SAIC Performance

Valie Export. RIP. May 17th 1940 - May 14th 2026. Thank you for your work.

Another End of year event! @vanessadamilolamacaulay ’s encounter with the past class has had an extraordinary semester. The Class is connected with @saic_vap and this years Bill and Stephanie Sick distinguished visiting professor Lee Mingwei TOMORROW at 1pm in the Yates Gallery @chicagoculturalcenter 11 graduate students will perform and exhibit their work. Congratulations @saic_vap @saicpics @see_saic @saicgraduate

Greetings Performance Community, @sarajanebailes Performance Capstone course, States of Failure, will be performing their works in progress from the semester this coming Monday, May 11th, from 12:15-1 pm in Maclean 2M. They would love for any Performance faculty or the rest of our performance community to come along.

Tomorrow @saicpics and @saic_galleries present graduate exhibition 2. We are thrilled and excited and welcome folxs to see the work of @saicperformance grads @yuguanqiao @nextkatemoss @hex_girlfriend_ @thelupusvampire @eg0d34th

Wow thank you @fnewsmag Repost from @fnewsmag • “Can You Feel the IMPACT?” features photos from SAIC’s annual performance festival showcasing live student work! Find this photo essay by @s.iv.an at Fnewsmagazine.com under “Multimedia” to see all the photos! All photos taken by Sivan Gilbert. Cover photo: Twyla Rhode (BFA 2025) feeds a drink to Eddy Barber-Rozema’s (BFA 2025) anteater character on stilts in his performance “Here You Go Beautiful.” @saic_galleries @saicgraduate @see_saic @saicpics

Congratulations to Assistant Professor @vanessadamilolamacaulay the inclusion of her chapter and writing on the artist Lorraine O’ Grady with the book Fifty Key Performance Artists and published by @routledgeart @saicgraduate @saic_library

Community and gathering next Wednesday not to miss Repost from @celestes.wrld • a week from today! next wednesday my students from my class “Dragging Performance” at @saicperformance will present a showcase of their final performance projects titled MELTING SKIN(S) down at @coprosperitychicago 🖤 i don’t have the best documentation of our time in class expect for a few clips here and there but it’s mostly because of how present I’m drawn to be with them in class i’m so proud of this group of 11 and the immense amount of vulnerability they’ve cultivated for themselves and each other ~ i’m inspired by their drive to play with gender as material and by the way i see them using art making as a means to explore all the possibilities of who they can and want to become. this one truly hits close to home. MELTING SKIN(S) Wednesday, May 6 Doors @ 6PM / Show @ 7PM (2 sets w/ an intermission) free and open to the public all ages welcome (although there will be some nudity involved) ty to my wonderful TA @yuguanqiao for a wonderful semester and to the @coprosperitychicago team for graciously hosting and making room for this showcase once again ~ flyer made collectively by the students 🖤 hope to see you there 💋 support young queer art! @saicpics @see_saic

! THIS! SIGN UP! VIRAL. Taught by @vanessadamilolamacaulay VIRAL interrogates the unstable, hyper-mediated terrain of contemporary performance in the age of digital networks. This three-week lab asks: How do identity, presence, and agency mutate when performance circulates online, when bodies are cloned, mirrored, or anonymised? How do memes, catfishing, comment sections, and livestreams become tools, scores, and performance systems? Through embodied experimentation, live media mixing, and critical reflection, students will probe virality as an aesthetic, political, and ethical practice. Students will encounter a wide range of material from playtexts such as Jasmine Lee-Jones¿ seven methods of killing kylie jenner (2019) & Caryl Churchill¿s Love and information (2012). As well as artists work including Jacolby Satterwhite, Wu Tsang and Amalia Ulman. These works will be contextualised through texts such as Liveness and mediatization ( Phillip Auslander) and Memes in Digital Culture (Limon Shifman

IMPACT Performance festival this this WEEKEND! Not to MISS. MFA / BFA graduating students from @saicperformance @atsp.saic thank you @saic_galleries @see_saic @saicpics @saicgraduate

It doesn’t stop! @vanessadamilolamacaulay encounter with the past class gets to meet @guerrillagirls @gettymuseum @pamuseum_ @saic_vap @saicpics @saicgraduate

AMAZING!!! @vanessadamilolamacaulay class meets Performance Art ICONS Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh. The Encounters from the Past class is visiting Los Angeles. Yesterday they were at @gettymuseum for a day long conference for @pamuseum_ this class is part of sick professor and collaboration between @saic_vap @saicgraduate a life changing and extraordinary experience for our @saicpics @see_saic students.

ICONIC Assistant Professor @saicperformance !!! @vanessadamilolamacaulay has taken her Encounter with the Past class to @gettymuseum for a conference @pamuseum_ and she gave a paper as part of the conference and met the legend @anniesprinkled thank you @saicpics @saic_vap @saicgraduate @d_e_l_i_n_d_a perormance art history!!!