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