Brendan Fernandes Lecture: We Came to Dance
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, February 28th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join us in person for a lecture by artist Brendan Fernandes followed by an audience Q&A.
Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts. Currently based out of Chicago, Fernandes’s projects address issues of race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Always looking to create new spaces and new forms of agency, Fernandes’s projects take on hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, and part political protest, they’re always rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests visit n hybrid forms: part ballet, part queer dance party, and part political protest, they’re always rooted in collaboration and
This event is free, unticketed, and open to the public.
Image: Brendan Fernandes, Contract and Release, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York. Photography: Nicholas Knight
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