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# Watershed Art & Ecology

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- [Journey to the Mississippi, August 21-23](https://watershed-art.org/) - "Confluence Point, Looking South," Libby Reuter and Joshua Rowan (location here) On Friday through Sunday, August 21-23, we will take a camping trip to the Illinois and Mississippi rivers at Pere Marquette State Park, then spend Saturday across the Great River, with multiple stops including the Audubon Riverlands site and the confluence of the Missouri
- [When the Landscape Recognizable Today was Shaped, Aug 29 - Sept 26](https://watershed-art.org/when-the-landscape-recognizable-today-was-shaped-aug-29-sept-26/) - An exhibition about past, present, & future ecologies in the Illinois River Valley. Featuring Ryan Griffis, Emmy Lingscheit, Damon Locks, Josh Rios, Stephen Signa-Avilés When the Landscape Recognizable Today Was Shaped is an exhibition about the dynamics of extractive land-use policies and efforts at conservation and restoration of wetland ecologies in the Illinois River Valley.
- [A Weekend with a Wetland, June 12-14](https://watershed-art.org/a-weekend-with-a-wetland-june-12-14/) - Watershed Art & Ecology invites you for a weekend excursion to Emiquon Preserve and National Wildlife Refuge, along the banks of the Illinois River downstream from Peoria. It's one of the largest floodplain restoration projects in the Midwest - something like paradise for thousands of migratory birds. It's also the ancestral home of the Peoria,
- [PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #4, Sat, May 30, 7pm](https://watershed-art.org/performance-mixtape-4-sat-may-30-7pm/) - 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
- [The Silent Claims of the Demon of Art: May 16 and 23 only](https://watershed-art.org/the-silent-claims-of-the-demon-of-art-may-16-and-23-only/) - Join us at Watershed Art & Ecology on Saturday, May 16, 4-8pmor on Saturday, May 23, 4-8pmfor a selection of artworks in a highly unusual atmosphere In the first pages of his memoirs, Giorgio de Chirico recalls his earliest artistic compulsion: to copy images. He describes, in detail, the almost theological demand that images place
- [Fereshteh Toosi: Dawn Soundcamp 2026, May 2, 5 AM!](https://watershed-art.org/fereshteh-toosi-dawn-soundcamp-2026-may-2-5-am/) - On Saturday, May 2 from 5:00–7:00 AM, join us for the 2026 Dawn Soundcamp at Watershed Art and Ecology, hosted by artist Fereshteh Toosi. Beginning at morning twilight, we’ll walk the neighborhood and transmit a live, solar-powered broadcast, listening closely to the layered soundscape of the waking city.Our Chicago stream becomes part of Reveil, a
- [Lecture by Daniel de Paula: Mãe (2025), Saturday, April 11, 5pm](https://watershed-art.org/lecture-by-daniel-de-paula-mae-2025-saturday-april-11-5pm/) - Daniel de Paula, Mãe (2025) Daniel's talk centers on Mãe (2025), a work developed in relation to the Pinheiros River in São Paulo, in which a 25-ton turbine from the Henry Borden hydroelectric plant is displaced and reintroduced into the urban river landscape. The project reflects on processes of industrialization, environmental transformation, and the historical
- [Steve Rowell: "NATURAL STATE", Friday, March 13 - Saturday, April 4](https://watershed-art.org/steve-rowell-natural-state-friday-march-13-april-4/) - Opening on Friday night at 5pm; artist talk at 7pmViewing hours Saturdays 2 - 7pm; Closing April 4 Steve Rowell’s NATURAL STATE is a multi-screen video installation documenting four climate research stations across Minnesota’s upper-Midwest biomes: bog, mixed and conifer forest, oak savannah, and prairie. At each site, scientists are actively simulating futures: accelerating warming,
- [Live performance: "CETACEAN" Feb. 12 & 13, 7pm](https://watershed-art.org/the-unreliable-bestiary-cetacean-the-whale-feb-12-and-13-7pm/) - CETACEAN at Watershed Art & Ecology CETACEAN (The Whale) is part of The Unreliable Bestiary - a life-long project presenting a performance for every letter of the alphabet, each letter representing an endangered animal or habitat. To date Bestiary collaborators have completed performances about five animals: MONKEY, ELEPHANT, WOLF, BEAR, and TIGER. These performances are
- [Kim Nucci and AC Diamond: "Heart/Time," Sunday, 7:30pm](https://watershed-art.org/kim-nucci-and-ac-diamond-heart-time-sunday-730pm/) - A short clip of a fabulous sound-and-light performance. Join us for a site-specific immersive audio-visual performance by Kim Nucci and AC Diamonddoors open at 7:30pm The beat refers both to the heart rate and to the musical concept of tempo. HEART/TIME proposes that the heart rate is the tempo. Using heart rate data as a
- [Anthropocene Campus Chicago, Oct. 22-26](https://watershed-art.org/anthropocene-campus-chicago-oct-22-26/) - Standalone website https://ac-chicago.org
- [Guild Literary Complex presents: "Mojo&Muse," Feb. 7, 6pm](https://watershed-art.org/guild-literary-complex-presents-mojo-and-muse-feb-7-6pm/) - The MOJO&MUSE community speakeasy presents an evening of special performances of dance, video, poetry, music, and more. Live entertainment and light refreshments will be provided, 6-9pm. FREE - Donations encouraged. RSVP here please! Marisela-Raymi Dalila Tapia (left) is a Peruvian-American dance theater artist with a rich background in exploring the intersections of art, language, culture, and identity.
- [Chang-Ching Su: "Jigging Green" | Rhett Tsai: "Luring Bad," Jan. 10-31](https://watershed-art.org/chang-ching-su-jigging-green-rhett-tsai-luring-bad-jan-10-31/) - Closing Events, 4-7pm January 31 Tristan Finazzo Conversation with Tristan Finazzo4-6pm Moderators: Brian Holmes and Claire Pentecost (Watershed)Panelists: Tristan Finazzo, Chang-Ching “Casper” Su, Rhett Tsai (Luring Offline), Jessica Zi ChenRhett Tsai will take part in the event by presenting the interactive text-based program Luring Offline (钓无线), in which the texts are made available for viewers
- [Screening: Sille Kima, "Brilliance" (25' 9"), January 11, 6 pm](https://watershed-art.org/screening-sille-kima-brilliance-25-9-january-11-6-pm/) - Screening in presence of the filmmaker: Sunday, January 11, 6 pm Through aggressive mirroring, including glimmers from the Atacama desert to Zaporizhzhia, Riga, Šiauliai, Vilnius and Tallinn, Brilliance attempts to give a glimpse of the flickering hologram-shift from socialism to neoliberalism, from the eyes of the generation born into the new freedom. What is the
- [Kao Ra Zen, "Hippy Holy Daze #8," Dec 13](https://watershed-art.org/kao-ra-zen-hippy-holy-daze-8-dec-13/) - HIPPY HOLY DAZE annual music and art holiday celebration curated by Kao Ra Zen, returns for its 8th incarnation! Featuring performances by artists of many disparate performance practices, Hippy Holy Daze has become an anticipated holiday tradition! A gift to you from Watershed Art & Ecology, Kao Ra Zen, and his friends in the Chicagoland
- [Marie Lorenz: "Undertow," Nov 8 - Dec 6, 2025](https://watershed-art.org/marie-lorenz-undertow-nov-8-dec-6-2025/) - Opening with the artist: Saturday Nov. 8, 2-7pmArtist talk: 6pm, followed by reception Visiting hours: Saturdays, 2-7pm, or by appointment Netting, bottles, rope, and wrappers: presenting Undertow, Marie Lorenz’s first Chicago solo exhibition, a smorgasbord of printed debris and shoreline discoveries. For twenty years, Marie Lorenz has traced New York Harbor’s tidal patterns, serving as
- [Ro(b)//ert Lundberg: "by-passing-upon," October 10-12](https://watershed-art.org/rob-ert-lundberg-by-passing-upon-october-10-12/) - Opening reception: Friday Oct. 10, 6-9pm,with performances at 7pm by Ro, Paige Alice Naylor, Andrew Tham Visiting hours: Sunday Oct 12, 2-7pmClosing talk: Sunday Oct. 12 at 3pm Speakers burble in different corners of the room. A tapestry-length score prompts audiences with graphics, musical notation, and text annotations. Various vessels and surfaces marked in multi-colored
- [PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #3, Sat, Oct 4, 7pm](https://watershed-art.org/performance-mixtape-3-sat-oct-4-7pm/) - 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. Doors open at 7:00pm on October 4,
- [Marina Resende: "Ground Value," September 4-8](https://watershed-art.org/marina-resende-ground-value-september-4-8/) - price of one lot in a poor neighborhood: 628 years growing potatoes on that lot join us at Watershed on Thursday September 4, 6-10 pm, for the opening with Marina,or on Friday at 6pm, for the film 628 Years of Potatoesor on Sunday September 7, at 5pm, for a walk and screening at El Paseo
- [Under the Sun, As it Were - Thursday June 26, 5-9pm](https://watershed-art.org/under-the-sun-as-it-were-thursday-june-26-5-9pm/) - Poetry Reading at 7. Lecture Performance at 8.One night only, at 1821 S Racine Ave. Under the Sun, As it Were is a celebration of the subjunctive mood; a wishful thinking for the seemingly out of our grasp. Taking place in honor of the summer solstice, we present to you a speculative speciation of the
- [Tarot and Mermaids, June 20, readings 6:30 to 8:30](https://watershed-art.org/tarot-and-mermaids-june-20-readings-630-to-830/) - Hi all, you're warmly invited to Tarot and MermaidsWatershed Art & Ecology1821 S. Racine, in Pilsen Fri. evening June 20 -- solstice!, 6:30--8:30 Free Tarot readings by Claire Pentecost and Maud Lavin,first come, first served Copies of Maud's eco-novel Mermaids and Lazy Activists (From Beyond Press,cover image by artist Iris Bernblum) availablefor purchase (optional), part of
- [PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #2, Saturday June 14, 7pm](https://watershed-art.org/performance-mixtape-2-saturday-june-14-7pm/) - 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. NEW PERFORMANCE NOW! Doors open at 7:00pm
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- [Felipe Macia, "Practices of Place," May 10 - June 7](https://watershed-art.org/felipe-macia-practices-of-place-may-10-june-7/) - Informational flyer here: Practices of Place
- [Saturday April 18: Brian Massumi in conversation with Matthew Goulish](https://watershed-art.org/saturday-april-18-brian-massumi-in-conversation-with-matthew-goulish/) - Pilsen Community Books and Every house has a door present: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life Saturday April 19th, 2:00 PM, at Watershed Art and Ecology, 1821 S. Racine Ave Or on Zoom recording: https://vimeo.com/1078743217 Roger Peet's show, Dig Up the Sun, will reopen at 5 pm - visitors can
- [Spill Paint Not Oil: Poem for Entangled Living, March 23-29](https://watershed-art.org/spill-paint-not-oil-poem-for-entangled-living-march-23-29/) - Sunday, March 23, 4-7pm at Watershed Art & EcologyMeet and Greet!Monday, March 24, 7pm at Pilsen Community BookstoreBook discussion of "We Are Nature Defending Itself"Wednesday, March 26, 6-9pm at Co-ProsperityParticipatory Art BuildFriday, March 28 6-10pm and Saturday 3-6pm at WatershedCelebratory activation of A Poem for Entangled Living In November 2024 at the Kansas City Midway
- [David Nasca, Bleached Out Reef, January 13 – February 10, 2024](https://watershed-art.org/david-nasca-bleached-out-reef-january-13-february-10-2024/) - “Coral bleaching happens when corals lose their vibrant colors and turn white. But there’s a lot more to it than that. Coral are bright and colorful because of microscopic algae called zooxanthellae. The zooxanthellae live within the coral in a mutually beneficial relationship, each helping the other survive. But when the ocean environment changes—if it
- [Roger Peet: Dig Up the Sun, April 12 - May 3](https://watershed-art.org/roger-peet-dig-up-the-sun-april-12-may-3/) - history and identity at a nuclear scale Opening April 12, 2pm to 7pm - Artist talk at 5pm Address: 1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago / Last day: May 3, 2pm to 7pm Dig Up The Sun is an exhibit by Portland, Oregon artist Roger Peet. The exhibit is centered around a linoleum blockprint map which
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- [OVERFLOW -  the Mississippi in every state imaginable](https://watershed-art.org/overflow-the-mississippi-in-every-state-imaginable/) - In 2019, an extensive network of artists brought all their senses to the Mississippi River, paddling downstream in canoes, venturing up multiple tributaries, clambering over collapsing infrastructures, trudging across muddy banks and experiencing the river’s seasonal pulse. The project was entitled Mississippi: An Anthropocene River and it formed part of decade-long project called the Anthropcene
- [Jeanne Dunning – September 10 – October 29, 2022](https://watershed-art.org/jeanne-dunning-september-10-october-29-2022/) - JEANNE DUNNING Found objects (return to when the world was flat) — What’s left behind — Watching grass grow — A scab — Burn scar — Ash mandala — I burn myself in effigy People from the city go out to the forest, to care for it, to shape it across the seasons.They’re stewards of
- [Justine Kurland: September 16 – October 21, 2023](https://watershed-art.org/justine-kurland-september-16-october-21-2023/) - Outlander (except) Watershed Art & Ecology presents: An exhibition of new photographic collages by Justine Kurland This is the first exhibition of the large-scale works and the latest evolution of her ongoing project, SCUMB Manifesto. In 1967 the radical feminist and writer Valerie Solanas sold copies of her newly authored SCUM Manifesto on the streets
- [A Devil and a Witch Make a Nail, December 2 – January 6](https://watershed-art.org/a-devil-and-a-witch-make-a-nail-december-2-january-6/) - A Devil and a Witch Make a Nail is a dramatic duo exhibition. The title draws inspiration from a 1700s woodcut, a relic that encapsulates the mystical collaboration between human and supernatural forces, crafting objects that defy the natural course of growth. In his seminal work, “The Denial Of Death,” cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker delves into
- [Jeremy Bolen and Brian Holmes, February 17 – March 9, 2024](https://watershed-art.org/jeremy-bolen-and-brian-holmes-february-17-march-9-2024/) - EARTH TIME How does the Earth tell time? And what do we humans have to do with it? Geologists reveal a timescale outside any direct perception: a Great Oxygenation Event, vast carbon cycles, deep sea trenches spreading magma, tectonic shifts of continents. But today some geologists are telling us the time is out of joint,
- [Kishwacokee Kinship: Reimagining Relatives, March 16 – April 13, 2024](https://watershed-art.org/kishwacokee-kinship-reimagining-relatives-march-16-april-13-2024/) - Kishwacokee is the name that Black Hawk used to refer to the place in Northwestern Illinois where the Rock and Kishwaukee Rivers meet. That meeting of waterways was also a natural meeting place for people. When waters meet, there is a bringing together of their energies, an opportunity to combine and mix and interact. Those
- [Nina Elder and Alexis Elton: Performance, Sunday, April 28, 3-5pm](https://watershed-art.org/nina-elder-and-alexis-elton-performance-sunday-april-28-3-5pm/) - BREATH MOUNTAIN As artists and researchers, Nina Elder and Alexis Elton are in a long term exploration of places that respirate: Breath Mountain. Seeking cycles of oxygen and moisture, Nina and Alexis use their bodies, sculptures, and video installations as clouds – sites of accumulation, condensation, and release. Through their residency at Watershed, they are
- [BADS_lab – Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences, May 10 -20](https://watershed-art.org/bads_lab-black-arts-and-decolonial-sciences-may-10-20/) - From 10 May through 20 May 2024, the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines and the Fyrthyr Institute for Unsettling Technologies invite you to join the BADS_lab at Watershed for a series of lectures, panels, workshops, open studios, and participatory experiments in the Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences. BADS_lab is an experimental gathering for artists, philosophers, scientists, technologists, and organic intellectuals who
- [Dance performance: Elise Cowin and Josh Hoglund, June 6 – 7 – 8](https://watershed-art.org/dance-performance-elise-cowin-and-josh-hoglund-june-6-7-8/) - Ode to the Living Tree and the Conference of Birds Showtimes: June 6, 7pm; June 7, 7pm; June 8, 2pm and 7pm – at Watershed Art & Ecology, 1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago Reservations required: http://tinyurl.com/ode-birds ($15 donation or pay-what-you-can). The dance will last about an hour. There is no late seating. Ode to the Living Tree and the Conference of Birds is a dance between improvisation
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- [A. LAURIE PALMER](https://watershed-art.org/a-laurie-palmer/) - Opening in presence of the artist: Saturday, August 24, 2 – 7 pm With a reading by poet Matthias Reagan on opening night. When I started recording the birds in Santa Cruz this spring, it seemed that they were suddenly everywhere— “pilgrims of the obvious.” And their voices were so various and sweet, against the
- [Faheem Majeed and Southside Community Art Center](https://watershed-art.org/faheem-majeed-and-southside-community-art-center/) - This installation, entitled Stargazer, combines a repurposed drywall jack with a historical reproduction replica of the window covering used in Majeed’s other installation Nkisi (also on view in this exhibition). Stargazer expands Majeed’s reflections on the continuous presence of holes on the Center’s main gallery walls by reimagining them through the lens of Black cosmologies.
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