Chelsea’s Trivia Night
@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Opening Thursday, June 18th, from 7PM - 8PM
On: https://www.facebook.com/graycenterforartsandinquiry
“Life is wild right now, first, Corona put us in a time out, and now we are reminding people that Black lives do indeed matter. With the multitude of resistance going on, Chelsea’s Trivia Night is here to remind you that joy is a form of resistance, Black laughter is a form of resistance. Inspired by Urban Dictionary, Chelsea wants to know if you can decipher the “True or False” statement, “Fill in the Blank”, and Identify correct answers to earn points. Do you like trivia? Can you do it for the culture? If so Chelsea’s Trivia Night is for you.” ~ Chelsea A. Flowers
This performance is part of Another Idea, an actual conceptual art exhibition at the Gray Center for Arts + Inquiry. Artworks in Another Idea are inherently ephemeral. Many will unfold over time and appear at various moments over the course of the exhibition. Some works are contingent on your participation, while others are iterative and will transform from one medium into another. Exhibition details: https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/projects/another-idea
About the artist:
Detroit-based artist Chelsea A. Flowers uses comedic troupes, physical play, nostalgic memorabilia, and participatory performance to explore the subversion of popular culture, and how “otherness” is created through social and cultural critique of her environment. She has shown work and performed at various venues including; Wave Pool Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), ACRE Projects Space (Chicago, IL), Public Space One (Iowa City, IA), Fjord Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Red Bull Arts (Detroit, MI), Roots and Culture (Chicago, IL), and Front/Space Gallery (Kansas City, MO). With upcoming shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), and The Sculpture Center, (Cleveland, OH). Residencies include ACRE (Steuben, WI), Real Time and Space (Oakland, CA), Ox-Bow School of Arts and Artist Residency (Saugatuck, MI) and Art Space is Your Space (Cincinnati, OH). Flowers holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2017), and a BFA from Denison University with a concentration in Black Studies (2013).
*Please let us know if you would like to play! write us at: mikes1@chicago.edu or click “Going” on this event.
(This will help us let the artist know how many trivia night players we can expect ahead of time)
Image: Chelsea A. Flowers. courtesy of the artist.
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