So what I’ve decided is that if I had the choice to do this class all over again, I would 100% choose the same idea. Yes, the other ideas would have been different, maybe less of a challenge, maybe even easier, but I cannot say that one of them would have been better. But when I look at where I am and how far I’ve come, I can confidently say that I chose right. I think about what challenges I would have faced, if I would have enjoyed one more than the one I am doing, and if one of them would have been the better choice. ![]() When I think of the other ideas, I can imagine all the very different roads they would have led me down. Coming up with this idea was the first moment that I felt like an entrepreneur and that I could launch my own business. What the idea ultimately taught me was belief in myself as an entrepreneur. But as excited as I was about it, I knew that it wasn’t feasible for this situation and under this timeframe. And perhaps for a while, I even thought that that was the idea I would choose to turn into a business. The “Find My School Bus” app was certainly the one idea that I felt the most proud of. And I remember that when it came time to pick which one I wanted to move forward with, it was a lot harder then I thought it would be. When I look back at the list of ideas, every single one of them still interests me. What about those ideas? Did I make the right choice? Could one of them have been the better option? ![]() ![]() So to write this assignment, I really stopped and thought about it for a minute. It was like the day I chose to move forward with RightHandMan, I did and never looked back. I have been so engaged and wrapped up in the idea that I chose that I haven’t stopped to think about the other choices that I once was considering. The first question, and the one that really got me thinking, asked that if we had the chance to do the class over again, would we choose the same project or a different one? Also, what about our other options would have been better?Īnswering this question was kind of like a moment of truth for me. PLATFORMS seeks to expand the reach of a long-standing and multifaceted queer collective practice, in which the group can foster meaningful experiences for multiple publics to engage with queer art and politics.As one of our class assignments, we had to write an assessment report which addressed two questions. In Fall 2015, the PLATFORMS retrospective will showcase the artworks, herstory, and community-building processes of the Chances community over the last 10 years at several sites across Chicago. Selected exhibitions include: Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Angels Gate Cultural Center, CA The Media lab The College Art Association in NYC In Chicago, IL: The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Artists Coalition, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Evanston Art Center, Peregrine Program, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, The Franklin, Johalla Projects.īegun in 2005 as an inclusive, welcoming, and alternative queer dance party, Chances Dances is a collective of artists, activists, DJs, and educators who organize parties, build safer spaces, and support local art and activism through direct funding and other resources. Dan uses the labor of team production to explore how performances of belonging are staged between the image-idea and the lived experience. ![]() His videos have been exhibited nationally and internationally and his work has been shown at the Texas Biennial (09 and 13), FotoFest’s Talent in Texas series (Houston, TX), The Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Hyde PArk Arts Center (Chicago, IL) and others.ĭan Paz is a Chicago-based artist and educator working in video, photography, and performance. In 2013 he founded a PDF artist press, IMAGE FILE PRESS, dedicated to presenting artist books, zines, and other digital ephemera. In previous lives he has also been the programming director for the Cinematexas Experimental Film Festival, an arts blogger, co-founder of the feminist video collective AUSTIN VIDEO BEE, and an instructor at SAIC. He received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1981. Ivan LOZANO lives and works in Chicago, IL. This exhibition introduces a physical and visual dialog regarding how diversity has become defined as the queer, and how this impacts the materiality and plasticity of self-identity and engagement across conceptual forms of expression. Finocchio explores the layers of queer identity in the 21st century.
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