FALL 2009 SERIES • HERMANO • Industry of the Ordinary

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

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

Our Backyard

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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