Featuring DJs Jeff Parker, Naomi Walker, Joelyn Brown and David Marques.

Please come and support your local experimental research institute!

The event will feature presentations by Rozalinda Borcila, Joe Grimm, Liz Joynt-Sandberg, People Powered (Lora Lode & Kevin Kaempf), Bert Stabler and Fereshteh Toosi.

We might think of these six Chicago-based artists as neo-Pragmatists, sharing the philosophy’s values of experimentation, sensitivity to context, and the assertion that notions of truth are arrived at through lived experience. This rekindling of the historic Metaphysical Club address the ideas motivating a group of artists working to blur the line between art and the everyday.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to sarah@gogoweb.com.

The winter solstice is a time of rebirth, manifestation of ideas, and new beginnings. This final event in the Orientation Center space, on the eve of the solstice, will gather friends and supporters together to talk about how place and nourishment intertwine with creative practice.

The evening will feature presentations by and about two artists whose work relates to both themes. Jim Duignan of the Stockyard Institute will be talking about the work and life of his longtime collaborator Michael Piazza, to whom this symposium is dedicated. Piazza worked tirelessly to nourish the people and neighborhoods around him, especially those whose voices tend to be ignored and marginalized. Sarah Kavage, InCUBATE’s Michael Piazza resident, will be discussing her project-in-progress Industrial Harvest: an exploration of growth, exchange and rebirth in three Acts. Industrial Harvest will begin with the purchase of 1000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The wheat will be distributed around the Chicago area in a series of events that will transform this “commodity” back into something that is nourishing and enriching – its true nature. Rather than an investment by a broker, this wheat will become an investment in people and places.

For additional details, including the schedule of events, see the InCUBATE website.

Email your one page grant proposal with your name, a description of your project, pictures (if you like), and your favorite soup to sundaysoup@incubate-chicago.org by November 20th. The money raised by this Sunday Soup Dinner becomes an artist grant. Everyone who attends gets to vote on proposals and decide who receives the grant.

The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago’s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary Jane Jacob and Lori Waxman, and an accompanying audio program by Bad At Sports featuring an interview with Temporary Services and a panel of Chicago artist-run media organizers.

Interviews, essays and responses along with floorplans, exhibition histories and other visuals archive and present a 10-year time period in Chicago’s artist-run culture while providing history, reflection, critique and dialog about artist-run culture, its importance, difficulties, sustainability and necessity as well as its specificity to a community and generation.

For a complete listing of events, see the Threewalls website.

TRY experiments use food as the liturgical basis for exploring the nexus of ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ aspects of human experience. By providing meals designed to engage various facets of eating such as etiquette, nutrition, and collective ecstasy, Carnal Torpor seeks to provide an embodied experience of ‘culture’ as ‘nature’ and vice versa.

Opening performances with David Daniel & Mike Vallera and Henry James Glover & Frank Van Duerm.

Leif will lead a discussion on underground restaurants and artist/food projects. Come at noon to get a seat, we don’t take reservations so food goes until it’s gone. Sunday Soup is open to the public.

And apply for the grant! Email your one page grant proposals with your name, a description of your project, pictures (if you like), and your favorite soup to sundaysoup@incubate-chicago.org by September 19th. The money raised by Sunday Soup Brunch becomes an artist grant. Everyone who attends gets to vote on proposals and decide who receives the grant.