¡HOT MESS! EXPERIMENTS WITH HYBRIDS IN LIVE AND STREAMING ENVIRONMENTS

(Image Description: A tangle of lines in blue and red, with a focal point in the upper right-ish, a cracked surface, a round mosaic reflecting light, a solar oven in the grass, The lawn looms to the foreground,  layered on the left a shadow figure dancing with arms outstretched between three vertical lines.)
 
Quarterly Series in partnership with Elastic Arts
 
First two June 5 & August 14
 
Presenting artists:
 
Luc Mosley

Adrian Wood

Chloe Yu-Nong Lin

Kyle Gregory Price

Sara Zalek
 
more TBA
 
LIVE STREAMING TWO SETS
 
4:20pm & 8:00pm Saturday June 5
IN PERSON PERFORMANCE (*as and if possible, by reservation only*)
 
doors open 4-5pm and 7:30-9pm Saturday June 5
 
Invitation for Open Broadcaster Software LIVE Improvising Environment
 
5 guest artists each round
 
Paid opportunity. Stipend plus equal split of donations
Interested to Participate?
https://forms.gle/JZ5dA6kajuF3un1u5
 
The year plus of physical distance has revealed and amplified both the potency and challenges of creating in virtual space, and now we transition to entering each other’s physical space again. This means that working across oceans is possible, as well as in person performative situations, a ripe time for never-before-seen combinations of sounds, images, text, motion, and concepts.
 
¡HOT MESS! is an opportunity to explore promiscuously inventive hybrids of performing simultaneously in physical and virtual space. Concepts of a new world are not as concrete as the process of building one, and we will depend on one another to create new ways of listening and engaging. We can flex our VR and interpersonal skills while also adapting to new tools, technology and experiences.
 
This series focuses on the moments of co-creation and gives the artists a play-space to discover new ways of working together and interacting with the audience. The performance itself demonstrates the power of working together in the unknown and the beauty in re-starting while making art!
 
Suggested Donation $10

The Aaron Shapiro Trio returns for another night of wonderful organ trio music at Elastic Arts. This time they’ve invited saxophonist Nate Lepine to join them. Shapiro’s ensemble features drummer Clif Wallace and organist Dan Chase, who will perform on Elastic’s own Hammond RT-3 organ.

Lineup:

Aaron Shapiro- Electric Guitar
Clif Wallace- Drumset
Dan Chase- Hammond Organ
Nate Lepine – Saxophone

$10 Suggested Donation

Donate Here: www.donorbox.org/elasticarts
Tune in Here: www.twitch.tv/elasticartschicago

Bricolage is a new quarterly performance series that partners artists from the creative capitals of Berlin and Chicago in an exploration of collaborative work in the COVID era.
Co-curated by experimental musicians Magda Mayas and Dave Rempis, the series attempts to create new artistic partnerships, as well as new models for remote collaboration in this unprecedented time. Bricolage encourages artists to work creatively with the technological means available, and their limitations, to create new models that may have use and impact even after this era.

Bricolage will be produced and broadcast by venue partners in each city, Elastic Arts in Chicago, and ausland in Berlin. The program is brought us with the support of the Goethe-Institut.
 
Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975.
Kerbaj is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of　the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene.　He is co-founder of Irtijal, an annual improvisation music festival (www.irtijal.org), and of Al Maslakh, the first label for experimental music in the region operating since 2005.
As a trumpet player, whether in solo performances or with　long-lasting groups like “A” Trio,　Mazen Kerbaj pushes the boundaries of the instrument and continues to develop a personal sound and an innovative language, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Bill Dixon, Axel Dörner and Franz Hautzinger.
 
Ken Vandermark (born 1964) is an improviser, composer, saxophonist/clarinetist, curator, and writer. In 1989 he moved to Chicago from Boston and has worked continuously from the early 1990s onward, both as a performer and organizer in North America and Europe, recording in a large array of contexts, with many internationally renowned musicians.
In 1999 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in music.
 
Donate Here: www.donorbox.org/elasticarts
Tune In Here: www.twitch.tv/elasticartschicago

More on the Goethe-Institut Here:

https://www.goethe.de/chicago

Curators:
 
Magda Mayas is a pianist, researcher and teacher living in Berlin, who performs internationally in the realm of contemporary and improvised music.
Dave Rempis is an improvising saxophonist, bandleader, and organizer in Chicago who has worked actively in the jazz and improvised music scene locally, nationally, and internationally for over 20 years.