Kinetech Arts Pioneers Post-Lockdown Performance with Immersive/ Hybrid live-remote installation in Chicago from High Concept Labs
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High Concept Labs is requiring proof of vaccination for entry to in-person events. For guests with reasonable medical exemptions or sincerely held religious beliefs, guests must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time, or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within 6 hours of the performance start time. Please read our full Covid-19 procedures before attending an in-person event. Email yolanda@highconceptlabs.org with any questions.
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PASSAGE by Kinetech Arts in San Francisco is an immersive experience of performances, soundscapes, and interactive installations. In PASSAGE, we embrace the transience and uncertainties of each moment and the infinite future possibilities that are collapsed into memory as we pass through time. This hybrid of live and virtual dance performances, created by artists from the Bay Area and beyond.
PASSAGE will have live and remote audiences in both San Francisco and Chicago -- inspired and informed by 1.5 year’s worth of lockdown’s remote collaborations.
In Chicago, experience PASSAGE's live counterpart at High Concept Labs -- where HCL's Partner Artist in Residence Irene Hsiao develops a live experience with interactive installations in her remote collaboration with the Bay Area performance. Guests will also have the opportunity to explore the worlds of Mana Contemporary's participating fourth floor artists who will be opening their studios for this occasion. Guests are invited to attend at any point during the duration of the performance, with a suggesting visiting time between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Registration is strongly encouraged.
Inspired by the new mode of connectivity forced by lockdown, Kinetech Arts reinvisions what live performance means in a post-lockdown world and continues to pioneer innovative ways of creating, collaborating, and investigating at the intersection of dance, art, science, and technology.
Digital livestream will be available October 23rd at 9pmCST, and October 24th at 5pmCST. Tickets for the digital livestream can be purchased on OCD Theaters website using this link.
About HCL Partner Artist in Residence Irene Hsiao
Irene Hsiao makes dances -- often improvised, often durational, often inspired by visual art and the spaces in which they are seen -- a practice that includes interaction with visual artworks and experimental engagement with artists, institutions, and the public. She is a 2020 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist, 2020-21 Partner Artist in Residence at High Concept Labs, and 2020-21 Artist in Residence at the Smart Museum.
Founded in 2013 and directed by choreographer Daiane Lopes da Silva and scientist Weidong Yang, Kinetech Arts combines the work of dancers, scientists, and digital artists to create innovative performances on the intersection of movement, science and technology. Each year, KA produces multiple performances and over 50 other public events, including Open Labs, Y-Exchange featured artists talks and Dance-Hack Festivals. Kinetech Arts work has been supported by Zellerbach Family Foundation, CA$H Grant, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and Creative Work Fund. KA residencies include the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Combustible at CounterPulse, SAFEhouse Arts, KUNST-STOFF arts, and participation at Dancing Lab: Immersive Media Through Cunningham at NCCAkron. KA is currently making new work for UC Berkeley TDPS.
High Concept Labs is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and by a Grant of U.S. Department of Treasury funds through the City of Chicago. The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Treasury or the City of Chicago.