WORKS
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PRESS
- KLUB WRKR in Conversation
- lumpen radio interview: RAISIN
- Sixty Inches from Center: Review of RAISIN at 6018North
- WBEZ Chicago: ‘Raisin’ Exhibit Brings Seminal Chicago Play To Live
- e-flux Education: Portable Gray issue 6: Another Idea Exhibition Catalog
- Humanity in Action: Landecker Fellow Asha Iman Veal Announces Participating Artists for Upcoming ‘Raisin’ Exhibition
- In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog: Whoa de Whoa: The Gray Center’s “Another Idea” Comes To A Close
- In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog: Lunar Snails and Galactic Cocktails: Throwing a House Party on the Moon
- Mousse Magazine: “Another Idea: an actual conceptual art exhibition” at Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
- Newcity Art: One Recommendation: July 2020
- Art Monthly, No. 434, March 2020: Letter from Chicago: Sweet Water by Agnieszka Gratza
- Sixty Inches From Center: New Political Imaginaries at the table: Interview with Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Bad at Sports, Episode 671: table projects with Gregory Bae and Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Art Institute Chicago: Perspectives: Tagging Along with a TEAM of Kids
- Imaginaries of the Future Symposium at CSUN and the MAIN Museum
- e-flux Education: Quantum Unlearning
- Hyperallergic: Inventive Responses to Labor and Immigration Issues at Human Resources
- Temporary Art Review: Making Plans at Human Resources
- Minneapolis Star Tribune: Bits and pieces of the zeitgeist in a new SooVAC show
- Minneaplis Public Radio News: Art Hounds: David Rathman, Steffani Jemison, and a glimpse into a schizophrenic mind
PUBLICATIONS
- No Necessary Correspondence exhibition catalog
- Portable Gray, Vol 4, No. 1, Spring 2021: Another Idea exhibition catalog
- Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Juniorprofessur und dann noch Habilitation: sinnvoll oder absurd?
- Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Formatwechsel. Zur Methodendebatte
- Writing for Sweaty Scales by Liang Luscombe
- Making Plans exhibition catalog essay
Courtesy of artist.Lunar Snails and Galactic Cocktails: Throwing A House Party on the Moon
By Jad DahshanIn Practice: The UChicago Arts Blog
July 24, 2020
Excerpt
The Moon has long been a muse for artists, poets, and lovers. Yet, might we also find the Moon a site for temporary retreat and respite away from the cruelties of Earth? Away from COVID-19? Away from capitalism? Perhaps the Moon’s frozen terrain offers fertile ground for revolutionary ideas to sprout and new ways of being to blossom. Presented as part of the Gray Center’s, Another Idea, Kyle Bellucci Johanson’s chance encounters for a third try: attempting a house party on the moon consists of three ‘house parties’ hosted on the Moon. Using virtual reality technologies, Zoom, and other web-based software, Johanson simulated his apartment on the Moon’s surface and invited guests to dance, converse, drink, smoke, read, game, and more.
chance encounters for a third try offers viewers an immersive, exploratory space. The experience is mediated via a virtually constructed replica of the artist’s apartment, which one can explore as if a character in a video game, finding links to videos, texts, and tutorials hidden in the walls and floors. The Zoom meetings which are embedded within the virtual space offer exploratory opportunities for guests to meditate on ideas ranging from the frivolous to the serious. A third aspect of the exploration is its characterization as an attempt: the fact that each of the house parties hosted in June and July built off of the one before, and that each one allowed the artist and his collaborators to experiment with the programs they were using as material. This classification of the work as an attempt is fundamental to the project.
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