EXPO

Sept. 22 – 25

Navy Pier (6018North’s 2nd floor usual space above the fair)

3Arts & 6018North at Expo Chicago 2016

3Arts and 6018North present VIP: Very Important Performances

Employing graffiti, monologues, brick laying, book making, and a procession, VIP: Very Important Performances – in the floor above the fair – presents diverse expression not as spectacle, but as creative fuel for artists challenging artistic and social norms. Within VIP’s democratic lounge, Miguel Aguilar and Chris Silva turn the walls into graffiti canvases; Amanda Williams presents rehabilitated bricks; Fawzia Mirza disrupts Donald Trump’s Islamophobia; and Rashayla Marie Brown and Folayemi Wilson have a say on professional pay and artistic agency while Regin Ingloria chronicles the proceedings through artists’ books. By joining in these performances, VIP invites you to co-create a more equitable art world. 

Visit us via:  the stairs next to Expo Video or the elevator by the Northern Trust anchor lounge

VIP performance times: Something is always happening!

Ongoing performances Thursday - Sunday:

- Miguel Aguilar and Chris Silva’s graffiti painting (outside on Navy Pier and inside VIP space)

- Amanda Williams’ wall construction (in VIP space)

- Regin Ingloria’s artist’s books pedestals (roaming through the Fair and in VIP space)

Additional performances in VIP space: 

Thursday, Sept 22

7pm Rashayla Marie Brown procession through the fair leads to VIP

8pm Fawzia Mirza performance in the VIP space

Friday, Sept. 23 

1:30pm Fawzia Mirza performance in the VIP space

Saturday, Sept. 24

1:30pm Rashayla Marie Brown discusses artistic value with lawyer Patrice Williams

Sunday, Sept. 25  

1:30pm Fawzia Mirza performance

This show is a partnership with 3Arts and 6018North. All artists presented are 3Arts awardees except for Rashayla Marie Brown, a 3AP artist.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts