Bad Pasture — ROMAN SUSAN

Courtney Mackedanz
Almost Like A Pasture
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
November 10, 2023 - December 10, 2023

Reception Friday, November 10 from 6-9 PM
Performance Saturday, December 2 from 6-9 PM
Open Hours Fridays, Sundays 4-7 PM and by appointment

a person wearing a green shirt and black pants straddles a metal crowd control barrier that is seen in the grass with a stone backdrop. Their arms are outstretched holding the vertical portion of the barrier with fists and their legs wrap around either side of the barrier for support.

a person wearing a green shirt and black pants straddles a metal crowd control barrier that is seen in the grass with a stone backdrop. Their arms are outstretched holding the vertical portion of the barrier with fists and their legs wrap around either side of the barrier for support.

Almost Like A Pasture is a constellation of sculptural objects, images, and gestures investigating the poetic parallels between people and horses, pastures and surveillance and power as it functions in such relations.

two hands grasp the vertical & horizontal portions of a metallic crowd control barrier.

two hands grasp the vertical & horizontal portions of a metallic crowd control barrier.

Courtney Mackedanz is a transdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago. Her work explores themes of embodied resistance and demonstrations of care within the context of received and embedded choreographic conditions such as wage labor, surveillance, or nervous system states. Mackedanz's practice incorporates critical research, creative writing, collaborative dancemaking, and image/sculptural experimentations to explore how expanded notions of the choreographic might structure, steer, catalyze, and constrain potentials in movement.

an ice cast of the foot of a crowd control barrier is seen from above in the grass, melting in the glow of the sun.

an ice cast of the foot of a crowd control barrier is seen from above in the grass, melting in the glow of the sun.