This post is a little delayed, but hey, if you're looking for something to do (Wednesday) head to UIC to see a very cool video screening. I'm still learning a LOT about video art, but when you meet some serious fans of the medium, there is a lot to observe and learn. If nothing else, the names associated with this screening are ones to remember.
One of those super video fans is Alicia Eler, who wears many hats in our art world - she writes the Collector Conversation series for Chicago Gallery News, she freelances as a writer and an art critic, she's a social media guru, and she's also a curator. Alicia and video collector / architecture professor / friend Jefferson Godard present Performance Anxiety Wednesday evening, April 7 at 8pm at Gallery 400 at UIC. Jefferson is an Über video collector, and when he and Alicia discovered their mutual passion for video, Alicia interviewed Jefferson for the first CGN Collector Conversation. To read it, click HERE.
Performance
Anxiety features 7 short videos by different artists; endurance pieces, alter-egos, and more all explore a variety of complicated human + cultural instincts related to race, sexuality, gender. Come for Gallery 400's MFA Thesis
Exhibition opening 5-8 pm, and
stay for the screening. Performance Anxiety (run time:
approximately 50 minutes) features the work of American artists Rochelle
Feinstein, Kate Gilmore, James Murray, Jeroen Nelemans, Greg Stimac and
Stacia Yeapanis.
While we're getting tech-y here, save the date for Sunday, May 2 at 1pm for a timely panel I've been working on with Alicia: Social Media Strategies in Chicago's Art Community. The panel is part of "Art Chicago Speaks", taking place at the Merchandise Mart during art fair weekend. We'll talk about all things Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare in relation to the art community we call home! Hope to see (or Tweet with) you there! (Look for #artsocialmedia on Twitter and follow @chigallerynews and @aliciaeler
Performance Anxiety: Video Program
Curated by Alicia Eler and Jefferson Godard
Wednesday, April 7, 8pm
Gallery 400 at UIC
Art and Design Hall, First Floor
400 S. Peoria Street (at Van Buren
Street)
Chicago IL, 60607
Performance
Anxiety previously screened November 10-December 22, 2009, on
French
channel freebox 129 and German channel Unitymedia/Kabel BW through the
organization Souvenirs from the Earth TV.
Save the Date:
Sunday, May 2 at 1pm
Panel with Alicia Eler + Ginny Berg: Social Media
Strategies in Chicago's Art Community. The panel is part of Art
Chicago Speaks, taking place at the Merchandise Mart during art fair
weekend. We'll talk about all things Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare in
relation to the art community we call home! Hope to see (or Tweet with)
you there!
