Orphan Works: Sad Sullen Girls and Other Such Squid
in conjunction w/ Chicago Underground Library
Temple
Pilsen, Chicago
06/09
photo by Micilin O'Donaghue
Orphan Works is a nomadic performance series with a literary flavor, and sometimes a literary series with a performance aftertaste, presented by the Chicago Underground Library. Short-lived but well-loved in 2007, this re-interpretation event will be resurrected on June 12th at the appropriately named TEMPLE.
The Chicago Underground Library brings a variety of the most creative minds in Chicago to locations all around the city to share with you the fruits of their forays into our collection of orphan works-- anonymous works or those for which no further information on the author can be found. With the help of our intrepid explorers, these lost publications will be brought back to life: read, reinterpreted, and reunited with the audience they’ve been missing.
photo by Eric Bartholomew
Each Orphan Works night will feature re-interpreters performing, displaying, singing-sawing, reading or otherwise sharing their creations. This season of Orphan Works will celebrate the “self-made”: the reinvented and repurposed, the handcrafted, the DIY, the willed-into-being-with-grit-and-elbow-grease.
This month, we’re piecing together our identities (and the zines with which we construct them) in a one-night only performance by the Anatomy Collective: Sad Sullen Girls and Other Such Squid
“The side effects of a broken heart, the benefits of spooning, the emotional collateral of wasted time and the addiction of insomnia weave together in a satire that follows the misadventures and disenchantment of young women in America. Through a series of snapshots, Sullen Girls compiles the musing of several women fighting and failing to create original portraits of themselves during prolonged adolescence.”
What
The Chicago Underground Library Presents: Orphan Works
Sad Sullen Girls and Other Such Squid by the Anatomy Collective
Free, all ages welcome
When
Friday, June 12th
Two performances, 8pm and 9pm
(Audiences may come and go throughout the performance as these performances take place during 2nd Fridays Gallery Walk in the Pilsen Arts District)
Where
TEMPLE
1749 S. Halsted Ave. (gate entrance @1747)
About the Anatomy Collective
The Anatomy Collective is dedicated to exploring and developing performance at the intersection of multiple artistic disciplines. By engaging and combing diverse and seemingly disparate forms of expression and collaborators we believe we can enrich our own aesthetic and more effectively serve the needs of our audience & community.
About the Chicago Underground Library
The Chicago Underground Library provides an open forum for creative exchange between all producers and patrons of Chicago’s independent media, facilitating collaboration and awareness within diverse communities. Through innovative and inclusive approaches to acquisitions, cataloging and programming, we illuminate connections and provide both a historical and contemporary context for the creation of new local media.
Contact
Nell Taylor, Director, Chicago Underground Library nell@underground-library.org 773.344.0420
Stephanie Acosta, Artistic Director, The Anatomy Collective stephanie@anatomycollective.org
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