Friday
April 22
Version>05 Opening
highschool/ Heaven / Buddy
1542 – 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
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, pass, and receive the Version>0 5 art zine by Miami-based artists,
Friends with You, Freegums and Miami Crew.
Programs and exhibitions include:
Mixed Media
Highschool 1542 N Milwaukee 3rd floor
Installations and Performances by: Ghost Appeaser, The Cost of Free, My Fairy
Prince, Heather Vernon, and Lonetree.
Ghost Appeaser by Matthew
Steinke and Bert Stabler is a performance of a video
game demonstration in which the two players portray ghosts in various states
of torment. The players operate animatronic puppets of distorted humanoid figures
intended to represent children. The performance uses micro-controlled toy parts,
ambient video and sound elements.
Lonetree is a performance art group doing what they call "Noise Theater" named
after an Apsaroke Native American, but in namesake only.
The Cost of Free by Astra Price is an installation of 30 faceless George Bush-like
piñatas. The piñatas, stuffed with goodies, will be shown with
the story of their acquisition and importation to the US. The exhibition will
close with a finale of piñata games.
My Fairy Prince is anti-Universe space music (Randall Bailey is My
Fairy Prince)
David Marine is evoking music for theramin and small orchestra.
Fufi Fufi
Buddy 1542 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd floor
The gallery hosts installations and audio transmissions
Fufi Fufi is an installation by Mike Del Marmol, Sam Burkenson, Arturo Sandoval,
Alvaro Ilizarbe A Miami-based collective comprised of members of Friends with
You, Freegums Miami Crew and others will install an environment within the
buddY space to transform it from its current decrepit state to an homage to
Old Dirty Bastard.
San Francisco-based Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) will broadcast their mission
to the denizens of Chicago using Version>05 as a platform to transmit locally
and nationally produced FM radio programs.
Environmental Encroachment (EE) is a group of performers who combine costumed
a carnivalesque marching band with a live multimedia stage performance consisting
of projections, shadow puppetry, backpack puppets, live sound and theatrics.
orange drink is one person with an acoustic guitar, laptop, sampler, and other
instruments creates a soundscape, tells stories, plays songs, challenges the
audience. sound will be broadcast via amplifier with use of instrument cords
and a microphone.
DJ Pooper is a pretty smiling cholita who gives you fuzzy dance pants.
Logan Bay is Chicago’s mash up and dance floor hero.
Mechanisms
Heaven 1550 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd floor
This exhibition is composed of seven artists from NYC, S. Carolina, Minneapolis,
and Chicago who examine the term mechanism through different visions and mediums.
Featuring work by: Andrew Dunnill, Andrew Hurst, Kathleen Judge, Duk Ju L.
Kim, Rollin Marquette, John Salhus, Raha Raissnia.
Throughout the spaces and in the streets:
The BikeCartInfoShop is a mobile platform for your project during Version>05.
If you’d like to use the bikecart for anything just send along your ideas.
http://bikecartinfoshop.blogspot.com/
Version>05 Video Selections
Food and drink and Korean Polish bar-b-q
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.
