Of one's hour: installation + live performance

Of one's hour Hope Esser with: Efrén Arcoiris Triston Antoine Punrada Saengsomboon Olivia Woodward Bayley Day Installation on view: 5pm-7pm [Bar opens at 6pm] Performance begins: 7:30pm (Installation will also be viewable after the performance) Presented by Links Hall and IN>TIME 2016 If I was meant for a different time, how could I have used my body as a body? Of One’s Hour examines how “brokenness” not only pertains to objects but also the physical and metaphysical limitations of the body. It invokes the tableau vivant by combining sculpture and performance with minimal movement into a live experience. The piece draws from an amalgam of research and investigations, including athletics, romance, the 18th century British protofeminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley, as well as “brokenness” as a means towards reinterpretation of the ideal female body and psyche. Can a person inhabit a sculpture, and a sculpture inhabit a person? Inherent in both romance and athletics are also the injuries, the fractures, and the healing. Are there objects that gain strength and beauty only after they are mended? When we see a fragmented Venus, she seems somehow “just right” when she is left broken, and bearing the record of her endurance. Teetering between the comical and the pitiful, Of One’s Hour offers the strength in admitting vulnerability through live performance with objects that have a posture, an action, or a task. $5 students+seniors / $7 advance / $10 door More info: http://linkshall.ticketfly.com/event/1015381-ones-hour-chicago/