RSVP is required: https://www.manacontemporary.com/exhibition/tiger-strikes-asteroid-it-feels-like-the-first-time/

May 22, 2021, 1–4PM

Floor 5, Gallery
Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop Street
Chicago, IL 60608

Tiger Strikes Asteroid: “It feels like the first time” is the first-ever, largest, and most comprehensive survey show that brings together the exhibition’s namesake network of artist-run spaces in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. Curated by Teresa Silva and Holly Cahill, two of the cooperative’s own members in Chicago, the exhibition includes nearly 50 of their peers with works inside Mana Contemporary’s main gallery.

Since its founding in 2009, Tiger Strikes Asteroid has been dedicated to creating a true network of artists, expanding connections and building community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities. The cooperative programs through a model of horizontal, rather than vertical growth, as well as a dynamic exchange of ideas and resources between cities, both on their own and collective terms. An ever-evolving experimental and intentional community, at once independent and interdependent, and nonhierarchical in uplifting underrepresented work and voices, Tiger Strikes Asteroid offers new contexts for the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists.

It feels like the first time is a watershed moment; it’s the first and most inclusive exhibition showcasing works by Tiger Strikes Asteroid members together, a constellation of conversations that delve into one’s sensorial experiences. Both sprawling and specific, the show’s framework slips into preoccupations with material memory and collections, the uncanny, touch and personal space, meditative gestures, and existing power structures and belief systems. This framework of ideas is unsettled and shifting like the world itself.

ARTISTS
Carl Baratta, matthew anthony batty, Megan Biddle, Samantha Box, Johanna Braun, Mark Brosseau, Holly Cahill, Cecile Chong, Vanessa Chow, Vincent Como, April Dauscha, Rachel de Cuba, Suzanne Dittenber, Yael Eban, Cait Finley, Rachael Gorchov, Alexis Granwell, Mary Henderson, Jackie Hoving, Olivia Jia, Daniel Johnson, Debra Kayes, Lucas Kelly, Amy Lee Ketchum, Zehra Khan, Nichola Kinch, Julia Klein, Susan Klein, Adam Lovitz, Hirona Matsuda, Nicole Mauser, Samantha Mitchell, Kara Mshinda, Michael Niemetz, Liz Nurenberg, Alex Paik, Norm Paris, Andrew Prayzner, Kari Reardon, Terri Saulin, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Kelsey Sheaffer, Pacifico Silano, Christopher Ulivo, Luke Whitlatch, Sun You

*VISITOR INFORMATION
Mana Contemporary is committed to taking every necessary precaution to ensure that visitation to the exhibitions abides by CDC and local governmental regulations. Advance RSVP is required in order to visit the exhibition. All guests must also be registered. Guests who have not individually registered will not be permitted entry.

If you are a member of a sensitive group, have accessibility concerns, or have any further questions, please reach out to hellochicago@manacontemporary.com for accommodations.

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Tags: Adam Lovitz, Alex Paik, Alexis Granwell, Amy Lee Ketchum, Andrew Prayzner, April Dauscha, Cait Finley, Carl Baratta, Cecile Chong, Chicago, Christopher Ulivo, Daniel Johnson, Debra Kayes, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Hirona Matsuda, Holly Cahill, Jackie Hoving, Johanna Braun, Julia Klein, Kara Mshinda, Kari Reardon, Kelsey Sheaffer, Liz Nurenberg, Lower West Side, Lucas Kelly, Luke Whitlatch, Mana Contemporary, Mark Brosseau, Mary Henderson, matthew anthony batty, Megan Biddle, Michael Niemetz, Nichola Kinch, Nicole Mauser, Norm Paris, Olivia Jia, Pacifico Silano, Rachael Gorchov, Rachel de Cuba, Samantha Box, Samantha Mitchell, Sun You, Susan Klein, Suzanne Dittenber, Terri Saulin, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Vanessa Chow, Vincent Como, Yael Eban, Zehra Khan