes+, founder of Spiderf*rt Press, and a co-curator of the We Series at Elastic Arts.
Carla Gruby is a Chicago-based movement performance artist. They graduated with a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and have since been merging their practices of dance and performance art using different mediums and influences from their own everyday experiences and current socio-political context. Gruby focuses on creating intentional visual images and landscapes that utilize the body. They explore work with personas, identity, and social nuances in society, as well as re-purposing and re-contextualizing physical materials. Gruby has recently been working with Mocrep in a Supporting Artist Residency.
Jasmine Henri Jordan (she/her) is a writer, performer, and teaching artist living in Chicago. She is an ensemble member at The Neo-Futurists, a company member at Playmakers Laboratory, and a founding member of Hot Kitchen Collective. She is a Florida State University School of Theatre alumnus. Her work is overwhelmingly about queerness, Blackness, pop culture, youth, and making messes.
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Sam Lewis (lead artist) is an accidental puppeteer who now tries to create intentional work. He has worked for over a decade with a vintage Black Americana marionette he reimagined as “Jus Hambone.” Currently, he’s building new puppets for the first time, with the generous help of Grace Needlman of Wonder Wagon, for a longform piece he’s creating based on newly discovered family history, tentatively titled, Everybody Knew Their Place.
www.facebook.com/samlewisperformingartist
Jennifer Ligaya is a sound and performance composer and healer born and raised in Chicago with an interdisciplinary background in visual art, vocal performance, and dance. Her compositions are constructed to elevate key questions and highlight critical conversations around race and cultural identity, indigeneity and decolonization, activism, and healing, through the weaving of traditional and contemporary sound, performance, and personal ancestral folk arts practices. Jennifer also works as an Occupational Therapist with Chicago Public Schools, supporting students with disabilities in gaining access to fair to fair and quality education. www.jenniferligaya.com
Maya Odim is an interdisciplinary artist: a poet & dancemaker with a background inclusive of contemporary, breaking, and Afro-Latin (salsa,merengue, bachata, rumba). Smuggling art into their politics, Maya collaborates to host workshops, mount productions, write curriculum, and publish. Maya is the recipient of a 2018 Links Hall Co-Missions Residency and a finalist for a 2020 Dancemakers Lab Artist Residency. Maya holds a BA in American Studies, with a history concentration, from Wesleyan University. mayaodim.com
Tselanie Townsend (lead artist), based in Chicago, is inspired by the pathos of humanity. Through her focus on tunes, vids, comics, and random crap, she seeks to really wallow in it—like, she’ll totally pick it apart and just sit in it, you know?
Kristin Lueke is a Virgo, poet, facilitator, strategist, and caretaker of plants and a tiny, small dog. Her work has appeared in Vector Press, Untoward Magazine, NAP, the Acentos Review and elsewhere. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize precisely once, for a poem about a vengeance. It didn’t win. Her chapbook, (in)different math, was published by Dancing Girl Press.
Nandini Khaund
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Ibloomfromburntashes. Isoaklikeasponge.
Ilistentoscent, Itastethesound, Ismelltheshade.
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