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ARTIFICIAL EAR 8: RADICAL TENDERNESS

Please join us for the eighth installment of ARTIFICIAL EAR (EE #24): RADICAL TENDERNESS RADICAL TENDERNESS does not acknowledge a break between the personal and the public. The resulting vulnerability is not a weakness; it is a useful disguise for anger and brilliance, and a trap for the mindlessly violent. The radically tender build "machines that generate empathy" and teach others to never submit to those whose goal is to deprive or destroy them. Tenderness is a gut space. It is a fluid and fertile terrain that prepares us for many encounters to come. July 30, 8pm HCL 4th floor studios Mana Contemporary Chicago 2233 S. Throop St. Featuring: Amir George Sofia Moreno La Spacer Anna Vitale Amir George is a motion picture artist and film curator from Chicago. Amir’s work delves into installation, cinema, and performance. In addition to founding Cinema Culture, a grassroots film programming organization, Amir is the co-curator of Black Radical Imagination, a touring experimental short film program. Sofia Moreno was born and raised in Coahuila, Mexico. In 1994 she immigrated to the United States, where she currently lives and works. Prior to moving to Chicago, Moreno lived in Dallas, Texas. Sofia Moreno is a multimedia artist and her subjects include expressions of the sacred and profane, the body, sexuality, religion and socio-political issues within contemporary culture. Moreno is currently working on the follow up to her three-year project P o r n A g a i n. "I'm interested in the essence of the body rather than the form itself. I paint a sexually and spiritually confused youth." – Sofia Moreno La Spacer creates audio art with Techno & House as the groundwork using HARDWARE machines during production. Raised in the birthplace of HOUSE music, growing up in the 90s in CHICAGO in the neighborhood of Little Village where Italo Disco, a.k.a. "Da CLASSICS", Industrial, House, Hard House, Acid House, Techno was blasting out of speakers from those old school Dj PROMO Cds and Tapes; Or the radio, the neighbors windows, or a car cruising by with a BASS bumping system. It is not a coincidence that La Spacer was raised in the right place to influence and pursue her passionate feelings for Mind Bending Body Music. Anna Vitale lives in Madison, WI, where she's pursuing a PhD in English Literature. Her writing includes Unknown Pleasures, a book about Joy Divison, Ian Curtis, and suicidal desire; and Anna Vitale's Pop Poems, which are poems based on R&B and hip-hop songs she loves from the early 90s. Anna's video work includes "Street View Lyric," which is based on Google Street View images of her childhood neighborhood, taking "Come and Talk to Me" by Jodeci as its soundtrack. Not surprisingly, Anna is working on a book titled Detroit, Detroit.

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OMNE IGNOTUM PRO MAGNIFICO. Every unknown thing [is taken] for great. "In my present weak state of both mind and body, I should infallibly lose my way if I attempted it, and perish miserably amid the dismal and disgusting labyrinths of the hold. I proceeded, therefore, without hesitation, to summon up all of my remaining strength and fortitude, and endeavor, as I best might, to clamber over the crate." Edgar Allen Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket OMNE IGNOTUM PRO MAGNIFICO. Inclinations towards the terror of violence, and its negative blossoming on the body. How deceit is configured as the essential probe for anticipating fear and how we absorb or fight it. Break down now. Antibody Corporation (Adam Rose) is a non-profit organization specializing in mind/body integration. Founded in 2009, Antibody has collaborated with over 30 artists to date in creating a body of interdisciplinary works spanning dance, performance art, film, video, and music. Antibody Corporation believes the future is physical, and engages in physical work to ensure an embodied tomorrow. Sean Kilpatrick is published in Bomb, Boston Review, Fence, Columbia Poetry Review, The Volta: Medium, and New York Tyrant. His books are fuckscapes (Blue Square Press), Anatomy Courses (with Blake Butler, Lazy Fascist Press) and Gil the Nihilist: a Sitcom (LFP). Cassandra Troyan is an artist and writer who is has exhibited, performed, and screened her work internationally. She is the author of THRONE OF BLOOD (Solar Luxuriance) and BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED (Tiny Hardcore Press) forthcoming in winter 2013. Drawing by: Matt Kish - A NEW DRAWING BY MATT KISH, ILLUSTRATOR OF THE DESERT PLACES AND HEART OF DARKNESS, WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE $15 ALONG WITH COPIES OF THE DESERT PLACES Poster design by: Mike Kitchell of Impossible Void and Solar▲Luxuriance