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December 2016
In Search of Margaretta Black 1823-1872
NON:op Artistic Director and Composer Christopher Preissing and North Carolina-based author Amey Miller are collaborating on a 'sound-book' called In Search of Margaretta Black. “Occasioned by the genealogical search for an ancestor of uncertain parentage, and through a process of collecting, arranging, rummaging and ruminating materials—both sound and text—the is a miscellany that mimics the actual Directory of the Borough of West Chester for 1857 in many particulars of contents and layout. It includes a narrator’s essay, genealogical charts, maps,…
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FEED: LOVE-IN
Positive Resistance in an Age of Fear
Tickets NON:op's THIRD SALON ...is a response to the current political climate and in particular to the recent executive order on immigration. Offering a space for open dialogue on diversity and inclusivity, the FEED: LOVE-IN will feature finger painting, five courses of food and beer, love songs, poetry readings and video—all fostering the creation of unity from diversity. Five food courses served by Eric May and Piranha Club feature a 70's hippy take on international cuisine with influences from countries…
Find out more »SUS: the long thin wire (automated installation)
SUS: the long thin wire is a performance-installation for suspended string trio, long tuned wires and piano resonator. Inspired by a collaboration with Pia Cruzalegui, SUS was conceived by composer, intermedia artist and producer Christopher Preissing. Working with Hugh Sato—an interactive data processor—the two collaborated to develop a musical instrument we can all play simply by moving in the Popular Library. (Ground Floor of the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center) SUS is short for SUStain—to support from below;…
Find out more »September 2017
FEED: to play, to be happy, to dream
celebrating Chicago’s Henry Darger
In celebration of Henry Darger’s 125th birthday, NON:op Open Opera Works, Bodies of Work, and Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art present FEED: to play, to be happy, and to dream. Local performing artists present an eclectic range of short works to honor Henry Darger's legacy from a disability culture perspective
Find out more »November 2017
Coming Together
CLICK HERE to Purchase Tickets CLICK HERE to View Performers A war of aggression. Oppression. Racism. Human rights. And in the midst of this, we’re required to celebrate America’s “greatness.” I’m not talking about now — were you thinking that? No, no — not now . . . this was the 1960s. Remember that? Vietnam. Black power. Liberation. Women. Gays. People of color. How can music, art, theatre even begin to make a difference now? How could it possibly have…
Find out more »April 2018
FEED: Frontier Feminists
Tickets: https://feed.brownpapertickets.com/ Join us for a celebration of the Frontier Feminists who trailblazed a path to the farthest reaches of America from the Alaskan wilderness to the isolated Black Hills to the desolate plains of Arkansas. Travel with us for an evening of food, beer, song, and storytelling as we explore America through the eyes of female pioneers who first settled it. Words by Willa Cather, Calamity Jane and other Frontier Feminists are set to music by musical pioneers…
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On The Cusp
Music : Words : Action PURCHASE TICKETS Where are the boundaries between sound, speech, act, silence, metaphor, and the real? Who sets these boundaries and on whose terms? On the Cusp (May 4, 2018) interrogates these and other boundaries. Liminal works of the past century—Samuel Beckett’s Cascando, Sam Shepard’s Tongues, Tristan Tzara’s A Gas Heart, Gertrude Stein’s A Circular Play—are performed by artists with and without disabilities, including Michael Herzovi, Arlene Malinowski, Kyle Price, Hal Christine, Sam Porretta, Steve Butters, and Christophe Preissing. Poised between theatre, music, and movement; between story,…
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FEED:ACT
Tickets: https://feed-act.brownpapertickets.com/ FEED:ACT - A communal feast for the body, mind, and soul. Kick off NON:op's 3rd season of programming and join us for a decadent all-you-can-eat bacchanalian feast for the body, mind, and soul. FEED:ACT features a crawfish boil with potatoes, corn, mushrooms, sausage, and of course, crawfish. A vegetarian alternative will be available and prepared separately. Beer courses provided by Metropolitan Brewing and middle brow beer. Live performances by The Velcro Lewis Group, Earth's premiere acid-rock, space-funk septet,…
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Lunch Hour Talk at Space p11
Space p11, 55 E. Randolph St., Pedway Level, Chicago Eric Leonardson and Christophe Preissing discuss their soundwalking and listening practices at Space p11, leading up to Saturday’s HEAR BELOW: Listening to Chicago Underground. Space p11 is an independent gallery for off-grid art, architecture and culture, located in the Chicago Pedway. Learn more at space-p11.com Register (optional) on Facebook
Find out more »HEAR BELOW: Listening to Chicago Underground
A Soundwalk in Chicago’s Pedway System led by Christophe Preissing and Eric Leonardson Register (optional) on Facebook 2:00 PM Saturday, February 9, 2019 Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground will explore the east to west route from the Illinois Center, passing through the Metra Station, South Shore Platform, Millennium Station, Chicago Cultural Center, Macy’s, the Red Line station, Block 37, the Blue Line Station, and end near Starbucks below the Richard J. Daley Center. We will stop and listen to…
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