Red Rover Series
{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #36:
Textual Ecologies & Contaminations
SATURDAY, MAY 22
7pm / doors lock 7:30
Featuring:
Jennifer Scappettone
Asimina Chremos with collaborators
Joseph Ravens & Alycia Scott
at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave
suggested donation $4
**NEW VENUE**
near CTA Damen blue line
third floor walk up
not wheelchair accessible
ASIMINA CHREMOS was born in 1966 in Toronto, Canada and is a naturalized US citizen. Her mother was raised in the state of Virginia in the USA and her father is a native of Central Greece. Since childhood, Chremos has brought playful curiosity and incisive intelligence to her exploration of dance as a creative practice, lifestyle, career and evolving philosophy. Approaching dance as art, she creates abstractions, narratives and kinetic sculptural forms across stages, studios and spaces of all types and sizes. Recent projects include daily dance vlog CircadianDancer; site specific performances as microgig with cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm; and Echo Den, a sound-and-movement duo with vocalist Carol Genetti. In July 2010 Chremos will leave Chicago and travel around the country and beyond to create, perform and teach.
JOSEPH RAVENS creates time-based art works that encompass text, movement, installation, technology, costume, and object. Touching on subjects such as materialism, insatiability, conformity, and alienation, his performances reflect a struggle to find pattern and purpose within an imposing and random universe. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Performance, Ravens has a BFA in Theater and studied audio/visuals at Gerrit Reitvelt Acadamie in Amsterdam, Holland. Joseph is committed to presenting his work globally. To learn more, please visit http://www.josephravens.com
JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE, a poet, translator, and scholar, is the author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009), and of several chapbooks. Exit 43—an archaeology in several media of Superfund sites interrupted by pop-up choruses—is in progress for Atelos Press. She edited Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse, featuring her pop-up stills and prose and new writing by Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian (Belladonna, 2009). Pop-up scores have been adapted for performance in an evolving collaboration with choreographer Kathy Westwater as PARK, with an initial in-progress showing at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop last February. Her verse “stills” have been installed at the Zaoem and Infusoria exhibits of visual poetry in Brussels and Ghent, and more are coming to the magazine Speechless. As a translator, she guest-edited the feature section of Aufgabe 7 (2008), devoted to contemporary Italian “poetry of research,” and is completing an edition of selected works by the poet/musicologist Amelia Rosselli. She is also finishing Modernism in Venice, a book-length study of the post Romantic city as a crucible for experimental aesthetics in the twentieth century. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. Readings and talks are archived at her PennSound page, http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Scappettone.html
ALYCIA SCOTT has performed around the globe in spaces ranging from theaters in Russia to balconies in Guatemala, a graveyard in Mexico and art galleries in the United States. Rooted in performance as a mode of poetically intervening with the malaise of socially constructed realities, Alycia uses movement to understand and engage kinesics to connect people, and instigate change. She continually studies ritual movement, from West African Dance and Butoh, to yoga and daily routines of both the ancient and modern world. As a curator and arts administrator, she has developed projects and exhibitions that engage communities, both local and global, in addressing socio-political issues from women’s rights to food production, the state of water and cultural reflections in the body.
Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin.
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