INAUGURAL
The first official Defibrillator performance art exhibition at Zhou B Art Center
Sat, 10 Feb, 2018 | 6pm | free
We are delighted to announce that the non-profit performance art organization Defibrillator is relocating to Zhou B Art Center in February 2018! Their Inaugural performance is on Saturday Feb 10th, featuring performance artists Moe Satt, Máire Witt O’Neill, Cameron Clayborn, and Angeliki Tsoli. There will be a reception at 6pm followed by performance art at 7pm - the event is free and open to the public.
Moe Satt (b. 1983), lives and works as an artist and curator in Yangon, Myanmar. Moe started creating art after graduating from East Yangon University in Myanmar with a degree in Zoology in 2005. Part of a new generation of emerging Burmese artists, Satt founded Beyond Pressure in 2008, an international festival of Performance Art in Myanmar. He has participated in Live Art festivals throughout Asia and Europe and has been invited to serve as the resident artist at several locations including Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia, 2008), International Residence at Recollets (Paris, 2015), IASPIA (Sweden, 2016), and ACC (New York, 2017). His work has been included in several major exhibitions, including the Busan Biennale (2012), CAFA Biennale (Beijing, 2013), Concept Context Contestation: Collective-Driven Art In Southeast Asia (Bangkok, 2013), and The Journal of the Plague Year (South Korea, 2014). An Age of Our Own Making (Roskilde , 2016), Political Acts_ Pioneers of performance art in Asia (Melbourne, 2017). Moe Satt was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2015. Moe Satt is currently a Jackman Goldwasser Resident Artist at Hyde Park Art Center, and his participation in this exhibition is made possible in partnership with Hyde Park Art Center and the Asian Cultural Council.
Cameron Clayborn is a conceptual sculptor, designer, performance artist, and community organizer. Clayborn created their personal brand bôdēbuilder in 2017. As a bôdēbuilder, Clayborn's practice works as a conglomerate that produces designed objects, performances, and events that focus on self care and exercise of their black queer body. Clayborn received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, has been a resident at Chicago Artist Coalition as part of HATCH Projects, exhibited and performed at Boyfriends, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago Art Department, Links Hall, Archer Ballroom Projects, and Tritriangle. Clayborn hosts and manages events at an artist run space named Fat City in Bridgeport and maintains a studio at Hyde Park Art Center. The performance for Inaugural is titled Substance (Performance 1), a video installation with performance that acts as an ongoing personal archive surveying the evolution of the artist’s identity and self descriptors.
Máire Witt O’Neill is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. She makes performance, reality television, lecture, and installation to undermine constructs of a broadly defined 'authority'—seeking stability in groundlessness. Her work claims that cultural and socio-political ideas can function more productively when held in contradiction to one another. O'Neill is one half of the collaborative duo, Mia+Máire. Their work has been described as being both “inexplicable and self-explanatory.” Their largest project to date is the performance of the corporation, SoftPantsStudios, which creates Sad Girls Club TV and the new Mad Girls aka MAGGOTS Club TV. O’Neill received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). O’Neill has exhibited and performed in venues such as Anthology Film Archives, NY; American Medium Gallery, NY; Mana Contemporary, NJ; Lithium Gallery, IL; High Tide, PA; Vox Populii, PA; Defibrillator, IL; The Nightingale Theater, IL; and Goldfinch Gallery, IL.
Angeliki Tsoli is an interdisciplinary visual performance artist and Fulbright Scholar from Athens, Greece, currently based in Chicago, USA. Her work explores the political, poetic and displaced body through actions in public space, photography, video, installations and experimental writing. Angeliki, has been working predominantly in the field of performance art for a number of years since studying in Spain at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and with the Erasmus European Exchange Program and Bartolomé Ferrando. Graduated with distinction from the department of Fine and Applied Arts from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is pursuing her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Angeliki, is a co-founder, of the performance platform [MIND THE] G.A.P - Gathering Around Performance, in Athens. Tsoli has exhibited and performed in places such as Defibrillator, IL , Lithium Gallery, IL, Rosekill Performance Space, NY. Has participated in a number of international workshops such as Venice International Performance Art Week, and has worked with La Pocha Nostra, Zierle & Carter, Manuel Vason, Tania Bruguera, BBB Johannes Deimling, Francesco Kiais, and Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, in addition to working as a lead assistant to commissioned artists (Zierle&Carter) for the SPILL Festival of Performance in London(2015). Moreover, has been selected twice as a young artist to participate in the art festival organized by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki. In Athens has been commissioned to make videos for theatrical performances in the Greek Theater of Karolos Koun and worked technically for the play “Satin Slipper” of Paul Claudel in the framework of Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2015).
Join Moe Satt in conversation with Nora Taylor
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center | 112 S Michigan Ave | Room 2M
Tuesday 20 February | 4:15-5:30PM
Free | ID required to access the building
About Defibrillator:
Defibrillator Gallery (a.k.a. DFBRL8R or ‘dfb’) was formed in 2010 as an international platform for performance art. Contextualizing performance within visual art, Defibrillator embraces those who look to the body in concert and conversation with time, space, object, architecture, or society. Courageous programming aims to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding underrepresented voices and time-based practices. Boldly confronting expectations about what art is and what art can be, Defibrillator is dedicated to fostering local talent while invigorating Chicago with artists of exceptional calibre from around the world.
DFBRL8R is a 501c3 non-profit organization made possible with support from the Zhou B Art Center; Apis Mellifera; Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust; Martha Strutters Farley and Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation; DFBRL8R Board of Directors; and generous contributions from our loving community.
Sat, 10 Feb, 2018 | 6pm | free
We are delighted to announce that the non-profit performance art organization Defibrillator is relocating to Zhou B Art Center in February 2018! Their Inaugural performance is on Saturday Feb 10th, featuring performance artists Moe Satt, Máire Witt O’Neill, Cameron Clayborn, and Angeliki Tsoli. There will be a reception at 6pm followed by performance art at 7pm - the event is free and open to the public.
Moe Satt (b. 1983), lives and works as an artist and curator in Yangon, Myanmar. Moe started creating art after graduating from East Yangon University in Myanmar with a degree in Zoology in 2005. Part of a new generation of emerging Burmese artists, Satt founded Beyond Pressure in 2008, an international festival of Performance Art in Myanmar. He has participated in Live Art festivals throughout Asia and Europe and has been invited to serve as the resident artist at several locations including Rimbun Dahan (Malaysia, 2008), International Residence at Recollets (Paris, 2015), IASPIA (Sweden, 2016), and ACC (New York, 2017). His work has been included in several major exhibitions, including the Busan Biennale (2012), CAFA Biennale (Beijing, 2013), Concept Context Contestation: Collective-Driven Art In Southeast Asia (Bangkok, 2013), and The Journal of the Plague Year (South Korea, 2014). An Age of Our Own Making (Roskilde , 2016), Political Acts_ Pioneers of performance art in Asia (Melbourne, 2017). Moe Satt was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2015. Moe Satt is currently a Jackman Goldwasser Resident Artist at Hyde Park Art Center, and his participation in this exhibition is made possible in partnership with Hyde Park Art Center and the Asian Cultural Council.
Cameron Clayborn is a conceptual sculptor, designer, performance artist, and community organizer. Clayborn created their personal brand bôdēbuilder in 2017. As a bôdēbuilder, Clayborn's practice works as a conglomerate that produces designed objects, performances, and events that focus on self care and exercise of their black queer body. Clayborn received their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, has been a resident at Chicago Artist Coalition as part of HATCH Projects, exhibited and performed at Boyfriends, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago Art Department, Links Hall, Archer Ballroom Projects, and Tritriangle. Clayborn hosts and manages events at an artist run space named Fat City in Bridgeport and maintains a studio at Hyde Park Art Center. The performance for Inaugural is titled Substance (Performance 1), a video installation with performance that acts as an ongoing personal archive surveying the evolution of the artist’s identity and self descriptors.
Máire Witt O’Neill is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. She makes performance, reality television, lecture, and installation to undermine constructs of a broadly defined 'authority'—seeking stability in groundlessness. Her work claims that cultural and socio-political ideas can function more productively when held in contradiction to one another. O'Neill is one half of the collaborative duo, Mia+Máire. Their work has been described as being both “inexplicable and self-explanatory.” Their largest project to date is the performance of the corporation, SoftPantsStudios, which creates Sad Girls Club TV and the new Mad Girls aka MAGGOTS Club TV. O’Neill received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). O’Neill has exhibited and performed in venues such as Anthology Film Archives, NY; American Medium Gallery, NY; Mana Contemporary, NJ; Lithium Gallery, IL; High Tide, PA; Vox Populii, PA; Defibrillator, IL; The Nightingale Theater, IL; and Goldfinch Gallery, IL.
Angeliki Tsoli is an interdisciplinary visual performance artist and Fulbright Scholar from Athens, Greece, currently based in Chicago, USA. Her work explores the political, poetic and displaced body through actions in public space, photography, video, installations and experimental writing. Angeliki, has been working predominantly in the field of performance art for a number of years since studying in Spain at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and with the Erasmus European Exchange Program and Bartolomé Ferrando. Graduated with distinction from the department of Fine and Applied Arts from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is pursuing her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Angeliki, is a co-founder, of the performance platform [MIND THE] G.A.P - Gathering Around Performance, in Athens. Tsoli has exhibited and performed in places such as Defibrillator, IL , Lithium Gallery, IL, Rosekill Performance Space, NY. Has participated in a number of international workshops such as Venice International Performance Art Week, and has worked with La Pocha Nostra, Zierle & Carter, Manuel Vason, Tania Bruguera, BBB Johannes Deimling, Francesco Kiais, and Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, in addition to working as a lead assistant to commissioned artists (Zierle&Carter) for the SPILL Festival of Performance in London(2015). Moreover, has been selected twice as a young artist to participate in the art festival organized by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki. In Athens has been commissioned to make videos for theatrical performances in the Greek Theater of Karolos Koun and worked technically for the play “Satin Slipper” of Paul Claudel in the framework of Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2015).
Join Moe Satt in conversation with Nora Taylor
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center | 112 S Michigan Ave | Room 2M
Tuesday 20 February | 4:15-5:30PM
Free | ID required to access the building
About Defibrillator:
Defibrillator Gallery (a.k.a. DFBRL8R or ‘dfb’) was formed in 2010 as an international platform for performance art. Contextualizing performance within visual art, Defibrillator embraces those who look to the body in concert and conversation with time, space, object, architecture, or society. Courageous programming aims to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding underrepresented voices and time-based practices. Boldly confronting expectations about what art is and what art can be, Defibrillator is dedicated to fostering local talent while invigorating Chicago with artists of exceptional calibre from around the world.
DFBRL8R is a 501c3 non-profit organization made possible with support from the Zhou B Art Center; Apis Mellifera; Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust; Martha Strutters Farley and Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation; DFBRL8R Board of Directors; and generous contributions from our loving community.
