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Wall of drawing/painting from today’s #studioday
Claire Ashley

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Prospects: Julietta Cheung
Opening April 2, 7:00 pm
Running though April 23, 2016
In a recent conversation about the planning of the exhibition, Julietta mentioned that she became very emotional watching dancers move oddly and for long durations at a couple of performances she saw. It wasn't any romanticism that moved her to tears. She wondered why she is affected so differently by objects and images that seem to say the same things.
Julietta’s visual works comprise a text and derives its content from already existing sources and makes something altogether new. She mediates her observations of the objects and built spaces around them into syntactical arrangements of sculptures to create fiction. It isn’t a fictional narrative but in a qualitative feeling, a fictional sense translating and transcribing possibilities that already exist in our futures.
In her recent essay, “Minoritarian Enunciation and Global Product Culture” published by Kenning Editions, Julietta writes that our completely designed everyday experience is full of “forms and systems [that] follow rules, are conjugated, make up clichés, refer to a network of other things….” Her objects however speak more in the style of Jane Austen’s characters in one of her novels. In other words, focusing on aesthetic utility belies the coldness the actual utility her work fictionalizes. Maybe it isn’t something to cry over, but there is a subversive sweetness to it.
It is a pleasure to invite Julietta Cheung back to Ballroom Projects as a celebration of our third anniversary. Around this time in 2013, Julietta participated in the One Word salon, our first program as an artist-run space, alongside Jais Gossman, JM Demaree, and Courtney Mackedanz. Cheers to Julietta and to three years of Ballroom Projects!
This Wednesday we will present a screening of Video Documentation of last year's Out of Site Performance Festival! Please join us 7-9!
Announcing our 2016 Season opener with new work by Ben Gould. DON’T YOU EVER TELL ME TO GET REAL. I KNOW WHAT FUCKING REAL IS, OKAY? Opening February 13, 7:00 with live performance at 9:00 pm. Running through March 5th.
"I feel like a little boy on an alien planet, having recently been diagnosed with Tourette’s. I feel really young. I feel like I have to learn how to do everything over again, for the first time. Like I don’t know how to walk, I have this feeling of dumbfounded-ness... or like a 'what the fuck?' sort of feeling, whatever the word is for that – a feeling that can only be experienced when you are not on solid ground. Every time I twitch my body is telling me to get real, forcing myself back into the present, grounding myself (the way meditation grounds you). Everything gets pushed out through the cracks and all that’s left is your body breathing, or pounding or flailing or kicking. This loss of control opens up a door to a new sort of world with a new reality. Part of that reality is: Ben you can’t lift over ten pounds. Ben you can’t be a woodworker like you used to be. Ben you can’t climb even though it’s still important. But something remarkable about this world is that I’ve never hit anything so hard, or moved so fast. This exhibition and performance is part of an ongoing attempt to transform this raw, involuntary energy into something that feels beautiful, and not destructive. Instead of my spasms being like an engine stalling, they have become an engine. It is practice for everyday life, preparation for continuously entering the public world, and somewhere between worlds is the Ballroom. The Ballroom is a sieve in which everything lighter falls through and we’re left with the heavy things, and things that have real weight. There is mourning for the old world. You can see a rock and it’s actually a rock, and here’s a flower and it’s dying. The work navigates limits through the process of learning, while acknowledging the necessity for collaboration in a world where I am no longer entirely self-sufficient. Each work involves a relationship, and would not be possible without William Baumgarten, William Bradley, Matthew Davis, Nick Grasso, and Gabriella Lacza." Ben Gould currently lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. He was born in Grass Valley, California in 1993 and was raised there, in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, next to a decommissioned gold mine and a river.
Glass House: Intimacy with Buildings is a two-day program curated by Jeff Prokash and Danny Floyd exploring the intimate experiences that occur between the built environment and its observers. Rocío Azarloza, Jeremy Pellington, Joe Bochynski, and David Badesch present works that interweave personal reactions to the mundane architectural settings that stage our lives in the shadow of iconic, historical buildings. For these artists, inhabiting their surroundings, either domestic or public, is a form of studio research rife with emotion, play, and productivity.
Ballroom Projects also welcomes Mexico City-Based artist and researcher Pablo Rasgado as the keynote Speaker for a symposium on November 8 3pm-7pm of talks by artists in the show and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
For more information and panel times click here.
Opening November 7, 7pm-10pm and running though November 28
Thanks to SAIC Visual & Critical Studies, SAIC Interlink Visiting Artist Series, and The Chicago Architecture Biennial for their support.

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The Chicago Architecture Biennial Opens This Saturday!
There are just 4 more days until the official opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial! Starting October 3rd, we’re taking over the Chicago Cultural Center along with a number of venues around the city. There will be more than 200 events held over the course of the Biennial in partnership with over 100 cultural institutions in the city and region, so stay tuned to find out what’s coming up next. See you all in a few days!
Ballroom Projects is happy to announce the first in three programs in Partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial!
Join us for Fake Architects opening October 2 7:00-10:00pm and running though October 24.
In Fake Architects, artists Andrea Chiu and Nick Grasso present architectural frameworks and hypothetical structures that are recognizable in form, but reject contextual understanding.These designs and constructions employ common architectural systems while ignoring certified legitimacy. This exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with designed spaces and plans on their own terms; bridging the gap between function and nonsense.
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Join us this Saturday for a program of installation and sculpture. One night only! Curated by Jeremy Pauly.
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Dan Mrva in Orange You Glad!
Claire Ashley in Orange You Glad!

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Install shots from Orange You Glad! with Matt Mancini, Dan Mrva, and Claire Ashley
Ballroom Projects presents Orange You Glad! Featuring Dan Mrva, Claire Ashley, Matt Mancini curated by Danny Floyd
Opening June 13 7:00-10:00pm and continuing through July 4.
Humor is usually considered an art of representation. A classic, “What’s the deal with…” Seinfeld joke for instance, hopes to clearly depict a situation you know already so that you can relate to it. But this isn’t a hard and fast rule and certainly doesn’t ensure the joke is funny (sorry, Jerry). Puns, on the other hand, are works of abstraction. Their meaning lies in shifting the form of language away from it’s intended use. The artists in Orange You Glad! are also engaging in formal play, shifting between sculptural and painting forms, and like crafting comedy, they are relying on their wit and intellect to do so. While abstraction is the prominent feature of this exhibition, it is not a “show about nothing.” Rather, the work is about reveling in the joys of visual play, irreverence, and absurdity.
http://www.mattmancini.com/ http://www.claireashley.com/ http://danielmrva.com/
RVSP at our Facebook Event.
Join us this Thursday and Friday as we kick of Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE)! Thursday we’re hosting a reading by a number of great CAKE artists and Friday features a bunch of great touring bands in town for the festivities.
More details on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/957780330921340/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1644738172423444/
Judith Pedroza with Zoya Brumberg at Acerbunundrum.
Guy Eytan and Kelly Lloyd at Acerbunundrum.

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Yuri Stone and Michal Lynn Shumate at Acerbunundrum
Tina Tahir at Acerbunundrum