Bad Romance
@ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, February 17th, from 7PM - 10PM
Bad Romance features video works by performers and video artists that play with well-worn conventions of portraying seduction, romantic relationships, or intimate encounters in popular culture. The artists included in this screening expose the underlying mechanics of creating these seductive, and often instructive, images and scenes. They place themselves or their loved ones in front of the camera, employ illuminating voice-overs, construct awkward revelations and propose humorous antidotes to problematic romantic tropes.
Steven Summers – Chicago, IL
First Time, 6:22, 2016
Charmaine Ortiz – Carolina Beach, NC
Search: “How to draw a Woman”, Male Perspectives from YouTube result pages 1-50, 2012, 10:00
Marlo Koch – Chicago, IL
Cherry, 2014 6:27
Marlo Koch and Emerson Sigman – Chicago, IL
Wide Open, 2016, 2:39
Karin Stothart – Los Angeles, CA
Beach, 2015, 6:12
White Horse, 2012, 4:32
Casey Smallwood – Chicago, IL
Four Scenes for Mother, 2011,12:56
Smallwood Satyricon, 2013, 11:35
With Performance by Marilyn Volkman
NEO-Craft: The Easiest and Quickest Way to Gain Advantages for Prosperity, Happiness and Romantic Love
Programmed by Sara Holwerda
Image Credit: still from Four Scenes for Mother (Pretty Woman) by Casey Smallwood
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