Under the Sun, As it Were
@ Watershed Art and Ecology
1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Thursday, June 26th, from 5PM - 9PM
Under the Sun, As it Were is a celebration of the subjunctive mood; a wishful thinking for the seemingly out of our grasp. Taking place in honor of the summer solstice, we present to you a speculative speciation of the mundane, the simple, the natural brought on by the light of that longest sun. The three prongs of the event: works engaged in the telling of story, the tenuousness of their instant, and the relations that they honor; a presentation of impossible domestic gestures that believe in their possibility; and a lecture as a performance invested in imaginations, word-worlds, and the proposition. A day celebrated since antiquity, with many a monument in many a culture erected to acknowledge and coincide with the sun’s positioning, Under the Sun asks us to think backward and forward, participate in the possibility that a certain kind of mysticism, a little bit of magic, and a belief in what we do for what is to come has something worth considering in it.
Poetry Reading at 7. Lecture Performance at 8. One night only.
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Tags: Chicago, Drew Ness, Evan Fusco, Izzy Davis, Lemmy Ya'akova, Lower West Side, Negin Mirfakhraee, Piper Snowber, Raine Yung, Under the Sun As it Were, Watershed Art and Ecology

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