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 art, 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 outofsitechi 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 at the University of Lincoln’s, U.K.

Contextually, outofsite_chi 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.