Tuesday, 11/18, 7:00 pm: re:construction

What do buildings sound like? What is the residue of a building? Multimedia artist Daniel Perlin questions work and construction as auditory processes in this layered performance piece-using screws, glue, nails, sawhorses, an audio cassette and a laptop to simultaneously build a small physical structure and a large orchestral work.

Tuesday, 11/25, 6:30 pm: RAPID RESPONSE: I NEED MY SPACE

Visual and performance artist KAREN FINLEY will lead this group meeting, featuring invited and volunteer testimonials sharing our emotional responses to the election and the various needs for space--physical, social, cultural and psychological--that it exposed. How do our national political relationships inform or dialogue with the workplace, family, community and friends? How do the race, gender, class and identity issues raised in the campaign continue to be discussed? Finley will also address the transformation of the memory of Chicago's Grant Park (and the 1968 Democratic Convention) from a site of pain and loss into one of celebration and unity on November 4th, as well as legacies of Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights Movement embodied in that space.

Audience participation in the meeting is encouraged. I NEED MY SPACE will last approximately one hour, with the hope of providing a therapeutic and supportive group environment for those needing space in their own lives.

Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines