Artist Collective
Out of Site
About Out of Site artist collective
Out of Site started curating and producing public performance art in 2011 in Chicago, U.S. At the heart of our work we engage the public in surprise encounters and create collaborative performances fostering international connections within our community of artists. In June 2020 we pivoted to working as a collective group of international artists meeting bi-weekly to rethink, re-imagine and reflect on our work. Out of these collective conversations we grew the four strands to our current programming: Flow • embody in site, an annual symposium on public performance art practices; Artist Focus, a weekly conversation with artists who have a public performance art practice in the Spring and Fall; supporting artists to create public performances currently working on the Intercity project co-curated by ieke Trinks & Carron Little; and facilitating practice-based workshops on our platform.
To sign up for notifications for registration to Flow, when performances go live, and for our weekly Artist Focus please scroll down and sign up for our emails. Alternatively, you can watch and dip into the Artist Focus archive on our YouTube channel that includes excerpts of artist’s performances.
The members of our collective include: Beau Coleman (Edmonton, Canada), Dimple B Shah (Bangalore, India), Duff Norris (New York City, U.S.), Carron Little (Glasgow, Scotland/ Chicago, U.S.), ieke Trinks (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Fereshteh Tossi (Miami, U.S.), Marilyn Arsem (Boston, U.S.) and Martine Viale (Perpignan, France).
Photo above is a performance by Free Air @Out of Site 2014, photo by Laura Mitchell
Out of Site is thankful for the support from a group of generous partners who are involved in the production of Flow and the Intercity curated program this year. Our partners include: WORM (Rotterdam), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), LePARC Research Center at Concordia University (Montreal), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), and Artists Run Chicago Fund. Intercity is supported by WORM, Chicago Park District, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and Mondrian Foundation (Netherlands).
We are delighted that Intellect Books is partnering with us for a third year to offer symposium attendees a 30% discount on the Performance Art Monograph Catalog for the duration of the symposium.
Our supporter Hyde Park Art Center & the Artist Run Chicago Award is also hosting an in-person and hybrid performance lecture program on Thursday September 21 as part of Flow.
For a third year running we are delighted to be partnering with Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) and Ohio University School of Art & Design who are supporting scholarships for artists to attend Flow. This year we are delighted to expand our scholarship partners with academic institutional support from LePARC Research Center at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and University of Lincoln, U.K. who will also be hosting watch parties on campus along with Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Please see the schedule for watch party times near you.
Flow • embody in site facilitates collaborations and builds horizontal connections internationally. In Week 3 the Live Art Festival is free and open to the public. You can watch the performances live and in person in Chicago or Rotterdam or you can tune in online. This program is generously supported by Chicago Park District, Nights Out of the Parks, WORM, Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and Mondrian Foundation.
Out of Site Partnerships for 2023
Out of Site selected in the Best of 2021
Chicago Reader is the major print newspaper in Chicago. Out of Site was honored to be selected in the Best of 2021, Spring Edition published on March 2, 2022. Please click on the image to visit the article.
Flow • embody in site 2022 is now closed but you can hear Dimple B Shah, Beau Coleman, Carron Little, and Martine Viale discuss their hopes for this second symposium.
Flow 2022
This online public performance symposium brings together the international community of artists working in public performance art practices. The practice-based workshops, performative lectures, and artist presentations are with specialists working in the field.
Flow • embody in site 2022, was juried by Beau Coleman (Canada), Dimple B Shah (India), Carron Little (Scotland/USA) & Martine Viale (France). It is produced in cultural partnership with Experimental Sound Studio, and Intellect Books.
Participating workshop facilitators have been invited and the jury selected the lectures /presentations through an open call process. To find out more about the program details please watch this brief video.
The Out of Site coterie of artists are going through a reflection process reading participant evalutions and wrapping up administration. Video recordings are available to symposium attendees until September 01, 2022. If you wish to access the archive of presentations please contact outofsitechicago@gmail.com to negotiate access to the archive.
Flow 2021
In this video the jury panel for Flow • embody in site 2021 discuss their hopes for the upcoming symposium. The committee for 2021 was Carron Little (Scotland/USA), Jeremy Pauly (Belgium), ieke Tinks (Netherlands) & Martine Viale (France).
Flow 2021 was created in cultural partnership with Experimental Sound Studio & Intellect Books.