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Tone and Trampoline
Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center @ 47 W Polk, Chicago, IL
A “rebounding” class. A cardio-vascular workout using mini-trampolines. Students execute low to mid impact aerobics done to a mix of popular dance music including House, Old School Disco, R&B and EDM.
Beginner
18 and older
$198
Ekphest
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Referencing Presidential Moon, 1969 (from the Anachronic Series) by photographer Adam Schreiber, Elshtain will present a short performance of poems centered around the image of the moon, the amplified sound of typewriter keys, and the human voice. The photograph by Schreiber is of a sculptural representation of the moon housed in the basement of the LBJ presidential library. In collaboration with Mikey Peterson, a Chicago-based video-audio...
Video Playlist: Rashayla Marie Brown
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Rashayla Marie Brown presents a night of videos and performance featuring a new installment of her ongoing series The Unholy Trinity of Me, Myself, and I. Brown’s performance takes the form of an academic lecture, weaving together the autobiographical with the historical through photographs, video, and elements of drag. The performance will be followed by a 30-minute talk-back session with Brown answering questions about the...
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Lectures in Photography
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 618 S MICHIGAN AVE, Chicago, IL
Anne Tucker, formerly the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has recently retired to pursue new projects after having been with the museum for 39 years. Named America’s best curator by TIME magazine in 2001, Tucker was the museum’s founding curator of photography, and expanded the collection from 141 works in 1976 to 29,000 works by 4,000 artists. Tucker has curated numerous shows throughout her...
Free
Lecture: Bruce Cumings
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Bruce Cumings is chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. In 2003, Cumings won the University of Chicago's award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2007 he won the Kim Dae Jung...
Free
Panel Discussion: Iman Issa, Basim Magdy, & Onur Öztürk
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Exhibiting artists Iman Issa and Basim Magdy will join Curator Karen Irvine and Onur Öztürk, professor of art history at Columbia College Chicago, for a discussion on monuments and monumentality, and their links to language and photography. Originally from Turkey, Öztürk focuses on art and architecture, and archaeology of Ancient Rome and the Islamic world.
Video Playlist
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Video Playlist is a recurring series of one night public video screenings programmed in response to MoCP exhibitions. For Disruptive Perspectives, Video Playlist presents a night of moving image works from artists and writers who turn traditional modes of popular storytelling into a platform for producing queer and intersectional entertainment.
Lecture: Richard Mosse
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Richard Mosse’s photography captures the beauty and tragedy in war and destruction. His most recent series, Infra captures the ongoing war between rebel factions in the Congo. The Infra series is marked by Mosse’s use of Kodak Aerochrome, a discontinued reconnaissance infrared film. The film registers chlorophyll in live vegetation, with the results rendering the lush rainforest into a beautifully...
Free
Conversation: Armin Linke and Lisa Yun Lee
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Two days prior to this program artist Armin Linke and cultural activist Lisa Yun Lee will walk through Chicago and observe the city’s built environment, paying close attention to the ways diverse publics and people interact with Chicago’s monumental architecture, as well as the urban, cultural and social structures that define our relationships. Linke will create photographs during the walk that will be projected as he and Lee discuss their experience...
Lecture in Photography: Christian Boltanski
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Christian Boltanski is one of France's foremost artists whose installations challenge basic assumptions of what constitutes an artwork. Since the 1960s, he has worked with the ephemera of daily life and human experience, from obituary photographs to rusted biscuit tins, to examine the transitory nature of our life on earth. He employs lights, candles, shadows, and imagery of death in a body of work that is about memory and loss and the relation between...
Free
MoCP at 40
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
The Museum of Contemporary Photography turns 40 in 2016, so of course a celebratory exhibition is in order. Ours, MoCP at 40, showcases contemporary photographic art as we have always seen it: as a wonderful big tent of iconic photographers alongside talented lesser-known image-makers absent from the canonical history books. All the works on view come from the museum’s permanent collection of more than 14,000 objects. They have...
Free
Opening Reception: MoCP at 40
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Join us for an opening reception in honor of our newest exhibition , MoCP at 40. Commemorating the MoCP’s 40th anniversary, this exhibition will highlight a diverse selection of works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection.
Free
Symposium: The Unstable Image
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Discussion, the fading image: Binh Danh, Sylvie Penichon, and Nadine Wietlisbach Museums work to preserve photographs because they are cultural artifacts, but they are also material objects. From distinct points of view, exhibiting artist Binh Danh, Conservator, Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago Sylvie Penichon, and Director of Photoforum PasquArt in Biel, Switzerland Nadine Wietlisbach will discuss the inherent instability...
Free
Lecture in Photography: Mark Sealy
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Since 1991, Mark Sealy has served as director of Autograph ABP, the Association of Black Photographers, based in Shoreditch, London. He has written for a number of international photography publications, including Foam Magazine (Amsterdam), Aperture (New York), and in 2002, published Different, a book project focused on photography and identity. Sealy is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University, England. His research and curatorial...
Lecture in Photography: Nadav Kander
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 618 S MICHIGAN AVE, Chicago, IL
Nadav Kander travels the globe, documenting sites of environmental degradation and places of mass development. His work is held in the public collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, and the Société Générale, Paris, France and has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Palais De Tokyo, the Herzilya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel, and Camera Work, Berlin, Germany. In 2015, the...
Free
Opening Reception: Burnt Generation and Midwest
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Join us for an opening reception for our new exhibitions, Burnt Generation: Contemporary Iranian Photography and Midwest Photographers Project: Hossein Fatemi. At 6 pm, hear a talk with Chicago-based photographer Hossein Fatemi and WBEZ Worldview analyst Narimon Safavi. Burnt Generation exhibiting artist Gohar Dashti will also be present at the opening reception.
MoCP Presents: Picture Me Student Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Now in its fifteenth year, this annual student exhibition features works made by teens who participate in Picture Me, an afterschool photography program sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) at three Chicago high schools: Curie Metropolitan High School, Juarez Community Academy, and Nicholas Senn High School. Co-taught by teams of working artists, this program cultivates teens as independent...
Video Playlist: Soheila Azadi
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Video Playlist is a recurring series of one-night public video screenings guest programmed by artists whose work engages with topics connected to MoCP exhibitions. Soheila Azadi will screen a selection of film and video works drawn from her dedication to an expanded discourse of transnational feminism. Azadi’s practice engages critically and sensually with material related to customs and systems that seek to separate and oppress. Azadi is an interdisciplinary...
Excursion: Bubbles and Clouds
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
This field trip begins with a meet up at the MoCP for a briefing session and group viewing of the Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy exhibition with participating artist Rozalinda Borcilӑ. Participants will then set off on a facilitated walking excursion to explore the geographic, social, and aesthetic impact of petrocapitalism by investigating the current wave of investment bubbles and real estate mega-speculation in downtown Chicago. ...
Workshop and Discussion: Mapping Petroleum Lives
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Led by exhibiting artist Rozalinda Borcilă, this mapping-from-below workshop uses prompts and facilitated exercises to develop a discussion of the various ways petroleum shapes our daily lives as an economy, a source of energy, and as a specific way of organizing the social world. Participants will work together to produce a number of mind maps and diagrams of the various systems that mediate our relationships...
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