WEEK FOUR

Memory’s Place: Alternative Sites and Histories
January 30-February 1
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm
Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, & working artists)
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Documentary, sound work, performance art, and stories demonstrate the discrepancies between lived experiences, the official record, and the imagination. January 30: Friday night talkback led by Tony Trigilio, poet and scholar.

NEW LINEUP OF ARTISTS EACH NIGHT:

Friday, January 30
Tisa Bryant, Duriel Harris, Miranda Mellis, video by Bryan & Jake Saner, and video by Chi Jang Yin

Saturday, January 31
Tisa Bryant, Amina Cain with Rachel Tredon, ThickRoutes Performance Collage, and video by Bryan & Jake Saner

Sunday, February 1
Amina Cain with Rachel Tredon, Duriel Harris, Miranda Mellis,  ThickRoutes Performance Collage, and video by Chi Jang Yin

Brooklyn-based editor and publisher Tisa Bryant traverses the boundaries between gender, culture, and history in her writing. Bryant presents two pieces: a discussion of "genre-bending" through her book Unexplained Presence (Leon Works) and her creative research SPECTRAL Evidence: Atavism, Archeology, and Visual Impressions of Black Memory.

Festival co-curator and author Amina Cain, recently relocated to Los Angeles from Chicago, reads from "They’ve Been Bringing Them Here for Decades", performing the story as a play with local artist Rachel Tredon.

San Francisco-based Miranda Mellis is an author and a founding editor at The Encyclopedia Project. Mellis reads excerpts from a work-in-progress, a still forming story of a defunct sacred day.

PERFORMANCE
Heralded as one of three Chicago poets for the 21st century by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Canton, NY-based Duriel E. Harris performs a mixed media: poetry/ performance/ sound installation entitled Unquiet Borders & on the Air, a Gallows.

ThickRoutes Performance Collage is a Chicago-based women’s performance collective committed to creating original multimedia works at the intersection of entertainment, social activism, and education. Bridges is a performance exploring the question: How does memory traverse rugged historical and generational terrains?  

Bryan Saner’s solo performance works have been performed in festivals and theaters throughout the US, and he has performed and taught internationally with Goat Island Performance Group. Created with filmmaker and son Jake Saner, The Inaudibles is a collaborative oral history project documenting the stories of people who have been involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1950’s and 60’s. The locus of these stories is primarily Chicago and connections to Chicago.

Chi Jang Yin is a peripatetic filmmaker, photographer, and independent curator. Born in China, Yin was raised in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Canada, and now lives in Chicago. Her video and photographic practice integrates language, audio and performance art. She presents her videos Pretend Nothing Happened; Camera, Woman, Man and Fish Tank; ICON; and Untitled Affair.