Justin Cooper: Thread

Thread offers Justin Cooper's first large-scale sculpture/installation, the exhibition is bookended with two performances featuring Cooper with Noelle Mason and Ross Moreno. The installation and performances will interact together intimately, like lovers, as well as ignore each other completely, like lovers. Meanwhile, several dichotomies will be pressed into service: temporality vs. permanence; abstraction vs. personification; audience vs. performer; speech vs. gesture; observed impossibility vs. unseen possibility; low profile vs. high body mass; hard factual accounting vs. ethereal hazy accounting; retention vs. loss; celestial chimes vs. terrestrial drums; object vs. space; cold equations vs. heartwarming pseudoscience; eye-witness account vs. eye-witness account; acting vs. re-acting; realistic expectation vs. idealistic projection; unexplained giant fur-covered paper bag vs. explained giant fur-covered paper bag etc... Closing Night Performance pitting preservation vs. destruction: Saturday, May 31, 4:30 pm Gallery 400's At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago series annually commissions four new projects from Chicago area artists, designers and architects. At the Edge aims to support experimental projects that might not find support elsewhere. Tuesday through Friday, 10am - 6pm Saturday 12-6pm And by appointment Admission to the gallery is FREE. http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu

Event Location

Venue: 

Gallery 400

Address: 

400 South Peoria Street (at Van Buren)
Chicago, IL 60607
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Neighborhood: 

West Loop