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Shivering Sands: Chaos and Coincidences of History by Rohini Devasher
In 2013, during a residency at Metal Culture, Southend Devasher undertook a small expedition, to try to see the Maunsell Seaforts, which dot the coast of the UK. These huge metallic structures, relics of the second World War, were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts were […] More information →
Re-Wildling by Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jacob Kudsk Steensen’s new artwork for Daata Editions, RE-WILDLING, deals with themes of extinction, preservation, and the emergence of new ecological realities and is inspired by the reintroduction of a previously extinct crow to the Big Island of Hawaii. Part of a year-long project for which Kudsk Steensen interviewed ornithologists about their last memories of […] More information →
Little Lo Ting by Zoe Marden
As said by Roland Barthes; “The best weapon against myth is perhaps to mythify it in its turn, and to produce an artificial myth” The Lo Ting is half human, half fish, a creature, a mermaid and the alleged ancestor of the people of Hong Kong. A myth co-oped by curator Oscar Ho in 1997, […] More information →
Feel My Metaverse by Keiken + George Jasper Stone
Feel My Metaverse is a new CGI film, Augmented Reality (AR) and immersive installation by Keiken + George Jasper Stone about a hyper-fictional future. It plays on our understanding of reality and the idea that we can create our own future through the stories we collectively believe in. The narrative of the film critiques the […] More information →
Eternal September I-VI by Rustan Söderling
The term Eternal September refers to the endless stream of new users flowing in and on-to the Internet since it first became available to the broader masses. As it turns out, somewhat surprisingly, we have been working on this vast, communal, prosthetic memory-mechanism since before we built stone circles or scribbled on cave walls. The […] More information →
Cadence and Village (Veil) by Melanie Manchot
Cadence This short video loop starts with a blank page. White. No orientation, scale, dimension. Until the edge of the frame is broken. From an aerial viewpoint we see a dark horse being led into what now reveals itself as a blank snowy landscape. Walking in a circle, it inscribes a trail of footprints into […] More information →
Curator-Led Digital Tour | EXPO CHGO ONLINE Environmental Thematic with Katie A. Pfohl Ph.D
This tour was streamed live on Thursday, April 8 at 2pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Katie A. Pfohl, Ph.D., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and EXPO CHGO’s Environmental Curator, for a tour of select artworks from the digital exposition’s Environmental […] More information →
EXPO CHGO Kick-Off Program | Framing the Moment: On Music, Architecture and Improvisation
This panel + performance premiered at 5pm CDT, Thursday, April 8. Please view the recording of the event above. Featuring David Brown (Artistic Director, Chicago Architecture Biennial), Ken Vandermark (Musician), Rosa Barba (Artist), and moderated by John Corbett (Gallerist, Corbett vs. Dempsey), this panel convenes thought leaders from visual art, music, and architectural backgrounds to […] More information →
Curator-Led Digital Tour | Collecting Emerging Artists
This panel premiered at 11am CDT, Friday, April 9. Please view the recording of the event above. Join Humberto Moro, deputy director and senior curator at the Museo Tamayo and EXPO CHICAGO’s EXPOSURE curator, for a tour of EXPO CHGO ONLINE. Since 2016, Moro has been an adjunct curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in […] More information →
Arts Funders Forum | Art for Environment: How can cultural philanthropy help solve climate change
This panel premiered at 12pm CDT, Friday, April 9. Please view the recording of the event above. Presented in partnership with the Arts Funders Forum, this panel featuring Zaria Forman (Artist), Tracey Robertson Carter (Co-Chair, AIRIE) and Sarah Sutton (Principal, Sustainable Museums) will examine how philanthropists can work with artists to fund initiatives focused on addressing […] More information →
Industry Panel | Collection Management Best Practices
This panel streamed live on Friday, April 9 at 3pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join leading professionals in art insurance, conservation, storage and shipping in an open discussion on best practices to consider in the management of personal art collections. Featuring Heather Becker (CEO, Conservation Center), Terry Dowd (Terry Dowd, Inc.), […] More information →
Curator-Led Digital Tour | Collecting International Artists
This tour streamed live on Saturday, April 10 at 11am CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Marcella Beccaria (Chief Curator and Curator of Collections, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea) as she leads guests through her selection of works from EXPO CHGO ONLINE, in addition to a brief exhibition tour of Giulio Paolini’s […] More information →
Artist Talk | Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
This conversation streamed live on April 10th at 6pm CDT. Please view a recording of the conversation above. Featuring the premiere of a new film and other new works, Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society thinks about the circulation of currency and measures of absence and loss, with dimensions that are both intimate […] More information →
Sequesterfest 5 | Solo Sets by Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline & Glenn Kotche
These performances premiered at 7pm CDT on Saturday, April 11 via the Experimental Sound Studio Twitch stream. Please view the recordings of the event above. now(more near ourselves than we)is a bird singing in a tree,who never sings the same thing twiceand still that singing’s always his eyes can feel but ears may seethere never lived […] More information →
Panel | In Conversation with the Driehaus Museum’s A Tale of Today: Emerging Artist Fellows
This program was live-streamed on Sunday, April 11th at 2:30pm. Please view a recording of the conversation above. This virtual panel discussion will explore the conceptual and programmatic impact of the Driehaus Museum’s A Tale of Today: Emerging Artists Fellowship on the work and trajectory of the museum’s Fellows. Now in its second pilot year, […] More information →
Performance | Tiny Performances in Empty Rooms
These performances streamed on Sunday, April 11th at 5pm CDT. Please view the event above, and watch an in-depth follow-up with the artists that was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 11:30 a.m. CDT on the EXPO CHICAGO microsite here. With The Arts Club of Chicago in a pandemic-induced hibernation during the cold winter months, […] More information →
Panel | For and From the Void: Artists on Making in an Empty Institution
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 11:30am CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Unable to host audiences en masse for performances in the actual building, The Arts Club of Chicago opted, during a pandemic-induced hibernation, to explore the generative potential of emptiness. The club invited three artists in […] More information →
Industry Panel | Collection Management Best Practices
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 1pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join leading professionals in art advisory, valuations, legal and art finance in an open discussion on best practices for managing personal art collections. Featuring Elizabeth Amundsen (Gurr Johns), Naomi Baigell (TPC Art Finance) and Marisa […] More information →
Artist Talk | Music and Art with Omar Velázquez
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 2:30pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. In his first solo museum exhibition, artist and musician Omar Velázquez (Puerto Rican, b. 1984) presents recent paintings and sculptures that address the intersection of painting, music, and folklore at the Museum of Contemporary Art […] More information →
Panel | Exhibiting Latinx Artists in an International Field: Connecting Mexico City + Chicago
This conversation was streamed live on Monday, April 12 at 4pm CDT. Please view a recording of the event above. Join Laura-Caroline de Lara (Interim Director, DePaul Art Museum) in conversation with Humberto Moro (Deputy Director and Senior Curator, Museo Tamayo), a member of Museo Tamayo’s young collectors circle Fátima González (Co-Founder González Jassan), and […] More information →
Exhibition Tour | Jill Magid: Tender: Balance
This tour was live-streamed on Monday, April 12 at 5:30pm CDT. Karsten Lund (Curator, Renaissance Society) leads a virtual walk-through of Jill Magid’s Tender: Balance at the Renaissance Society, navigating immersive 3D documentation of the gallery space and discussing the works in the show, their installation at the Ren, and broader conceptual threads running through […] More information →
Hans Rosenström: Past All Concern
Past All Concerns refers to an earlier work by the artists Peter Fischli & David Weiss titled Flowers (1998), a bright and life-affirming piece where the artists photographed flowers in a garden using double exposure. After a closer observation of Rosenström’s video one can see that the flowers are actually not real, but rather delicately […] More information →
Tabita Rezaire: Moon Meditations
These lunar blessings inaugurate Tabita Rezaire’s Center for Moon Studies and Practices, an ever-evolving anchor for moon knowledge to understand and experience the vastness of her influence and nourish our relationship with the Earth’s satellite. The moon has always inspired the hearts and minds while regulating many cycles our eco-bio-social and spiritual systems. These six […] More information →
Rachel Monosov: The Visitor
Exploring the timeless landscape of the Judean Desert like a lost space traveller, a woman examines plants and animals. Synthetic sounds defy all logic. Through the representation of the self out of place in her own body and environment, the visitor collects information. A rootless individual hunting for her own social history. Hosted by Daata […] More information →
Tuomas A. Laitinen: Protean Sap (Houre)
Tuomas A. Laitinen’s new work, Protean Sap, consists of augmented reality filters and a single-channel video. The work creates a strange, dream-like reality where geometric formations encrust objects and bodies, paired with a mysterious seer’s text. The forms are simulated from protein chains of viruses, bacteria, and other microbial life. These shapes are then changed […] More information →
Shambhavi Kaul: Night Noon
Unmoving rock collapsed to ocean—geology’s “thrust and fold”—becomes the unlikely habitat for two actors’ shadowy encounters with sand, waves, night, desert, dread, calm, trepidation and escape. “Shambhavi Kaul’s Night Noon sets up dialectical dread in Death Valley with a series of uncanny shots of eroded, geological formations and dunes that seemingly fold into night skies […] More information →
Frank Heath: Asymptomatic Carrier
Heath’s poetic, itinerant work examines and intervenes in the unexceptional spaces of quotidian life. At the core of his art is a practice of taking quiet, private acts—some verging on the absurd, others the melancholic into public situations. Asymptomatic Carrier focuses on abandoned North Brother Island (adjacent to Randall’s Island, New York, NY) and its […] More information →
Allison Janae Hamilton: Wacissa
Allison Janae Hamilton (b.1984) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Her work often incorporates natural materials such as reclaimed wood, animal hides, and feathers. Hamilton fuses land-centered folklore and personal family narratives into haunting yet epic mythologies that address the social and political concerns of today’s changing Southern terrain, including […] More information →
Judy Chicago: Women and Smoke, California, 1971-1972
Judy Chicago first turned to pyrotechnics in the late 1960s in an effort to feminize the atmosphere at a time when the southern California art scene was almost entirely male dominated. Between 1968 and 1974, Judy Chicago executed a series of increasingly complex fireworks pieces that involved site specific performances around California. Some of these […] More information →