Hermano • We've Been Busy • Being Beings

HAPPY COLLABORATIONISTS • FALL 2009 SERIES • HERMANO

Join us for the fourth installment of our Fall series HERMANO. This time around we are happy to present Being Beings with We've Been Busy, on Saturday December 5.

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Hello All,
There are 19 days until we will grace Chicago again with our digital presence. This is Being Being's first solo show and will be featured as part of the Happy Collaborationist's "Hermano" series. Please come partake in our live online conversation from Marathon FL and have a look at what 'We've Been Busy' doing. We hope to see your smiling faces there. We've got a lot to talk about.
Love,
Being Beings


WE'VE BEEN BUSY
December 5
Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble
7PM-11PM
8PM Sharp, Live performance video feed

EXISTENCE VALUE / HERMANO

EXISTENCE VALUE • HAPPY COLLABORATIONIST • FALL 2009 SERIES • HERMANO


Join us for the third installment of our Fall series HERMANO. This time around we are happy to Scott and Paul Cowan with EXISTENCE VALUE, on Saturday November 14.

EXISTENCE VALUE

We have options, an infinite amount of them, which we must see as wide-open variables to use or to deny. Every decision made is made with intention. It isn’t about being ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, but rather the sequence of events and how they add up.

The more reduced something is and the more minimal its expression, then the more malleable it is to having meanings applied. It is a challenge to attempt to communicate in a realm where a rhetoric language has precedent over all others. Our perception is keen and desires to become more acute in that manner. In logic this is good, but in alternative scenarios additional variables occur.

At what point can something like faith be accomplished? It is never knowing, but only trusting, and letting the self become something -constantly. What is often meant when people use the word ‘faith’ is faith in the adulterated sense – something one needs ‘in order to renounce everything’. When in reality, faith itself presupposes that one has renounced everything.

In EXISTENCE VALUE, a gesture precedes all considerations and assumptions, rendering immediate perception obtuse. We consider these objects objects, losing all subjectivity; questioning the role of the object (real or imaginary) and the artist’s desire to create and be present in the work.

EXISTENCE VALUE
November 14
Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble
8PM-11PM

From son to bunk.

Thank you to everyone that made it out to SONS by Karen Bovinich and Tannar Veatch. It was a great performance and we thought we'd share a little bit of a momento from that night.

We hope to see everyone tomorrow night for our second installment of HERMANO entitled BUNK by Theodore Boggs and Pete Skvara. Here's a little preview of BUNK also.



XOXO
Happy C.

BUNK

Hermano continues!

Join us for the second installment of our Fall series HERMANO. This time around we have Pete Skvara and Theodore Boggs with "BUNK."
BUNK will take place Thursday the 29th of October from 8PM to 11PM.

So join and experience when hip-hop met disco for BUNK!

This is our first curated series and explores notions of fraternity through pairings of artists selected based on their strong collaborative bond noted throughout their work and real life relationships. The series will focus primarily on performance and installation work, mediums which the Happy Collaborationist are happy* to continue prominently promoting a stage and venue for in the contemporary art scene of Chicago.

BUNK
October 29th
Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble
8PM-11PM

By the Division Blue Line!

SONS * Hermano First Installment

HAPPY COLLABORATIONIST • FALL 2009 SERIES • HERMANO


Starting on October 2nd at 9pm, SONS, a performance by Karen Bovinich and Tannar Veatch of the performance collective Before Cake, After Dinner, will launch our season.

Join us for what promises to be the beginning of a great second season for Happy C!

SONS
October 2, 2009
The Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble
Division Blue Line.


Happy Collaborationist

HERMANO

HAPPY COLLABORATIONIST • FALL 2009 SERIES • HERMANO

The Happy Collaborationist are all finally back in Chicago after a summer of temporarily disbanding to different corners of the globe pursuing other projects and hobbies!

We are excited to present to you our Fall 2009 exhibition series entitled “Hermano,” featuring five shows in three months at the Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space located at 1254 N. Noble (Division Blue Line). This is our first curated series and explores notions of fraternity through pairings of artists selected based on their strong collaborative bond noted throughout their work and real life relationships. The series will focus primarily on performance and installation work, mediums which the Happy Collaborationist are happy* to continue prominently promoting a stage and venue for in the contemporary art scene of Chicago.



Oct. 2nd Karen Bovonich and Tannar Veatch "SONS"

Oct. 29th Peter Skvara and Theodore Boggs "BUNK"

November 14th Paul Cowan and Scott Cowan

Dec. 5th Asher Danziger and Michael Meyer

Dec. 18th Industry of the Ordinary

Please stay tuned

(or AND!!! join us on Facebook!) to stay updated with other installments for HERMANO.

Art Happened Here

As many of you know I (Anna) am in Europe for the summer. Right now I am starting a series of performance pieces in Venice that are being tracked and recorded at www.arthappenedhere.blogspot.com . I would like to invite you to follow my work while I am away and see how this project develops.

For more information please check out the blog.


~Anna