TRIAGE: Relic Activation Lab (Dr AL)
@ Mana Contemporary
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Saturday, May 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
DFBRL8R presents TRIAGE, a public event closing the inaugural Dr AL intensive at Mana Contemporary.
Nine artists, archivists, and researchers have lived inside the DFBRL8R archive while making urgent decisions about what to save, what to stabilize, and what to release. TRIAGE is the public moment where that labor becomes visible. TRIAGE is care as closure and alchemy. TRIAGE is our invitation to inhabit and enliven the body of this archive together.
2026 Inaugural Cohort:
Taylor Rae Botticelli, Angeliki Bryan, Akiko Ichikawa, Janjaa (Helen S. Lee), Jinlu Luo, Alex H. Macy, Seth Nguyen, Kately Towsley, Yalin Zhao
Assistant: Anabelle Lee Dehm
Organizer: Joseph Ravens
The DFBRL8R Relic Activation Lab (Dr AL) gathers a small cohort inside a living archive of performance art relics. Participants work collectively with the material remains of live art, sorting, handling, cataloging, researching, and activating, while testing how relics might persist through care, use, redistribution, reinterpretation, and controlled change. Some things are kept. Some things are changed. Both are forms of care.
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