MONDAY, APRIL 26

Version Residency Space
@ (Con)Temporary Art Space (208 S Wabash)
11:30am-5:30pm (open all week)

What would you do if you were given an empty storefront space in the Loop? This Spring, we used it as a research center, working studio, and place to hold weekly exhibitions. We also held a few screenings, promoted performance art, and sold our publications, as well as others by artists from around the world. Thanks to the Pop Up Art Loop folks for their generosity and assistance – May 1st is our last day!

Throughout Version 10, students from the MFA AKV/St. Joost (The Netherlands) will use the space for a base of operations, studio work, performance and actions.

Participating artists from MFA AKV/St. Joost include:
Bruno Listopad, Lorelinde Verhees, Manuel Suarez, Ian de Ruiter, Thomas I'anson, Daniele Marx, Dominique Teufen, Mari Stoel, Adam van Drimmelen, Emy de Rooij, Janneke Kornet, Kiki Cheng, Yiannis Papadopoulos and Mehdi- Georges Lahlou. With Instructors: Bas van den Hurk, Erik Hagoort, Marjolijn Dijkman, George Korsmit, Thomas Bakker
 

Stop by to see their work in progress and get information, programs, maps, and related Version ephemera.



Image: Jennifer Mills @ (C)TAS (March 4, 2010)

Printervention Workshop
@ Chicago Tourism Center Gallery (72 E Randolph St)
1pm - 4pm

During Version festival please visit out our phenomenal Printervention exhibition and join us for workshops all week.

The lovely Rebecca Ann Rakstad of No Coast and Rar Rar Press will host a Book Binding Workshop. Hey wow! Visit www.printervention.org for more info.

Prom
@ Roxaboxen (2130 w 21st)
www.roxaboxenminicastle.com
6pm - 8pm Opening reception

Prom is an exhibition of work by Chicago Public School teachers organized by Albert Stabler.

There is only one major publicized art show for teenagers in the city, the All-City Art Show, and, while it serves a purpose for the students and teachers who are able to have work accepted, it has its limitations. The only criterion for inclusion in "PROM" is that the work represent a wider definition of quality (and, in fact, of what constitutes art).  The dream is that this would be the spark of a new movement of teenage art shows proliferating across the city.

Work by:

Christopher Santiago
sunny neater-dubow
Nicole Marroquin
Albert Stabler
Michelle Manalansan Corpus
pat guizzetti
Basia Toczydlowska
Jesse Wyss
Linda Comminos
Maija Swanson
Paul Mack
Michelle E. Green

Come to the show and hit Bridgeport for the space crawl.
Exhibition runs through May 1, 2010. Open by appointment.

Bridgeport Space Crawl
Join us tonight for our annual tour of neighborhood spaces with new works and perforamances at each stop.

8:00 pm @ Eastern Expansion (244 W 31st St) JUST ADDED! New Photography by Scott Cowen.
17 Photos Opening reception 7-9pm> Contact for appointment

9:00 pm @ Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S Morgan St)  Soulful rock by Verry White

9:30pm @ Second Bedroom (3216 S Morgan St)

10:00 pm @ The Living Room (1013 W 31st St #1) Group show with Rachel Welling, Paul Yurkovich and Bradley Biancardi

11:00pm @ Kaplan's Liquors (960 W 31st St) Description-defying art and music by Lord of the Yum Yum> JUST ADDED!
What-A-BAr at Kaplans! Performance art bar action with Bas Van den Hurk and artists from MFA AKV/St. Joost

Version TLVSN
Cable Access Channel 19
Midnight on Channel 19
Every night from April 22 to May 2, 2010

This year Version festival presents 6 episodes of experimental televsion featuring works submitted to this year's festvial. Watch every night of the festival at midnight to view a 30 minute TLVSN episode on Chicago Cable Access Channel 19 (CAN TV)>

VERSION TLVSN

curated by Theodore Darst
additional animations by Jenna Caravello and Jed Logsdon

EPISODE FIVE

1. Sebastian Rozenberg-Hexagram Series

2. Nick Edleburg-Goin to Prison Forever Mixtape

3. Florent Ginestet-Gotik Aztek
    Vincent Arnaud

4. Theodore Darst-Styrofoam

5. Andrew Rigsby-Birds, Houses, and Clouds