Celebrating 30 years since the Fluxus Festival at The Arts Club of Chicago and 60 (+1) years of the Fluxus movement, The Arts Club teams up with Chicago’s contemporary Fluxus practitioners to interpret historical scores. Curated by Chris Reeves, Hannah Higgins, and Simon Anderson, this evening of performance will feature works by Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Alison Knowles, Charlotte Moorman, Dick Higgins, and George Brecht–interpreted by Alberto Aguilar, Dorothy Carlos, Jesse Malmed, Josh Rios, Lauren Sudbink, and Suspended Culture Collective.
$20 general admission
$10 student
If you would like to attend and don’t find yourself in a position to purchase a ticket, please email jlyle@artsclubchicago.org, and a ticket can be arranged for you.
Thursday October 5
Evening Program: Alsdorf-Freehling Lecture/On the Exhibition
Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer on the Architecture of Refugee Housing
In-person program with option to view remotely
Program 6:00 pm
Artist Rathin Barman’s work, currently on view at The Arts Club, evokes the palatial colonial villas in
Kolkata, many now inhabited by migrants fleeing violence. This correlation between colonialism and asylum seekers is crucial, as most refugees trying to reach Europe hail from former colonies. Esther da Costa Meyer, Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Architecture, will explore the architecture of refugee camps. Sometimes the size of cities, these camps, largely situated in the Global South, are run by humanitarian agencies and NGOs. Overwhelmed by the steep rise in numbers which will escalate sharply due to climate change, humanitarian aid often replicates neo-colonial practices. A small but determined group of architects has been designing shelter for refugees around the world, keenly aware that there can be no architectural solution without the participation of the refugees themselves, their knowledge, and their heritage. This program is presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Free and open to all
A close-up view of the Za’atri camp in Jordan for Syrian refugees as seen on July 18, 2013, from a helicopter carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
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Tuesday September 19
Exhibition Opening Gallery Talk
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures
6:00- 7:00 pm
Including concrete and brass wall reliefs and a newly commissioned room-scaled installation, Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures considers the creative reuse by migrant populations of abandoned colonial mansions in the artist’s home city of Kolkata, India. Barman will be in conversation with Prateek Raja of Experimenter in Kolkata.
Artist talk and opening gallery reception are free and open to all.
Image: Rathin Barman, One, and the Other (Site II) | 2016
Courtesy of the Artist and Experimenter.
Photography by Nepal Bhadra.
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Thursday August 10
Evening Program: Film/Theater
Table Reading of Max & Ziney by Kimberly McMillan
In-person program
Wine and Hors D’oeuvre Reception 6:00 pm | Program 6:30 pm
Kimberly McMillan’s Max & Ziney is a screenplay for a television pilot featuring a lonely, middle-aged divorcee, at the end of her dating rope, who must keep her world from falling apart, while at the same time, battling her illusory inner critic, who follows her everywhere. A collection of actors joins McMillan for a staged reading of her hilarious, pithy, and searingly candid episode in The Arts Club’s salon. Sip a drink and laugh as much as you like! (It’s helpful feedback for TV writers.)
$40 per person
Performers read from Claudia Michelle Wallace’s Script in a Table Reading Program on March 21, 2023
Saturday September 30
Public Program: Arts Club Garden Projects
Yasmin Spiro with Danielle Roper
In-person program with option to view remotely
Program 1:00 pm in The Drawing Room (refreshments provided)
Yasmin Spiro’s (b. Kingston, Jamaica 1974) installation and semi-transparent weaving, Groundation, currently on view in The Arts Club’s Garden, is an homage to Jamaican wicker weaver Sylvester Ivy, and explores the creation of sacred spaces, vernacular architecture, and craft. In conjunction with EXPO Chicago Exhibition Weekend, Spiro is joined by Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Latin American Literature at the University of Chicago, Danielle Roper, to discuss the work, Jamaican and Caribbean visual culture, spiritualism, and the history embedded in creative practices.
Free and open to all
