Making Chances

an exhibition in the citywide program Platforms: 10 Years of Chances Dances

Exhibition Checklist

3rd Language: Molly Berkson, NIC Kay, Ashley McClenon, Joel Mercedes, Amina Ross, Emily Schulert, Allie Shyer

Healing Machine
2015
Screenprints, risographs, photocopies of fictional and archival posters

Where Will You Be: Main Frequencies
2015
Audio, 3 min.

Mark Aguhar

Handmade dresses
2010-12
Various fabrics

Julius DC Bautista

Face Off: Round 02: Street Faggot vs. Queen of Iron Fist
2015
Acrylic on canvas

Anopthalmiac III: Stargazer
2015
Acrylic on canvas

Black and Brown Punk Show Collective (Token Martinez and Javier Corps)

Golden Nina & Blue Selena
2013
Plastisol, poster board
Courtesy Fuerza y Maiz Collective

Black and Brown Punk Show Collective (Token Martinez)

When chickens come home to root
2015
Ink print and cardstock

Margaret Bobo-Dancy

Pine’n
2013
Video, 8 min.

Pine’n
2013
Cast iron, latex, hair, flowers

Transverberate
2015
Cast glass

Elijah Burgher and Gordon Hall

Witness Well (Stage for Chances Dances)
Wood, canvas, acrylic
2015

Chain Reaction

Anthony: “They put me in handcuffs right away”
Jocelyn Carter on being ripped off in a random stop
2012
Videos, 3 min. each

Chances Dances

Ho Row Lights
Slideshow

Chances Dances DJs

Off Chances Mix CDs
2007-2015
Mp3 playlist

Sky Cubacub

Rebirth Garments Spring/Summer 2015 Collection
2015
Video, 15 min.

Rebirth Garments: Manu’s Negligee Shorts
2015
Spandex, stretch lace

Rebirth Garments: Breaking Down Dichotomies Unitard
2014
Spandex, stretch velour

Rebirth Garments: Ireashia’s Geometric Leggings
2015
Spandex

Rebirth Garments: Hairy Leg Tights
2010
Tights, string

Rebirth Garments: Stella’s Militant Transmuter LQQK for Heather Lynn’s Genesis and Nemesis
2015
Spandex

Rebirth Garments: Pink Chainmaille Pubic Hair Jock Strap
2013
Chainmaille

Jed Dulanas

Documentation Photographs

Hope Esser and Daviel Shy

Performance Ephemera from “Volley”
2013-2014
Photocopied letter correspondence between the artists

Performance Ephemera from “Volley”
2014
Foam board, plastic birdies, nails

Edie Fake

Links
2015
Timeline design motif

Nicole Garneau

EVIDENCE documents: UPRISING #1 - UPRISING # 60
2008-2012
Photo and text documentation of live art events

Rami George

Untitled (Stanley, my second lover)
2012
Video, 8 min.

Rebecca Mir Grady

Between Mountains and the Sea
2010
Paper

SHE IS RESTLESS, vol. 1-9
2014-2015
Paper

Vacationland
2015
Paper

Iceberg Mountain
2015
Rope, chain, cleats, rocks

Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero in collaboration with Sofia Moreno and Molly Hewitt

A$$Mutation X Glitter Beach
Vinyl, glitter, sand, seashells, sequins, sequined fabric, mirror, stained glass, plastic, rope, wood, light, acrylic paint, iridescent paper, debris
2013-2015

Amanda Gutierrez in collaboration with Mitch Said

Chances Dances drift on memory
2015
Online app and digital cartography

Leon Andrew Hensley

Documentation Photographs

Christa Holka

Documentation Photographs

Interviews with Chances Dances organizers

Aay Preston-Myint and Allison Burque
Jackie Boyd and Jacquelyn Carmen Guererro
Latham Zearfoss and Erik Roldan
Rita Bacon and Aay Preston-Myint

All 2015
Audio, 11 min and 10min
Courtesy StoryCorps and Trans Oral History Project

Meg Leary

DivaDome
2015
Mixed media

Riva Lehrer

Risk Picture: Finn Enke
2015
Colored pencil, collage on paper
Courtesy Printworks Gallery

Risk Picture: Hillary Chute
2015
Charcoal, mixed media on paper, mylar, acrylic on plexiglass
Courtesy Printworks Gallery

Risk Picture: Lennard Davis
In progress
Charcoal, mixed media on paper

Madsen Minax

not mine never me still want it wish i didn’t (gay man sculpture,
1999)
2015
Aluminum, concrete, mirror ball, foil fringe

Fawzia Mirza and Ryan Logan

Queen of My Dreams
2012
Video, 3 min.

The First Session
2015
Video, 6 min.

Anne Elizabeth Moore

The Queer Crip Narrative
2015
Video

Matt Morris

Jouissance, 2015
Oil on linen on panel

Jouissance
Chiffon dressing coat designed and made by Vincent Tiley and Jeffrey Hart duplicating a costume they made for a drag queen named Pearl who wore it on RuPaul’s Drag Race S7E14, which aired June 1, 2015; to-scale inkjet print of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering), 1718/21, 19 1/16” x 25 3/8”, painted with the assistance of Jean-Baptiste Pater, The Art Institute of Chicago, Max and Leola Epstein Collection; oil painting on linen on panel, 12” x 16”; marbled watercolor sheet, 12 3/4” x 19 3/4”; lists composed in ink on tracing paper, 14” x 17”, with washi tape; displayed on plinth designed to coordinate with Gallery 400’s flooring
2015

Aay Preston-Myint

Chances Banner (2014)
2014
Satin, sports mesh, vinyl

Dan Paz

Assembling the Night (Portraits of Chances Organizers, Past and Present)
Digital inkjet prints
2015

Kodak, B-roll
B-Roll video, 60 mins.
2014

Mugsie Pike

Rainbow Glitter Tool Belt
2013
Plastic, nylon
Courtesy Renegade Lingerie

Macon Reed

Witchual
2015
HD Video, 9 min.

Maypole
2015
Cardboard, plaster, joint compound, muslin, tempera and house
paint, rocks

Jules Rosskam

transparent
2005
Video, 60 min.

Marian Runk

The Magic Hedge #1: Magic Moments
2011

The Magic Hedge #2: Firsts, Seconds, & Endings
2012
Comic books, inkjet printed

Epitaph and Bathed in Light, The Magic Hedge Issues #1 and #2
2011-2012
Pencil on bristol board

Matthew Schlagbaum

The aspirations of the yearning individual in a valueless world
2013
Refrigerator magnets, imitation gold leaf

Seth & Kellen

Fancy Nails: My Fancy Morning
2011
Video, 2 min.

Fancy Nails: My Fancy Meal
2011
Video, 2 min.

Birds: What Are They Doing?
2011
Video, 3 min

Michael Sirianni

Untitled (Mic Stand)
2015
Aluminum, copper, metal chain, plastic

Trans Oral History Project

I Live for Trans Education: A Youth Toolkit
2013
Paper, digital media, DVD
Courtesy André Pérez and the Trans Oral History Project

Interview with Chances Dances Organizers
2010
Video
Courtesy André Pérez and the Trans Oral History Project

Charles Vinz

Archipelago
2015
Used furniture, used clothing

Charles Vinz, Aay Preston-Mynt, and Rebecca Mir Grady

ZONE
2011
Reclaimed hardwood flooring, wood scraps, a rotating selection of texts

Katie Vota

Party Pile!
2015
Repurposed rubber, metallic inks, glitter, pearlescent pigments

Dion Walton

The Happening
2011
Excerpts from manuscript

Our Legacies, Writings From Chicago’s Older Gay Men
2011
Published manuscript


Bruce E. Wiest
Untitled Bodies, 5 Frames
2015
Paper photograms, glass, plastic

Ethan A. White

Chances Classix Volume 6
2015
Compact disc

Youth Empowerment Performance Project

Out in the Open
2013
Video, 12 min.

Latham Zearfoss

1987 and 2007
2014
Screenprints on paper
Courtesy No Coast Editions

Latham Zearfoss and Micah Salkind with Precious Davis, Jose Hernandez, Ali McDonald, Juana Paola Peralta, Erik Wallace, and the 2015 Session two staff and resident of Acre

Borderless Musical Imaginaries Mixtape
Two-channel video, single channel stereo sound,
printed transcript
2012-2015