Links Hall’s 2024-2025 Co-MISSION Fellows and Resident share an exciting evening of their artistic works-in-progress. Be the first audience for their daring new pieces, developed at Links Hall since January.
Nasty, Brutish & Short is a late night cabaret is packed with contemporary short-form puppet and object based theater. Providing a low-risk environment for artists to perform new and experimental work, this puppet slam fosters an artistic exchange between puppet artists of different generations and mediums.
Freedom From and Freedom To is an exploration and celebration of artistic circumstance. Movement and sound improvisors from all around Chicago gather in front of a live audience, where they are grouped by chance. Each group performs an improvised set. Freedom From and Freedom To fuses diverse artistic backgrounds and practices to create unique and fleeting worlds.
THESE SPACES OF POSSIBILITY is an interdisciplinary piece combining dance, film, visual arts and architecture. It draws Inspiration from poems by Mary Oliver, Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, repetitive geometry and the juxtaposition of reality and imagination. THESE SPACES OF POSSIBILITY crafts an immersive environment for the viewer to investigate the narrative terrains that exist between each of us.
