the RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL aims to represent a range of styles and forms in order to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art.

HIGHLIGHTS

ARAHMAIANI (INDONESIA) | ANDREW BARCO (US) | ANNA BERNDTSON (SWEDEN/GERMANY) | WAFAA BILAL (IRAQ/US) | JEFFERY BYRD (US) | PATE CONAWAY (US) | JESS DOBKIN (CANADA) | ZACKARY DRUCKER (US) | ARIANNA FERRARI (ITALY) | FRANCESCA FINI (ITALY) | BEVERLY FRE$H (US) | ANNA FELICITY FRIEDMAN (US) | ARTI GRABOWSKI (POLAND) | FAUSTO GRACIA (MEXICO) | ALLISON HALTER (US/GERMANY) | SARA HOLWERDA (US) | ELANA KATZ (US/GERMANY) | ELENA KATSULIS & ERIN PEISERT (US) | JOSHUA KENT (US) | MEHDI-GEORGES LAHLOU (BELGIUM) | CARLOS SALAZAR LERMONT (VENEZUELA) | MILLER & SHELLABARGER (US) | ŞÜKRAN MORAL (TURKEY) | MOTHERGIRL (US) | BORIS NIESLONY (GERMANY) | WANDA RAIMUNDI-ORTIZ (US) | JEFFERSON PINDER (US) | EMILIO ROJAS (MEXICO/CANADA) | KAMBUI OLUJIMI (US) | ROOMS (US) | FERESHTEH TOOSI (US) | ALICE VOGLER (US) | DOLORES WILBER + SARAH WILBER (US) | JULIE WILLS (US) | ZIERLE & CARTER (UK)

The VIDEO SERIES consists of short performances made specifically for the camera

• MON 06.03: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: Erotic/AutoErotic @ nightingale
• TUE 06.04: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: Facing the Lens @ nightingale
• WED 06.05: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: Videorover/Rapid Pulse Performance Videos @ nightingale
• THU 06.06: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: Corporeal Discomfort @ nightingale
• FRI 06.07: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: Public Infringements @ nightingale
• MON 06.10: PERFORMANCE VIDEOS: Spatial Body @ nightingale

JEREMIAH BARBER (US) | GUY BEN-NER (ISRAEL) | LIAT BERDUGO (US) | KENT ANDERSON BUTLER (US) | CRISTIANE BOUGER (BRAZIL/US) | MÁRCIO CARVAHLO (PORTUGAL/GERMANY) | LIONEL CRUET (PUERTO RICO/US) | MICHAEL & ALAN FLEMING (US) | TALES FREY (BRAZIL/PORTUGAL) | REGINA JOSE GALINDO (GUATEMALA) | MARTA IVANOVA (RUSSIA/LITHUANIA) | NABI NARA (SOUTH KOREA/GERMANY) | NARCISSISTER (US) | SUKA OFF (POLAND) | VERÓNICA PEÑA (SPAIN/US) | DANA SEDEROWSKY (SWEDEN/GERMANY) | CASEY SMALLWOOD (US) | SYNCHRODOGS (UKRAINE) | BRADLEY TSALYUK (US) | LI WEI (CHINA)

DISCOURSE EVERY DAY from 2:30 – 4PM @ HUB

• SAT 06.01: PANEL: SKIN: LIMINAL BOUNDARIES – Some artists perform in thresholds, and membranes of spaces. How can we define performance in this liminal space?
• SUN 06.02: PANEL: PERFORMANCE AND PEDAGOGY – As artists engage with different publics in the hopes of exchange, how can performance be used as a tool for social change?
• MON 06.03: ARTIST TALK: ARAHMAIANI
• TUE 06.04: ARTIST TALK: MILLER AND SHELLABARGER
• WED 06.05: ARTIST TALK: JEFFERSON PINDER
• THU 06.06: ARTIST TALK: ZIERLE & CARTER
• FRI 06.07: ARTIST TALK: BORIS NIESLONY
• SAT 06.08: PANEL: AUDIENCE TRANSFORMATIONS – Material can become a collaborator. How do we engage in the alchemy between performer and substance?
• SUN 06.09: PANEL: Open Ended – Performers open up their processes to ritual, ebb and flow, and unpredictability. What are the different relations produced during an undefined duration?
• MON 06.10: ARTIST TALK: MEHDI-GEORGES LAHLOU

SPONSORS

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Rapid Pulse, Defibrillator or individual artists are supported, in part, by: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Propeller Fund, the Tasting Cultures Foundation, the Illinois Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Arts Council, Archeworks, Claire Geall Sutton, Core 3 Creative, Urban Holiday Lofts, Koval, Hamburg/Chicago Sister Cities program from International Cultural Exchange, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – Ministry of Culture, Arts Council England, Tekserve, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Sullivan Galleries.

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