Sunday
April 24
Sunday Afternoon in McKinley Park 35th and
Archer
(Orange line stop)
BBQ near 3700 S. Hoyne
2pm in the park
Version>05 moves to the South Side to make use of one of our favorite parks.
Located right outside the historic Chicago Stock Yards, McKinley Park will
be the site of performances, lectures, projects and musical interventions amplified
by the Jitney mobile soundsystem. A parade will be led by Environmental Encroachment.
Pirate band The William Young will invade the lagoon. Flowers will be picked.
Humans will be in love. Site-specific installations by the Total Gym Collective
will be created in the park. EE, Jitney and Occasional Detroit will test spring’s
new sod as a dance floor with an amalgamation of hip-hop, dance and noise.
Give your money to the vendors for elotes and inflatable toys or to the Mariachis
for a song. We expect nice weather and will be Bar-B-Qing while taking in an
afternoon of lectures and weirdness presented by Terry Plumming. If there is
inclement weather we will move to the parkside Junk Shop. Bring your Frisbee
and BBQ provisions.
Program
3pm Terry Plumbing Summit, program #1: Primacy The Version>05 festival is privileged and honored to host the Terry Plumming
summit over three days, each with a specific theme: Primacy, Recency, Frequency.
Primacy begins with lecture clusters and a series of performances by Terry's
finest followed by a rottenmilkshakedown and a fully walloped sense of nut.
Lecture topics and participants include: rewrite your life, perception, memory,
communication, veracity, this other guy, some person we thought was cool, a
guy from a university, somebody who makes art in a weird place, a couple of
really attractive cholos, a dood who understands way complicated math stuff,
and your drunk friend.
for details
Performance and installation projects featuring: Birds by Dan St. Clair: This performance for FM radio responds to pop culture’s
saturation of our consciousness with bland and predictable melody. Birds re-injects
the possibility for surprise into the radio landscape by synthesizing bird
song to mimic the playlists of commercial music radio stations in real time.
Environmental Encroachmentis a live carnival band performing at social gatherings
and marching on the Chicago streets. EE addresses themes of environmental and
political protest. EE incorporates video, puppetry, costuming, parading and
clogging in exuberant merriment.
Total Gym is a collaborative social network that presents artwork produced
within various multimedia projects which transform an immediate environment
through interaction. Total Gym will host a temporary outdoor exhibition of
shelters and courts called Zones, employing a wide variety of materials and
construction approaches to adapt both high and low-tech structures. With the
intent of encouraging playfulness and transformation, the public is invited
to come, one and all, to share in this brief experience.
The Marketing of Disaster by Edith Abeyta, Merry-Beth Noble, Charlene Roth
is an intervention addressing the commodification of disaster and its impact
on collective consciousness. Looped projection of footage of public and personal
tragedy is presented as entertainment, showing that the use of disaster as
a marketable good underlines desensitization in our society.
5pm artist bar-b-q
7pm Music in the park
The William Young: Chicago's premiere pirate band sings shanties to put sail
to your seven seas. Ultimate Marching Warriors: Paul Velat (aka The Lord of the Yum Yum) transforms
into a one-man marching band. Jitney is Hiphop, dance and noise. Occasional Detroit is extreme noise psychedelia on the mic.
In the case of rain, our evening’s adventures shall shift to the Junkshop
- 3659 S. Hoyne.
The Junkshop is a living space/venue across from beautiful McKinley Park. This
former storefront was d.i.y. modified to facilitate the inhabitants' artistic
endeavors, which include music performance and recording, comics, videos, and
darkroom work.
OTHER EVENTS:
Post St Joost Autonomous Platform
Diamonds on Archer 3012 South Archer 1st Floor 7pm – 10pm
Using the Version>05 festival as a platform and tactical operation, students
from the Dutch academy St. Joost will present work made during the festival
based on the assumption of everyday life as a non-homogeneous, conflict-laden
field of operations. This vernissage will be the initial presentation of projects
transported to the festival by St Joost students and faculty. The space will
evolve throughout the course of the festival with a final group show to take
place during the Bridgeport Community of the Future Art Walk program,
April
29th.Late-Night Show&Tell with Anti Gravity Surprise SpareRoom 2416 W. North Ave
9pm – 12 midnight Free Admission!!
Come and have Show&Tell with public arts group Anti Gravity Surprise. What
have you made that creates change? Bring something to show and tell us all
about it. We'll provide munchies, blank walls, and good conversation! http://www.antigravitysurprise.org
