Side Yard Sounds presents: "Out of Thick Air"

/ music + sounds + performance /

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Mallory Yanhan Qiu is a rising artist based in Chicago, Illinois, born in Chongqing, China in 2000. Her interdisciplinary approach reflects her deep passion and honed expertise in the areas of live video and sound performance, sonic exploration, body movement, poetry, and digital visual art. Fueled by her curiosity in the realm of physical sensation and mimicking biological movements, Qiu endeavors to invert the familiar and discover memory-laden locations that exist simultaneously in proximity and distance. Qiu has performed at Compound Yellow, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Elastic Arts, Mana Contemporary, {} () {} ∆ ‡ | () {} Nonation Art Lab, Research House for Asian Art, SAIC, and Tritriangle.

Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based multimedia artist, experimental vocalist, performer and Deep Listener currently interested in life cycles of the more than human (trees, fungi, cosmic forces), field recordings of trees native to the prairie and Midwest, and ways in which the voice, body, and poetry can express the intangible. She has exhibited work through the Wire Magazine (UK), Museum Villa Stuck (Germany), Recess (NYC), Vox Populi (Philadelphia),  Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Chicago Cultural Center, Terrain Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Park District, and many more. She recently released her solo album, The Unearthing, through Chicago label Monastral.

Hypothetical Star is a gravity-bound astronaut who shares research as freestyle vocal performance, photographs, and video projections. Expect to hear genre-busting electronica ranging from influences of: midwest house + techno, metal, dark wave, riot grrrl, japanese pop, american anthems, and most importantly blues tunings. Conceptually they exist somewhere in the trenches with Hito Steyerl, Laurie Anderson, Pussy Riot, and LeTigre. Hypothetical Star has performed at the Poetry Foundation, Chicago Cultural Center, Comfort Station, Elastic Arts, Mana Contemporary, {} () {} ∆ ‡ | () {} NoNation Tangential Art Lab, Compound Yellow, Remix Audio Bar (Santa Fe), Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Secret Gallery and Longhair Records (ABQ). MMM has exhibited their artwork internationally and is notably a former photographer and propagandist for NASA from 2004-2015. Nullt0pia is quality control as MMM's digital collaborator. He remains anonymous as a current satellite engineer based in New Mexico. With their combined career experiences in support of the military industrial complex this project became swan songs for peace and equity. Why don't we vote for Astronauts? Who benefits from modern inventions and data collection? Why was Sally Ride in the closet?

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curated by MMM

Mallory Yanhan Qiu

Paige Alice Naylor

Hypothetical Star

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