Goat Island Summer School Symposium

This July features the tenth and final Goat Island Summer School hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To mark the conclusion of this decade-long ecstatic experiment in collaborative performance practices, to end properly, and simply to celebrate, this year’s session will conclude with a free public one-day symposium. Stephen Bottoms (University of Leeds, UK) will present the keynote on The Avant-garde and the Midwest. Panelists Carol Becker (Columbia University), Abhay Ghiara, Marin Blazevic (University of Zagreb, Croatia), and Judd Morrissey (SAIC) will address the subject Community without Unity; and panelists/Summer School alumni Rebecca Groves, Judith Leemann, and Jorge Lucero will address the statement What I have learned cannot be generalized, but it can be shared. Goat Island members will present a collaborative lecture, and artist and Summer School alumna Sara Schnadt will present a performative installation. Lunch will be provided. In the evening, a program of work by artists and Summer School alumni will feature video by Dani Leventhal, and live performances by Deva Eveland, and Brian Torrey Scott and friends. Please join us for this singular event.

Sponsored in part by the Performance Department at SAIC.

For more information contact John Rich: goatislandperformance@gmail.com