VERSION>05 INVINCIBLE DESIRE PRESS SITE

interventions, Live art, installations and public performances

During the ten day festival Artist projects will be engaged throughout the city of Chicago. When possible a place and time will be noted for the project. Documentationa and up to date schedules will be presented a the Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating event at open-end Gallery on Saturday April 24.

Access to Facilities by David J Merritt
David will be creating points of access to various, otherwise in accessible areas around Chicago. He will employ an array of tools such as: Optics, Construction, Coercion and other Natural and Super Natural apparatus. http://davidj.childrensstudio.org/projects/access/ for maps to the locations.

The BikeCartInfoShop
The BikeCartInfoShop is a mobile platform for your project during version>05. Get in touch with ideas if you want to use the bikecart for anything… http://bikecartinfoshop.blogspot.com/

Birds by Dan St. Clair
" Birds" is an audio work for public parks. Recordings of birds singing popular songs are played back from hidden speaker devices. Passers-by can discover recognizable melodies - little pieces of popular culture - in a supposedly natural domain.

BlackMarket Projects by Red76
The BlackMarket Exhibition series consists of individual artists work surreptitiously placed in public space. These hidden spots are unmarked save for the aura they radiate. Locations are passed along by word of mouth, as well as various other forms of low key announcement.

The Corporate Calavera Project by Matt Jenkins
A series of tactical performances implemented in Chicago’s corporate space. The Corporate Calavera’s systematic intervention is a commemoration for the women of Juarez, Mexico. Dreaming death, resistant walk, embodiment and inscription, and locative surveillance.

GLACK by Adam Zaretsky and Tanya Visosevic
Measure your attraction/repulsion response to the GLACK effect by viewing with this wet and fleshbound tour through the underside of your meatness. Footage was shot with a long rubber endosope - universal GLACK under your skin.

Guerrilla Flotilla by Guerrilla Flotilla Unauthorities
Event of Substantial Daring! An Extravaganza of Artificication!
Not in a Decade has this Ancient Artery of Commerce seen such a Hubbub! Join the fray with a water craft/installation of your own, common sense required. An aquatic profusion: North Avenue turning basin on April 30th at noon.

Industry of the Ordinary
For the Version>05 Invincible Desire festival Industry of the Ordinary,
as Old God and Young God, will play table football, first to 1,000
goals, on the promontory point by North Avenue beach. This event will take place on Saturday April 23 2005, starting at 1pm.

Lunch Break by Robert Ladislas Derr
A psychogeographical study of the business district in downtown Chicago. Derr blends into the business lunch crowd while capturing footage from four simultaneous video feeds planted on his body. The results of this peripatetic performance will be screened later in the festival.
The Marketing of Disaster by Edith Abeyta, Merry-Beth Noble, Charlene Roth
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. The use of disaster as a marketable good underlines the desensitization in our society.

Monument for Donatella Versace by Andreas Templin
Built as a co-branding project adopting Versace-like elements with the intention of commenting on the idioms of pre-manufactured lifestyle-concepts based on the example of Donatella Versace. It follows the intention of an "unwished co-branding"- to bring the luxurious lifestyle promoted by the brand Versace to the street-level.

Sonic Supper by Michael Carreira
Sonic Supper is uses the telephone as a friendly venue to share curious music with a wide audience. It is so simple: call the number (718/303-9553) to listen to a few minutes of music. Leave a message to tell us what you think. Features new music weekly.

SPEAKHERE! By Nicole Cousino
SPEAKHERE! links bodies across space through sound. Speakers are hidden in secret holes at busy Chicago intersections and public spaces. Personal songs, words, utterances or whispers are transmitted in real-time to an unsuspecting audience.
Spinning the Spectrum: Bicycles, Wireless and the Recycling of Urban Spaces by Heidi Brush
The relationship between communication and transportation in radical democratic politics converges with bicycles and wireless technologies. The production of dynamic mobile commons is an open intensity inviting both 2-wheeled and wireless to spin into the urban fabric on retooled psychogeographic explorations.

Swarm Circuit by Ania Greiner
An insect/human/robot creature roams amongst crowds of people rigged with three cameras feeding television monitors real-time surveillance footage - the event is bugged. "Swarm Circuit" meditates on the increasing invasions of privacy brought on by an infestation of hungry, emotionless, surveillance eyes.

The Bomb by Avangard by Sandra Jogeva Margus Tamm
The Bomb is a series of photos, showing the threat of our cold war childhood and the cultural icon, the image of a nuclear bomb presented in a form of a souvenir , a toy or a decorative object. The slide show of about 20 images is presenting the small white nuclear mushroom in different public spaces, from the streets of Berlin to be discovered by the custom workers at Tallinn airport. From a beautiiful Japanese style garden to the front of the embassy of the Republic of China in Estonia. The bigger version of the bomb sculpture, 2x 2 meters will be presented in a room filled with smoke

Unstorming Sheridan/May Day by Sarah Kanouse
UnStorming Sheridan
A May Day Bike Ride: 30 Miles from Haymarket to Fort Sheridan
Meet at the new Haymarket Memorial @ Randolph and Desplaines
11 AM, Sunday, May 1
Bring food to share for a picnic at Fort Sheridan ~3:30 PM
Fort Sheridan was built following the Haymarket tragedy to permanently station federal troops near Chicago to 'deal with' any labor unrest. A few years later, Fort Sheridan troops stormed Chicago to break the Pullman Strike. A statue commemorating the labor history of Haymarket
was finally erected in 2004, almost 120 years after the event, and today Fort Sheridan is being redeveloped into an exclusive subdivision. This May Day, join us as Chicago unstorms Fort Sheridan. A group bike ride, beginning at the Haymarket site at Randolph and Des Plaines, will
physically and conceptually reverse the troops' 1894 invasion of Chicago, biking 30 miles through the city, along the north shore, and ending with a communal picnic right at the feet of Philip H. Sheridan himself.
Transportation for bikes will be arranged from Fort Sheridan to the Rogers Park Metra Station.
Questions? Call Sarah Kanouse at 773-450-5351 or email sarahk@readysubjects.org

Visionary Projects by Emma Balazs and Louisa Bufardeci
Visionary projects is a series of postcards distributed on the Chicago public transport network. Inspired by an unfinished statement viewers are invited to reflect on their own desires for the future. Sample statements include: "if I could contribute anything…", "if I could create anything…", "if I could cherish anything…". The project is part of an ongoing conversation about how individuals can create compelling visions for the future in all aspects of society.

Zones by Total Gym
Total Gym is a 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. Their collaborative efforts include a wide variety of materials and adapt both high tech and low tech approaches to construction. With the intent of encouraging playfulness and transformation, the public is invited to come, one and all to share in this brief experience.