October 30
Alberto Aguilar and Jesse Malmed - HOME MEANT IMPROV/UNCERTAINTY MAKES A GREAT SHOW
Opening Reception and Live Performance: October 30, 2-6p
Jesse: Home Meant Improv. Peppered throughout and to taste: sixteen sweet acts ceremonially mastered by Alberto Aguilar and Jesse Malmed (each with enough gentility to name the other first in their descriptions). To inaugurate an old space with a new name and new ideas, Al and Mal have devised a structure of sorts while disorganizing a series of performances within an exhibition. Each will perform—without planning or notes—a magic trick, a stand-up bit and a song. These interstitials play host to a series of improvising guests.
Alberto: Uncertainty Makes a Great Show. You are invited to a program of 16 uncertain acts. Jesse Malmed and Alberto Aguilar act as both master of ceremonies and co-curators. At this event they will perform one magic trick, one stand up comedy bit and an impromotu song. Along with this they will each invite 5 artists that will also perform during the program. An exhibition throughout the compound of all performing artists will be on view for an undetermined amount of time.
Invited Artists: Blair Bogin, Hui-min Tsen, Jimmy Schaus, Josh Rios, Madeleine Aguilar, Mitsu Salmon, Sadie Woods, Susy Bielak, Fred Schmalz (Balas & Wax), and more
JESSE MALMED is an artist and curator, working in video, performance, text, occasional objects and their gaps and overlaps. He has performed, screened and exhibited at museums. microcinemas, film festivals, galleries, bars and barns, including recent solo presentations at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, D Gallery, Syntax Season, Roots and Culture, the Chicago Cultural Center, Cinema Contra, Microlights, Echo Park Film Center, Lease Agreement and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center. www.jessemalmed.net
ALBERTO AGUILAR I will write this biography using 165 words but will not discover this number until it is complete. From this point forward he will be speaking in third person. Alberto Aguilar is a Chicago based aartist and was born there as well. Aguilar’s creative practice often incorporates whatever materials are at hand as well as exchanges with his family, other aartists, and people he encounters. His work bridges media from painting and sculpture to video, installation, performance, and sound and has been exhibited at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary AArt, the Queens Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American AArt, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of AArt, the Minneapolis Institute of AArt and the AArt Institute of Chicago. He holds a BFAA and an MFAA from the School of the AArt Institute of Chicago and currently teaches at Harold Washington College one of the City Colleges of Chicago. In order to create slight confusion, he has added an extra letter A where ever the word aart appears in this bio. www.albertoaguilar.org
October 28
Spencer Paul Hutchinson - I SEE MY LIGHT COME SHINING, ITERATION NO. 3
Opening Reception: October 28, 6-9p / Live Performance: 7:30p
“I See My Light Come Shining” is a sound based installation utilizing found objects that addresses the social history of African-Americans’ attempt to climb the “social ladder” and achieve the American Dream and confront the existential realities that are inherent in the struggle. The installation at Compound Yellow marks the third iteration of the installation and performance.
There will be a second sound piece debuted after the performance of I See My Light Come Shining titled "On Second Thought", a loosely composed/improvised piece for oscillating fan and violin. The piece calls into question the presence of technology in musical production and how the tools uses to enhance and even to disseminate music can put themselves at odds with the musician themselves.
JUNE 25
Katrin Schnabl: Angel Brigade I & II
Opening Reception: June 25, 2-5p
MaY 21
Temporary Services - Self-Reliance School
Temporary Services and Compound Yellow present the Self-Reliance Library and initiate the Self-Reliance School.
The Self-Reliance School will host classes, workshops, talks, public events, a book shop, a zine mercado and more from May – October 2017.
Self-Reliance Library (SRL) is an immersive installation consisting of a library of over 80 books, as well as banners and furniture that take influence from ideas found in the library. You can see the full list of books by clicking on the booklet cover below. A link to Installation images of the SRL can be found below in the sidebar.
Temporary Services is Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer. We started working together in Chicago in 1998 as a larger group. In 2008, we started Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and online store. We are currently based in Chicago and Fort Wayne (IN). We produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. The distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors is irrelevant to us.
Compound Yellow is an autonomous site for learning, researching and making that consists of multiple spaces for experimental exhibitions, public art, classes, workshops, film screenings, recording, and events located in Oak Park.
March 18 - April 24
Rachel Wallis - Gone But Not Forgotten
Sewing Circle: March 22, 6-9p / Artist Talk: March 18, 2-4p
Gone But Not Forgotten is a collaborative quilting project creating a memorial quilt for individuals killed by the Chicago Police Department or while in police custody from 2006 to 2015. In collaboration with the grassroots group We Charge Genocide, artist Rachel Wallis planned and organized a series of peace circles/quilting circles where participants could read the victims’ stories aloud, while creating a hand embroidered quilt in their memory. The circles have provided a safe space where more than 200 people from vastly different neighborhoods and backgrounds could come together and discuss transformative justice, police accountability, and community safety. Together, we created a six panel quilt which stretches nearly 40 feet in length and commemorating the lives of 144 individuals.
Compound Yellow will be exhibiting one of the six finished quilt panels, while hosting public quilting circles creating squares for the seventh, and final panel of the project.
MARCH 5 - MARCH 26:
CURTIS LOCKE - PERIPHERAL VISION - A CHICAGO PERIMETER RIDE PROJECT (2015-ONGOING)
Opening Reception: March 5, 2p / Periphery Ride: March 26, 8:30 - 9a / begins at The Point (Promontory Point) and will last approximately 6-7 hours.
Is the presence of a bicycle in an art gallery an inevitable Duchampian gesture, or is it sometimes just Freud's cigar? A bicycle without a cyclist is simply a potential ride, while a cyclist without a bicycle is a bi-ped. The Chicago perimeter ride is a fleeting, ephemeral yet concrete street traffic performance staged site-specific on the outskirts and along the city limits of Chicago. The streets serve as a fringe theater where the methodical, methodized actor-cyclist performs his routine. This ritual ride is repeated like a meditation, a prayer, poem, a song. The route is routinized but varies from time to time. This routine act, spinning bicycle and body, tracing boundaries and memories, traverses 90+ miles through Chicago's built environment. There have been 97 performances to date, both clock-wise and counter, encountering 39 of Chicago's 77 community areas and 30 adjacent municipalities, covering over 8,900 miles. During this same span another 10,000+ miles were pedaled outside the parameters of this project. These cyclical edge performances, fluid and mechanical, topographical but not isochronous, are typically six to seven hours in duration. Completing a circuit, I physically echo previous rides while simultaneously feel the invisible pull of (and anxiously anticipate) the next cycle round, looping endless endless.
APRIL 2 – MAY 7:
DAN S. WANG - PRIMES, DRAWINGS, WORKS ON PAPER, AND NO-WATT RADIO
Opening Reception: April 2, 2-6p / Closing Reception: May 6, 5-8p
Artist Talk at Compound Yellow: April 23, 4-6p
Our present political nightmare is a product of many beginnings, each one a loss for the Left, dating back to at least 1980. Some of these were political defeats, the result of failed campaigns—elections, strikes, legislative battles. Some were turning points of longer duration—the loss of ideas, of dreams. For this discussion on a spring afternoon, we hope to review our losses—both specific and general, across time and contexts. Philosopher Frederic Neyrat, writer and organizer Lorenza Perelli, and artist Dan Wang facilitate conversation in this exhibition with hope that we emerge with a clearer view of the score sheet as we gird for the battles spreading before us.
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