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20/12/2010

The Precession

Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Inspired by history, astronomy and new media sources, The Precession combines digital images, text and performance art into a monumental exploration of labor and the night sky.

The concept was developed after the artists visited the Hoover Dam and saw the Oskar J.W. Hansen sculpture, The Winged Figures of the Republic and the celestial floor map that is a part of the public art work. The exhibition is comprised of two elements; a time-based digital projection on the Art Center’s 10 screen façade and a live performance presented three times during the month of March 2011. Content for the projection will stream from a custom built website combining local Twitter feeds, original and borrowed texts and green-screened video. Similar to the movement of the stars, details of the projection will vary slightly with each viewing. The exhibition is laced with a multitude of historical and contemporary allusions including the choreography of Busby Berkley, The Grapes of Wrath, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and the geometric designs of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. These seemingly cacophonous elements flow together representing the interrelationships between architecture, dreams, sustainability and futurity.

The artists developed the artwork while in residence at the Hyde Park Art Center and the Catwalk Art Residency (NY) exploring the idea of site-specificity in an increasingly global world. The Precession is partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council and made with assistance from Claire Ashley.

As a collaborative art duo, Jeffery and Morrissey experiment with language through text and body movement. Mark Jeffery curates the biannual In>Time performance series hosted by the Chicago Cultural Center. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the performance department. Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist whose works of electronic literature, interdisciplinary performance, and installation have been internationally presented. An inaugural Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers’ Grant recipient (2007), Morrissey is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Writing, Art and Technology Studies, and Performance. Jeffery and Morrissey are both former members of the Goat Island Performance Group.

Groundbreaking Ceremony: Tuesday, December 21, 4:00pm-6:30pm
In recognition of the winter solstice, the Hyde Park Art Center will host a slow but celebratory performance inaugurating the exhibition, The Precession. At precisely 4:21pm, when the sunset begins, 10 performers will raise their glass saluting the setting sun, and the commencement of the exhibition. The Precession will launch on the digital facade at 5pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Goat Island Dance Film Screening and Talk with Mark Jeffery, Sarah Best and Lucy Cash:
Tuesday, February 22, 6-8 pm

Join Dance Films Kino curator Sarah Best and Hyde Park Art Center’s Artist in Residence Mark Jeffrey for a FREE screening and discussion of short films by UK-based artist Lucy Cash of the Chicago-based performance art group Goat Island (1987-2009). Cash’s diverse works integrate performance into visual art, filmmaking, even radio. Between 2000-09, she created four films in collaboration with Goat Island, of which Mark Jeffery was a member. Cash’s film and video work has been shown on television (Ch4, FilmFour, BBC4 and BBC2) and internationally - in both galleries and film festivals. This program kicks off a year of screenings and events leading up to Dance Films Kino, March 4-25, 2012, a three-week festival of international film work to be presented in an environment that evokes the “kinos” or private film clubs of the 1920s. Dance Films Kino is co-presented by the Hyde Park Art Center and Links Hall. http://on.fb.me/dancefilmskino

The Precession Performances:
Friday, March 4, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 5, 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 6, 6:30 pm

Artists Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey present a large-scale performance that extends and activates the 10-screen projected artwork, taking place within the main gallery and catwalk space. Elements include choreographed readings of texts being generated upon the digital facade, a group movement sequence that enacts images of American industry and labor, and responses to works by Sol Lewitt and Rebecca Horn. Chicago’s Gay Men’s Chorus will sing a song, an incoming stream of Twitter texts, and excerpts from the source code of The Precession.

Closing Reception and Gesture: Sunday, March 20, 3-5pm
A final gesture to mark the closing of the exhibition. Join the artists and performers as they bid ado to The Precession with refreshments and a brief performance. The performance will symbolize the “passing of the torch” to the next Hyde Park Art Center exhibition also dealing with the celestial sky, Conrad Freiburg: It is What It Isn’t.

For more information visit www.theprecession.org and www.judisdaid.com

Press contact: Crystal Pernell - Marketing & Communications Manager
5020 South Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL 60615 773.324.5520 x 1003 cpernell@hydeparkart.org

Groundbreaking Ceremony: Tuesday, December 21, 4:00pm-6:30pm

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago USA

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