1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
August 22, 2025
Performance Friday, August 22 at 8:30 PM
A hot summer evening inside of a parked car. Unfolding in real time through the lens of a dashboard cam, encounters in a car outside of Roman Susan accumulate and combust out of the camera’s view onto the street. Part drive-in movie, part surveillance voyeurism, part abstracted domestic drama, Carlos Ferguson, Kate In, and Johanna Kasimow work together to create multimedia performances that contend with the sensation of ecological crises. The work examines the interior drama captured through the lens of a dashboard camera paired with the unpredictable rhythms outside the camera's frame.
Carlos Ferguson is an artist, carpenter, costume-maker, set designer, and community builder. He holds an BA in Studio Art from Grinnell College and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. He is one of the founding members of Tiny Circus - a project that practices creative collaboration - and has been facilitating workshops since 2008. Tiny Circus has been in residence and presented lectures at film festivals, colleges and universities, museums and elementary schools, and public happenings. As an artist he has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, the Sacatar Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Kate In is an artist, sound engineer, and educator based in Chicago. Her work involves experimentation with sound technologies, sound design for documentary media and animation, electroacoustic music composition, and collective creativity. She is a longtime member of Tiny Circus, a project that uses anti-hierarchical collaboration to create stop-motion animations and other media. Kate holds an MA in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University and is an engineer and studio manager at Experimental Sound Studio.
Johanna Kasimow is an Iowa-City based theater director, performer, and educator. She co-creates new plays and performance works that often explore the interplay between the highly theatrical traditions of clown and melodrama and quiet intensities of hyperrealism. Johanna holds an MFA in Devised Performance from the University of the Arts/Pig Iron School in Philadelphia, and is an Assistant Professor of Directing in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa.