FROM THE ORGANIZERS

"Screenings at 7pm and 9pm
$5 Admission / Artist in person

Chicago-based artist Latham Zearfoss - best known for founding and co-organizing the monthly Chicago dance parties called Chances Dances - will screen recent video and audio works at the Nightingale Theatre on September 4th. Zearfoss's work pulls freely from the cultural commons to renegotiate notions of collective existence and shared humanity. Jane Fonda, the United Nations, Sinead O'Connor, the Garden of Eden, Matthew Shephard and Laura Branigan are each summoned to excavate hope from the ruins of past utopian models. Zearfoss will also screen his 2006 short documentary, A Call and An Offering (co-directed with Dylan Mira), focusing on a little-known moment from Chicago's cultural history when 26 artists/activists created a temporary DIY television studio - called Pilot TV Chicago - to make "experimental media for feminist trespass."

--Program Details--
Morality (3min, 2010, video)
Responsibility (3min, 2010, video)
A Call and An Offering (co-directed w/ Dylan Mira, 23min, 2006, video)
Self Control (14min, 2008, video/16mm)
I Give You Life (12min, 2010, video/16mm)
World Piece featuring Jane Fonda (12min, 2010, stereo sound)
Myth of My Ancestors (A Re/Creation Fable) (4min, 2008, video)

Program runs about 72 minutes.

The artist will conduct a short Q&A after both screenings.
Program notes featuring original texts written by R.E.H. Gordon, Mike Gibisser, Alicia Eler and Doug Ischar and drawings by Nicholas Wylie."