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Theatre Seven of Chicago

2012-13 Season Theatre Seven of Chicago will be in residence at High Concept Labs for its entire 2012-13 season. The award-winning company’s seventh season includes four new-to-Chicago plays which...

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Abbéy Odunlami

Faji The project titled “Faji” is a research and experiment that looks to analyze how we choose to socialize. The project aims to track trends in social conditions in relation to the art and...

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Channel 2020

Video/Puppetry: Channel 2020 Channel 2020 is a standard post apocalyptic comedic webseries that takes place at a propaganda TV station controlled by giant lizards. It is a collaboration between two of...

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Tirtza Even

Video/Installation: Natural Life Natural Life, an experimental documentary installation produced in conjunction with the legal efforts of The Law Offices of Deborah LaBelle (LODL), challenges...

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Exit Ghost

Music: Parlor Music During their Spring 2013 Residency at High Concept Laboratories, Chicago-based Exit Ghost will undertake to write and record an album both responsive to and challenged by the...

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Scott Barton

Composition/ Robotics: Musical Robots During his residency at HCL, Barton will explore how human performers and robots interact in musical contexts.  Barton, along with his lab at Worcester Polytechnic...

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Robert Honstein

Music Composition: My Heart Iz Open In My Heart Iz Open, composer Robert Honstein explores relationships in the digital age, bringing to life the tensions of romance and yearning in an online dating...

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Liz McCarthy

Visual Art/Photography: The Never Ending Landscape Liz McCarthy’s work is interested in the theory that through our subjective and shared perception of our environments, we create symbols and...

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Nora Maité Nieves

Visual Art: Displacement Nieves art practice investigates the idea of attachment to places, things, countries and people.  Her interest in the space is motivated by the constant changes of homes places...

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The Inconvenience

Dance: AfterTaste AfterTaste is an exploration of taste, community, movement and how these moments can leave lasting impressions on us. Six choreographers will create pieces that explore memory of...

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husARchitecture

Visual Art- chiNAgo: A study of scale Chyanne will begin a three-part visualization on the effects of cultural gains and loss through rapid development. Exploring issues of scale, culture, and growth,...

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Micah Salkind

Sponsored Scholar Micah Salkind is a Ph.D candidate in American Studies at Brown University. His writing on Afro-Diasporic cultural production, including scholarly articles South African popular music...

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Amir George

Video: Decadent Asylum Decadent Asylum is an experimental fairy tale in eight parts. A mundane doorman is transported through a broken door that leads him to metaphysical dimensions where he his put...

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Walkabout Theater

Theater: THE WILD Inspired by the work of playwright Charles L. Mee and the Walkabout ensemble’s physical training practices, The Wild is the world premiere of a devised laboratory theater performance...

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Melinda Jean Myers

Performance/Dance: greatBIGworld During her HCL residency, Myers will dig into greatBIGworld’s original iteration to tackle some questions she has about its evolving potential.  She hopes to sharpen...

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Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes

Project Title: The Tea Project Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes work collaboratively to uncover moments of beauty, poetics, and shared humanity within little known military histories. Taking as their...

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N.N.N. Cook

Sound: Diffusion (Coordinates Checker) Cook will expand and refine through research his piece “Process Passage” which was performed in Summer 2013. It was performed with three cassette-recorders,...

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CUBE Ensemble

Performance/Music: Punk Rock Julius Caesar During its time at HCL, CUBE Ensemble will develop a reworking of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The adaptation is a high energy, Promenade/standing room only,...

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Honey Pot Performance

Performance: Juke Cry Hand Clap This project expands an existing HPP work, Sweet Goddess, as a reference to deepen HPP’s investigation into Chicago house music and dance culture. Juke Cry Hand Clap...

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Francisco Avina

Dance- ART During his residency at HCL, Francisco will create a one man show that examines the resilience of the human spirit in the face of extremely trying events and times. When the overarching...

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