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Join us for an evening of trans poetics.

Even as our lives are under siege by a violent and racist empire, trans people continue to live extraordinary lives and make art that reflects those lives. On Trans Day of Visibility, a small collection drawn from Chicago’s thriving collective of trans poets will perform their work for and with their community.

On April 1, FUGUE STATE brings the first of two new programs to Elastic Arts Foundation, featuring radical cinema, new premieres, expanded cinema performances, and interactive installations!

Packed night of Chicago veterans including a trio of Keefe Jackson, Jim Baker, and Julian Kirshner and a solo set by the one and only Carol Genetti is punctuated by powerhouse duo Whisker making a rare duo appearance.

Join us for the visual gallery exhibition opening of Too Tender Headed , a petition for reclaiming our divine sensitivities and memorializing tenderness. Curated by Harlem West

Dark Matter Residency + Series presents BLK Noise, a night featuring experimental immersive soundscapes, noisy circuits and sonic rituals. Sets from artists Kwami Winfield (NY), D. Jean-Baptiste, Femi Shonuga-Fleming (NY), and Naturalblkinvention, and ilovecomputergirl djing throughout the night at Elastic Arts. Join us on Saturday April 4th at 8:30pm.  More info TBA!

At our April Elastro series we’re excited to welcome Philadelphia artist apologist to town as they tour the midwest. We’ll first experience performances from Chicago artists Itsï Ramirez and erψn temp3st.

Chicago percussionist and composer Tim Daisy has prepared a new set of scores for two percussionists and piano, which he will present every Monday in April as part of the Homeroom Residency series at Elastic Arts.

Placing together queer history and queer presence in Cinema, we ask you to enter and expand the annals of Queer Film. With this series we showcase queer erotica past and present, centralizing queer desire to remind us of our histories. From vintage arthouse pornos, 80s-90s backroom home movies, 00s web boom, and into the tech fueled world of the 2010s to present we contextualize queer desire through multiple lenses. As we fight for physical queer spaces today and find ourselves equipped with cameras/computers in our pockets and generations of under-seen queer history at our disposal, where do we go?

This is our proposal to you, but let us warn you… it’s FILTHY!

This event is 18+

On April 8, FUGUE STATE brings the second of two new programs to Elastic Arts Foundation, featuring radical cinema, new premieres, expanded cinema performances, and interactive installations!

Two new configurations bringing modern production-influenced approaches to virtuosic acoustic performance: plunderphonic-acoustic duo Alana Detonators and a trio by Julian Pujol Qualls with special guest Marcos Morales from Miami.