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Feel free to adjust the below based on your needs for your own interviews:

Question(s) to address: How do you think about your relationship to your audience and the public when presenting/ performing/ creating your work? Are there any specific choices you make about the performance? How has your relationship to performing/ presenting your work to the public changed over time?

More context: We'e received a grant for a research project with two students and two faculty this year. The ultimate focus is Character and Virtue (more about that below).

This summer we've all made art/ poems collaboratively and individually; read/ discussed; critiqued/ workshopped/ shared our work with others. Right now we're completing a few other goals (like interviewing artists/ poets we know) about presenting/ performing and the relationship w/ the public.

The grant asks us to consider how our work engages with the habituation of character virtues, including generosity. We're considering generosity, humility, and bravery. We're reading/ discussing philosophy, and art theory. Underlying the research question "How does the practice of the arts habituate the character virtues of generosity, humility, and bravery?" is the deeper question "What is art for?"

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Veronica Ryan (related form for Haibun collaborative piece?)

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Veronica Ryan (related form for Haibun collaborative piece?)

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Nicolas Bourriaud: Relational Aesthetics—an essay.

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nicolaskazlauskas Cool exhibition roster here for the windowfront gallery.

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This is one of my favorite directors, I was listening to him talk and his views on how he describes the creative practice are very interesting. He speaks on why setting rules and parameters when working creatively opens the door for things to react to. He then talks about how the creative practice is very similar to that of science where all it is small “tests” that get you different reactions and its the artist who makes sense of them.

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Rules for Indie Filmmakers, according to NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW | TIFF

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Mostly likely text that will guide us in the exploration of the phenomenology of making art.

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Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics: Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Event

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This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The first two chapters focus on Gadamer’s critical appropriation and movement beyond Kantian and Hegelian aesthetics. (Chapter 2 also includes a coda on Heidegger’s influence.) The final three cha

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Despite Chicago being a major arts hub existing at the intersection of some of the most influential developments in postwar American art, the city has not always been closely associated with the conceptual art tradition.

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Screen shot taken from poetry.offthepage and womanmadegallery collaborative Instagram post. The WMGxBodiesLuminous web page notes that Forde's poem served as inspiration for the exhibition. 

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Diamond Forde's poem, "Fat girl Dances with a Stranger at a Block Party"

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Diamond Forde's poem, "Fat girl Dances with a Stranger at a Block Party"

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The Apartments That Inspired ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Have Their Own Bloody History

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Though it’s filmed at the nearby Belnord, the Arconia building in the Hulu series seems much more closely linked to the Ansonia—a real-life apartment complex that’s been home to murder, mayhem, and a swingers club.

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Please be advised that construction on Grainger Plaza surrounding Cloud Gate (aka "The Bean") in Millennium Park will begin around August 15, 2023 and continue through the spring of 2024. During this time, public access and views of Cloud Gate will be limited. This necessary maintenance by the City of Chicago will replace pavers and make other repairs and accessibility upgrades to the Plaza-to enhance the nearly 20-year-old Park's appearance, visitor experience, and position as the #1 attraction in the Midwest.

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millennium park; millennium; mp; millennium park homepage; wrigley square; bp bridge; jay pritzker pavilion; public park; boeing galleries; pritzker stage; mcdonald's cycle center; millennium park; cloud gate; the bean; jay pritzker pavilion; wrigley square; great lawn; pritzker stage; pritzker pavilion; bp bridge; mccormick tribune ice rink; frank gehry; lurie garden; crown fountain; jaume plensa; families; tourism; city of chicago; chicago; dcase; department of cultural affairs and special events; free

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Discover a state-of-the-art collection of architecture, landscape design and art that provide the backdrop for hundreds of free cultural programs including concerts, exhibitions, tours, and family activities. In Millennium Park, you'll find a new kind of town square - a lively, spectacular gathering spot located in the heart of the city and a destination for Chicagoans and visitors alike.

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Artist using language and humor in his paintings.

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David Shrigley is a British visual artist. This is his web site with his stuff on it.

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Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art…

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Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare wo…

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Composed by Jackson Wand for Nico Kazlauskas' 'Pinewood'

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This (for real) is the movie I had in mind with a wild score and a spiritual / transcendent theme. Free on YouTube!

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Artist with instructions.

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Edited and introduced by Alicia Legg, 1978

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PETER FISCHLI DAVID WEISS Equilibres | Matthew Marks Gallery

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PETER FISCHLI DAVID WEISS Equilibres | Matthew Marks Gallery

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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce an exhibition of 82 photographs made between 1984 and 1987 by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. This will be the artists' sixth exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery since 1999.

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Joy Sullivan: Move to Oregon in July (from Pablo)

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Joy Sullivan: Move to Oregon in July (from Pablo)

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nicolaskazlauskas Pablo Peschiera katiebarth1

I'd like to add a visit to this exhibition to our itinerary in Chicago. Collaboration is part of the subject, and the quality looks worthwhile!

PATRON presents Let’s Go Exploring!, a two-person exhibition by Chicago-based artists Gregory Bae and Tony Lewis. As studio-mates, colleagues, and peers, Bae and Lewis’s individual practices define an active, acritical engagement with the world around us with a soulful awareness of being present - as individuals and in relation.
Re-tracing various forms of collaboration and exchange, Let’s Go Exploring! posits friendship as one of the most underrated tools in any artist’s practice. The exhibition unites discrete works by both Bae and Lewis developed over a decade-long bond forged during their cohort at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This exchange is introduced in the form of a salon-style installation of sketches, drawings, paintings, and ephemera from both artist’s studios. Constructed from a process of revisiting Bae’s archive, largely housed at Lewis’s studio for the past five years, the installation collapses time through references to both unrealized and realized future works, indirect to incomplete thoughts, sketches, and unfinished conversations. A partial visual representation of the artists’ diverse interests, the installation introduces shared cultural connections, including Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, a childhood favorite of both Bae and Lewis, but also a material resonant in Lewis’s practice since 2013. Here, the dynamic impulse of the last comic strip catalyzes an active return to two practices, inspired by the artists’ shared, persistent attempts to grasp the gaps of understanding and connection created by time.

Time, as material and process appears in Bae’s 24-7, 365 (sketch) (2017), a series of paintings on used car tires. Originally part of a kinetic sculpture, 24-7, 365 (2014) in which a tire endlessly turns on a treadmill at a rate that would travel the world’s circumference in a year. Installed on the wall, Bae’s tire series reveals his experimental, assemblage-based approach to painting, shaped through continual testing with nontraditional materials drawn from the American import industry. Car tires, laptop screens, and found paper transition from everyday remnants to painted surfaces, carrying the history of their use along with them.

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PATRON is a contemporary art gallery in Chicago created by Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar in 2015.

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nicolaskazlauskas and I are looking at Richard Tuttle's work as part of our prompt for a collaborative site-specific installation.

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Richard Tuttle, System 2, Winter, 2011, 2 x 4″ fir lumber, 4 x 4″ fir lumber, acrylic, asphaltum, balsa wood, beet juice, bolts, bubble wrap, cotton string, enamel, fabrics, feathers,…

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I still had this tab open from our first week when Pablo was describing the translation project he was working on. I love this drawing/poem and thought I'd move it over here.

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Nací en Lima un 7 de mayo del 85. De niña escribía en el aire y convertía a mis lápices de colores en personajes. Tengo una colección de diarios y escritos en servilletas. La escritura estuvo ahí siempre, incluso, antes de que se construyera esa noción de ¨yo¨ que cuestiono a diario.

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Here are some images of my worktable from the last time I was working on a series of small material-based sculptures. I really like to have a wide variety on hand to mix, match, juxtapose, and fuse. The ways to join and bind are always challenging as well. I need adhesives, string, wire, dowels, plaster, wax, resin, heat gun...etc. on hand.

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The MOMA in NYC has the original.

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Bodies Luminous, 2026 (Woman Made Gallery)

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Bodies Luminous, 2026 (Woman Made Gallery)

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This is the project Sarah Peecher collaborated in.

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Curatorial Team: Madeline McConico, Sarah Peecher, Ren Buchness

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Curatorial Team: Madeline McConico, Sarah Peecher, Ren Buchness May 23–June 20, 2026