In any place that isn’t the otherworldly realm of the ACRE Residency, twelve days doesn’t feel like a long time away from one’s day-to-day life. Launched in 2010 by Nicholas Wylie and Emily Green, ACRE (short for Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) was founded with the mission of providing the arts community with an affordable, cooperative and dialogue-oriented residency. [...]
What does a new queer aesthetic look like? What can it become? Coming soon: newqueerness.com
Projects: In a new collaborative project, iPhone emoji comes to terms with its lack of queerness and blackness. A pseudo-religious homage to Katy Perry’s adult fantasies of adolescence results in a whipped cream-infused performance. Brassai’s 1932 gay Paris photograph comes to life in queer 2010. A sketch comedy Jewigga character named Baumshaquita Siegel pokes fun at white peoples’ [...]
Since its founding in 2005, Chances Dances has sought to create a safe space for all gender expressions by bringing together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. The creation of the Critical Fierceness grant expands upon this goal by offering a unique opportunity for queer artistic expression. Individuals or groups who wish to utilize the [...]
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes models designed to help artists develop, present, and discuss their practices by providing forums for idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and [...]
I had the delightful pleasure of participating in Chicago-based artist Marie Walz’s live performance art piece, “Nick Rhodes/Outer Space/Waffle” (2011) at Food & Performance: A Showcase of Performance Art involving Edibles. Nick Rhodes/Outer Space/Waffle Red Velvet Waffles by Marie Walz performers: Alicia Eler, Gabe Sopocy, Lara Oppenheimer, Marie Walz, Megan Milks Artist Statement by Marie Walz [...]
I posted this on September 30, 2011. Thanks to the interesting service Timehop, which gives users their social media posts from one year ago, I saw it again on September 30, 2012. It looks like I really was in love with the Internet. For more, please see: http://aliciaeler.com/category/projects/only-for-the-internet-when-i-fell-in-love-with-the-www/
Six months before my grandmother died, I dropped out of Oberlin College and enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I felt compelled to be in Chicago, and to help my family care for my grandmother before she passed. I completed the imagery for this project in 2004; now, eight years later, [...]
St. Louis reminds me of Kansas City, Missouri, with its warehouse-filled downtown area, and its mix of the South and the Midwest. I took a giant Megabus to get here, winding through cornfields and flatlands. When I was at the gas station-slash-diner, I bought some beef jerky in a plastic bag. The cashier was strict [...]
On Pets and Responsibility: The Reindeer Dog On Paranoia: When the Window Guys Come to Change the Windows for Winter, I Get Paranoid
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