Hyde Park Art Center

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:47:50 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Revolutions and Revelations Film Program
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 4-10. Free Admission
While the word revolution pays tribute to the political context out of which the kino rose, in this program it is a pun referring to the physical act of spinning around an axis. Revelation refers to the act of arriving at a truth through observation and scientific experimentation, and through the translation of language into symbols and gestures. Films in this program are set in classrooms, at desks, and against chalkboards in a surreal style. Many of these explorations are humorous, revealing failures in communication while expressing the joy of arriving at an unexpected discovery.
Revolutions and Revelations Film Selections

Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka (2006), Lucy Cash (UK) and Goat Island (US), 10 minutes.Inearthia (2006), Simon Halbedo (Switzerland), 2 minutes 15 seconds.Le P'tit Bal Perdu (1994), Phillippe Decoufle (France), 3 minutes 49 seconds.Minou (2002), Magali Charrier (UK), 7 minutes.On Falling... (2009) Nadia Oussenko & Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 20 minutes.Revised and Revisited (2011), Erica Mott, Nadia Oussenko, Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 17 minutes.Sunscreen Serenade (2009), Kriota Willberg (US), 5 minutes, 30 seconds.Tralala (2004), Magali Charrier, Viv Moore, (Canada / UK) 3 minutes.
Revolutions and Revelations film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 4 - Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 4: 2-4 pmTuesday, March 6: 6-8 pmThursday, March 8: 2-4 pmThursday, March 8: 6-8 pmFriday, March 9: 2-4 pmFriday, March 9: 7-11 pm with a live performance by The Open Space Project presented between films.
Saturday, March 10: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:23:08 -0600

Dance Films Kino Presents: Literary Reading with Richard Fox, Brandon Will, and Robert McDonald (6-8 pm)

Dance Films Kino presents a reading of poetry by Richard Fox, prose by Brandon Will, and poetry by Robert McDonald. Through their reading, Fox, Will, and McDonald help to activate the kino space by evoking one of its inspirations: the Ukrainian-themed KGB Bar in the East Village of New York City, where DFK curator Sarah Best attended weekly poetry readings as a student at New York University.

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:06:28 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Revolutions and Revelations
Film Program
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 4-10. Free Admission
While the word revolution pays tribute to the political context out of which the kino rose, in this program it is a pun referring to the physical act of spinning around an axis. Revelation refers to the act of arriving at a truth through observation and scientific experimentation, and through the translation of language into symbols and gestures. Films in this program are set in classrooms, at desks, and against chalkboards in a surreal style. Many of these explorations are humorous, revealing failures in communication while expressing the joy of arriving at an unexpected discovery.
Revolutions and Revelations Film Selections

Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka (2006), Lucy Cash (UK) and Goat Island (US), 10 minutes.Inearthia (2006), Simon Halbedo (Switzerland), 2 minutes 15 seconds.Le P'tit Bal Perdu (1994), Phillippe Decoufle (France), 3 minutes 49 seconds.Minou (2002), Magali Charrier (UK), 7 minutes.On Falling... (2009) Nadia Oussenko & Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 20 minutes.Revised and Revisited (2011), Erica Mott, Nadia Oussenko, Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 17 minutes.Sunscreen Serenade (2009), Kriota Willberg (US), 5 minutes, 30 seconds.Tralala (2004), Magali Charrier, Viv Moore, (Canada / UK) 3 minutes.
Revolutions and Revelations film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 4 - Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 4: 2-4 pmTuesday, March 6: 6-8 pmThursday, March 8: 2-4 pmThursday, March 8: 6-8 pmFriday, March 9: 2-4 pmFriday, March 9: 7-11 pm with a live performance from The Open Space Project presented between films.
Saturday, March 10: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino: Slam

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:40:24 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Dance Film Slam (6-8 pm)

Emerging Chicago dance filmmaker Liana C. Percoco invites other up and coming dance film artists to share their short works of dance on film, film excerpts, and works in progress, and receive feedback on their work. RSVPs are required for artists who would like to show work. This program will also be offered on Wednesday, March 7. For more information on how to participate, please email dancefilmskino@gmail.com.
Liana C. Percoco is a dancer, choreographer, musician, and Licensed Massage Therapist. She also does administrative and production work in the arts, most recently with the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Evanston. She shot and edited her first dance for the camera work, "Supermarket Sweep!" in 2011 in collaboration with Daniel Kullman of Bitter Jester Creative, and with support from the Illinois Arts Council and Links Hall. She also has assisted on recent dance films with Nadia Oussenko ("Nothing to See/Hear") and Mucca Pazza/Hairless Films ("Fanfare for Marching Band"). Recent performances have been with various artists/companies including: Molly Jaeger, Steve Weintraub, Redmoon Theatre, Shu Shubat and the Radio Hydrangea, and Red Tape Theatre.

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:17:31 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Open Studio with Sarah Best (10 am - 2 pm)

Revolutions and Revelations
Film Program (2-4 pm & 6-8 pm)
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 4-10. Free Admission
While the word revolution pays tribute to the political context out of which the kino rose, in this program it is a pun referring to the physical act of spinning around an axis. Revelation refers to the act of arriving at a truth through observation and scientific experimentation, and through the translation of language into symbols and gestures. Films in this program are set in classrooms, at desks, and against chalkboards in a surreal style. Many of these explorations are humorous, revealing failures in communication while expressing the joy of arriving at an unexpected discovery.
Join us at the evening screening on Thursday, March 8 for a special vodka "sipping" event courtesy of Emissary Sipping School.
Revolutions and Revelations Film Selections

Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka (2006), Lucy Cash (UK) and Goat Island (US), 10 minutes.Inearthia (2006), Simon Halbedo (Switzerland), 2 minutes 15 seconds.Le P'tit Bal Perdu (1994), Phillippe Decoufle (France), 3 minutes 49 seconds.Minou (2002), Magali Charrier (UK), 7 minutes.On Falling... (2009) Nadia Oussenko & Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 20 minutes.Revised and Revisited (2011), Erica Mott, Nadia Oussenko, Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 17 minutes.Sunscreen Serenade (2009), Kriota Willberg (US), 5 minutes, 30 seconds.Tralala (2004), Magali Charrier, Viv Moore, (Canada / UK) 3 minutes.
Revolutions and Revelations film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 4 - Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 4: 2-4 pmTuesday, March 6: 6-8 pmThursday, March 8: 2-4 pmThursday, March 8: 6-8 pmFriday, March 9: 2-4 pmFriday, March 9: 7-11 pm with a live performance from The Open Space Project presented between films.
Saturday, March 10: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:25:26 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Open Studio with Sarah Best (10am - 2 pm)

Revolutions and Revelations
Film Program & The Open Space Project (2-4 pm & 7-11 pm)
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 4-10. Free Admission
While the word revolution pays tribute to the political context out of which the kino rose, in this program it is a pun referring to the physical act of spinning around an axis. Revelation refers to the act of arriving at a truth through observation and scientific experimentation, and through the translation of language into symbols and gestures. Films in this program are set in classrooms, at desks, and against chalkboards in a surreal style. Many of these explorations are humorous, revealing failures in communication while expressing the joy of arriving at an unexpected discovery.
Join us at the evening screening from 7-11 pm on Friday, March 9 for a special Dance Films Kino event with The Open Space Project (TOSP) featuring films and live, solo dance performances presented between films. The Open Space Project will present solo pieces by four choreographers, selecting artists who have participated in past TOSP events. Enjoy free mini red velvet cupcakes from Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique!

Revolutions and Revelations Film Selections

Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka (2006), Lucy Cash (UK) and Goat Island (US), 10 minutes.Inearthia (2006), Simon Halbedo (Switzerland), 2 minutes 15 seconds.Le P'tit Bal Perdu (1994), Phillippe Decoufle (France), 3 minutes 49 seconds.Minou (2002), Magali Charrier (UK), 7 minutes.On Falling... (2009) Nadia Oussenko & Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 20 minutes.Revised and Revisited (2011), Erica Mott, Nadia Oussenko, Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 17 minutes.Sunscreen Serenade (2009), Kriota Willberg (US), 5 minutes, 30 seconds.Tralala (2004), Magali Charrier, Viv Moore, (Canada / UK) 3 minutes.
Revolutions and Revelations film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 4 - Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 4: 2-4 pmTuesday, March 6: 6-8 pmThursday, March 8: 2-4 pmThursday, March 8: 6-8 pmFriday, March 9: 2-4 pmFriday, March 9: 7-11 pm with a live performance from The Open Space Project presented between films.
Saturday, March 10: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:28:45 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Open Studio with Sarah Best (10am - 2 pm)

Revolutions and Revelations
Film Program (2-4 pm)
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 4-10. Free Admission
While the word revolution pays tribute to the political context out of which the kino rose, in this program it is a pun referring to the physical act of spinning around an axis. Revelation refers to the act of arriving at a truth through observation and scientific experimentation, and through the translation of language into symbols and gestures. Films in this program are set in classrooms, at desks, and against chalkboards in a surreal style. Many of these explorations are humorous, revealing failures in communication while expressing the joy of arriving at an unexpected discovery.
Dance Films Kino Presents: Molly Shanahan (4-5 pm)
Choreographer Molly Shanahan, Artistic Director of the Chicago-based dance company Molly Shanahan / Mad Shak, discusses the importance of drawing in the process of creating new dance work.

Revolutions and Revelations Film Selections

Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka (2006), Lucy Cash (UK) and Goat Island (US), 10 minutes.Inearthia (2006), Simon Halbedo (Switzerland), 2 minutes 15 seconds.Le P'tit Bal Perdu (1994), Phillippe Decoufle (France), 3 minutes 49 seconds.Minou (2002), Magali Charrier (UK), 7 minutes.On Falling... (2009) Nadia Oussenko & Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 20 minutes.Revised and Revisited (2011), Erica Mott, Nadia Oussenko, Daniel Kullman (US / Chicago), 17 minutes.Sunscreen Serenade (2009), Kriota Willberg (US), 5 minutes, 30 seconds.Tralala (2004), Magali Charrier, Viv Moore, (Canada / UK) 3 minutes.
Revolutions and Revelations film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 4 - Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 4: 2-4 pmTuesday, March 6: 6-8 pmThursday, March 8: 2-4 pmThursday, March 8: 6-8 pmFriday, March 9: 2-4 pmFriday, March 9: 7-11 pm with a live performance from The Open Space Project presented between films.
Saturday, March 10: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:40:16 -0600

Dance Films Kino Presents: Ganzfield
Film Screening with Cast and Crew
Director Brian Torrey Scott, cast and crew, Jeff Harms, Amelia Lorenz, and Daniel Mejia will be at Dance Films Kino to screen and discuss their experimental music film Ganzfield, which explores the inarticulate and complex minutia of a relationship in a fragmented narrative punctuated by live (within the film) musical performances. Filmed over a period of two years, the cast and crew began with a 30 hour drive to western Montana, where they spent several days living and working in a fire lookout tower in the mountains. Scott, Harms, Lorenz, and Meija’s approach to shooting this project was based on their interest in shooting intuitively in an immersive environment, allowing an emotional spirit to grow from within the project into their professional and personal relationships. Check out a preview video here:

Women and Men Film Program (2-4 pm)

Dance Films Kino Presents: A Discussion with Danielle Klinenberg (4-5 pm)
Visual Artist Danielle Klinenberg discusses movement in her abstract watercolor paintings with a movement practitioner TBD.
Danielle Klinenberg is a visual artist who works with wet layers of fine watercolor on heavy papers. In her work, she hopes to feed the eye of the viewer and bring colors and movement together as a chef prepares a feast. Her abstract compositions feel as though you may be able to move through them or climb into one. Studies of choreography, drawing, and the artist's close friendships inform the work.

Featured: Second Sunday

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:19:40 -0500

Make Sunday a fun day with the Hyde Park Art Center’s Second Sunday event. Spark your family’s creativity with free art activities.

Featured: Conversation with the Artist: Bibiana Suarez

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:25:23 -0600

Join Bibiana Suárez, the artist who made the artwork in Memoria (Memory), as she explains her latest body of work in the context of her own history and her intention to address the current issues with the concept of latinidad (or the concept of a all-embracing latino identity in the United States) through her work.
This event is free and open to the public.

Featured: Dance Films Kino: Slam

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:39:03 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Dance Film Slam (6-8 pm)

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:47:31 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Women and Men Film Program (6-8 pm)
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 11-17. Free Admission.
This program features films which consider the performing roles of womanhood and manhood. Coup de Grâce explores the relationship between two adversaries who meet in a remote location and engage in a weaponless duel. The Cost of Living follows men as they fall in and out of love, revealing moments of strength and vulnerability. Good Person follows a female character along a surreal journey shot in split screen. Loosely based upon Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan, this video proposes the theme of duality and is a portrait of a woman wrestling with the roles of criminal and victim. Nora is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire who performs all of the film's major roles, male and female. Beguine paints a portrait of a relationship through social dance, and expresses the comical depths of misery one can reach after a relationship has ended.
Women and Men Film Selections

Beguine (2008), Douwe Dijkstra (Netherlands), 4minutes, 44 seconds.Coup de Grâce (2010), Clara Van Gool (Netherlands), 26 minutes.The Cost of Living (2004), Lloyd Newson (UK), 35 minutes.Good Person (2011), Marianne M. Kim and Cheng-Chieh Yu (US / China), 9 minutes.Nora (2008), Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, Nora Chipaumire (US, UK, Mozambique) 35 minutes.
Women and Men film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 11 - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 11: 2-4 pmTuesday, March 13: 6-8 pmThursday, March 15: 2-4 pmThursday, March 15: 6-8 pmFriday, March 16: 2-4 pmFriday, March 17: 6-8 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino: The Spooky Action Ensemble vs. Mikey Rioux

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:05 -0600

Dance Films Kino Presents: The Spooky Action Ensemble vs. Mikey Rioux (7-8 pm)

Musician-curator Dan Mohr assembled the The Spooky Action Ensemble especially for Dance Films Kino to improvise a live soundtrack to a silent dance film by Mikey Rioux. The film Richard Rioux July 4, 1926- July 11, 1995 (2007) documents a performance / ritual created as a wake for Rioux’s grandfather consisting of a dance done blindfolded on a drawing of Richard Rioux; Mikey drinks a shot of vodka every two minutes and as a result, the image of Rioux becomes more and more blurred. In addition to performing with the film, the ensemble - featuring Clifton Ingram (acoustic guitar), Jeff Kimmel (bass clarinet), Dan Mohr (voice/keyboards), and Katherine Young (bassoon) - will play a short musical set on their own. Check out this video preview.

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:28:15 -0600

Open Studio with Sarah Best (10 am - 2 pm)

Dance Films Kino: Women and Men Film Program (2-4 pm & 6-8 pm)
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 11-17. Free Admission.
This program features films which consider the performing roles of womanhood and manhood. Coup de Grâce explores the relationship between two adversaries who meet in a remote location and engage in a weaponless duel. The Cost of Living follows men as they fall in and out of love, revealing moments of strength and vulnerability. Good Person follows a female character along a surreal journey shot in split screen. Loosely based upon Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan, this video proposes the theme of duality and is a portrait of a woman wrestling with the roles of criminal and victim. Nora is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire who performs all of the film's major roles, male and female. Beguine paints a portrait of a relationship through social dance, and expresses the comical depths of misery one can reach after a relationship has ended.
Women and Men Film Selections

Beguine (2008), Douwe Dijkstra (Netherlands), 4minutes, 44 seconds.Coup de Grâce (2010), Clara Van Gool (Netherlands), 26 minutes.The Cost of Living (2004), Lloyd Newson (UK), 35 minutes.Good Person (2011), Marianne M. Kim and Cheng-Chieh Yu (US / China), 9 minutes.Nora (2008), Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, Nora Chipaumire (US, UK, Mozambique) 35 minutes.
Women and Men film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 11 - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the Art Center:
Tuesday, March 13: 6-8 pmThursday, March 15: 2-4 pmThursday, March 15: 6-8 pmFriday, March 18: 2-4 pmSaturday, March 17: 1-4 pm with a live dance performance by Synapse Arts

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:34:34 -0600

Open Studio with Sarah Best (10 am - 2 pm)

Dance Films Kino: Women and Men Film Program (2-4 pm)
This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 11-17. Free Admission.
This program features films which consider the performing roles of womanhood and manhood. Coup de Grâce explores the relationship between two adversaries who meet in a remote location and engage in a weaponless duel. The Cost of Living follows men as they fall in and out of love, revealing moments of strength and vulnerability. Good Person follows a female character along a surreal journey shot in split screen. Loosely based upon Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan, this video proposes the theme of duality and is a portrait of a woman wrestling with the roles of criminal and victim. Nora is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire who performs all of the film's major roles, male and female. Beguine paints a portrait of a relationship through social dance, and expresses the comical depths of misery one can reach after a relationship has ended.
Women and Men Film Selections

Beguine (2008), Douwe Dijkstra (Netherlands), 4minutes, 44 seconds.Coup de Grâce (2010), Clara Van Gool (Netherlands), 26 minutes.The Cost of Living (2004), Lloyd Newson (UK), 35 minutes.Good Person (2011), Marianne M. Kim and Cheng-Chieh Yu (US / China), 9 minutes.Nora (2008), Alla Kovgan and David Hinton, Nora Chipaumire (US, UK, Mozambique) 35 minutes.
Women and Men film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Sunday, March 11 - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the Art Center:
Tuesday, March 13: 6-8 pmThursday, March 15: 2-4 pmThursday, March 15: 6-8 pmFriday, March 18: 2-4 pmSaturday, March 17: 1-4 pm with a live dance performance by Synapse Arts

Featured: Shots In The Darkroom

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:10:43 -0600

Join us for drinks and fun in the darkroom! Using fun alternative processes, you will print faces, hands and other appropriate body parts, taking final works home with you! There will be four (4) 45-minute darkroom sessions throughout the night, beginning at 7:15pm. No RSVP required. Bar provided by Hyde Park's Chant Restaurant. Donations suggested.

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:44:14 -0600

Open Studio with Sarah Best (10 am - 1 pm)

Utopias and Dystopias Film Program with Synapse Arts (1-4 pm)
Film Screening & Live Dance Performance
Dance Films Kino presents films from its Utopias and Dystopias program, interspersed with live dance performance, Synapse Arts’ Diamonds and Mines.
Diamonds and Mines
From the larger work Factor Ricochet, a dance-theater work dealing inpolarities, comes the improvography of Rachel Damon and Adriana Durant.Converging personas bounce off one another as bodies diverge and enmesh.Different every time its performed, this live amplification of dancinghumans can only be experienced first-hand.
Synapse Arts is a performance group that focuses on developing new worksand new artists through a laboratory process involving improvisation,feedback, and multi-media collaboration. Founded in 2004 by a dancer, atheater-maker, and a photographer, interdisciplinary projects by ourmember artists have traveled internationally and from clouds to stages andsidewalks. Acclaimed projects include Stridulate, named one of New City’s“Top Ten Performances of 2009” and presented at the Roy Hart InternationalArts Centre, The First Sound, an installation commissioned by RedmoonTheater, and Factor Ricochet, a 2010 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artistproject. Gallery performance projects include Slit (Around the Coyote),Chrysalis (The Chicago Cultural Center) and hush (Weisman Foundation).Synapse is home to the works of Artistic Director Rachel Damon, and theannual program "Synapse Arts-New Works" which fosters artist developmentthrough the presentation of emerging artists.
Women and Men Film Program (6-8 pm)

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:27:12 -0600

Dance Films Kino Presents: GASLAND
(12-2 pm)
Film Screening
Oscar-nominated documentary GASLAND
(2010) investigates the negative effects that current gas drilling methods are creating for the environment and how these catastrophic repercussions are being covered up in the United States (and curator Sarah Best’s hometown). Check out this video preview:

Utopias and Dystopias Film Program (2-4 pm)

Dance Films Kino Presents: Searah Deysach (4-5 pm)
In the 1970’s, the word kino was used to describe cinemas in New York City's Times Square that showed another type of illicit movie: pornography. Searah Deysach, founder and owner of Early to Bed, Chicago's first woman-owned sex shop, gives a talk on porn made by women for women and why that’s a feminist issue.

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:53:49 -0600

Dance Films Kino: Utopias and Dystopias Film Program (6-8 pm)This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 17-25. Free Admission. This program may contain imagery that is not suitable for children.

This program explores the notion of utopia, as expressed through Merce Cunningham's nature studies and through idyllic and dreamlike landscapes. It explores dance forms like the Japanese performance tradition butoh and stories told through dance which are bittersweet, encompassing both darkness and lightness. It asks whether hitchhiking along an open road is the path to freedom, or whether it brings you closer to death. It asks whether cyborgism is a symbol of a dark future or of the transformation of a person who transcends his or her physical body and the boundaries of pain to become a godlike figure.
Utopias and Dystopias Film Selections
After the Water Under the Clouds (2009), Carmen Rozestraten, (Netherlands), 9.47 minutes.Beach Birds for Camera (1991) Merce Cunningham, Elliot Caplan (US), 28 minutes.Bittersweet (2005), David Rousseve (US), 15 minutes.Curtain of Eyes (1997) Danièle Wilmouth (US/Chicago), 13 minutes.Drift (2010) Kat Cole, Eric Garcia, Peggy Peralta (US), 8 minutes.elena (or the misfortunes of the virtual) (2011), Adam Rose & Glen Jennings (US/Chicago), 15 minutes.Reines d’un Jour (Queens for a Day) (1996) Pascal Magnin (Switzerland), 1996; 26 minutes.
Utopias and Dystopias film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Saturday, March 17 - Saturday, March 25, 2012 at the Art Center:
Sunday, March 17: 1-4 pm with live dance performance by Synapse Arts
Tuesday, March 20: 6-8 pmThursday, March 22: 2-4 pmThursday, March 22: 6-8 pmFriday, March 23: 2-4 pmSaturday, March 24: 2-4 pmSunday, March 25: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:34:04 -0600

Crossroads Fund and Dance Films Kino Present: Literary Migrations (6-8 pm)
This year, Crossroads Fund is celebrating its 30th anniversary with Reading Change, a reading and events series exploring movements for racial, social and economic justice. As part of the Reading Change series, Crossroads Fund and Dance Films Kino present Literary Migrations, a night of poetry and performance exploring and responding to immigration and immigrant rights.
Poet Jennifer Tamayo, author of Reading Change selection [Red Missed Aches], will be reading from her work, which uses poetry and visual art to unpack her identity as an immigrant and a woman. Jennifer will be joined by local poets and grassroots activists for this evening of thought-provoking performance exploring immigration and identity.

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:04:51 -0600

Open Studio with Sarah Best (10 am - 2 pm)

Dance Films Kino: Utopias and Dystopias Film Program (2-4 pm & 6-8 pm)This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 17-25. Free Admission. This program may contain imagery that is not suitable for children.

This program explores the notion of utopia, as expressed through Merce Cunningham's nature studies and through idyllic and dreamlike landscapes. It explores dance forms like the Japanese performance tradition butoh and stories told through dance which are bittersweet, encompassing both darkness and lightness. It asks whether hitchhiking along an open road is the path to freedom, or whether it brings you closer to death. It asks whether cyborgism is a symbol of a dark future or of the transformation of a person who transcends his or her physical body and the boundaries of pain to become a godlike figure.
Utopias and Dystopias Film Selections
After the Water Under the Clouds (2009), Carmen Rozestraten, (Netherlands), 9.47 minutes.Beach Birds for Camera (1991) Merce Cunningham, Elliot Caplan (US), 28 minutes.Bittersweet (2005), David Rousseve (US), 15 minutes.Curtain of Eyes (1997) Danièle Wilmouth (US/Chicago), 13 minutes.Drift (2010) Kat Cole, Eric Garcia, Peggy Peralta (US), 8 minutes.elena (or the misfortunes of the virtual) (2011), Adam Rose & Glen Jennings (US/Chicago), 15 minutes.Reines d’un Jour (Queens for a Day) (1996) Pascal Magnin (Switzerland), 1996; 26 minutes.
Utopias and Dystopias film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Saturday, March 17 - Saturday, March 25, 2012 at the Art Center:
Tuesday, March 20: 6-8 pmThursday, March 22: 2-4 pmThursday, March 22: 6-8 pmFriday, March 23: 2-4 pmSaturday, March 24: 2-4 pmSunday, March 25: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:06:48 -0600

Open Studio with Sarah Best (10 am - 2pm)

Dance Films Kino: Utopias and Dystopias Film Program (2-4 pm)This screening is part of Dance Films Kino at the Art Center from March 17-25. Free Admission. This program may contain imagery that is not suitable for children.

This program explores the notion of utopia, as expressed through Merce Cunningham's nature studies and through idyllic and dreamlike landscapes. It explores dance forms like the Japanese performance tradition butoh and stories told through dance which are bittersweet, encompassing both darkness and lightness. It asks whether hitchhiking along an open road is the path to freedom, or whether it brings you closer to death. It asks whether cyborgism is a symbol of a dark future or of the transformation of a person who transcends his or her physical body and the boundaries of pain to become a godlike figure.
Utopias and Dystopias Film Selections
After the Water Under the Clouds (2009), Carmen Rozestraten, (Netherlands), 9.47 minutes.Beach Birds for Camera (1991) Merce Cunningham, Elliot Caplan (US), 28 minutes.Bittersweet (2005), David Rousseve (US), 15 minutes.Curtain of Eyes (1997) Danièle Wilmouth (US/Chicago), 13 minutes.Drift (2010) Kat Cole, Eric Garcia, Peggy Peralta (US), 8 minutes.elena (or the misfortunes of the virtual) (2011), Adam Rose & Glen Jennings (US/Chicago), 15 minutes.Reines d’un Jour (Queens for a Day) (1996) Pascal Magnin (Switzerland), 1996; 26 minutes.
Utopias and Dystopias film program, part of a three week free admission festival, will be screened on the following dates and times, the week of Saturday, March 17 - Saturday, March 25, 2012 at the Art Center:
Tuesday, March 20: 6-8 pmThursday, March 22: 2-4 pmThursday, March 22: 6-8 pmFriday, March 23: 2-4 pmSaturday, March 24: 2-4 pmSunday, March 25: 2-4 pm

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:14:24 -0600

Dance Films Kino Presents: Mark Jeffery's Film Selections (11 am - 2 pm)Chicago-based Performance / Installation Artist, Curator and teacher Mark Jeffery presents an afternoon of his favorite works of performance on film.
Mark Jeffery (B. 1973 Doveridge, UK) is a Chicago based Performance / Installation Artist, Curator and teacher. Mark received his BA in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts in UK. He has been making collaborative and non-collaborative performance / installation / internet / screen works and participation based exhibits in numerous spaces and contexts since 1993, including Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Ontological Theatre NYC, Performance Studies #15 Zagreb, Croatia, Interrupt Digital Arts Festival (Brown University), Kunsthalle Museum (Norway), Site Unseen (Chicago Cultural Centre), Nottdance (Nottingham), Taxi Gallery (Cambridge, UK), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), ICA (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Firstsite (Colchester), Green Room (Manchester), and Chapter (Cardiff). He was a member of Goat Island Performance Group from 1996 - 2009 and collaborated and performed in five of Goat Island's works, touring and teaching extensively across North America and Europe. Performances included PS122 (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Eurokaz Festival (Zagreb), The House of World Cultures (Berlin), New Moves (Glasgow) and Arnolfini (Bristol). The company presented their penultimate work When Will the September Roses Bloom Last Night Was Only a Comedy at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Mark is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the Performance Department. Since 2006 he has been active curating performance in Chicago including the biannual IN>TIME performance series hosted by the Chicago Cultural Center. Other curatorial projects in Chicago have included OPENPORT a Performance, Language and Sound series, Intimate and Epic: Small Acts for the City in Millennium Park in Chicago and upcoming in 2011 an exhibition, performance and symposium at The School of the Art Institute called The Simulationists. In 2009, Mark began a new collaborative teaching summer Performance Institute with Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson titled Abandoned Practices - something out of the ordinary
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Utopias and Dystopias Film Program (2-4 pm)

Featured: Dance Films Kino Event

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:20:07 -0600

Dance Films Kino Presents: Nadia Oussenko (12-2 pm)Chicago-based dance filmmaker Nadia Oussenko presents and discusses her works of dance on film, giving visitors a chance to talk to talk to a local dance filmmaker about her process in a casual and intimate setting.
Chicago-based artist Nadia Oussenko has been combining choreography and filmmaking into screen dances since 2004. Her pieces invite the viewer to share a physical experience with dancers onscreen through camera movement and unique locations (bus stops, bridges, beaches) that complement the choreography in surprising ways. The program will include: Nothing to See/Hear, a duet that explores the intricate workings of an unraveling relationship; Revised and Revisited, choreographed by Chicago artist Erica Mott, where she traces the memory of her ancestry; and Keep it Real, a tongue-in-cheek duet where dancers find space behind an abandoned building to bust a move. Also on the bill are On Falling. . . (2009), a series of vignettes about surrender, Connect 4 (2006), where four dancers work within four spaces of a warehouse to connect a single movement phrase, and Up There (2006), a tense solo piece set in a bar about breaking social decorum.
Utopias and Dystopias Film Program (2-4 pm)

Dance Films Kino Closing Celebration (4-5 pm)

Featured: Tour with the Curator

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:12:17 -0600

Guest curator, John McKinnon,will give a tour of the exhibition he organized, Someone Else's Dream.
Mckinnon is currently the Program Director of The Society for Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. From 2007 to 2010, he was Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum. He has written for Artforum, Art Papers, and X-TRA. He holds dual Masters Degrees in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Featured: Spring Gala

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:03:53 -0600

Hyde Park Art Center's Annual Spring Gala is an opportunity for the Art Center to celebrate its mission – to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago – while recognizing exemplary people who have made significant contributions to Chicago’s cultural community.

Saturday, April 14th, 2012
7pm at the Hyde Park Art Center

Cocktails and Hors d’ouevres
Dinner with menu designed by Chef Michael Kornick
Curated Live Auction conducted by Helyn Goldenberg of Sotheby's
Dancing with DJ Shon Dervis and Ernie Adams on drums

Dress: Creative Cocktail

Complimentary Valet

Tables of 10:
Partner: $25,000
Grand Benefactor: $15,000
Benefactor: $10,000
Sustainer: $5,000
Patron: $3,000

Individual Tickets:

Patron: $350 | Sustainer: $500 | Benefactor: $1,000

Click here to purchase tickets or to make a donation in support of the Art Center and in honor of Dawoud Bey and, Martin H. Nesbitt and Anita Blanchard.
Check back for more information on the evening's program and auction.
Contact Christina Jensen at cjensen [a] hydeparkart.org or 773.324.5521 x 1021 with questions or to purchase tickets over the phone.

Featured: Prints & Pints

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:38:51 -0600

Print on anything...and we mean anything! Join us for a printmaking excursion. Teaching artist Elke Claus will show us how to make beautiful prints, laying images on top of each other to create true works of art. You can use materials provided by the Art Center, or bring t-shirts, fabric, paper, the back of your friend's head - we'll print on anything! After your print class, enjoy drinks from the cash bar and browse the galleries while a live DJ spins your favorite tunes. There are four 45-minute print sessions throughout the night, beginning at 7:15pm. No RSVP required. Suggested donation of $15 covers studio and supply costs.

Featured: Doug Garofalo Memorial Event

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:21 -0600

Join us for a memorial celebration of the life and work of beloved Hyde Park Art Center architect Doug Garofalo. Open to the public.
More information coming soon.

Featured: Conversation with the Artist: David Leggett

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:44:01 -0600

Join exhibiting artist, David Leggett, as he talks about the work presented in his current exhibition Coco River Fudge Street.
This event is free and open to the public. Participation is encouraged.