Happy Collaborationists

Happy Collaborator Found

2011-07-31T08:09:00.000-07:00

Happy Collaborator found on the corner of Ashland and Blackhawk wearing lanyard I.D tag marked "street performer".

Happy C feeds the birds

2011-07-13T10:23:00.000-07:00

Recently (ish) we went to Running Room curated by ACRE at the A and D Gallery where we participated in "Feed Forms and Duck It" by Adam Farcus. Adam gave everyone bird seed and duct tape and sent them out into the world to make art. We took our supplies to Taste of Chicago and set up a makeshift bird feeder along side all the booths of food.

More info on Adam Farcus can be found at www.adamfarcus.com
And more information about ACRE is at acreresidency.org

Dayton Castleman's installation @ Ben Russell Gallery

2011-02-06T14:16:00.000-08:00

Check out the latest incarnation of Dayton Castleman's installation, the lights atop this sculpture blink the work "BLESS" in morse code to all those is range of the signal.

Don't miss Dayton's show at Happy C on April 2nd!

Please find us on our new website!!

2010-11-26T15:31:00.000-08:00

http://happycollaborationists.com/

LIVE BLUDE GIRLS

2010-07-29T17:39:00.000-07:00

Have you hoped and dreamed for years and years (or months and months) of being a Happy Collaborationist? Of donning a blue wig and a good time? Well if you have, or if you haven't and it sounds like fun anyway, you are in luck! Happy C is doing Art on Track and we want you to come out and join in. If you are free Aug. 7th and interested in participating in our performance (and thus getting in FREE) in Art on Track please let me know.

email: annatrier@happycollaborationists.com

or call

(773) 888-3065

Thanks!
Anna

The physical (im)possibility of jumping over The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

2010-07-02T08:29:00.000-07:00

Thank you to everyone who came out to witness the Jumping of the Shark. Referring to an episode of Happy Days ‘Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe the moment of downturn for a previously successful enterprise. The phrase was originally used to denote the point in a television program's history where the plot spins off into absurd story lines or unlikely characterizations… often the result of efforts to revive interest in a show whose viewership has begun to decline.’ Wikipedia

‘Shock art is the safest kind of art than an artist can go into the business of making today.’ Lynne Munson

Based between London and New York, Isobel Shirley uses both her practice to address the different functions of the art world, and the roles created within it. Whilst promoting interaction and discourse, her work often uses a knowing humour to question her own intentions as an artist and motivations for producing work. Using the platform of her first solo exhibition Shirley questions the implications of an artist. Always striving to make that piece of work that will make your mark, yet dreading forever being associated with it and pigeon holed.

During her exhibition at Happy Collaborationists, Shirley presented a body of work from her ongoing mission to jump over Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Happy C presented Shirley's training and obsessive year and a half long preparations, culminating in a performance of death defying feats, Shirley asks the question, ‘Is it possible to jump the art shark?’ and if so ‘Where do you go from there?’

Those of you who came out to witness now know the truth, you can jump the shark and Happy C is looking forward to working with Isobel Shirley again to see just where she goes from here!

Palimpsest: an installation by Austin Knierim & Jesus Mejia

2010-06-09T15:47:00.000-07:00

An image of what once was.

In the built environment, this occurs more than we might think. Whenever spaces are shuffled, rebuilt, or remodeled, shadows remain. Tarred rooflines remain on the sides of a building long after the neighboring structure has been demolished; removed stairs leave a ...mark where the painted wall surface stopped. Dust lines remain from a relocated appliance. Faint legible remains.

Saturday, 12 June 2010

18:00 - 22:00

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space

1254 N Noble St.

Spring Series Cotillion * Andy Burkholder * A Poetic conception of Reality

2010-05-19T17:03:00.000-07:00

Cotillion • Spring 2010 • ANDY BURKHOLDER

Happy Collaborationists
request the honor of your presence
on the occasion
of the Spring Cotillion
in compliment of the seasons debutants.

We are honored to present Andy Burkholder
With her instalation: "A Poetic Conception of Reality"
May, 29 2010

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble
7pm - 10pm

Join us for the third installment of our Spring Series Cotillion. And exploration of those events that bring us to age and explore the many facets of a right of passage.

Andrew Burkholder says:

ITDN GROUP PRESENTS
A POETIC CONCEPTION OF REALITY BY ANDY BURKHOLDER
FEATURING DJ BURKE

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 6-10PM
@ HCX Space, 1254 N. NOBLE ST. CHICAGO, IL.

The Devil's Barnyard!

2010-04-28T15:52:00.000-07:00

Please come join Happy C for the Devil's Barnyard on May 8th. We will "walk the line" between country and western, homage and derivation, sexism and sexuality, recreation and self-abuse, God and people, people and animals, swing and boogie, spring and summer, volume and noise, nostalgia and authenticity, art and whatever the other stuff is.

Take the cow by the horns. PBR. Love. Cornhole.

An ex-urban Rite of Spring Celebration

Images and objects provided by Slim Limb, weelittleladdy, and Beelzebubba

Music by DJ Odd Job - dancing is encouraged

Complimentary gallon of Blue Fluid windshield wash to the first 100 guests!

Saturday, May 8 at 8pm
at Happy Collaborationists Ex. space
1254 N. Noble St.

Out of Practice

2010-04-28T15:48:00.001-07:00

A bit late, but that to everyone who came out to the show this past weekend where Nina Mayer presented "Out of Practice", Show two for our Spring Series Cotillion.

Solo Exhibition . EJ HIll. Spring Series Cotillion

2010-03-27T23:15:00.000-07:00

Happy Collaborationists
request the honor of your presence
on the occasion
of the Spring Cotillion
in compliment of the seasons debutants.

First up we present EJ Hill
With his Performance: "Solo Exhibition"
April 3rd, 2010

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N. Noble
7pm - 10pm

Join us for the first installment of our Spring Series Cotillion. And exploration of those events that bring us to age and explore the many facets of a right of passage.

Spring Series Cotillion

2010-03-27T23:12:00.000-07:00

FALL 2009 SERIES • HERMANO • Industry of the Ordinary

2009-12-11T16:08:00.000-08:00

Happy C and Industry of the Ordinary would like you to join us for our final, celebratory instalment of HERMANO!

Knees up Mother Brown!
Knees up Mother Brown!
Under the table you must go
Ee-i-ee-i-ee-i-oh!
If I catch you bending,
I'll saw your legs right off,
Knees up! Knees Up!
Don't get the breeze up,
Knees up Mother Brown!
Oh My! What a rotten song!
What a rotten song!
Oh, What a rotten song!
Oh My! What a rotten song!
What a rotten singer too!

In Public Houses, private homes and Working Men’s Clubs across England a customary tradition for the celebration of Monumental Events and Great Festivals has been to relieve oneself of responsibility and inhibition and organize a "Knees Up".

In this tradition Industry of the Ordinary invite you and your loved ones to their 2009 Xmas Knees Up.

Traditional British food, drink, music, dancing. games and visuals will be served, and the first one hundred guests will receive a commemorative drinking vessel to use and cherish.

Friday the 18th of December 2009, 8pm until all the Guinness runs out (at which point we'll have a whip round), at the Happy Collaborationists exhibition space, 1254 N. Noble, Chicago, 60642

IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED, BYOB AND XMAS FINGER FOOD

Hermano • We've Been Busy • Being Beings

2009-12-01T11:19:00.000-08:00

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.

.....

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

2009-11-10T11:53:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-10-28T20:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-21T20:00:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-26T20:18:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-13T08:22:00.000-07:00

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

Our Backyard

2009-05-18T16:08:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

I recently received word from friends and artists Karen Bovinich and Michelle Ishikawa who are running an outdoor space for the summer (and possibly on). They say they are emailing artists/designers/friends/humans to let them know. (so if you meet these qualifications and are interested let me know and I will put you in touch with them)

Located in the backyard (go figure!) at 2431 W. Cortez, Chicago, IL

Maybe you are interested in proposing an idea for a show in Our Backyard.
Maybe you are interested in coming to our upcoming shows.
Maybe you have a friend who wants to show work.

Either way, spread the word. Contact them at

the.backyard.folks@gmail.com

First show is with Chicago artist, Jesus Mejia. Installation. Saturday, June 6th, 2009 7:00pm -Not to be missed!

~Anna

Home EC.

2009-05-03T21:57:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, the Happy Collaborationists have been writing their thesis(es) and been sadly neglectful of their blog. But we are back with another show update! Join us Sat. May 9th for Home EC. Installations by Torreyanna Barley and Anna Trier (that's me). Technically its the first time a Happy Collaborator has show at the Happy Collaborationists exhibition space (ok sure Emanuel had work there BEFORE he joined us but don't spoil my fun!) so don't miss it, it will be spectacular.

Home EC.
Sat. May 9th
1254 N. Noble
7pm- 11pm

hope to see you all there!

Anna

Global Print

2009-03-20T12:34:00.000-07:00

Vincent Finazzo, friend of the Happy Collaborationists and rather nifty fellow, has put together a show for the Southern Graphics Counsel titled Global Print. The Happy Collaborationists will be there and magazines will be available!

"Global Print examines globalization and its effects on everyone. Artist
exhibit works of all media that address globalization, cultural destruction
and rebirth, and the phenomenon of cross-cultural and global information
exchange. The work pushes the boundaries of print processes, explores
new techniques, and encourages the viewer to think of art in a global manner."
~Vincent Finazzo

Please join us March 27th From 6-9pm At 623 S. Wabash, First Floor Hokin gallery.

Happy C will be there and so should you!

Anna

Prey For Me- Images from the show

2009-03-19T12:35:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Here are some images Emanuel took at last month's show Prey For Me, an installation by Tannar Veatch. For all of you who came out for the show, thank you so much for your support, I hope to see you at the next one! And for all of you who didn’t make it to Prey For Me I hope these pictures make you regret it so much that you wouldn’t even think of missing our next one!

~Anna

Prey For Me- This Sat.

2009-02-19T13:31:00.000-08:00

This Sat. Feb. 17th the Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space is hosting a show with Chicago artist Tanner Veatch titled Prey for Me. The address is 1254 N. Noble it is about one street north of Noble and Division. So get off at the Division stop on the blue line and head east.

Hope to see you all there!

Anna

!Submissions Deadline!

2009-02-16T14:36:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, as I'm sure most of you know our next issue (the April issue) is on sketchbooks, journals and plans.... if you have something brilliant scribbled on a napkin we'll print it! We are moving up our print date on this issue to be apart Vincent Finazzo's show at the Southern Graphics Counsel, so we need all submissions by next Monday! That is Monday Feb. 23rd! So go scan so pages and send them my way, I mean right now, go do it while you are thinking about it!

All images need to be at least 300mp for high resolution printing, most scanners will just do this anyway and you don’t have to think about it but if you have any questions on this front, or on any other front just let me know and I will be more then happy to help where I can. Also if you would rather just give us a sketchbook and have us deal with getting it in digital format we do that too! Just drop me a line (517-281-3530) or send me an e-mail and we can meet up.

Anna

Library of Congress

2009-02-06T21:19:00.000-08:00

We are starting this Blog out on a good foot! I am ever so very pleased to announce that the Happy Collaborationists publication has been archived in the rare book and special collection section of the Library of Congress! I guess that means that we are now legit and all the kids love us. I want to give a great big thanks to all the artists we have worked with in creating this publication, we couldn't have done it with out you!

~Anna