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Artists announced for Site Unseen 2009

Posted by DCA Theater on July 9, 2009 in Site Unseen

For one night only, on Monday, November 9, the Chicago Cultural Center will host Site Unseen, a site-specific performance event featuring theater, dance, music, and visual art by individual artists and ensembles of local and international acclaim. The performances, installations, and video works will all consider issues around disability and will be created specifically for the rooms and architecture of the Chicago Cultural Center.

Now in its sixth annual edition, Site Unseen 2009 will feature works by local artist that bring visibility to issues presented by disabilities of all kinds. This theme emerged because Julie Laffin, the project’s ongoing curator, has become increasingly disabled by environmental illness and complications from chronic Lyme Disease. This year’s presentation reflects her own struggles with new disabilities and the effects on her artistic collaboration with Chicago DCA Theater Director Claire Geall Sutton. Along with this year’s assistant curator, Clover Morell, Laffin and Sutton are collaborating on a piece that chronicles this experience.

Participating artists creating audio, performance, spoken word, movement-based, and media installation art include Mike Ervin, Judith Harding in collaboration with Still Point Theatre Collective, James Kubie and Katrina Chamberlin, Mike McGowan, Clover Morell, Marissa Perel and Madeleine Bailey, Debra Tolchinsky, and Unreal-estates (Annette Barbier and Drew Browning).

Performances will take place concurrently throughout the galleries, halls, and rooms of the Chicago Cultural Center and need not be viewed in any particular order.

Read statement by curator Julie Laffin

Click “Read More” to view photos of previous works by this year’s Site Unseen artists.

Judith Hardin in “Six Stories Up” produced by Tellin’ Tales Theatre. Photo by Justin Goh.