FPC Panel Disucssion
Sunday, April 15, 2pm

Discussion with FPC artists and curators. Traditional panel format will evolve into a public dialogue. Food for thought: What is the public's relationship with HPAC's video display? What are fruitful ways of approaching and consuming artwork?

Kick-off Parade
Saturday, April 28, 12pm

The FPC artists and community guests eat up the streets as they parade toward the HPAC 1 year anniversary party, calling to the public to join them as they go. The parade will end inside HPAC at the For Public Consumption podium for speeches, effusive thanks and perhaps the regrets of over-indulgence. Contact Parade Organizer John Bannon at JEB@johnebannon.comif interested in participating in this parade. Visit www.hydeparkart.org for parade route and further details.

Literature and Music
Thursday, May 10, 7pm

Interdisciplinary literary event with FPC artist Richard Fox and members of the performance group, BoyGirlBoyGirl.

Licking our Chops
For Public Consumption Closing Party
Sunday, June 3, 2pm

FPC Artist Shawnee Barton invites you to a meal in the her favorite color; a monochromatic feast featuring everything from carrot salad to mac and cheese and sweet potatoes to cheetos...and while you feast, lay your sticky orange fingers on a free copy of Richard Fox's new poems sourced from FPC audience responses.

Shawnee Barton

Making Something out of Something
Sunday April 15 – Sunday June 3

A blog hosted by a different FPC artist or curator each week. Posts might be multi-media works of art unto themselves, confessionals, statements, or calls for dialogue.

Find this blog at www.hydeparkart.org/4833

Bulletin Board
Wednesday April 11 – Sunday June 3

Intentional and happenstance audiences alike are invited to respond to FPC. Open channels for response are an FPC email account, comments on the FPC blog, the drop-box outside HPAC, or the bulletin board inside 4833 RPH at HPAC. E-mail to: fpc.hpac@gmail.com

We Ate It Up
Friday May 18 – Sunday June 3

A student exhibition in response to work from FPC, in 4833 RPH at HPAC.

Opening reception with students, teachers and FPC artists Friday, May 18, 2-4pm. Students from Telpochcalli School respond to For Public Consumption video work by Shawnee Barton and Jeremiah Barber.

Curator Bios:

Stephanie Pereira works in the field of arts administration. In addition to working on For Public Consumption as a curator, Stephanie has acted as a curator/program designer for the Chicago Ravioli Project '04, Links Hall Annual Benefit '06 and currently '07. She also runs a local arts adventure group, Little Arts Society, has served on the selection panel for the Department of Cultural Affairs sponsored CAAP grant, and currently serves on the advisory panel for the Chicago chapter of the AFTA Emerging Leaders Creative Conversations Series. From 9-5 you can find her working at Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education as the Research Associate and after-school program manager. Otherwise look for her volunteering around the city at such venues as the Links Hall Box Office and the MCA Family Day. Degrees: MA in Arts Administration, BFA in Visual Arts.

Erik Fabian is an artist and producer working in live performance, installation, and interviews. Erik founded the performance festival BigShowCity in Olympia, WA, which presented over one hundred performances across seven venues during the two years he served as co-director. He is a Links Hall volunteer and a member of the curatorial committee for Links Hall's annual spring benefit, Thaw. Erik holds a MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and runs around teaching classes each week, all across our fair city. www.ErikAndTheAnimals.com.

John E. Bannon

Deva Eveland is a Chicago artist who creates performance based videos, installations, conceptual projects, and live art manifestations. He received a BFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has appeared in galleries, festivals and other events in the United States and
Canada, and recently at the 2006 (RE)Fusing Self Festival in Singapore. He has also been awarded a 2006 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in New Performance Forms. As part of the artist group Seep, he helped conceive and curate several shows in Chicago. These include Gutted, a site-specific performance and installation event in a building shortly before it underwent a gut rehab, and The Drive-By Performance Series at Links Hall, which featured time-based work
in and around moving vehicles.

Morganville is a collaboration between Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen, who have been performing together since 1995. Morganville's works include evening-length and durational performances, film/video projects and curated events. Often structured as a montage of various text, sound, and physical materials, their stage performances grapple with abject territories of gender identity, sexual power, and cultural memory. Their projects evolve over several months and entail cultural research and dialogue, physical workshops and a collaborative editing of their creative material. The process may begin with a cultural icon (such as Joan of Arc or Johnny Cash) or with specific questions such as "How does one define loss?" or "How does the body remember?" They pose answers to such questions through a variety of vocabularies including those that are aesthetic, historic, personal, written, and intuitive. Underlying the work is an examination of "meaning-making" - how significance is ordered, delivered, and received. Their artistic language emphasizes a combination of visual, physical, and textual elements that are juxtaposed to complicate and expand the potential interpretations.

Danièle Wilmouth is an artist working primarily in experimental and documentary filmmaking. She creates hybrids of performance art, dance and cinema, which exploit the shifting hierarchies between live and screen space. During a six-year residency in Japan from 1990 - 1996, she studied Butoh dance, and co-founded Hairless Films, an independent filmmaking collective. Her previous films - ‘Curtain of Eye’s, ‘Tracing a Vein’, and ‘ROUND’ have been screened in festivals, museums, galleries, and on television worldwide. Her newest project, a collaborative performance film with Morganville, entitled ‘A Heretic’s Primer on Love & Exertion: 29 incidents of dual consequence’ will be released in 2007. She is currently a faculty member in the film and video departments of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College. www.HairlessFilms.org

Richard Fox’s poems have appeared widely in many literary journals. He contributed poems to Shared: Chicago Blue Bikes, an exhibition by the art collective PeoplePowered, mounted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in September, 2006. He recorded a CD of his work in 2001 and his poetry has appeared on-line at VerseDaily.com. He has participated in various Chicago reading series, and was awarded a project grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in 2001, a Fellowship in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council in 2000 and a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts in 2000. He has been recipient of various publishing prizes including the River City Poetry Prize in 2005 and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize in 1997. He holds a BFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and currently lives in Chicago.

Shawnee Barton is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who currently lives in Chicago. She received a BFA in Sculpture from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and a MFA in Printmedia from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was a trustee scholar. Shawnee also attended the Independent Studio Program in Sculpture at Slade School of Art in London. At SAIC she has taught Introduction to Printmaking and a course on Humor in Art. Shawnee grew up on a farm outside of Amarillo, Texas. Shawnee is also a poker player; this past summer she beat over 1100 players to finish in second place of event 15 in the 2006 World Series of Poker.

John E. Bannon holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions include: Glass Art Society, Seto, Japan; Center of Contemporary Art, Miami; Purdue University North Central;
Fassbender/Stevens Gallery, San Francisco and Chicago; University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Thomas Edison Community College, Ft. Myers, FL; Glass Art Society, Hain-Chu City, Taiwan; and Creative Art Center, Burbank, CA. Collections include: Chicago Transit Authority and CellularOne, Baltimore, MD. He has received awards such as a CAAP Grant, Governor's International Arts Exchange Program Grant; Artists' Residency, Penland School of Art, Penland, NC; and Second Annual Chicago Artists' Month Award. johnebannon.com