Doors open at 7:00pm on May 30, 1821 S Racine Ave
Performances by Ále Campos aka Celeste, Camila Arévalo, erψn temp3st, and SK Kerastas with Najee-Zaid Searcy, Helen Lee and AiRos 頌恩 medill
PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE is organized by Josh Hoglund and Elise Cowin. Started in 2024, it provides a platform for artists to present new works of performance at various stages of development. PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE values experimentation, diverse approaches and making space for people to come together in community and conversations.
a frog caught on the tip of her tongue
Ále Campos
Campos’ work is largely concerned with examining human relationality, perception, ritual and self-creation, all through a queer lens. Drag is a necessary instrument for them to step into liveness. It informs their approach towards the stage, the gaze, constructing images, sound and time. They use drag as a means to glitch the body and complicate the way their audiences bear witness to a performance. They will present a performance that in true “Celeste” fashion is rhapsodic – a performance that is part reading, part lip-sync, part dance, part poetic stream of consciousness. Specifically this work is a meditation on voice or absence there of, affect, channeling and lip-sync.
Ále Campos (b. 1994, Los Angeles, California) is a multidisciplinary artist and performance maker. They generate live performance works that unfold into the mediums of sculpture, sound, text, video and installation. They began performing in Hudson, NY and moved to Chicago in 2021. They have an MFA from SAIC where they now teach a class they designed called “Dragging Performance”, a survey and studio course that explores the intersections of drag and contemporary, queer/trans performance art. Because their practice is grounded in the aesthetics of drag, their work exists as a bridge between queer nightlife and the art world whilst also challenging the traditions of drag and performance art. They’ve presented site specific performances across raves, museums, galleries, clubs, art fairs and DIY venues. Within the last year they’ve presented work at Roots & Culture, Co-Prosperity, Podlasie Club, Thalia Hall, The Poetry Foundation, Elastic Arts, The California Clipper, ALMANAC, Links Hall, and Vox Populi (PHL).
Who Will Write the History of Tears?
Camila Arévalo
Camila Arévalo 𓃗 B. 1993
Raised in the mountains of Ibagué, Colombia, beside a creek, among guava and almond trees, carpets of rose apple and pringamoza leaves, Camila is an animal and transexual working at the intersection of performance, video, photo and installation — or, as a mentor once called her, a multi-headed dragon.
Her practice crawls through the performance of everyday life, the illusion of the “postcolonial”, the metaphysical belief in humans’ natural position of privilege over the planet, and the body as a stage where power is exercised, negotiated, subverted and eroticized.
For her power itself is the medium.
In 2014, a becoming-Horse became her route of escape from the cages of “man” and “woman”, starting a pursuit of animality and an ongoing inquiry into post-human subjectivity.
camilaarevalo.com
IG: @nextkatemoss
RE_MIST
erψn temp3st
Photo credit: Aran Wilkinson Blanc
with copper wire, with hot glue and duct tape, brass and ceramic.
piezo-electric means vibrations become voltage. Touch becomes electricity and sound.
u r wrapped and buttoned via the sacrum to the wind.
quadrillions of dollars
deposit helium iron basalt quartz
Frozen hummm
i m ultraviolet
a joint replacements titanium bone, phenomenon
an x-ray,-like film of a skeletal tree growing warts, obscuring this
TRESPASSING
I am touching u (powerlines) like the membrane between cells
erψn temp3st is an experimental sound artist and dancer. Their explorations cross multiple disciplines, redefining body-based practices in terms of technological, sonic, and sculptural intervention.They have presented work internationally and nationally, most recently at Elastic Arts and Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, the Telus Infinity Dome in Calgary, and Boombox in Vancouver. erψn has received support from national and regional arts councils and completed residencies across Canada and Europe. They are an MFA graduate and full scholarship recipient in the Art and Technology/Sound Practices department from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
www.eryntempest.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ph0sphor_burn_out/
The Other Shore (excerpt, in progress)
SK Kerastas with Najee-Zaid Searcy, Helen Lee and AiRos 頌恩 medill
These are initial glimmers of a new work in progress involving movement, harmonic chanting, images and storytelling, all in rhythm. The piece connects regenerative patterns in nature with experiences of healing from gender affirming surgery, 12-step notions of spiritual surrender, neurodivergent rhythms and teachings of community as “one body” from Buddhist monastics at Plum Village Monastery. We are chanting the Heart Sutra, an ancient Buddhist text that is essentially about how everything is made up of everything else, so our separateness is an illusion.
SK Kerastas is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist weaving together performance, dance and writing to create spaces and stories of spiritual care. They are currently in a phase of re-centering their artistic practice after many years of service in artistic leadership roles– most recently, as the final Executive Director of Links Hall in Chicago. They feel incredibly blessed to be working with the other artists on this project, all of whom they met through that space.