Boulevard Dreamers: Pegasus and Mermaids
@ Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St, Chicago, IL 60654
Opening Friday, September 23rd, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 16th
The Poetry Foundation presents Boulevard Dreamers, a performance and opening event for Pegasus & Mermaids, a group exhibition featuring work by POETRY magazine cover artists depicting Pegasus and mermaids from poetry immemorial. The exhibit will be displayed in the Poetry Foundation Gallery through December 16, 2016.
Boulevard Dreamers is a traveling installation and variety show responding to the specific narratives and communities of the sites and venues it visits. This collaborative project by artists Lise Haller Baggesen and Kristen Leenaars consists of three parts: a site-specific stage set, a series of performances, and an installation of the growing collection of portraits of Boulevard Dreamers. Boulevard Dreamers questions and celebrates the production of self in a society dominated by one spectacle alone: desire. Through a little glamour, a little glitter, and with a little help from their friends, Baggesen and Leenaars explore how we are moved by the agency of desire and the magical allure of being in the spotlight.
Performers include Rebirth Poetry Ensemble, Michael Green and Adam Sonderberg, The Pillowhammer, Ego Mechanics, Junior Magician, Riya Jain, Lucía Mier y Terán Romero, Henry Barrett, Chiara No, and Anni Holm.
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Tags: Adam Sonderberg, Anni Holm, Boulevard Dreamers, Chiara No, Chicago, Ego Mechanics, Henry Barrett, Junior Magician, Kristen Leenaars, Lise HALLER BAGGESEN, Lucía Mier, Michael Green, Near North Side, Pegasus and Mermaids, Poetry Foundation, Rebirth Poetry Ensemble, Riya Jain, Terán Romero, The Pillowhammer
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