Please find us on our new website!!

http://happycollaborationists.com/

LIVE BLUDE GIRLS

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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