ANTIBODY DANCE

ANTIBODY DANCE is a company specializing in movement arts and occult research.
Work undertaken is guided by the MISSION.
Research findings are presented in a variety of media, including performance, video, and text.
The company is based in Chicago, IL.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Adam Rose

CURRENT AND PAST COLLABORATORS: Andy Braddock, Ishtar Bukkake, Noé Cuéllar, Silvita Diaz Brown, Craig Donavin, Elena, Honey La Fleur, Yoahn Han, Katherine Harvath, Molly Jaeger, Catherine Jones, Nicole LeGette, Charles Mahaffee, Natalie Murillo, Baltazar Peña Rios, Marissa Perel, Titty Perkins, Katie Petrunich, Smiley Thims.

MISSION:

To return to the origins of the mind/body split and rediscover pain.

To turn this pain into a carnival mask and put it on display.

To create antibodies–agents of resistance and transformation within culture.

To examine the sicknesses produced by civilization and activate an immune response through the use of imagery and symbolic action.

To see all external systems (culture, economy, government, Gaia) as bodies, or macrocosm, and the individual body as microcosm.

To create alchemical rituals using the body as primary material.

People’s Atlas

What is it?
“Notes for a Peoples Atlas” is a multi-city, participatory mapping and design project that began under the sponsorship of AREA Chicago in 2005 with a Chicago-based project, and has now traveled to Zagreb, Croatia and Syracuse, NY.
“Notes” invites participants to fill in the blank outline of the political border of their city or region with individual and collective local knowledge, forgotten histories, ongoing debates, and changing definitions of urban space. “Notes” generates dialogue and open-ended imagining about urban space and history, taking seriously the expertise and ideas of “nonspecialist” community members. When archived, it presents information in a form that is accessible, well-designed, and visually rich.

Why maps?
Because maps are a visual tool for sharing information with others. Because they can be produced by many people and combined together to tell stories about complex relationships. Because maps are never finished and only tell part of a story that can constantly be expanded upon. Because power exists in space, struggle exists in space and we exist in space. Because we cannot know where we are going if we do not know where we are from.

What should I put on my map?
You are encouraged to map out sites that are significant to you as someone who lives, works and plays in this city. You can map out sites of past or current political struggles, lost histories, cultural spaces, environmental devastation, personal histories, real estate speculation, social movements of the past, places of formal/informal education, sites of gang violence,  where to get the best coffee, places where tourists do not go, the periphery of the city, proposals for alternative uses of public space, distribution of wealth, anything. You are encouraged to combine, intersect, contrast, flip upside down themes or topics of your maps. You are encouraged to map out personal histories and points of interests as well as what else they relate to, why are these points important, and to whom are they important to?