Performances
8pm – Ále ‘Celeste’ Campos
11pm – Sebastian Hernandez

Followed by DJ Sets by BROWNSKINHAZEL, J. Córdova, & Jenny Fox

Suggested donation till 11pm to support Glimmers program
$5 entry post-11pm to support DJs

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Join us at The California Clipper on Saturday, April 11 for a performance by Los Angeles-based artist Sebastian Hernandez and Los Angeles-born and Chicago-based Ále ‘Celeste’ Campos.

As part of programming for Glimmers, Ále ‘Celeste’ Campos will open up the stage with a pleasured world and Sebastian Hernandez responds to the auroras of the night.

Glimmer: Performances by Sebastian Hernandez & Ále ‘Celeste’ Campos
April 11, 2026 – 8pm & 11pm

The California Clipper
1002 N. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

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About Ále ‘Celeste’ Campos

Ále Campos aka Celeste (b. 1994, Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist and performance maker. They generate live performance works that are rhapsodic and often unfolding into the mediums of sculpture, sound, text, video and installation. Their work is largely concerned with examining human relationality, perception, ritual and self-creation, all through a queer lens.

Their practice is grounded in the aesthetics of drag and because of it, their work exists as a bridge between the queer underground and the art world, always challenging the traditions and definitions of drag and performance art all at once. Drag is a necessary instrument for them to step into liveness. It informs their approach towards the stage, the gaze, constructing images, and time. A body in drag is exaggerated; it draws attention to itself and by extension, its context. They use drag as a means to glitch the body, to complicate how their audience is witnessing and encourage new, more expansive ways of perceiving.

They received a BA from Bennington College (2016) and an MFA in Performance at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2022) where the are currently a lecturer in performance. Their work has been shown at The Poetry Foundation, Hyde Park Arts Center, NO NATION, Comfort Station, Heaven Gallery, Ruschwoman, Chicago Artists Coalition, Jude Gallery, Roots & Culture, Elastic Arts, SITE/less (Chicago, IL), Lane Meyer Projects (Denver, CO), Collar Works (Troy, NY), September Gallery, The 405 Project (Hudson, NY), Kunsthalle Darmstadt (Germany), SS Gallerie (CDMX), BMOCA (Boulder, CO), Pamplemousse Gallery (Richmond, VA), Public Space One (Iowa City, IA), Crab Shack x Fjord, and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA). They’ve attended ACRE Residency and are a recipient of the 2022 James Nelson Fellowship Award at SAIC and the City of Hudson’s Tourism Board Grant (2021). They were a 2023 BOLT artist-in-residence at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition and were named one of the ten New City 2023 Breakout Artists of Chicago.

About Sebastian Hernandez

Sebastian Hernandez (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is a multi-disciplinary trans femme artist who received a B.A. in both “Art Practice” and “Dance and Performance Studies” from the University of California Berkeley. Sebastian explores making art with mediums like movement, sculpture, performance, photography, creative writing and DJing.

Hernandez works with and through feminist, queer, indigenous and gender theoretical frameworks as well as notions of collectivity to generate works that complicate Mexican and Chicano narratives in the contemporaneous social imagination. Their art making is embedded in personal narrative, their indigenous Mexica (Aztec) ancestry, queer club culture and the history of the brown body in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderland. Their movement based practice is informed by their long standing practice of danza Mexica (Azteca), Vogue and a wide range of modern dance techniques like GAGA, Flying Low, Laban and Afro Modern.

Hernandez has presented work at REDCAT, Human Resources, LACE, Commonwealth & Council, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, ICA LA, MUSTACHE Mondays, Club Scum, NAVEL LA, ONE ARCHIVES, 4th street Bridge, Santee Alley, BOFFO, Performance Space New York, Palm Spring Art Museum, Jessica Silverman Gallery and more. In 2020, Sebastian was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist award. ​

About Glimmers: Currents of Illuminations
Glimmers: Currents of Illuminations is a circuit program of performances, panel discussion, and video screening spotlighting Latine and LatAm contemporary art practices during Chicago’s art fair week. Curated by Xavier Robles Armas and organized by Chuquimarca, Glimmers converges voices from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago to culminate a weekend that presents performance and video art practices of today.

Glimmers is supported by Ignite Fund, EXPO Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Monira Foundation, ACRE Projects, The California Clipper, and Depaul Art Museum.

RSVP: chuquimarca.com/glimmers-chicago
Contact: Info@chuquimarca.com
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Glimmers is supported by Ignite Fund, EXPO Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Monira Foundation, ACRE, The California Clipper, and Depaul Art Museum.

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