Date & Time
7:00pm CDT - 8:30pm CDT
About This Event
ABOUT THE Co-MISSION FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
Links Hall is proud to announce the 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events. Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, four artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2023-2024 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi and Fellows Najee-Zaid Searcy and Lani T. Montreal.
SCHEDULE:
Friday, June 21st, 2024: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024: Lani T. Montreal
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024: Lani T. Montreal
Friday, June 28th, 2024: Najee-Zaid Searcy
Saturday, June 29th, 2024: Najee-Zaid Searcy
Sunday, June 30th, 2024: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
AiRos 頌恩 medill (Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence) is a yellow hapa nonbinary trans Taiwanese american circle keeper, care worker, storyteller, facilitator, bodyworker, and culture bearer who is moving to organize abundance in the ecology of home. AiRos practices with the 5 elements (water, wood, fire, metal, earth) to align bodies to heaven and earth in reciprocity and reverence of feeling and the distribution of energies. As part of the diaspora air has a lifelong practice of traveling, moving through and shifting culture.
Jamila Kekulah (Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence) is ever evolving. They are a mover, an observer, a movement creator, a lifelong learner, and a deep listener of the body. Jamila is interested in investigating how we inhabit ourselves and each other in this human experience.
Eshan Rafi (Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence) is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, expanded photography, and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Their work has been exhibited, performed, and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary; and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi holds an MFA in Art, Theory, and Practice from Northwestern University, Evanston.
Najee-Zaid Searcy (Co-MISSION Fellow) is a Chicago born interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance and identity. Najee-Zaid uses their background in music, facilitation, and informal arts learning to explore the intersection of space and identity within the context of healing modalities through his new body of work “Immersion” which received its debut at Elastic Arts late 2022. Najee-Zaid’s latest works combine elemental and plant ancestries with the human experience while hybridizing his performance acoustically, electronically, and spatially with a range of accessible sensory activations. Learn more at najeezaidsearcy.com.
Lani T. Montreal (Co-MISSION Fellow) is a queer feminist Filipina writer, educator, and performer based in Chicago. Her plays have been read and produced in the U.S., Canada, and the Philippines, mostly by CIRCA-Pintig Filipino-American Theatre Group. Likewise, her essays and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies, among them LitBop Magazine, Rattle, MiPoesias, Riksha and others. Lani writes to create her home in the diaspora. She is currently a Chicago Dramatist Network Playwright, was a Resident Artist at Free Street Theater (2017), two-time recipient of 3Arts Residency Awards (2016 and 2009), and a 2017 alumni of VONA Writers of Color Workshop.
TICKETS:
Available on a sliding scale from $16-$42
About This Event
ABOUT THE Co-MISSION FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
Links Hall is proud to announce the 2024 Co-MISSION Festival of New Works, two groundbreaking weekends of new performance and public events. Representing some of the most talented makers in Chicago from dance, performance art, installation, and performance as social practice, four artists present works developed while in-residence at Links during the 2023-2024 season. Featured artists include: Links Hall Residents AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi and Fellows Najee-Zaid Searcy and Lani T. Montreal.
SCHEDULE:
Friday, June 21st, 2024: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024: Lani T. Montreal
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024: Lani T. Montreal
Friday, June 28th, 2024: Najee-Zaid Searcy
Saturday, June 29th, 2024: Najee-Zaid Searcy
Sunday, June 30th, 2024: AiRos 頌恩 medill, Jamila Kekulah, and Eshan Rafi
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
AiRos 頌恩 medill (Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence) is a yellow hapa nonbinary trans Taiwanese american circle keeper, care worker, storyteller, facilitator, bodyworker, and culture bearer who is moving to organize abundance in the ecology of home. AiRos practices with the 5 elements (water, wood, fire, metal, earth) to align bodies to heaven and earth in reciprocity and reverence of feeling and the distribution of energies. As part of the diaspora air has a lifelong practice of traveling, moving through and shifting culture.
Jamila Kekulah (Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence) is ever evolving. They are a mover, an observer, a movement creator, a lifelong learner, and a deep listener of the body. Jamila is interested in investigating how we inhabit ourselves and each other in this human experience.
Eshan Rafi (Co-MISSION Artist-in-Residence) is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, expanded photography, and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Their work has been exhibited, performed, and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary; and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi holds an MFA in Art, Theory, and Practice from Northwestern University, Evanston.
Najee-Zaid Searcy (Co-MISSION Fellow) is a Chicago born interdisciplinary artist with a focus on performance and identity. Najee-Zaid uses their background in music, facilitation, and informal arts learning to explore the intersection of space and identity within the context of healing modalities through his new body of work “Immersion” which received its debut at Elastic Arts late 2022. Najee-Zaid’s latest works combine elemental and plant ancestries with the human experience while hybridizing his performance acoustically, electronically, and spatially with a range of accessible sensory activations. Learn more at najeezaidsearcy.com.
Lani T. Montreal (Co-MISSION Fellow) is a queer feminist Filipina writer, educator, and performer based in Chicago. Her plays have been read and produced in the U.S., Canada, and the Philippines, mostly by CIRCA-Pintig Filipino-American Theatre Group. Likewise, her essays and poetry have been published in journals and anthologies, among them LitBop Magazine, Rattle, MiPoesias, Riksha and others. Lani writes to create her home in the diaspora. She is currently a Chicago Dramatist Network Playwright, was a Resident Artist at Free Street Theater (2017), two-time recipient of 3Arts Residency Awards (2016 and 2009), and a 2017 alumni of VONA Writers of Color Workshop.
TICKETS:
Available on a sliding scale from $16-$42
Date & Time
7:00pm CDT - 8:30pm CDT