Day of Leisure
- August 10 2024
- 4-10PM
- RSVP Required
![<i>The Emissary: ///matins + [prayer 1]</i>. Hunter Whitaker-Morrow. Photo by X. A. Li.](/assets/2024/day-of-leisure/5_hwm_01.JPG)
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Day of Leisure is a one-day group show of time-based art. Featuring six Chicago artists with adventurous practices in diverse media, Day of Leisure will unfold from afternoon into evening, presenting interspersed periods of contemplation, confrontation, and surprise. Across installations and performances spanning video, sound, technology, and bodies, artists will present new and existing works anchored in the tensions of our contemporary condition – labor and exploitation, faith and memory, ecologies both artificial and real.
Please RSVP in advance. Day-of capacity will be limited. Admission is free with RSVP. Voluntary donations are greatly appreciated: any amount helps us fairly compensate artists for their labor. Refreshments and a light communal dinner will be available in our garden.
We invite you to join us in supporting forward-looking art, building local community, and having a bit of fun at the same time. ☺
Accessibility: Leisure’s main entrance has two steps. We do have a wheelchair accessible entrance and our space is built to ADA standards. Please let us know if you require any accommodations and we’ll be happy to assist.
Artists
All names are in alphabetical order.
Hunter Whitaker-Morrow
Hunter Whitaker-Morrow is an artist who works in modes of audio-visual performance, video installation, and experimental documentary.
His work, both structuralist and conceptual, centers on an exploration of the moving image as socio-historical text and the potentialities of audio-visual constructions to serve as instruments of liberation.
Informed by his academic background in sociology & film theory in concert with a breadth of experience working in the television industry, Whitaker-Morrow investigates the physical, technological, social, and political dimensions of audio-visual experience with a particular focus on Black experience within the context of the United States.
He holds an MFA with a concentration in Film, Video, and New Media from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and a dual BA in Film and Media Studies and Sociology from Amherst College.
Molly Jones
mollyjonesmusic.com / @molly_e_jones
Molly Jones is an improviser, composer, and electronics artist. Her tools include saxophones, flutes, found sounds, and machine learning models, and she is the founder of Chicago Creative Machines, an initiative promoting the original and ethical use of machine learning in the creation of art. Her work originates in a place of playfulness, listening, and attention.
Nayeon Yang
navelnayeon.com / @navelnayeon
Nayeon Yang is an interdisciplinary artist and social service worker based in Chicago. She moved to the US from S. Korea in 2006. Experiencing the implied status of a 'foreigner' now in both countries, she explores the relations of systemic 'foreign' and 'presence' as well as capital and labor through her projects.
Yang has exhibited at different venues, including Hyde Park Art Center, Buddy at Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Artists Coalition, Roots and Culture, Co-Prosperity, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery (Chicago), apexart (New York), Roy G. Biv Gallery (Columbus), PAB Open (Bergen), Latitude 53 (Edmonton), and Rund Gallery (Seoul). Also, her upcoming shows will be held at FotoFocus Biennial (Cincinnati) and NEIU gallery. Yang is an alumna of residencies such as Center Program, Hatch, High Concept Labs, ACRE and others. Recently, she was awarded an Individual Artists Program grant from DCASE, and SPARK Grants from the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Norman W. Long
normanwlong.bandcamp.com / @normanwlong
Norman W. Long’s multi-disciplinary practice involves walking, listening, teaching, improvising, performing, recording, and composing to create environments and situations in which he and the audience are engaged in dialogues about memory, place, ecology, race, culture, value, silence, and the invisible. The sounds found in his work has its inspirational roots in the Black music of house and techno, ‘free jazz,’ Great Black Music, Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi, Pauline Oliveros, King Tubby, Dub, and the sounds of artists outside and in-between genres. Long’s improvisational and compositional strategies are inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s palimpsest text “Plague Journal '' chapter of Dhalgren (Science Fiction) and Atlantis: Three tales (Fiction) and Mark Bradford’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art: Chicago in 2011 featuring Bradford’s process of collecting and collaging, scraping and pasting materials sourced from his community in Los Angeles.
Oliver Beltrán-Mendoza
Oliver Beltrán-Mendoza is a sound artist born and raised in the Chicagoland area. His multi-faceted practice endeavors to create beautiful moments using sound, design, and curation. As a curator, he has organized and produced numerous electronic music events with the support of Chicago’s deep-rooted underground scene. His time spent organizing events in Chicago led him to creating his label Editions Hyacinthe, an experimental sound label releasing music, with a focus on sound artists that do not come from an academic or traditional music background.
Rin Peisert
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Rin Peisert is an interdisciplinary artist. She works with bodies, time, and space to instigate disorganization and cultivate a heightened sense of being alive. With a special interest in spontaneity, sincerity, and proximity to danger, her site-responsive actions exaggerate the quotidian in pursuit of the profound. Peisert’s work has been seen at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Defibrillator Gallery, and The Momentary Crystal Bridges, as well as street corners, rooftops, a bomb shelter, and a market for arranged marriages. Peisert has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She is an instigator of performance and sound events ranging from her co-produced instructional score series, Image of Thought, to guerrilla-style tunnel noise shows. She held artistic residencies at Elastic Arts and The Momentary, where she presented her work as a director, producer, and curator of her ongoing durational performance art series, Relative Intensity Noise.
