Her Environment #4 Dream Machine
@ TCC Chicago
2547 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Tuesday, August 16th, at 8PM
On view through Tuesday, August 30th
Her Environment presents: Dream Machines
Featuring work by
Selden Paterson, installation and video, Chicago IL
Sara Goodman, Glitch Installation and performance, Chicago IL
ChanHee Choi, Installation and video. New York NY
Leyla Rodriguez, video, Hamburg Germany
Erin Gee, sound installation, Montreal QB
Magritte Nankin, Sculpture, Chicago IL
Luis Mejico, performative scuplture, Chicago IL
CH, Video, Chicago IL
Zsofi valyi-Nagy, Chicago IL
Chloe Cucinotta, Installation, Chicago IL
Rebecca Uliasz, Installation, Stonybrook NY
Sam Prestigiacomo, Video, Chicago IL
5 dollar suggested donation at the door
Dreams and Machines both share the mechanics of repetition. Machines externalize physical labor and dreams externalize our internal labor both through the means of repetition. Our subconscious minds read into objects, people, and ideas and repurpose them to expose new meanings. Within feminist art practice machines can be used as a means of critiquing systems of labor and production. Dreams provide a subversion of utilitarian ideals by existing in the realm of the impossible. Mika Rottenburg and Ramadios Varo work with visual language of machinery to express ideas about the impossible and the absurd. We are looking for work that uses utilitarian and mechanical structures towards impossible and absurd ends.
Her Environment is the curatorial project of artists Allie Shyer and Chelsea Welch. It began in Winter of 2015 after many conversations which lead us to realize there was no space for feminine spectrum artists working in new media to show their work that was challenging, intentional and encouraging of experimentation. Our focus is broadening the understanding of how New Media practices can be used in multiple forms of art making, from video to installation and performance, our aim is to show pieces that challenge how new media can be used, and the male dominated culture that surrounds it.
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Tags: CH, Chanhee Choi, Chicago, Chloe Cucinotta, Erin Gee, Her Environment #4 Dream Machines, Humboldt Park, Leyla Rodriguez, Luis Mejico, Magritte Nankin, Rebecca Uliasz, Sam Prestigiacomo, Sara Goodman, Selden Paterson, TCC Chicago, Zsofi Valyi-Nagy
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