FILM

DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show partner to present a new exhibition in Flickerlounge, a season-long cinematic experience curated by Aurora Picture Show at DiverseWorks Art Space.

On view March 11 – April 16, Flickerlounge presents Personal Boundary.

Awardees from Chicago’s competitive Artadia Fund will be featured in the DiverseWorks main gallery, highlighting innovative artists. Likewise, Flickerlounge will feature two inventive artists working with video and performance, Michelle Handelman and Carol Saft.

Michelle Handelman works in the tradition of feminist body artists who use their bodies not just as makers of the work, but as agents of the work. Handelman states, "My work can be described by theorist, Helene Cixous' ideas of Visceral Feminism: aggressively traversing the corporeal landscape in it's various forms of excess and undress, while simultaneously giving it up for the viewer in an overflow of visual and psychological sensations."

Carol Saft creates weird and wonderful videos about her brother Todd. Like video ‘dispatches’ from the suburban frontlines, the fantasy roles Todd enacts explore the epic side of safety in an otherwise banal world of house alarms and gated developments. Todd is a sort of Everyman: post-Industrial, post 9-11, post-Post-Modern, and there are few heroic moments in such a life as Todd himself asserts, “I am just a man trapped in a man’s body.”

DiverseWorks is a non-profit art center dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art. DiverseWorks is a place where the process of creating art is valued and where artists can test new ideas in the public arena. By encouraging the investigation of current artistic, cultural and social issues, DiverseWorks builds, educates, and sustains audiences for contemporary art.

Pictured above: Still from film by Carol Saft.