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UPCOMING PROJECTS
August 28-October 16
THE JOKE IS IRRESISTIBLE
August 28–October 16
Reception: Friday, September 10, 4:30–7:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33. S. State Street
"The Joke is Irresistible challenges various tropes of masculinity and the gendered gaze. By borrowing from the feminist tradition and applying the same tools to questions of masculinity, an area that remains largely unexplored in gender studies scholarship, some featured artists parody stereotypes of masculinity while others literalize them. All are serious considerations of what it means to engender masculinity in a way that broadens how we understand gendered associations in the world around us. Curated by Joe Iverson (MA 2011), curatorial assistant, Department of Exhibitions. Artists include: Christopher Bradley, Andy Cahill, Jason Conny, Anthony Creedin, Alan and Michael Fleming, Joe Grimm, Millie Kapp and Isabella Ng, Mik Kastner, and Janet Lin."
PROCESS IN PRODUCT: WORK FROM SUMMER STUDIO
August 28–October 2
Reception: Friday, September 10, 4:30–7:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33. S. State Street
"This exhibition features new work created by artists in Summer Studio—a residency program that turned the Sullivan Galleries into a site of making, and brought together artists Chicago and beyond into a temporary creative community. The studio offers artists a time to take stock of things a shift direction, carry out plans long dreamed about and make them real, and move through the sometimes circuitous modes of conversation and coexistence to find a personal path. Now invited to open their processes for public engagement, the outcomes—the products of their summer residency in Sullivan—are on view here."
August 28-October 16
CONSTRUCTION SITE: IDENTITY MADE MATERIAL
Boomerang Space, Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash Avenue, Ground Floor
Curated by Becca Schlossberg
"This exhibition brings together artists who attempt to make material the complicated, fractured, or multiple identities of themselves or others. Their strategies test the potential of text, object, act, symbol, pattern etc. to render a coherent identity legible to the viewer, or to resolve or solidify their own identities in the process. Through varying approaches, these artists challenge the boundaries and possibilities of their chosen media, and their results suggest various conclusions to the question of how complex or unresolved identities are constructed in the process of making."
RECENT NEWS
August 2-22
We were Artists-in-Residence at the Summer Studio Exhibition at the Sullivan Galleries until the end of August. We used this time to create new work, develop current projects and get to know the community of other artists working at the gallery for the summer. The work we created will be on display for the Product in Process: Work from Summer Studio Exhibition.
June 9-July 25
Alan attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina this summer. He experienced dance companies from around the world, learned modern dance technique from the top teachers and choreographers, as well as crafted and performed his own choreography.
June 4
Photo by Fran Roberts
We performed a piece titled Objects and Extensions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for their First Fridays Blowout Spectacular.
First Fridays Blowout Spectacular
6pm- Midnight
Friday, June 4th
VIP $50, MCA members $25,
nonmembers $35 or $30 in advance
May 20-31
Photo by Ross Floyd
For the end of the month we went on tour performing Believe Don't conceptualized by Tom Albrecht. The performance took place in Chicago, New York and Las Vegas on the street unannounced.
April 30 and May 1-21
Photo by Daniel Shea
Graduate Exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Opening Reception: Friday, April 30, 2010, 8:00–10:00 p.m.
Exhibition runs May 1–21, 2010
Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State Street, 7th floor
Come out and see our new work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2010 MFA Exhibition.
March 6, 7
We will be performing at the first weekend of DIRT: Land/Use festival. An amazing three weekends of performance, dance, readings and videos about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us. Curated by Deke Weaver.
DIRT: Land/Use
Saturday March 6, 7:30pm and Sunday March 7, 7:00pm
Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207
Chicago, IL 60657
Tickets $15 ($12 if you order online!)
February 28
"Feng Shui is an exhibition of new photography, performance and video work by Alan and Michael Fleming. This exhibition will explore themes of balance and harmony in the domestic setting. Feng Shui is part of a larger curatorial project initiated by Tang Zehui titled Artists and Residents."
Feng Shui
Opening reception 6-8pm, performance at 7 pm Sun. Feb. 28th
2620 W. Washington Blvd. unit 609, Chicago, IL 60612
Entrance on Talman Street, dial buzzer 075/Reilly
Artists and Residents is a series of art projects taking place at private homes in Chicago. As a critical response to the current proliferation of apartment galleries in Chicago, Artists and Residents intends to expand the "social circles" of apartment gallery without losing its sense of intimacy by having Chicago residents of various backgrounds and professions as the hosts for the projects. Through these exhibitions, the concept of apartment gallery is transformed from a fixed site associated with an artist or curator's home to a discursive arena, stretching over the city from Uptown to Hyde Park, from Lakeview to Garfield Park. Moreover, in these exhibitions there will not be any pre-made art to be brought to the house. Instead, all works will be conceptualized from the house in response to the space and the everyday life happening inside.
Feng Shui is on view until March 28th, by appointment by contacting Brittany:412-613-0993
December 12
We performed a response to Chryssa Tsampazi's piece IN OR OUT- A 25 Minute Activity With Children at the Betty Rymer Gallery for the Exhibition The Embedded Flaw
Opening Reception: 12/11 4:30-7pm
Response Readings and Performances: 12/12 7-9pm
The Embeded Flaw, The Betty Rymer Gallery, 280 S. Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL
December 10
7:30p.m.
Sportmax SoHo
450 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013
Andrea Miller of Gallim Dance invited us to perform at SPORTMAX SoHo in conjunction with a sound installation by Sebastien Agneessens and Kyle Fischer.
"When Sebastien Agneessens and Kyle Fischer, who are both artists and musicians, collaborated with Sportmax for a sound installation it was to highlight the value of ethno-diversity in a modern world defined by rapid globalization." - FashionWindows
In addition to a performance by Gallim Dance, we performed a piece titled Objects and Extensions
December 5
The Opportunity Shop - Hyde Park
As part of the festivities for Saturday's silent auction we did a durational performance for the first portion of the night.
Silent Auction: 12/5 Sat, from 6-10 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: 11/27 Fri - 12/31 Thu
Visitor hours: 11am-7pm, Thu-Sun,
Evenings, coinciding with events.
November 27
The Opportunity Shop - Hyde Park
Opening reception: 11/27 Fri, from 6-10 p.m.
This is a group exhibition including our new video installation Balancing, Levitating, Opening
"This opportunity shop located at 1613 E. 55th Street is a short term, spontaneous pilot project for what we hope will become a series of exhibitions taking place in spaces in transition throughout Hyde Park and the south side of Chicago. By using vacant spaces with the cooperation of the owners for exhibitions, we can economize on overhead and also bring attention to unused urban space." -Home Gallery
Silent Auction: 12/5 Sat from 6-10 p.m
Closing party: 12/31 Thu from 6-10 p.m.
Dates: 11/27 Fri - 12/31 Thu
Visitor hours: 11am-7pm, Thu-Sun,
Evenings, coinciding with events.
November 20, 22
We performed a piece called Negotiations on Friday Nov 20 (just before 7pm) outside of the Chicago Cultural Center for the New Blood III Performance Festival. The three-evening festival featured new performances by School of the Art Institute of Chicago students who blur the boundaries between theater, movement, and the visual arts.
We also performed a durational piece, Peripheral Presence, in collaboration with Stephanie Bailey, on Sunday Nov 22 at 6pm in the Chicago Cultural Center.
October 1
Excerpts of our video work were on TV this past week for the Illinois Filmmakers Documentary and can be viewed online here. Our interview and work is about 30 minutes into the program.
September 17
Michael Fleming was awarded the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Studio Arts.
June 28- July 12
Alan Fleming was awarded the Professional Advancement Award in Dance from The School at Jacob's Pillow where he participated in the Cultural Traditions Program: The Hip Hop Continuum.
June 14 - July 4
Body Moving
A three week series of performance and movement workshops
at the Ox-Bow School of Art
Led by Alan and Michael Fleming (Artists in Residence)
Class 1: Phenomenology of Play
Class 2: Intuitive Collaboration
Class 3: Dancing Dancing Dancing
May 23
Guerrilla Performance at A Show for Buchanan as part of the "Unsanctioned" Arts festival in Buchanan, MI
April 23, 24
7pm
The Walk + SAIC BFA Fashion Show
Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL
We performed a new work titled "Measurements" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA Fashion Show and THE WALK: An Extraordinary Evening of Fashion + Art Honoring Maria Pinto, as part of a series of curated performance interruptions throughout the events.
$75 -Tickets available starting March 23rd
April 25
3-4pm
Public performance for Version Fest 09
Tennis Courts, McGuane Park
29th & Halsted, Chicago, IL
We performed in Millie Kapp and Isabella Ng's piece "a bob ross song, an orsen welles trick" for Version Fest 09. Isabella Ng and Millie Kapp investigate the performative capabilities of the Tennis Court on 29th and Halsted, examining how this space in particular operates as a highly theatrical platform with physical directives, divisions, and information embedded in the space. Using six live bodies, they will investigate the idea of the “magic show” as the ultimate performative illusion.
March 28
LIVE ART LIVE ART LIVE ART
AN AESTHETIC EXPERIMENT IN EPHEMERAL ART curated by Jean Kang
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009, 2-8 PM
ALAN & MICHAEL FLEMING
SEBASTIAN ALVAREZ
EVAN APODACA AND VINCE GAULIN
NAUFUS RAMIREZ-FIGUEROA WITH P. MICHAEL GREGO
WILLIAM C. GREEN
MARISSA PEREL
446 E. ONTARIO, APT 3010
CHICAGO, IL 60611
March 14
D.A.W.
Depressing Ass Work
8-10pm, Saturday March 14th
BARN
257 N Henry # 3
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
$8 tickets
Night of live performance by Michael and Alan Fleming, Marissa Perel, Lyndsey Karr and Chryssa Tsampazi.
2008 RECAP
November 7-9
New Blood II
Friday November 7 & Saturday November 8, 9pm
Sunday November 9, 7pm
Free
This second annual event features new time-based works by School of the Art Institute of Chicago students that blur the boundaries between theatre, movement, audio, video, and the visual arts. Performances at Links Hall begin at 9pm Friday and Saturday, following the opening of an exhibition of 60 SAIC undergraduate students' work at Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State Street, 7th floor.
We will be presenting a performance called "Configurations" on Saturday at 9pm and will also be performing in a group piece on Sunday at 7pm called "The Body Parlor" created by James Kubie and Katrina Erickson .
October 10
We will be involved in an exclusive group show at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri titled "International Video". This is an exhibition of international video work by the three winners of the 2006 "Group 3 Award". We won this award in 2006 for our video "Defining the Frame". The opening will be Friday October 10, 2008: 6-9pm in Gallery III of the Foundry Art Centre.
June 4-6
This summer we went to Glasgow, Scotland to participate in a live art/performance project called "Here Now, There Now " which included text works and performances that explore the space between departure and destination. Devised by Pernille Spence, Here Now, There Now is the culmination of a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award 2006. The festival consisted of three days of continuous performance and alterations of the landscape by several different artists. The only real "audience" was the passengers on the train so that the performances themselves had to be experienced as scattered moments during travel. More information about this project can be found on the website as well as a documentary about the project coming soon.
We were invited out to participate as performers in Anthony Schrag's performance concept for this project. It was wonderful to go back to Scotland and see old friends.
June 7
The day after the "Here Now, There Now " project there was also a performance/live art symposium at InterMedia in The Center for Contemporary Arts Glasgow titled "its not hard (to say goodbye)". At this symposium we presented "Movement Piece #2", a continuation of a site-specific piece we performed in Chicago last fall. This symposium was in conjunction with a release party for Anthony Schrag's new live art publication:
"For six months, artist Anthony Schrag has been toiling away on a wee publication that looks at Live Art in all its various forms, its beautiful functions and its ugly conundrums. Including writers such as John Calutt, Ruth Barker, and Mary Patterson (to name but a few!) the book takes its inspiration from the programme of eight live art experiments Anthony curated at InterMedia in 2007 (entitled “its not hard”), and looks backwards at these works, examining them and the genre as a whole, but also looks at current critical dialogues, the structures that are needed for support and future exciting projects."
May 10-17
Our video "Vertical Tactics" was shown as part of the screening series "The Show Starts on the Sidewalk", part of the "Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Practice" conference at UC Santa Cruz (taking place May 15-17 2008). "The Show Starts on the Sidewalk" featured work that either documented public intervention or was an intervention in itself.
Screenings took place in outdoor locations in public places in San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Cruz. These films considered relational aesthetics, interventions, Situationist practices and Fluxus style events.
February 28-March 22-
The CSV Cultural Center in New York recently presented our work in the "URBANSPACE" photo exhibition. "URBANSPACE" is a photographic project distributed in the agile form of a multimedia projection. Focusing on the aesthetics of large urban centers as a theme, URBANSPACE unites internationally selected works
and is hosted in the virtual galleries of WOOLOO.ORG. CSV is at 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002.
The first edition of "URBANSPACE" (2007)--a projection of 530 images from over 23 countries-- premiered in Rio de Janeiro at the media arts foundation, Oi Futuro. Simultaneous projections were also made in New Life Shop, the Berlin headquarters of WOOLOO.ORG. These projections have since been screened in ECCO during Brasilia's FotoArte, Sao Paulo's Galeria Vermelho, as well as showings during Fotopub07 in Slovenia.
January 2-9-
Great news to report for January, our video series"At Rest: The Body in Architecture" won an award at an International festival! We won the "performing" section of the International Festival of Cinematography “Kinolevchyk Festival” at the Idea Museum in Lviv, Ukraine.
January 13-
Our video "Untitled" (AKA the balance video) was shown in the 8th Annual T-10 Video Festival at the interdisciplinary arts space 21 Grand in Oakland, CA.
2007 RECAP
Our video "Defining the Frame" was shown during the “DRIP Film and Video Festival” in the fall of 2007 in California, Virginia, New York and Illinois. The festival had its first screening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York on September 5th.
DRIP is an annual festival of student video, animation, film and moving-image work selected from submissions from the undergraduates of California College of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The School of Art+Design at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Guest curator Steve Seid (Pacific Film Archive) has selected 60 minutes of work.
From October 26-November 19 we were in Glasgow, Scotland making art and visiting Jess Ferrone. We planned to treat our time there like a DIY artist residency, which ended up working out very well. We met up with a live art/performance artist named Anthony Schrag who was very generous and allowed us to use his artist residency space at CCA:The Center for Contemporary Art. We got to meet some really great people and see some really great art while we were there. We did some collaborative work with Anthony and on our own. We also had time to play around the city a lot and see some amazing things. We will be posting new video work and possibly some photographs over the next month. It was a great trip and very productive.
On October 12 we presented a collaborative performance with Thomas Albrecht titled "Believe Don't" at "Time and Again: A Night of Events". It was a one night exhibition of live performance and multi-media art at the The Springer Cultural Center in Champaign, IL. Images can be seen in the performance section.
On October 6-7 we presented a live performance titled "Movement Piece # 1" as part of the "Industrial Corridors: Empty Lot Performance Project" in Chicago.
Live theatre, dance, and performances designed to take place in vacant and abandoned lots, parks, parking lots, and other outdoor, undeveloped spaces around the city of Chicago.
This summer our work was shown at the “URBAN SPACE” exhibition as part of FotoRio 2007. The work was projected outside on buildings and was shown at both Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and New Life Shop in Berlin, Germany.
Our video "At Rest: The Body in Architecture" was shown at the “Architectural Film Fest” organized by BLDGBLOG and Materials & Applications as part of the "Silver Lake Film Festival" at The Wind Tunnel in Pasadena, CA. The festival took place on May 22nd, 2007.
In March we presented our senior thesis exhibition titled “Spatial Interventions”. It was installed in The Atrium of Temple Buell Hall at UIUC, Champaign, IL. The show ran from March 26-April 6, 2007 and was a huge success. Many friends and family members were there to see what we have been up to over the past few years. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us.
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