TICTOC 2008 Performances

Here's a list of the 2008 TicToc performances:
Every Summer Day Location: 623 S Wabash, lobby Time: 4:30-6:30 PM

Masked and costumed laborers (led by Sara Andrews, 2nd year for MFA Interdisciplinary Book and Paper) work a wheel-and-rope pulley to move paper clouds across and enclosed landscape. As the clouds pass, each is counted in a book of clouds and then duly discarded. Over time, the grounded clouds proliferate in a visual rebellion of mass versus industry.



Ophelia's Seeds
Location: 623 S Wabash, lobby
Time: 12-4 PM

Casey Arling (MA for Interdisciplinary Arts 2006) and Heather Hartley (MA for Interdisciplinary Arts 2007) follow a set of unknown rules as they complete tasks within the confines of an intimate and enclosed space. Connected at the mouth, they create an environment of borderline madness with flying feathers, popping corn, and flowers adhered to bright red cloth.



Claus vs. Aggie
Location: 1104 S Wabash, sidewalk
Time: 4-6 PM

In a performance orchestrated by Shay Atkinson (MA for Interdisciplinary Arts candidate) a group of individuals, each desperately clinging to a piece of furniture that they can't be without, play a game of musical chairs. Tied to their interior effects, they fight claustrophobia and agoraphobia in order to escape everything or create something new.



Poetry Tattoo Parlor
Location: 640 S Wabash, tent
Time: 1-5 PM

Considering body art? Tattooed ladies and gents from Columbia's Writing Department are on hand to press poetic ink to flesh. Indelible lines of verse - free and otherwise - are applied (temporarily) to the bodies of the verbally venturesome.

Sewing & Verses Location: S Wabash between 10th and 11th, east side of street Time: 12-6:30 PM

In a prolonged athletic labor, Lauren DuBeau (2nd year for MFA Interdisciplinary Book and Paper) weaves recycled materials along an unused stretch of urban landscape. Using words, images, or symbols, she “writes” a public address that speaks to the nature of gathering together and sharing as a creative process.



UPRISING #5
Location: Roaming
Time: 12-3 PM

Nicole Garneau (2002 MA for Interdisciplinary Arts) and A.J. Sacco (Cultural Studies undergraduate) lead a group of T-shirted performers reflecting on love and revolution. Marking 40 years since the political upheaval of the 1968, Garneau's series of UPRISINGs create public demonstrations toward a more humane present and future.



Records Record Records
Location: 1104 S Wabash, lobby
Time: 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM

A richly textured sound-space is made with artifacts from the past. Chris Hefner (BFA for Film and Video 2006) spins old 78 records, mostly examples of forgotten home-recording technology popular in the first half of last century. Original songs, parties, greetings and animal sounds are woven together along with the pops and hisses of the aged materials, all calling out to be re-recorded by passing cell phones, digital cameras, and other modern electronic devices.



GREEN
Location: 600 S Michigan, Museum of Contemporary Photography window
Time: 12-5 PM

During a 5-hour period, Anni Holm (BFA for Photography 2004) transforms a window into a GREEN oasis. Acting as quasi-interior designer, the artist slowly fills the space with GREEN artifacts, embellishments, and coverings as an exploration of the color what it might mean to be "green".



Res Corporealis: Material Bodies
Location: Roaming
Time: 3:30-6:30 PM

The living dead infiltrate TICTOC in Nicole Huser's (Cultural Studies undergraduate) spectacle. Instead of being limited to the consumption of flesh, these zombies have a hunger for all consumer goods and dig deeply into popular culture and popular assumptions.



Female Shave
Location: 1104 S Wabash, sidewalk
Time: 12-1 PM

Elena Katsulis (Photography undergraduate) and Karen Bovinich (Fine Arts undergraduate) make a private beauty maintenance ritual public. The silent activity, performed as if upon statues, creates a window into certain cultural expectations of femininity.



How to Act Like a Cowboy
Location: 1104 S Wabash, sidewalk
Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

This performance art self-help workshop, lead by Justin Kaufmann (BA for Journalism 1996) and Schadenfreude, gives participants the necessary tools to effectively act like a cowboy. At home, at work, at play, the skills learned in just one session will give anyone the power and confidence to take on the rigors of a non-cowboy life. This is DIY culture with a 10-gallon hat, saddle sores, and tongue firmly in cheek.



Chance of Showers: 9 to 5
Location: 624 S Michigan, sidewalk
Time: 12-5 PM

Ordinary office work unravels into other-worldliness as three women finish out a corporate workday. Elizabeth Czekner, Bridget Kies, and Liz Wuerffel (all MFA for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media 2006) perform solos derived from simple office gestures: answering the phone, pouring a cup of coffee, shuffling papers. On the hour, they gather in a chorus of movement that deviates from business protocol.



Fosters Deep Understanding
Location: 623 S Wabash, lobby
Time: 11:30-3:30 PM

In a performance devised by Lisa Leszczewicz (Dance undergraduate), two people describe themselves through intimate confessions typed on the back of sticky notes. The duo, one dancing and one typing, are framed within a glass box. The small square notes are placed publicly on the window, or privately on the other's body until there is less and less to see and more and more to know.



Who Gets the Privilege of Disappointing Me Next?
Location: Roaming
Time: 12-6:30 PM

Monica Ecchs (MFA for Fiction 2001) is on a quest for love in the City of Chicago. Dressed for success and aided by a bullhorn and musical triangle, she's ready to detail coffee-date disasters and "whatever you do, don't..." advice to the love-less, and give precautionary tales to potential suitors. Moving forward from last year's romantic highlight - hospitalization - Ms Ecchs won't stop until she finds true love.



The Truth About Art
Location: 618 S Michigan, sidewalk
Time: 11 AM-5 PM

Imants Ozers (MFA for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media 2006) may or may not reveal the truth about art as he writes and illustrates his treatise in a free verse, run-on, stream of consciousness display of tongue-in-cheek perspective on the world of art, academics, creativity, public accessibility, and the power of the individual voice.



A Celebration of 100 Years of Artistic Progress: Mary Blood and Ida Riley to the Moulin Rouge
Location: Roaming (begins at 623 S Wabash)
Time: 11 AM - 6 PM

Art, progress, and social change are celebrated in the spirit of Moulin Rouge and Mary Blood and Ida Riley, the founders of Columbia College Chicago. Lead by Gabriel Pastrana (BFA for Theater 2005) and devised in partnership with the Alumni Gala committee, also presenting "A Night at the Moulin Rouge".



BounDaries
Location: 1104 S Wabash, lobby elevator
Time: 3:30-6:30 PM

Erin Rehberg (2nd year for MFA Interdisciplinary Arts and Media) and dancers from Core Project self-impose themselves in the confined, structural boundaries of architecture to explore personal and human questions through movement, text, sound and video.



Insert Protest Slogan Here
Location: Roaming
Time: 2:30-4:30 PM

Let Chris Roberts (BA for Fine Arts 2005) carry your protest message through the streets of Chicago's South Loop. Will your message be effectively broadcast, or will it get replaced my a new message before any impact can be made?



Clay Pigeon
Location: Various
Time: 11 AM – 6:30 PM

Adam Rust (MFA for Interdisciplinary Book and Paper 2005) assembles small scenes of slumber throughout the South Loop campus. Be careful as you walk around so as not to disturb the nests of "restful" avifauna.



The Temple is a Body
Location: 1104 S Wabash, lobby
Time: 3:30-6:30 PM

A dancer investigates the displaced body and tormented spirit of her Cambodian Muslim identity. She is accompanied by live music played on instruments of the east and west. Transcriptions of traditional Khmer songs and original compositions inspired by Cambodia create contrasting qualities, while Cambodian cuisine is prepared and served on-site and served to complete this multi-sensory exploration. Devised by Dan Schwarzlose (MFA for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media 2006) with Anida Yoeu Ali and David Young.



A Grape Play
Location: 624 S Michigan, sidewalk
Time: 5-6 PM

The rules are simple: 1. Catch grape in mouth, 2. If mouth is missed, squash grape on head. David Seeber (Theater undergraduate) leads a small ensemble in an accumulative activity of failure and success.



The Linda Carter Experience
Location: 623 S Wabash, sidewalk
Time: 3:30-6:30 PM

Linda Carter as Wonder Woman was brave, heroic, and clad in a revealing superhero outfit that secured her fame in our cultural history. But can Tamale Sepp (1st year MFA for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media), dressed in a Wonder Woman-esque outfit, overcome the struggles facing real women as she fights to balance everyday challenges and stretch the limitations of being human?