Screenings, Artist Talk and IG Live Chemical (Re)Actions: Closing Weekend

Collage of photgraphs from Pilsen, Altgeld Gardens and Bubbly Creek © Goethe-Institut/Rosario E. Zavala

Fri, 07/09/2021 -
Sun, 07/11/2021

various locations in Chicago

A salon and a garden with a view

Please join the Chemical (Re)Actions program for a final weekend of closing events! There will be two live, in-person screenings with unique programs on July 10 at Altgeld Gardens and July 11 at Inga Bookshop, as well as an IG Live conversation on July 9 with Berlin-based curator and researcher Caroline Ektander, creator of the Toxic Commons, and a talk by Mexico City-based curator and writer Guillermo Garcia Pérez at 6 PM on his essay, The Transmortal Community, prior to the evening screening at Inga Bookshop in Pilsen.

Featured filmmakers and artists in the programs include Aarti Sunder, Fábio Erdos, Kayla Anderson, Mateo Vargas, Patrick O'Shea, Jennifer Boles, Eduardo Makoszay Mayén, Nancy Valladares and Valeria Meiller and Agustín Schang. 


Schedule


July 09, 1PM CDT
IG Live @GI_Chicago
with Caroline Ektander and Joshi Radin

Caroline Ektander is a Berlin-based curator and cultural researcher, currently pursuing a doctorate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her research is concerned with the remediation of industrial legacies and how to better account for the stakes that regularly fall outside the western, capitalistic paradigm. She is co-founder of the interdisciplinary platform Toxic Commons and regularly talks and writes about socio-environmental toxicity across the field of art and academia.

July 10, 1-3PM CDT
Film screening at Altgeld Gardens
CYC Building, 951 E. 132nd Pl., Chicago, IL 60827
Family friendly, food and refreshments will be served

THE REVERSAL by Jennifer Boles
AGUAS NEGRAS by Mateo Vargas
KE (YOU HAVE MANY TEACHERS) by Kayla Anderson
MEANDERING by Patrick O'Shea
THE GUARDIANS OF THE CERRADO by Fábio Erdos
(total running time approx 1 hour)
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July 11, 6PM CDT*
Artist Talk and film screening

Inga Books, 1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
*Alternate rain date: July 18, 6PM

6PM: Doors open, shop at Inga books, refreshments will be served

7PM: Guillermo Garcia Pérez on The Community of Transmortals

Guilermo Garcia Pérez is a curator and writer based in Mexico City, and creator of the recently launched platform luca.lat for discussions around politics, environment and social struggles. His essay, The Transmortal Community, expands conceptual approximations to issues such as historical accountability, death, community and politics of mourning.

8PM: Screening (total running time approx 1 hour)
WE OWE EACH OTHER EVERYTHING by Aarti Sunder
THE DENSITY OF BREATH by Nancy Valladares
O RIO ESCAPA by Eduardo Makoszay Mayén
THE CASE OF MEAT by Valeria Meiller & Agustín Schang

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