#group improvisation

Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery [@DFBRL8R ] invites you to participate in SAME but DIFFERENT, a global  group improvisation taking place during the last hour of daylight on the last day of winter in alignment with the equinox on Wednesday, March 19, from 6–7 PM, at the summit of Mount Bridgeport in Palmisano Park at 2700 S Halsted Street in Chicago. 

Happening worldwide on the spring equinox — a celestial moment when our day and night are the same duration — SAME but DIFFERENT is an international day to celebrate freedom through collective actions in public spaces. Rooted in a spirit of cosmic equilibrium, people around the world come together as a global  community, connected through creativity. 

Let’s meet at the edge of day and night! For exactly one hour — from 6 to 7 PM — participants have creative freedom to present actions of any kind, simultaneously. Embracing improvisation and collaboration, you are encouraged to bring objects to explore and share.

SAME but DIFFERENT | WED 19 MAR 2025 | 6-7PM

This idea of exploring the interconnected role of the performative collaboration and the citizen in shaping and transforming public space has been a fundamental endeavor of Same but Different (Equinox) and its artists worldwide since a symposium hosted by Bbeyond in Belfast in 2017. During this event, Chumpon Apisuk proposed a day of public action as a follow-up to Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (September 2016), where 283 artists from around the world (45 locations in 29 countries) worked together in public spaces.

Apisuk said, "It is the day that all states must recognize and allow actions from the people which are peaceful and non-violent. This day of action can be with or without context, but for the recognition of all people’s rights to share the public space together, in solidarity with each other, in respect of each other’s rights to share the same public space, as well as the time.”

More and more countries are experiencing social unrest due to the rise of governmental restrictions on basic human rights. Every continent is experiencing some form of repression of civil liberties, be it individual, social, economic, political, religious, cultural, or environmental. These rights are at the forefront of what makes us human and shape civil society.

The global discourse initiated by Same but Different (Equinox) is based on an openness to talk about public space as a social and political sphere. The pandemic has increasingly shown us that public space is essential for community life. It is a place of physical creation that is repeatedly claimed and interpreted by a variety of groups and movements. 

* Visit the Facebook group Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox  to follow the global movement and see prior iterations.