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Block Club Chicago, Performance Art Group Brings Chicago And International Artists Together In Parks, by Elisa Shoenberger
September 22, 2023

“Starting last fall, co-curators Carron Little and ieke Trinks began pairing selected artists with their city counterparts to work together. The paired artists then developed pieces that would be performed at the same time in parks of their choice in Chicago and Rotterdam….Little described: “There is a concept that each artist has created through conversation and collaboration, but they are not necessarily the same performance in each place. So the public audience will witness two simultaneous performances happening in real time and space that are in conversation.”

FF2 Media named Swan of the Day: Performance Artist, Carron Little is Queen of Luxuria by Julia Lasker
September 5, 2023

“Queen of Luxuria produces performances that respond to the moment we are living in or addresses a particular social concern like the Uptown Trilogy that looked at racial, gender pay equity…As an advocate for her local communities, Carron has addressed some of the biggest problems of our time with her art. When the pandemic hit and public performance was no longer possible in the way that it had been, Carron created “Flow • embody in site”, an online symposium that would help artists livestream their performances.”

Chicago Reader, Best of Public Performance Art Series, March 2, 2022 by Elisa Shoenberger

“The curators focus on sites that were compromised by violence and try to reclaim them through art. She wants the art to inspire people, inspire conversation, and ultimately create awe. Little wants “the public to feel empowered” by the work.”

FF2 Media Blog, Interdisciplinary Artist Carron Little Innovates During Pandemic, November 30, 2021 by Katherine Factor

“When the pandemic hit last March [2020], I really worried about my artist community not having a space to create and experiment. This seemed so vital and necessary for our work to have the space to evolve. When we ask, what is this notion of what is feminist art? In the eighties — up until now — it has really been reinforcing the stereotype of the angry aggressive woman, and I think it is really important that we think about feminist art practices as building ecologies of support. So what do ecologies of art-making look like for the environment and our communities? I tried to exemplify this in this project, despite the restrictions of the pandemic.”

FF2 Media Blog, How performance can adapt to Covid-19, February 4, 2021
by Elisa Shoenberger

“Little has made a career of championing public performance, through her own performance work as well as her co-founding of Out of Site. Her personal performances are multi-layered. She has often based her work on oral histories she has completed with different populations including septuagenarians in the Beverly neighborhood in Chicago, members of Chicago’s Women Mobilized for Change in the mid-1960s to 1970s, or women of all ages in Switzerland. From the oral histories, she’ll write poems and create visual pieces – sculptures, collages, and paintings, and then integrate them into the performances.”

Bad At Sports, Palette of Utopia, March 29, 2017
By Lise McKean

“That kind of exchange is necessary to establish trust. And agency for the participant. You give them the final word on what goes out into the world.”

Podcast Interview for The Artist Next Level, January 19, 2015
By Sergio Gomez

“I think what you’re doing is making so many things accessible: artists working with artists; local artists working with international artists; artists with community; community with artists; community with each other, awareness and experience. All theses things to me are about accessibility and what a great way to do it through this channel of performance….What you are doing is bringing art as an experience to our regular lives, to our everyday life to help us to ask questions about the things we experience and the things we do as a community and I think that’s amazing.”

Not Without My Bowler Hat Blog: City Alive With Dreams Part 3 by Elisa Shoenberger
August 20, 2014

“There were four stages of the piece from the north lobby to the GAR Rotunda, another room, and the south entrance of the Cultural Center. It felt like a pilgrimage that ended in enlightened and personal song…. One aspect of the work is the interest and consideration of the cities as bodies, people as part of the larger whole. I feel that this collective song creation was a metaphor for the city at large, lots of pieces working together to make a whole.”

Beverly Review about Neighborhood Magic 2015 for Beverly Art Walk, October 3, 2015 organized by Beverly Arts Alliance

“It’s interesting to me to have someone come from outside and really capture some of that oral history—[she has] sort of fresh eyes and fresh ears for it,” Sal Campbell said. “She’ll give it a unique take.”