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 on June 14, 1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago
Featuring:
Etude for a Kitchen by Sofia Carbonara
Sofia Carbonara is a percussionist and performance maker based in Melbourne, Australia. They design collaborative, interdisciplinary works with artists in their community, including mixed-chamber ensemble Virago, which have been presented by the Australian Art Orchestra, Brunswick Music Festival, Detroit Institute of Art, Great Lakes Chambers Music Festival, and University Music Society (UMS) Community Programming. Solo work includes Sofia’s debut EP for solo vibraphone, On Names (Alien Passengers records, 2023) and their short film Flight (2022) with Matt Lima Films. Sofia is a Ludwig-Musser Australia endorsed artist, was the Australian Art Orchestra 23/24 Pathfinder Associate Artist, and pursued graduate research in Jazz and Improvisation at the University of Melbourne. Sofia is an Ecuadorian/Venezuelan American born and raised in Buffalo, New York. They have previously lived in Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan. You can find them at sofiacarbonara.com.
Trio by Eunjin Choi
Non contact improvisation with three stools.
Eunjin Choi is a performance maker and writer from South Korea. She draws from her background in dance, choreography, and theatre to investigate subjects such as disappearance and grief, incapacitated and unproductive bodies, performance and objecthood, and language and performativity. She received her MFA in Choreography from Korea National University of Arts and in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has presented her work at Seoul Dance Center, Nam June Paik Art Center (Korea), PACT Zollverein (Germany), Judson Church (New York), PAM (Los Angeles), Defibrillator (Chicago), and more.
@choi_eunjinn www.choieunjin.com
New work by Zachary Nicol
Zachary Nicol is an artist and performer based in Chicago. Their performance and video work uses research in dance, movement, site, and image to unfold problems of representation and the performing body. Their solo and collaborative work has been presented at venues including Museo Universitaro del Chopo (Mexico City), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 6018|North, Blanc Gallery, Links Hall, Pivot Arts, Trap Door Theatre, Co-Prosperity, Lumpen Radio, filmfront, OuterSpace, Compound Yellow (Chicago), Krannert Center for Performing Arts (Urbana, IL), the National Museum of Romanian Literature (Bucharest), S1 Gallery (Portland, OR), among others. Nicol was a 2023 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, has been artist in residence with Ragdale Foundation, Annas Projects, ACRE, and Links Hall, and has received support from Villa Albertine and Chicago Artists Coalition. zacharynicol.info
Speak to the House Speak to the Object by Camillie Casemier and Selena Kearney
An essay performed for a live audience that weaves together our individual photographic works, capturing contrasting perspectives on the evolving situation at the Field Museum following the NAGPRA update of January 2024. Through spoken texts, we articulate our distinct positions within the research, exploring how our respective heritages shaped and mediated our access to the museum’s spaces and collections. Central to the performance is a transmission—a gesture of connection and reverence—to sacred Coast Salish objects held within the museum.
Camille Casemier is a Chicago based artist whose work unpacks the cultural rituals of collecting and display through embodied, object-centered inquiry often given form by cameras and audiences. Trained in dance at The New School and shaped by her time with Bread and Puppet, she brings a physical sensitivity to the life of objects and the spaces they move through. She spends her days working at a resale shop, where she continues her research into the cultural narratives of accumulation.
camille-casemier.com @camillecasemier
Raised on the Chehalis Reservation in Washington State, Selena Kearney is a photographer and performance artist whose work centers Indigenous presence, place, and memory. She engages portraiture, documentary, and conceptual forms to serve her community and question systems of representation. Through image and performance, Kearney builds visual languages that honor cultural continuity and embodied history.
www.selenakearney.com @latchselena