Friday
April 22
Version>05 Opening
highschool/ Heaven / Buddy
1542 – 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd and 3rd floor
7pm – 2am $10
We open Version>05 at the unusual and notorious art/space complex in Wicker
Park, sometimes known as The Compound and comprised of Heaven Gallery, Buddy,
and Highschool. Two floors of spaces, the trackside roof, and the sidewalks
will be our venues for the evening. The opening program features performance,
installations, exhibition, videos, food (provided by Rodan), drink, music,
and registration.
Visitors will be able to get an orientation of the festival
program and get a glimpse of the diversity of works featured at this year’s
version. Arrive early for Korean Polish Bar B-Q. Sign up for a registration
packet or pass, and receive the Version>0 5 posterproject by Miami-based
artists, Friends with You, Freegums and Miami Crew.
Installations and Performances by: Ghost Appeaser, The Cost of Free, My Fairy
Prince, Heather Vernon, and Lonetree, Environmental Encroachment, David Marine,
Neighborhood Public Radio, BikeCartInfoShop, Logan Bay and DJ Pooper. Video
selections will be beamed on the roof.
Version>05
TLVSN
From April 22 to May 1, Version>05, in cooperation with Chicago Cable Access
channel CAN 21, presents a half hour program of TLVSN: the Version>05
edition.
Saturday
April 23
Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating
open-end 2000 W. Fulton #310
6pm – 1am $5 Donation
(Includes Urban Gardening Kit)
How can urban environments become areas for personal and ideological transformations?
How can artists create charged public space? In this show we expose
the dynamics and aesthetics of street art and recent guerrilla communication.
We consider
public space in urban environments as a forum for change, and explore,
visually, ways of altering and reclaiming our surroundings.
10pm: Musical Performance + Onsite After Party
Small Bathroom Fire, Chandeliers, Carpet of Sexy, and Special Guests
Sunday April 24
Sunday Afternoon in McKinley Park
Western 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.
Monday April 25
Underground Multiplex
Buddy / Heaven / highschool
1542 - 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd & 3rd floors
6:30 pm – 1am $5 donation – free popcorn
Monday. We relax. We eat dinner together with our visiting artists at Highschool
around 6:30 pm and take in an evening of short video programs and documentaries
from a cast of international video festivals, collectives and directors. Taking
the theme of the multiplex - where often times people see more than one movie
for the price of one admission - visitors wander through our temporary multiplex,
watch multiple video programs and eat as much popcorn that they can.
Installations at the MULTIPLEX
Gun Control by Scott Kildall is an electromechanical installation uses a police-issue
revolver and a small video camera to track the audience. Gun control is a response
to questions concerning security-surveillance apparatus.
I Am Innocent, I Am Evil by Aya Lafillette: The interactive installation asks
participants to choose between "I am innocent" and "I am evil",
with the responses producing a sound installation. This dialogue addresses
the contradictions of our society by engaging in-depth the comparative adjectives
we use everyday.
TeleAutomaton by David Marine
Ovarium by Svetlana and Andi Wallwhore: A post-porn silent interactive video,
Ovarium channels the nonsense of USA corporate media doublespeak from Vaudeville
burlesque to banal camp. "This is propaganda expressing itself. It is
broken down directly for you" — Agitprop.
Can We Communicate by Clara Alcott Is an experiment in containing emotion and
the ability to connect with the viewer in one slow shot, this piece is 16mm
Reversal Speed Study, digitized.
Tuesday
April 26
AV NITE
Buddy
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd floor
10pm $5 donation
Politics and popular music by strange gyrating singers, elusive sounds of
mash up sensibilities, experimental action. Performances by:
Potter Belmar Labs: Audio Visual collective.
Hong Kong Delight: Art-rock/time-based art performance that includes video,
text, performance, rock music and thought-provoking politics.
Lovely Little Girls: Icky sticky drippings from Gregory Jacobsen's
all-new band of misfits making its world premiere at Version>05.
Rotten Milk vs. Bubblegum Shitface: Terry Plumming's deviant noise fiends eternally
locked in battle - for no apparent reason.
Wednesday
April 27
Terry Plumming summit program #2
Zhou B. Center
1029 W. 35th St (35th and Morgan) 2nd floor
10am-7pm $5 donation
Part 2 of the Terry Plumming Summit is an exceptionally ambitious improvisational
orchestra. According to the Terry Plumming collective Summit
# 2, "Recency,
begins at 10 a.m. with waiting around. Then at 2 p.m. one hundred improv musicians
on five PAs inside a pentagram will invoke the maze after which objects will
be produced which exploit magic sonic potentials." Beverages
will be served, earplugs provided.
Performance by:
100 musicians.
5 PAs
5 conductors (including Fred Lonberg Holm, Rotten Milk and Jamie Trecker)
1 giant pentagram on the floor.
http://www.diabolical.org/summit/ for more info.
20X20X20
Buddy
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd floor
8pm $5 donation
20X20X20 is an ongoing series brought to you by Lumpen. Basically It’s
show and tell for grown ups. It’s a platform to share ideas, projects,
unusual information and personal obsessions. The format is simple: 10-20 people
are chosen to make presentations. They each get a chance to share 20 slides
or digital files for 20 seconds a piece. That’s approximately 7 minutes
of action per person! The presentations are done one after another with a short
break in between. It’s accompanied by good drink and
tasty treats. The Version edition of 20X20X20 features presentations
by participants
featured in the festival.
Animal Collective / Arial Pink
Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave.
10pm $10 advance, $12 door)
Thursday April 28
The ClothingChange Exchange, Rooftop Screenings and Music
Buddy
1542 N. Milwaukee Ave 2nd or 3rd floor
Free!
7 pm The ClothingChange Exchange is a colorful touring event. In the spirit
of an international bazaar, people from all walks of life come together to
exchange their unwanted clothing. Items that defy mass manufacturing such as
vintage, ethnic and homemade garments are especially welcome. However, the
primary focus is to recycle used clothing in general. Clean out your closet
and bring your garments.
9pm Rooftop screening of Volatile Shorts: A program of short films by Volatile
Works.
10:30pm Performances
Rodan 1530 N Milwuakee
Free
Mattin: This Basque country native investigates the acoustic properties of
his computer, while also assembling situations to create feedback - often instigating
feedback by actually bowing the computer itself. http://www.mattin.org/
Tim Barnes: New York City free-percussionist rattles our skulls with rhythms
and non-rhythms.
DJ Rotten Milk.
Friday April 29
Community of the Future Art Walk
Various locations in Bridgeport
6pm –11pm
The Community of the Future is a not so tongue-in-cheek reference to the burgeoning art scene in Bridgeport. Over the past few years a number of galleries, cultural spaces and the Zhou B. Center have quietly opened and are establishing a compelling alternative option to the gallery zones and art fairs on the north side. For one night over one dozen Bridgeport spaces - organizations that are transforming the neighborhood into a new area of innovative art action – will open their doors to the public. Several exhibitions by artists from The Netherlands and Belgium (St Joost Academy), as well as group shows by local artists and cultural workers will be open to the public at various Bridgeport locations. The Zhou B. Center hosts an open house of its studio an exhibition spaces, a program of videos by the nomadic Lost Film Festival and an exhibition, Version Kunsthalle, featuring installations curated by the Version team. A performance program and party celebrating this first ever Bridgeport-based art festival follows at the Texas Ballroom and Diamonds on Archer.
Friday April 29- May 1
Version>05 Kunsthalle
Zhou B. Center
1029 W. 35th St.
6pm – 10pm
The Version>05 Kunsthalle is an exhibition hosted by the Zhou B Center and curated by members of the Version>05 Organiser team. It features interactive installations, innovative sculptural projects, mobile projects, a media lounge, and orientation center. The exhibition is open throughout the weekend noon – 8pm April 30 and May 1.
Version>05 Community of the Future Opening AfterEvent
Texas Ballroom & Diamonds on Archer
3012 S. Archer Ave. 1st and 3rd floors
10:30pm
Suggested donation $10
Performance and Music Program at the Texas Ballroom:
ZIbelline Epee is a 10-minute puppet show with appropriated and live music.
Far Rad: NO RAVE. youloveitsodoit.
Everyone Mutates (Ghost Arcade Ltd.): Minimal body wave.
The Atari Star (Johann's Face): Lush, intimate and carefully crafted.
Djs : Grady and Benn Flashbulb
Saturday April 30 and May 1
Version>05 NFO EXPO and Kunsthalle
Zhou B. Center
1029 W. 35th St.
noon - 8pm
The last weekend of Version>05 features a series of programs that includes the Version>05 Kunsthalle exhibition, the NFO EXPO trade show for experimental art and radical communication and a conference program. During the weekend, video works will be screened and broadcast in the media lounge, installation by Steven Eichhorn. Presentations and talks will take place during the conference and workshop programs. Artists will present work, conduct demonstrations and workshops and give tours. A summit for creating an alternative art space and artist collective network for North America will be held as well as the third and final program of the Terry Plumming summit.
VERSION NFO EXPO
Version>05 has invited spaces and projects that straddle definitions and are pushing experimental formats seeing culture as art + social + political practice. The NFO EXPO is a trade show for experimental artists, info agitators and organizers of cultural interference and part of the final program thread for Version>05. Members of artist-run spaces, alternative institutions, galleries, cultural and social spaces, co-ops, and individual artists and activists will present their work and mission within a booth, installation or on a table at this two day event. Over 50 organizations and individual projects will be participating. The NFO EXPO is open from noon to 8pm Saturday April 30 and noon to 8pm May 1, 2005.
Saturday April 30
Performance program
10pm: Basement of the Zhou B Center
1029 W. 35th St
$10 donation
Version>05 and the Zhou B Center host an evening party featuring very
special guests and a cast of local national and international acts.
Sunday May 1
10 pm Closing party
Skylark
2149 S. Halsted
free
Our closing party will end with a bang. Join us to say goodbye to Version>05. Features performances by Small Bathroom FIre and DJs Logan Bay and way too many DJs. BYO 5 minute megamix.
