I have six performances scheduled for October and November, with more being planned. Three happen in the Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3), presented in various locations from October 1—12. Look further down for my other three post-CCAF shows held at Enemy, Myopic, and Elastic. Please check the CCAF3 Schedule page and this web page in case of last-minute schedule changes. (more…)
At 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, September 28, I will give a short performance on Monica Herrera’s Strings, her sculptural sound installation at the Hyde Park Arts Center (HPAC):
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2008/07/strings_by_monica_hererra.php
2:00-5:00 p.m., admission FREE, Asian food provided.
Hyde Park Art Center Monica Herrera is a recent graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2008). My performance is one of many in the Chicago Artists Month Opening Celebration at HPAC.
Over the weekend there will be a mix of exhibitions and free performances to kick off Chicago Artists Month, including a concert by the Black Monks of Mississippi, portrait drawings by Dale Washington, Butoh dance by Nicole LeGette, and free outdoor concerts by Fred Anderson, Corey Wilkes and Kahil El’Zabar as part of the 2nd Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Professor Emeritus, Tom Jaremba died on August 31, 2008. He was my friend and my graduate adviser at SAIC (when I was a student there from 1981-83). Tom was a teacher to nearly all of us who were active in Chicago’s small but thriving performance art community in the 1980s. In 1986 I worked with Tom on his adaptation of Orphee, by Jean Cocteau, performed at Lodge Hall in Wicker Park and the State of Illinois Center [now the James R. Thompson Center]. My friend, fellow student, and performance artist, Brendan de Vallance has attempted to archive this period and the participants in the community.
Lisa Wainwright, Acting Dean of Faculty at SAIC, wrote:
“Those of you who knew Tom remember a tall and ebullient man who was inquisitive and generous with all students and all of us. He gave much to this institution coming to us from the Goodman Theater and founding the Design and Communications Department with [the late] John Kurtich in the late 60s and then the Performance Department a few years later. His commitment to the body as an instrument of expression in art impacted generations of artists and still holds a critical place in the aesthetic mandate for performance art at the School.”
“Thomas A. Jaremba helped start a department to teach performance art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and staged his own wildly eclectic shows that mixed dance, dialogue, video and music.”
The complete article can be viewed on the Chicago Tribune website:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/chi-hed-jaremba-05-sep05,0,7132232.story