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Chris Reeeeves

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Adjunct all over/artist/creative researcher/
art history PhD/Conceptual clipper over at @flatland_chicago

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SAVE THE DATE: opening 9/19 6-10PM over at the @the_plan_chicago “if-if-if-“ a show about language falling apart & coming together.

Less a “language as material” show and more a poetic or productive conceptualism, the ambition of this exhibition is to embody a meeting point somewhere between visual language, comic book sound effects, and political screed. Operating on the premise that radical form might open up radical practice, the idea is to consider what can, can’t, and still is left to be said in words and language - semantic, formally liberated, artful, or otherwise.

Topics will include: palindromes, silence, distortion, song, phonetics, symmetry, sign & signifier, diatribe, babbles, polyphony, voice overs, translation, onomatopoeia, asemic and poetic writing, slogans, roots, punctuation, and whispers among others.

Opening night performance: “A Catalytic ‘Huh!’ of Asemic Writing” formulated by and featuring Jesse Malmed, Max Guy, Maya Nguyen, Rex Delafkaran, & myself will punctuate the proceedings.

Hope @@@@@ to *********** see 👀 👀 👀 you !!!!!! taken in Wordle by @otherchrisreeves

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2 months ago

SANTA FE: final dedication piece of the year, this one for Fluxus “cloudsmith” Geoffrey Hendricks. As part of the @newmexicoartmuseum Santa Fe Symposium Fluxus (10/15 - 10/17) Lauren and I will think about cloud collecting and making, that there’s no tax on clouds, that the pareidolia of the contemporary is that sweet spot in between things, where Hendricks’ life and art converged. Some dreamy ideas under the drama of New Mexico’s skies and tired Allsups. If you happen to be nearby (or already there!) come join us ☁️

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All by Geoffrey Hendricks: “Ring Piece,” 1971, “Sky Car,” 1979, “Sky Window Shade,” 1987 “Sky Postcard,” ca. 1976, “Sky Boots,” 1965
Buster Cleveland, “Art For Um” (for Geoffrey Hendricks and Sur Rodney Sur), 1996
Some cloud shots: over the Red Line, over the apartment, outside of a Marriot in Indianapolis by @otherchrisreeves

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9 days ago

Rainy Chicago Wednesday at the laundromat carousel into October: some (im)permanent (im)press(ions) for the bite size life sect, or, how are you? and here’s how’s me?

1 aura photo of me sans literal aura by favorite walker, Aaron
2 perpetual bonkus of the konkus reality but still speaking!
3 patriot games
4 still thinking about this performance a couple weeks back during “if-if-if-“ (up til mid October over at @the_plan_chicago )
5 this was simultaneously neat and awful to witness irl
6 Janis Kounellis, untitled, 1971
7 nothing but greats on this one
8 pop up Breanne outside skylark
9 state of higher Ed
10 state of sculpture
11 whoever taught in the room before me apologizing to the white board for writing the name “John Cage”
12 post history of concrete but also pre
13 love seeing work up and out in the wild by favorite former students
14 MP SHiN5 CARWASH and
15 learned former miss nude America opened a gallery in the 70s
16 state of the readymade
17 nothing but greats in this one
18 absolutely enchanted every time I go up/down the stairwell at UIC by this painting (who did it???)
19 where a hole goes by @otherchrisreeves

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18 days ago

!!! @laurencsudbrink has put together a smart & funny & massive show - “Moderately & With Great Boredom” a show that’s also a song that’s also a moving image that’s also on the walls that’s also a history lesson that’s also about Erik Satie - featuring 60+ artists over a @patientinfo opening tomorrow (Friday) 9/25 6-10PM. I wrote a short essay in a takeaway book available at the opening & I’ll be performing something athletic tomorrow alongside forever favorites @marmblatt @thejacklarmer @madisonmaeparker @jannybooger @ennui2 tmr eve. Here’s a few lil sneak peek details and favorite lines from the show 👀 hope to see you! ♥️💙♥️💙♥️💙 by @otherchrisreeves

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24 days ago

For the opening of “if-if-if-“ over at @the_plan_chicago next Saturday (9/19) is a little takeaway book in an edition of 70. Like the show itself, the book is a searching through the ineffable hirsute or shave legged spirits of language, a miniature primer on not knowing where to go next and the words, images, and ideas that follow. Come get one next weekend and see all this lovely work by some of Chicago’s (and beyond) very best 👀 😶 by @otherchrisreeves

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a month ago

TWO emails today from my various schools welcoming me back to the new semester and I haven’t even figured out summer syllables let alone syllabi. A post-Solstice camera roll cleanup could look like:

1. Our glyphs, our folklore
2. If you want it (from the book Collective Curatorial Curating which was just “ok” but some gems throughout)
3. Underground heroes of Cincinnati
4. Mom’s bird surveillance state
5. I thought this was the begonia @__k_f_x__ gave us years ago but it’s another one (Keaton, yours is still alive though!)
6. Found pterodactyl for @xoliiviierx
7. Graeber canvas
8. Party room either before or after the comet
9. Juggalo vanity plates on the Skyway
10. Faces made c/o @lutkie
11. No more false alarms!
12. Cruisin’ In was closed
13. @asyaaasya basking in the street sentiment
14. How to write a book w @aldnbrk
15. How to plate a spaghetti w @aldnbrk @labruja_espino @laurencsudbrink @rex_delafkaran
16. Don’t sleep on Blondell Cummings
17. Abercrombie but without the high volume Paul Oakenfold soundtrack
18. Donyale forever
19. Moth Eaten Sayings
20. Hand for scale by @otherchrisreeves

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2 months ago

‼️ Two sweet events this weekend: scroll through for the Chicago deep dish on both 👉

Above: As part of Laurel Hauge’s @laurelhauge work for “Ground Floor” opening Sunday Aug. 9th, I will lead a short workshop/class from 4:30 - 5:30PM around 1.) curating with what you have 2.) curating with relation to everything else 3.) curating for others. We will read an excerpt of a critical text by artist Josh Kline, consider some ideas on approaching expanded notions of curating, and put on an ad-hoc exhibition of our own all on the beautiful lake views of Promontory Point.

👈 happening right after this 👆 lotsa favorites in here

During this class we’ll talk about finding symmetry, visually (and thus ideologically and maybe even curatorially). Examples above:
TOP AND BOTTOM: Patty Prava performing “La Danza Di Zorba” on Italian Variety Show Premiatissima, January 12, 1984; Still from “Draftee Daffy”, 1945, Dir. Bob Clampett; L-R SIDES: Leda Papaconstantinou’s theatrical series, “Bouboulitsa’s Dream,” 2013; Still from TV Transvestite, 1982, Dirs. Michele Capozzi and Simone Di Bagno CENTER: Patssi Valdez, ASCO, “The Universe,” at Evergreen Cemetary, 1974.

@breanne_ & I are putting the band back together: Nancy and the Voids will be performing the hits of Neil Young with you on vocals (and maybe even on instruments?) as part of @betsyodom1 ‘s wonderful event at Berger Park this Friday at 5:45 and again at 7:15PM. Details are 👉

A day of community singing, jamming, and music making. Join in song circles hosted by Chicago musicians Andrea Bunch, Marty Calden, Mark Dvorjak, Chris Reeves with Breanne Trammell, and Betsy Odem. Free - all ages bring your instrument, your voices, and come play!

Full schedule over at @romansusanart

Biggest fans only (like Moe)

Takeaway publications at both event! The seminal street rag on music setlists “Set List” will be yours for the taking on Friday &&&

“Lessons in (Curating (With Care))” is available for all who turn up to participate during the class on Sunday.
Hope to see you! by @otherchrisreeves

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2 months ago

Excited to announce I have a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Performance Art on Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson. It was written a few years ago (before I knew the subtitle of your wonderful book @performing_chance sorry for the symmetry!) and before that was one I started all the way back in 2014 in the incredible class I had with Sampada Aranke. Patterson is one of the most important Fluxus artists in that I think he and his work trouble its utopian tenor for the better, an argument I try and make here. The book itself is wonderful and massive with so many favorites (Reiko Tomii, Erin Manning, Amelia Jones, Yelena Gluzman, etc) covering a wide swath of performance practice. It’s prohibitively expensive but the e-book is at most libraries and on…the internet (but DM me if you want to read mine) ❤️ by @otherchrisreeves

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3 months ago

When I was 12 I guess I was really into R.E.M.
Come see what 74 other artists were into around (and before) that age tmr for one of my favorite kinda history shows curated by @oliviazubko tomorrow at @the_plan_chicago

Other images: me, age 12, that R.E.M. shirt is probably worth a fortune now, not sure about the Kathy Ireland poster I’m in front of + other oldies I dug up: age 8: really into TMNT hostess pies; age 14: really into drugs and underground comix (Sonic Youth tee this time) by @otherchrisreeves

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4 months ago

Before July hits of sunshine

1. Leos in front of a camera
2. Gemini in high summer high optical high fashion
3. Parking lot continental breakfast
4. My mom’s table chicken
5. Burger King Reagan
6. The Santa Fe show with DL & JM live from Milwaukee Kite Festival
7. I forgot to get the name of the artist who did this painting of Jackie & John John (anyone?)
8. Made in USA JLG transition card
9. Metzger’s Marty Robbins office hoodie
10. Lauren meet cute
11. Curt & Eric doing that one meme on accident
12. Pinwheel garden
13. Market troubles
14. Terminal bliss with Luke & Jared
15. USA Today my new favorite sandwich
16. Superhumanism is here from 1984
17. Jess knows gravity
18. Faces (if you want it)
19. The beach (if you want it) by @otherchrisreeves

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4 months ago

A few shots from “Syllabus of Effects” up all June over at @ignition_projects w open hours Saturdays 12 - 4pm. Give it an eye and a read and a listen in between these totally normal Chicago mini-hurricanes 💙🌬️

Images:
1 - 5: “Noisiness” shelf with myself, Aaron Walker and a footnote text by Livy Snyder
6 - 12: “Deskill/Re-skill” & “Repetition & Vicious Cycles” shelves with myself, Lauren Sudbrink, Jessica Zawadowicz, Jonas Müller-Ahlheim, Kat Bawden, Emma Bergman, M. Carson Day, and footnotes by Madison Mae Parker, Max Guy, Zoey Gringlas
13 - 15: “Borderlines & Ambiguity” shelves with Jenn Smith, Jess Bass, Cat Bowyer, Lindsey Whittle, Mat Mancini, Elena Ailes and footnotes by Laurel Hauge, lee rae walsh (being listened to by Danny Floyd, also in the show!)
16 - 17: Nancy comic and olivier’s footnotes for “Mirrors”
18 - 20: “Gestures and Authorship” with Ále Campos, Kat Bawden

Somehow there’s more that’s not pictured so let me know what I missed 👀 by @otherchrisreeves

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4 months ago

Happy international @laurencsudbrink day! Raise 40 toasts, songs, balloons, cats, non-plussed looks, ice creams, smooches, Nancies & Sluggos, kitties, tone lines, spring games and everything else for the hippest Lauren Sudbrink I know 💙💙💙💙 by @otherchrisreeves

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