On the Lawn

$5 Suggested Donation

Lia Kohl, Jasmine Lupe Mendoza, and Corey Smith are pleased to announce: ANATOMY FOR INTERIORS — a new performance for the front lawn of Comfort Station. ANATOMY FOR INTERIORS was built in response to the public installation from the Chicago- and Panama-based architectural studio, Via Chicago. This performance emerges from two years of research into the dialogues of place and gesture, bodies and walls, chairs and motion.

Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs music and multimedia performance that incorporates sound, video, movement, theatre, and sculptural objects. Her practice explores wonder, absurdity, and divinity in the mundane details of everyday life. She has presented work and performed in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and held residencies at Mana Contemporary Chicago, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mills College and Stanford University.

Jasmine Mendoza is a queer indigenous performance artist, choreographer, improviser, and abortion + postpardum birthworker in training based in Chicago. Their work is informed by improvisation, voice, imagery, textural objects, sound, theatrical play, and nature. Jasmine’s work has been presented in Chicago, New Mexico, and New Orleans, and she has held residences at the Banff Centre, Links Hall, and Carrizozo AIR. 

Corey Smith is a composer, writer, and performance artist based in Chicago, Illinois. He works in a hybridized performance style — a synthesis of music, text, and movement. His work is about place, beginning with the emotions embedded within place — the ghosts of past inhabitants, the political actualities of the present moment, the imagined possibilities of the future. Place is phenomenological, it is rooted in human senses –  the tastes, smells, sounds, and images that fill a space give it meaning and significance. Corey’s work tunes to, dialogues with, and plays alongside these phenomena, shifting to meet the context where it is sited — from the nonbinary body to the computer screen to the city of Chicago to the American Midwest at large. Corey has been an artist in residence at Light Box Detroit, the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, and Grin City and his longstanding project, The New Prairie School, has been featured by Architectural Digest.