InLine II 

Double-sided gold and blue riso print poster design: Alexa Viscius

InLine: a performance and sound event
                                                    about lines of power
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​Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St.
4th Floor staircases and Yates Room
 July 9th 2017
Sunday afternoon
2-5:30pm

A line connects or separates, extends or contains. A line can be a manifestation of power, a border (who draws the line), a response (establishing boundaries between bodies and body politic). A line is a decision; a line is an object of conflict.

The Chicago Cultural Center is a historic and cultural landmark which is the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. Playing with and questioning the grandeur and display of power that the space represents we have invited artists who “do not cut the line” instead to investigate these lines of power, place and the body. Trasversing the 4th floor, the artists of InLine are performing these lines through different mediums. By moving a line from paper to the body, to a screen and so on, the line -the form’s meaning- layers and becomes more complicated with each reiteration. We can think of these echoes as translation processes.

InLine is therefore about both translation and lines of power, about 'keeping in line', within the limits of our social positions. It is about processes of identifications and disidentifications, and the languages available to us to do so. It is about the unavoidable trespassing that occurs when one expands beyond these boundaries.

Curated by Mitsu Salmon and Rebecca Ladida

Works by
Muyassar Kurdi 
Milad Mozari and Pooyan Nassehpoor
Jessica Borusky 
Precious Jennings with Hamid Drake and Rachel Bunting
Nabeela Vega
Rohan Zhou-Lee and Kitt Lyles

Performative curatorial statements by
Rebecca Ladida
Mitsu Salmon

Navigator and program designer 
Sam Chao

Video tracer-archiver 
Eryka Dellenbach

Sound tracer-archiver 
Jason Culver

Graphic designer 
Alexa Viscius
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