NEWS: Inaugural Bridge Video Announces Program Partnership with Side/Lot Curatorial’s Evanston Experimental Film Festival at the Evanston Art Center Sept. 22 (Live Screenings) through Oct. 20

Written By Michael Workman

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NEWS: Inaugural Bridge Video Announces Program Partnership with Side/Lot Curatorial’s Evanston Experimental Film Festival at the Evanston Art Center Sept. 22 (Screenings) through Oct. 20

Bridge today announces a programming partnership program with the Evanston Experimental Film Festival, offering an additional screening opportunity for select shorts through the Bridge Video streaming service. 

Johannes DeYoung’s “Headshots,” Soyeon Jung’s “White Noise” and Walter Smits’ “in which they were not yet hermit crabs” will be presented as part of a Bridge Video lineup within their larger program, with the showcase screened outdoors on the wall of the Evanston Art Center on September 22, 2023, and on a video screen inside the Evanston Art Center from September 22 -October 20, 2023.

Please follow the Side/Lot curatorial program on Instagram here and on the Evanston Art Center site here for updates on the 5th annual selection of short experimental video works in the Evanston Experimental Video Showcase! Screening outdoors at the Evanston Art Center on Friday, September 22 at 8pm. Bridge members will join the screening to discuss their Bridge video platform.

This year's films are by the following artists:
Charles Cadkin
Chris Churchill
Johannes DeYoung
Soyeon Jung
Hailing Liu
William Ojeda
CK (Kaia) Olsen
Eleanor Pavich
Alan Perry
Heather Snyder Quinn
Ramin Takloo-Bighash
Jude Silvertree
Walt Smits
John Thomas
Jamie LouThome
Qianwen Yu

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With curators
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And in partnership with
@michaelworkman1 of @bridge.chicago

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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