FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 – Join Connie Noyes and Marvin Tate for a one-night event, inviting audiences to engage in a multi-media experience, which highlights the interconnected extremes of our classist society. The project is a featured event chosen by DCASE for Chicago Artist Month and Noyes as a featured artist. DATE: Friday, October 9, 2015, PLACE: Under a Freeway in Chicago. Anyone wishing to attend must RSVP on the website, (www.underthefreeway.org) to receive the exact location. For more information, contact Connie Noyes at 415-299-1754 or cyd@connienoyes.comUnder the Freeway is a project conceived by Connie Noyes after receiving a life-sized cardboard box in her studio. Located at the junction of I-94 and I-55 in Chicago her studio is less than 100 feet from where Chicago’s most invisible citizens make their home. The box arrived at a time when she was engaged with major designers, working on commissions for display in high-end public spaces. Visual awareness of the disparity of economic and social capital between classes was the catalyst for this work.
In order to attend this clandestine event, potential guests must ?nd their way to the location by completing tasks, and following guidelines created by the artists. If the guests possess the appropriate means, the tasks will likely seem simple. However, if the attendees struggle, they are welcome to reach out to the artists for assistance. Through the process of inviting people to examine what resources they already enjoy or are lacking, participants are intellectually primed to engage in a multi-medium dialogue about privilege. During the event, Marvin Tate will lead an improvised pop-up choir, to further celebrate a spirit of inclusion and community.
ABOUT:
CONNIE NOYES, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines the social constructions of idealized beauty and the values assigned to it by transforming the inherited, found, forgotten, discarded, and unvalued. Her work exemplifies the existential struggle for existence while calling attention to the disparities which exist. Born in Washington D.C, Noyes is a full time artist who lives and works in Chicago and San Francisco.
MARVIN TATE is a performance poet, lyricist, published author, collected visual artist and educator. His recent collaborations with Sound-Artist Joseph C. Mills and Video/Performance Artist, Jefferson Pinder highlight his ability to combine spoken word and performance with other forms of mediums, producing outstanding works of juxtaposition and improvisation. His collaboration with singer songwriter Tim Kinsella in a project titled Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate with Leroy Bach and Angel Olsen, released on Joyful Noise Records (2013) is a testament to this.
CHICAGO ARTISTS MONTH: The City as Studio looks at Chicago as a place for investigation, experimentation, innovation and production, and encourages a dialogue with the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opening in October. The 20th Annual Chicago Artists Month, October 1 – November 15, 2015, (CAM) highlights the work of hundreds of artists throughout Chicago with performances, exhibitions, open studios, tours and neighborhood art walks. • chicagoartistsmonth.org