ATP welcomes artist Jesse Chun for a public talk.
Chun's moving images, concrete poems, scores, and activations intimately unravel the dominant compositions of language and legibility — invoking alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning, time, transmission, and infinitude. Chun's first solo survey exhibition 시, language for new moons was presented by the Seoul Museum of Art for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale in 2023, at the Seoul Museum of History. Chun's work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (US); Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul; Nam June Paik Art Center (KR); SculptureCenter, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Queens Museum, New York; Ballroom Marfa, Texas (United States); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK), among others. She was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US), Art by Translation research fellowship (Paris); the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship at ISCP (New York), and more. Chun's work is in the collections of Seoul Museum of Art (KR); Kadist Art Foundation (FR/US); Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); Smithsonian Institution (DC) Archive of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (NY), among others.
Chun was an artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Korea (2024-25). Currently based between Seoul (KR) and California (US), Chun is represented by Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles).
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, November 6, 5:00pmat KRESGE 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON IL 60208
A guest lecture with curator Adrienne Edwards about her exhibition, Edges of Ailey, for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Edges of Ailey is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer, Alvin Ailey for the Whitney Museum of American Art.
This event is co-sponsored by Art, Theory, and Practice, Critical Dance Studies, and the Black Arts Consortium.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, April 23, 6:00pmat WIRTZ CENTER CHICAGO
ROOM 203
710 N LAKESHORE DR
CHICAGO, IL, 60611
Visiting Artist Talk: Aliza Shvarts
ATP welcomes artist and theorist, Aliza Shvarts, for a visiting artist talk.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, April 9, 4:30pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DR
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Laura Ortman
Laura Ortman creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Demian DinéYazhi, New Red Order, and In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, often sings through a megaphone, and is a producer of capacious field recordings. She has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Artists Space, Venice Biennale, The Stone residency, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe.
In 2008 Ortman founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.
Ortman is the recipient of the 2023 Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-In-Residence, 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. She was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Ortman lives in Brooklyn, New York.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, March 6, 4:30pmat KRAUSE STUDIO
SWIFT HALL, ROOM 103
1920 CAMPUS DR
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING ARTIST TALK: JORDAN ANN CRAIG
In partnership with the Block Museum of Art, ATP welcomes Jordan Ann Craig as part of the winter visiting artist series. In this exhibition keynote, Craig will be in conversation with poet m.s. RedCherries.
Craig is a Northern Cheyenne artist living and working in Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received her B.A. from Dartmouth College. In 2017, Jordan was awarded the H. Allen Brooks Traveling Fellowship as well as the Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research SAR). In 2019, Jordan was awarded artist residencies at the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence (RAiR) Program. Her work is shown nationally and internationally. Currently, Jordan is painting in Northern New Mexico.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, February 26, 6:00pmat BLOCK MUSEUM
PICK LAUDATI AUDITORIUM
50 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON IL 60208
