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Performance Art in Chicago

09/20/2026
Performance Art in Chicago is a conversation moderated by Leon J. Hilton with key figures from Chicago’s performance art history and present. This program takes High Performance’s extensive engagement with Chicago’s flourishing performance art scene as a point of departure to explore how and why Chicago’s distinctive performance art culture emerged.
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Commissioned Reviews From Around the World

the body as utopia

September 1, 2026
By Amorette Muzingo
Logan Wolfe at Dari
Los Angeles, California

Wolfe and the ensemble presented choreographed vignettes that, although metaphorically intimate in nature, could be conceptualized as ubiquitous experiences.

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Extenuating Circumstances

August 18, 2026
By Rossen Ventzislavov
Seyi Adelekun at Whitechapel Gallery
London, United Kingdom

The performance unfolded like a testing ground for something ongoing, its complexity extending far beyond the confines of the gallery or the art context. 

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a becoming, a spoon

August 7, 2026
By Joey Mauro
Lucía Reissig at the golden monkey trading company
New York City, New York

The sound of the rabble and the friction of crawling bodies on the floor was fed back to us as something we already had produced together, without noticing, from before the start.

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