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Big thanks to everyone who participated at Beverly Art Center

Big thanks to all the people who participated in the Fifty Fifty project on Saturday September 28 from 12noon - 2pm. It was a steady flow of people visiting my table set-up to receive a check from the queen of luxuria calculating pay inequity.

To watch a film of the previous performance here.

queen of luxuria at Beverly Art Center

On Saturday September 28 from 12noon - 2pm Carron will be bringing the Fifty - Fifty Bank to Beverly Art Walk from 12noon to 2pm. In 2013 Carron created the performance Unto Each Their Own Safe at the Bridgeview Bank in Uptown curated by Eden Unluata Foley. Over the years she has been invited to re-create this interactive performance that calculates racial gender LGBTQ pay inequity.

queen of luxuria will be located in the lobby of Beverly Art Center and will be writing checks calculating what you haven’t received during your working life due to racial gender LGBTQ wage inquity.

To watch a film of the previous performance here.

I Wish to Say by Sheryl Oring

On Monday August 19 outofsite_chi is presenting Sheryl Oring’s public engagement project I Wish to Say in Chicago. What would you like to write to the next President of the U.S.? To witness how the public responded to I Wish to Say in Chicago in 2015 when we hosted it in President Barack Obama’s final year in office please click here.

To read more about this fascinating project visit the outofsite website here.

8 Acts of Love catalog

The catalog of the exhibition at University of Lincoln is hot of the press thanks to the generosity of the School of Creative Arts at University of Lincoln, U.K. The catalog includes an introductory text by Dr Alice Bell and Carron Little called the Charter of Liberty and includes two scholarly texts by Tricia Van Eck, and Joanna Matuszak, two interviews with the artists, Jeff Huckleberry and Mothergirl plus an artist text by Vanessa Dion Fletcher about the dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt.

To purchase a copy please visit here.

Gentle Gestures (GG)

Organized by Dr Alice Bell and Danica Maier, Carron has been invited to present a practice-based workshop inspired by the 8 Acts of Love exhibition held at the University of Lincoln, U.K. in November 2023. Gentle Gestures is hosted at Nottingham Trent University, U.K. on April 5, April 6, 2024 and this session is part of the stream entitled Gentle Gestures Midlands Conference on Critical Thought (MCCT).

CWHC Open House

Celebrating Chicago Women’s History Center’s first Open House showcasing our new location in the Fine Arts Building, suite 403 on Sunday March 17 from 2pm to 4pm. Founded in 1971, CWHC celebrated its 50th anniversary recently and embarked on an exciting new era for the organization. During the past year we have undergone many changes including establishing a more public space for the organization and hiring an Executive Director for the first time.

Fifty | Fifty Initiative

As part of Women’s History Month, Carron has been invited to speak at an upcoming event organized by Amerikazentrum Hamburg, Germany & American Women’s Club of Hamburg to discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion inspired by the Fifty | Fifty that she dreamt up and co-wrote with Stephanie Sparling-Williams, Kalliopi Minioudaki, and Basia Sliwinska for the College Arts Association in 2020. This panel will take place on March 7, 2024.

FEM_23

Curator of Fem, Denys Blacker invited thirty-eight artists to perform in Madremanya, Spain in December 2023. Carron was one of the specially invited artists and we created a collaborative performance during the day and were unexpected paired with another artist to perform a four minute action as part of a live performance zoom event.

Martine Viale, ieke Trinks & Carron Little have all been invited to participate in this international gathering of performance artists in Spain this upcoming December.

8 Acts of Love

8 Acts of Love, is an interactive exhibition experience inspired by outofsite_chi artist collective’s archive. Over the last twelve years, this international collective, comprising women, trans and non-binary artists, have come together through public performance, often generated collaboratively and multimodally, from diverse parts of the globe. United through the transformative practice of performance art and practice-research, the work in this outofsite_chi archive exhibition has been co-curated by Fine Art Programme Leader and artist Dr Alice Bell and Out of Site organiser and artist, Carron Little as part of University of Lincoln’s new Practitioner in Residence Scheme.

Contextually, out of site started in Chicago, U.S. in 2011 and now reaches across the world, interconnecting artists through live and mediated performance collaborations. The situated and relational ecologies that emerge from these activities, connect both artists and publics trans-regionally, within new and productive co-affective dialogues. This year 2023 outofsite_chi developed the Intercity Project sharing simultaneous live experiences between Chicago, USA and Rotterdam, Netherlands, which was also live streamed here into the Fine Art studios at the University of Lincoln, UK as part of the FLOW festival https://www.flowsymposium.org.

8 Acts of Love, will take place in Project Space Plus (PSP) (https://artsfeed.org/events/8-acts-of-love/) from November 22 to December 8, 2023 and will be a similarly dialogic and interactive experience, engaging publics in different ways of being and seeing. The viewer can opt-in to participate or enjoy the different aspects of the exhibition that celebrates ‘love as encounter’ (Luce Irigaray, 2002), from multiple and diverse perspectives simultaneously.

Artist Focus Fall 2023

Out of Site is starting the Fall Artist Focus in conversation with Carron Little about her socially engaged public performance art work and her public performance art practice. This conversation will be facilitated by Martine Viale and grows out of a long dialogue between the two artists about their shared comittment to public performance art practices.

To watch the link please visit outofsite_chi YouTube Channel.

Article on the Intercity

September 22, 2023 by Elisa Shoenberger, Block Club Chicago

Performance Artist Carron Little is “Queen of Luxuria” by Julia Lasker

September 5, 2023

FF2 Media based in New York City celebrates one woman artist everyday and Carron Little was selected to be Swan of the day on September 5, 2023. This article shares the concepts behind her work and why she believes in the importance of working in public space. It talks about some of the socially engaged projects that she has developed over the years working with people to write poetry and compose it into lyrical form.

To read the article please visit FF2 Media.

Intercity

The seeds of this project were created over a dinner at ieke Trinks house in Rotterdam in 2021. We invited several cultural partners to collectively work on this project and it has been really special to realize it this September 2023 with all the participating artists in partnership with WORM, Rotterdam. This was co-curated by Carron Little and ieke Trinks and the participating artists included Adrian Woods, Frans van Lent, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, Ratri Notosudirdjo, Regin Igloria, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Sarah Beth Woods and Contemporary Glory, Contemporary Cash. This most ambitious project created by Out of Site artist collective in partnership with P.A.E. to date creating simultaneous live public experiences for the public in each respective city of Chicago and Rotterdam. This project would not have been possible without the support of WORM, Rotterdam, Chicago Park District, Night Out in the Parks, Experimental Sound Studios, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and the Mondrian Foundation.

To read an interview with the co-curators at Block Club Chicago please check here.

To learn more about this project please click on the image or visit Intercity.

Design by Surprise Media

Flow • embody in site 2023

This is the third annual symposium on public performance art practices that Carron has convened with artists in the Out of Site collective. This year ieke Trinks, Martine Viale, Charlien Adriaessens and Carron have juried and convened the Flow • embody in site symposium.

This is a practice-based research symposium on socially engaged work and public performance art practice. This year is very special as we move to a hybrid format hosting in-person and online workshops with Yaryna Shumska (Lviv, Ukraine) and Ayako Kato (Chicago, U.S./ Japan) in Chicago and Odun Orimolade (Lagos, Nigeria) and Yvette Teeuwen (The Hague, Netherlands) at WORM, Rotterdam. The online workshops will be given by Paul Couillard (Toronto, Canada), Isabel Leon (Granada, Spain), and Kineret Haya Max (Tel Aviv, Israel). All workshop participants can opt-in at the end of Week 2 to perform in the Live Art Performance Festival in Week 3 that is live streamed to our watch parties around the globe.

You can register for an Ebb & Flow that will give you access to two practice-based performance workshops and the full suite of artist presentations. Or a Steady Stream registration includes access to the performance lectures, artist presentations and community gatherings.

We are thrilled to partner with Intellect Books for a third year and all symposium attendees will receive a code for a 30% Discount on their Performance Art Catalog. Flow is produced in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, WORM, Rotterdam, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, LePARC Research Center at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and University of Lincoln, U.K.

Artist Focus - Spring 2023 (Sixth Edition)

The Out of Site artist collective organizes a weekly broadcast in the Spring and Fall for eight weeks where we talk to artists specializing in outdoor public performance art practices from around the globe. Each broadcast is one hour long and shares two or three video excerpts of a performance and photo documentation of each artist’s work. The program runs every Saturday @11:15am cst | 18:15 ect and you can listen to the archived interviews on the Out of Site Youtube channel.

Spring 2023 Artist Focus included a fascinating line-up of artists with conversations with Yvette Teeuwen, Denys Blacker, Boris Neislony, Dorothea Rust, Julie Vulcan, Keike Twisselmann, James King and Janice Parker. The conversations were facilitated by Martine Viale (Perpignan, France) Carron Little (Chicago, USA), ieke Trinks (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Dimple B Shah (Bangalore, India).

The conversations explore public performance artists practices, the politics of working in public space, embodied witnessing and the divergent ways in which these artists are researching ideas and working creatively.

To find out about each artist please our website.

Flow • embody in site 2023

The Out of Site artist collective organizes a symposium on public performance art annually. This year we are moving to a hybrid format with practice-based workshops in Chicago, USA and Rotterdam, Netherlands. The symposium culminates in a performance art festival and the is supported by Chicago Park District, WORM, and Experimental Sound Studio. For more information about this symposium please read the blog post here: https://www.flowsymposium.org/blog/flow2023-as-a-hybrid-symposium

Registration for Flow • embody in site will open on July 5, 2023:
https://www.flowsymposium.org

Ticlish All Sorts by James King, Front Cover by Carron Little

James King invited artists and writers to contribute to his new book of poetry called Ticlish All Sorts published in Spring 2023. Carron was delighted when he asked if he could use this new automatic drawing that Carron created this spring inspired by a spontaneous public action she did that came out of the Flow workshop that James facilitated in 2022. The circles of creativity.

To purchase a copy of this publication please visit:

Walking On the Edge by In_process live art practice, New Delhi, India

About project called "Walking On the edge" invites us to explore the world from a particular perspective. Being positioned on the edge is away from the center, and to observe the center from a distance, while it also can be understood to be the position of exclusion or the marginalized. The choice to position oneself on the edge is to put oneself at danger or at risk. Coming to the edge is what we are experiencing with the use of fossil resources slowly coming to its point of exhaustion and the accumulation of ongoing waste.

1. Abhimanyu Kumar - Moderator 
2. Ieke Trinks - Guest Artist in_process 
3. B Ajay Sharma - Co-founder - In_process live art practice
4. Dr. Godwin Constantine - Founder of Theertha performance platform, Srilanka 
5. Nancy Popp - Fulbright scholar in India
6. Carron Little - Co-Founder of Out of Site artist collective

This panel conversation is happening on Wednesday December 14, 2022 at 5pm IST.

Art to Heart by Carron Little & Duff Norris

On Saturday November 26 Out of Site produced two outdoor performance art pieces in Barrowland Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The first performance was by Duff Norris called 50 yards Heart to Heart with performer Gregor MacRae. The second performance was created by Carron Little in collaboration with Duff Norris. Both performances were live streamed on Out of Site’s twitch channel and exist on Out of Site YouTube Channel.

To read more about this performance please refer to the page Heart to Heart.

Artist Focus - Fall 2022 (Fifth Edition)

The Out of Site artist collective organizes a weekly broadcast in the Spring and Fall where we talk to artists specializing in outdoor public performance art practices from around the globe. Each broadcast is one hour long and shares two or three video excerpts and photo documentation of each artist’s work. The program runs every Saturday @11:15am cst | 18:15 ect for eight weeks and you can listen to the archived interviews on the Out of Site Youtube channel.

To find out about the full schedule for this fall please our website.

Urgent Crimson Symposium @ University of Darmstadt

Carron Little has been invited to give a keynote address on Digitization = Change at this upcoming symposium in Germany. The title of the presentation will be Can the digital arts be a tool for heightening perceptual awareness? This talk is inspired by the ongoing research with the Out of Site community of artists asking the questions is it possible to embrace the ever-changing landscape of digital technology to enhance perceptual awareness? What are the potential benefits for learning and art education when we fuse embodied practices with digital experiences? Is there an inherent contradiction in fusing these practices? In the wake of the pandemic, how might we reconsider utilizing digital technology to share live public performance practices from across the globe?

Live Flow 2022 is happening this weekend

In cultural partnership with Experimental Sound Studio, Carron is organizing a weekend of live public performance from around the globe. The public performances created this weekend created in practice-based workshops with Nieves Correa, James King, Frans van Lent & Dimple B Shah at the Flow • embody in site 2022 online public performance symposium. Please find the full schedule below with direct links to the broadcasts.

Friday June 17 @7pm - 9pm CT | 1am - 3am GMT
Symposium Workshop Attendees: John G. Boehme,
Rene Meyer-Grimberg, Dimple B Shah, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, & Duff Norris
Link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDylz17r78o

Saturday June 18 @12noon - 2pm CT | 6pm - 8pm GMT
Symposium Workshop Attendees
Martine Viale & Frans van Lent, Hilary Gilligan, Jimena Bermejo, Soufïa Bensaïd, Daniela Ehemann & Isa Fontbona, & James King
Link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdd1GfGXbYI

Sunday June 19 @12noon - 2pm CT | 6pm - 8pm GMT
Curated by Beau Coleman
Yaryna Shumska (Lviv, Ukraine)
Carali McCall (London, U.K.)
Vanessa Dion Fletcher (tkaronto, Toronto, Canada)
Jody Oberfelder (NYC, U.S.)
Link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP7cF9UyHnE

Sunday June 19 @2:30pm - 3:30pm CT | 9:30pm - 10:30pm ECT
Post Flow Show community gathering in zoom
Zoom link will be posted in the twitch chat and emailed to you!

To view the view broadcast please click on the button below.

Flow • embody in site 2022

Carron collaborated with Martine Viale (France), Beau Coleman (Canada), and Dimple B Shah (India) to organize this annual symposium about public performance practices. This year we highlighted the lifelong practice of Alastair MacLennan organizing a partnership with Intellect Press to offer symposium attendees a 30% discount on Actional Poetics, ASH SHE HE, The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971 - 2020 edited by Sandra Johnston, Cherie Driver, and Paula Blair.

The symposium included four practice-based workshops by Nieves Correa (Spain), Frans van Lent (Netherlands), James King (N.Ireland), and Dimple B Shah (India) and eleven performance lectures and artist presentations by practitioners in the field from diverse corners of the globe. These were selected through an open call.

Workshop attendees could opt in to perform in a finale weekend of live public performance from around the globe and this was created in cultural partnership with Experimental Sound Studio.

Interview with Intellect Books editor, James Campbell on May 12, 2022 @12noon CT

Live on Intellect Books instagram feed, Carron Little will be in conversation with James Campbell to discuss the upcoming Flow • embody in site 2022, an online public performance symposium with practice-based workshops, performance art lectures and a weekend of public performances in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio. The symposium starts on June 2 - June 12 with a weekend of live public performances on June 17/18/19.

This program has been juried by Beau Coleman (Canada), Dimple B Shah (India), & Martine Viale (France), and Carron Little (Scotland/USA). Registration will go live on May 1, 2022. To watch the video teaser about the symposium please click here.

National Poetry Month 2022 - Antelope, Volume 2

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of a poem I wrote for Sylvia Hikins in collaboration with Erin Gernon who wrote a music composition for harp to accompany the piece. It is hot off the press in this delicious new publication of Antelope, Volume 2 edited by Melissa McGrath and Elisa Shoenberger. To read more and find out how to order please click here.

Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow opening April 15, 2022

Industry of the Ordinary, a performance art duo are organizing a group exhibition that opens on April 15, 2022 at the Design Museum of Chicago. Carron was invited to participate and will be including a new interactive sculpture that connects with the live actions she has been creating. The sculpture includes an excerpt of the poem In Eight Acts that she wrote during the week of the U.S. election in 2020. To view documentation of people interacting with the sculpture please click here.

“We find ourselves in a liminal space - a transitory, in-between state of indeterminacy and ambiguity. We are neither in or out of the pandemic, and exist as a binary condition; a superimposed state, a sense of being in a waiting room with no windows.” Exhibition text by Industry of the Ordinary, 2022

Out of Site was selected Best of Public Performance Art in 2021 by Chicago Reader

I am thrilled to announce that Out of Site was selected for the Best of Public Performance Art in Chicago Reader for 2021. Out of Site organized 50 public performances in 2021 and a public performance program in partnership with Chicago Park District and Nights Out in the Parks called Open Flow. This was a series of interactive performance experiences for the public in four parks on the north, east, south, and west side of Chicago. In four parks we curated four interactive expereinces and public arts works by Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks, Helen Lee & Collaborators, DeMarcus Purham, and Catherine Schwalbe ranging from embodied dance pieces to work that was socially relevant addressing the issues of our times living in the U.S. and in Chicago during the pandemic.

Interview by Sharon Hoyer on Friday February 18, 2022 on Lumpen Radio

Sharon Hoyer runs the monthly podcast called Means of Production about Performance in Chicago on Lumpen Radio. In this interview Sharon speaks to Sara Zalek for the first 30mins and then to Carron Little about their public performance work. Carron talks about the upcoming Artist Focus program that starts on Saturday February 26, 2022 with Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith.
(P.S. This interview came at the end of a long week living in COVID-19 quarantine in February!)

Artist Focus - Spring Series 2022

The Out of Site artist community organizes a weekly broadcast in the Spring and Fall where we talk to artists specializing in public performance practices from around the globe. Each broadcast in one hour long and shares two videos or photo documentation of an artist’s work. The program runs every Saturday @11:15am CT | 6:15pm ECT for eight weeks and you can listen to the archived interviews on the Out of Site Youtube channel or FB.

This spring we extended the weekly program to include an interview with Ukrainian artist, Yaryna Shumska on Saturday April 23 @11:15am ct. Please follow outofsite_chi on FB to find out more.

50th Anniversary of Feminism at the College Art Association, February 18, 2022 @11am CT

The Committee of Women in the Arts is organizing a panel to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Feminism at the College Art Association. Organized by Joanna Gardner-Huggett with panelists Judith Brodsky, Ferris Olin, Midori Yoshimoto, Carron P. Little, Kalliopi Minioudaki, and Zoë Charlton. To read more about this celebration and the history of the Committee of Women in the Arts please read here.

Lock Unlock organized by Dagmar Glausnitzer and invited by Beau Coleman on January 17, 2022

On the #Edition 21 of the Lock Unlock Performance Art Project Carron was invited to be a guest artist by Beau Coleman. This is an international project inviting artists from around the world to participate in a simultaneous group performance. Eight artists perform simultaneously and then there is a post-performance discussion the week after. Ours is scheduled for Monday January 24, 2022. Please find a link below to the video documentation and here is a link to the project website.

Research-Creation in Urgent Times a conference hosted by Spar2c Research Center at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada

Beau Coleman organized a panel entitled Artistic Research in the Public Space with Bruce Barton, Selena Couture, Lin Snelling & Carron Little on October 22, 2021

What does it mean to take up public space and to make it an essential collaborator in one’s own artistic research practice? What are the socio-political, and ecological implications of performing in and for the public? This panel brings together performance-based artistic researchers and scholars to discuss their work, and the works of others, in the public sphere(s).

Recent Interview with Carron Little by Katherine Factor in FF2 Media, Tuesday November 30, 2021