Join us at 3 p.m. on Saturday, 2/8th, at Compound Yellow to harvest our winter garden.
244 Lake St, Oak Park. 
Closing performance by Jaimie Lee @ 4:30 p.m.
In collaboration with Haven and Naz 

Fermentation circle offered by Alondra Sullani Soria, Gabriela Estrada Loochkartt, Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood and Pablo Lazala Ruiz

Featuring: 

ALBERTO AGUILAR, SAOIRSE C. AHUMADA FURIN, ELENA AILES, PEDRO ALBERTINI, CAMILA ARÉVALO, MARLENA MARG BRACKEN, GABRIELA ESTRADA LOOCHKARTT, LUCAS FAHEY, JUAN DAVID FIGUEROA, NICOLA FLORIMBI, SOFIA FERNANDEZ Y SOFIA GABRIEL, MARCO GUAGNELLI, JAIMIE LEE, SUN LYNN HUNTER, PEDRO MONTILLA, MERRYN OMOTAYO ALAKA, AVA ORRANTIA, KATA ORTIZ-THORNTON, JEFFERSON PINDER, FERNANDO SALDIVIA, DAVID SPECHER, ALLONDRA SULLANI SORIA, SUNI SONQO VIZCARRA WOOD, CHRISTIAN VARELA, BERENICE VARGAS BRAVO, JAVIER VINUELA ALEKSANDRA WALASZEK, HUNTER WHITAKER-MORROW, ADRIAN WONG, SIOBHÁN AJR WOOD, KELLY XI
 

We will become an island  

We inhabited, maintained, and wandered a winter garden for the past three months. Archipiélagos are island ecosystems of closeness and proximity. Likewise, a mature tree canopy, full of almost touching tree crowns (timidez bótanica, crown shyness), teaches us (shows/allows/whispers) how bodies that breathe next to each other cooperate and acknowledge other bodies. How to be bodies that are part of different bodies. How to be bodies floating on water and living in the sky. How the many bodies that form us and we form part of our bodies that we know with our entirety. The practices of this group of artists—their actions, objects and voices—are planted, nourished, and trimmed, together, in this space. They allow themselves (their many selves) to move, rearrange, and reedit their territories of occupation, to become islands; an archipiélago of crown shyness—imperfect crowns. These artists acknowledge that when someone refers to a living and breathing world as “a floating island of garbage,” many others will continue organizing, weaving, and resisting around them. In becoming islands, the many islands, they cannot be disposed.