This is the third iteration performance of the project Tend by Julia Rae Antonick.
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Tend is a service-based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need combined with self-care informed movement distractions focused to organize the nervous system, resolve conflicts, and contemplate power differentials all in the motile architecture of a reflective, airy, enveloping, and luminescent convalescence banquette. Colliding necessity, extravagance, and irrelevance, it imagines a world where your monthly dance appointment is a legitimate need, a necessary line item in your personal budget. A haptic, phatic, and kinetic service providing a much-needed place to rest, recharge, reflect, reconcile. An environment supporting small talk, catching up, grooming bodies and relationships in turn. In short, come ready to chat, be touched/touch, and experience movement.
+ For Tend, audience members select an hour-long appointment in order to attend the performance. Thursday and Saturday appointments are available between 12:15pm - 5pm. We also encourage booking repeat Tend appointments if you are able after you have had your first appointment.
+ All touch that will happen during the appointment will go through a process of informed consent by checking in verbally upon arrival. If at any time during the service there is less touch wanted, you are welcome to communicate this verbally or by draping a specified blanket over yourself during the show. If you are desiring to come experience the show from the position of someone not being touched, please stop by the gallery during our show hours and let us know.
+ Tend performances take place at The Chicago Cultural Center on 4th floor/north end of the building in The Yates Gallery.
+ To see who the technician for each appointment is, select a date + time in the TICKETS tab, and click MORE INFO under the ticket type title.
+ If you would like to learn more about the technician with which you've scheduled your Tend appointment: click here.
+ For a full lists of the artists who have contributed to this project please click here.
+ To read more about our ticketing prices and structure, click here and click Ticketing Philosophy.
+ We intend to significantly challenge the audience and simultaneously practice radical care for each attendee, inviting people into a safer space to delve into inherently uncomfortable but rewarding material. As is customary with some Khecari performances, all prospective attendees will need to fill out an audience interest form to ensure open communication and informed consent for the work they intend to experience.
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* We welcome all people with disabilities to our events. If you require a specific access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, contact Julia Antonick at [email protected]. Please be in touch as soon as you know you would like to join us so we can make sure we have the accommodations ready for you on the day you will attend. All requests are needed 10 days before your booked service.
** Notes about currrent access environment for Tend: The Chicago Cultural Center is fully ADA accessible. The bathrooms in the building are split into male and female restrooms, we are in talks with the venue on creating a more inclusive and inviting bathroom for non-binary folks. There are no scents present in the space except for the disinfectant smell of the use of sanitizing wipes between clients on surfaces. One technician speaks both Mandarin Chinese and English, the other three speak English. Children are welcome to come to the appointment with an additional caregiver to experience the work from a seating bank nearby. If you need to bring dependant children without a caregiver coming in addition to you, please be in touch with us so we can arrange the support you need. All other access services available upon request.
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Photos by Kristin Weinberg, pictured are Tend performers Helen Lee, Enid Smith, Chih-Hsien Lin, and Gina Hoch-Stall.