Kyle Bellucci Johanson (and friends): Attempt No. 02, timespacematters

 Jul 11, 2020, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
 The Moon

The second of three parties on the moon hosted by Kyle and friends as part of the exhibition, Another Idea.

RETURN HERE AT 7:00 PM CST ON JULY 11 FOR THE PARTY LINK
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chance encounters for a third try: attempting a house party on the moon is a performance architecture in which my flat in Chicago has been reconstructed on the surface of the moon – Earth’s natural satellite. I imagine, with the cosmic radiation and ultraviolet light, there isn’t any Covid-19 on the moon so it's probably a good place for a house party. I originally went to the moon back in July of last year, to see if it was a site for revolutionary becoming, and if it could offer possibilities outside of subjugation and capitalism that feel impossible on earth. This may be a good time to revisit those questions. What does it mean to “be together?” What do we do when we can’t do what we do?

This architecture will be activated three times over the course of June and July 2020, in order to attempt a house party on the moon, the first-second-third of its kind (but that doesn’t really matter).

Each attempt will host various activities to uncover the necessary and sufficient conditions of a house party. This site-responsive work/party dwells on the various roles that isolation, distance, and technology play regarding daily social life and domestic experience for people on Earth. Have we found ourselves in a time and space when matters of existence have never been more precarious and policed, isolated and interconnected, informative and confusing? We’ve witnessed black death, gone live, worn our masks, hidden inside our apartments, filed for unemployment, zoomed out, baked bread, sanitized, and got thoroughly screened, but there is still no vaccine.

So come, have a drink, listen to the DJ’s music, dance, be a wallflower, smoke on the porch, catch another’s eyes, and have a chance encounter. Linger in the kitchen, if you are feeling antisocial there are plenty of books and places to snoop around. Oh, and Tim asked if he could use the bathroom. Let’s talk about what we care most about, let’s talk about the future, and contend with what we never really left behind. Maybe we’ll find new comrades, maybe we’ll find work, maybe we'll find life together, in many ways we will surely fail.

After all, right now we are all beside ourselves.

 

About the artist: 
https://kylejohanson.com

Kyle Bellucci Johanson completed a B.A. in Reconciliation Studies and Art from Bethel University in 2009. In 2008 he studied peace and conflict at the University of Ulster in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and completed an M.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in 2016. Kyle was a 2015 founding fellow of at land’s edge, an artist-led, autonomous, and experimental platform focused on intergenerational mentorship and engaged programming in community-run spaces across east and south Los Angeles. In 2018 Kyle opened table, a temporary project space dedicated to situating artist’s practices through exhibition, discursive meals, and publication. Currently he is an adjunct assistant professor at University of Illinois Chicago, and lecturer at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kyle’s work has recently been on view at Bill’s Auto (Chicago, Illinois), Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon (MOCAM), Automata (Los Angeles, California), Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), ALTES FINANZAMT (Berlin, Germany), Centro Cultual Metropolitano – MET Quito (Quito, Ecuador), and Human Resources (Los Angeles, California).