Yelling at the Dark

An evening of live art (a mix of sound- and movement-based performance) celebrating the simultaneous absurdity and exhilaration of an insignificant act. The possibility of doing nothing. To explore strength in vulnerability, being our incongruous selves, recognizing our obtuse nature. Bubbling to the surface and being loud to root in embodiment.

March 10, 2018 at Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

Doors at 7:30pm with Existential Coat Check. Performance 8pm, $10 suggested donation.

Organizers:
Sara Zalek, artist - saratonin.com
Christine Olson, performance and movement artist - christineolsonart.com

Christine Olson

Christine Olson is a time-based artist residing in Madison, WI since 1997. She creates performance art, immersive installations and interactive digital art pieces. Recently Christine has performed at “MUNICIPAL,” a pop-up art event in the Madison Municipal Building, and also at Arts + Literature Laboratory. She also had on display an interactive digital art piece at the Madison Central Public Library. Her interests are Butoh, Dada, Deco, and the surreal. She enjoys curating one-night-only performance art events.

Louise Bock

Other known solo work as Taralie Peterson, Tar Pet and in the legendary psych band Spires that in the Sunset Rise. Taralie works with mainly sax, clarinet, cello, voice, and denatured lap harp. Her work combines the rarely explored territories of conceptual atonal/repetitive ideas with personal infection. Mystical, ecstatic, spiritual, dark, otherworldly explorations.

Trickster Quartet

Sara Zalek (movement), Elaine Lemieux (voice), and Hanna Brock (instrumentalist). We explore the dynamics of resonance in relation to space using genres of classical scores, experimental opera, improvised sound, expanded cinema, and Butoh dance. Our gestures come from strong desire to communicate intimately, to seek an opening to our fears in an embrace. Ultimately, we want to surprise, disarm, and uplift the spirit, to continue weaving the long tail of our evolutionary story. We have been making in this collective for two years in all sorts of venues in Chicago, including Chicago Cultural Center, Edgar Miller Legacy Studio, Silent Funny, Ragdale Foundation and the Hungry Brain. We have been supported by Chicago Dancemakers Forum, Cheney Foundation, the City of Chicago, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation.

Marina Kelly

Marina Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist who designs situations that bring people together, creating intimate occasions, site responsive performances, live art tableaux and sculptural installations. She collaborates with Madison-based musician Stephanie Rearick (stephanierearick.com), along with visual/textile artist Aliza Rand and movement artists Bethany Alway and Jim Vogel in a structured improvisation taking inspiration from the visual dust and confused sensations of a night poorly slept and, more practically, the early days of the Cabaret Voltaire.

Ginger Krebs

Ginger Krebs is a dance maker, performer, and visual artist whose work has been shown recently in Chicago at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Loyola University, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hyde Park Art Center, and site-specifically at a traffic island in Wicker Park. Much of her movement suggests potential energy: the quivering of a body managing, defying, preparing for, or avoiding, rather than progressing decisively through space. Some inspirations for her new project, Escapes and Reversals, include wrestling, drone warfare, Swan Lake, and an instructional video that explores how to debone a chicken. Krebs is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Performance and Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mimi Wallman

Born in California and raised in the South in the blue grass country of Kentucky and then finally the rich and densely foliaged Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, Mimi was informed by the solitude of tress and spirits, her grandmother’s piano, and that frisson of sounds that permeated her body, like the wind that whistles and vibrates through a baby bird’s barbs, and is wrangled by the vane and rachis until finally it took flight. She had barely scratched the surface of how her instrument was to develop, stepped into the house music of Chicago — after a heavy metal background, hearing her voice on a radio station here as a soul singer, exploring commercial music, industrial, and finally studying voice and poetry on scholarship, dovetailing into jazz until she found her own voice. Then she joined the mighty ONO band, which took her into reals of improvisation and performance that changed her forever. Mimi creates the entire movement and narrative live, right in front of you, a... Read More

Aurora Tabar

The Existential Coat Check is a pop-up booth that appears in and around Chicago. Visitors of the Coat Check are invited to check their mental baggage through a series of writing, drawing and meditation activities that promote physical and mental awareness. Drop by and leave your worries behind!

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

Our galleries are open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday noon to 5pm, and other programs take place throughout the week. Please check the events calendar and education section for details.

CALENDAR