MCA Chicago’s On Stage: Lineages Serices Starts January 31, 2025
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s On Stage performance series begins begins January 31, 2025, and runs through April 19. Since 2022, the On Stage series has focused on a curatorial theme that rotates annually. This spring, On Stage takes “lineages” as its guiding concept, featuring four works that explore notions of identity and shared history from outside and within the art world.
Performances include Elisa Harkins’s Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, a music and dance performance combining disco and Indigenous language; Anne Collod’s Moving alter-natives, a dance that uses the lenses of gender, postcolonialism, and cultural appropriation to examine modern dance history; Miguel Gutierrez’s Super Nothing, a reflection on the artist’s personal archive of dance, positing that a work’s final outcome is connected to the collaborators present during its creation; and Kaneza Schaal’s KLII, a theater-based performance that considers present-day remnants of colonialism through an incarnation of King Leopold II’s ghost.
The works in On Stage: Lineages look to the past as a way of understanding the present. This includes recognizing and confronting the continuing impact of Western, colonial ways of thinking. Lineages looks to personal and communal histories to interrogate long-standing ways of classifying, understanding, and experiencing culture.
Lineages is organized by Laura Paige Kyber, Assistant Curator of Performance.Tickets for Lineages may be purchased at experience.mcachicago.org/packages or by calling 312-397-4010.
