High Concept Labs Announces Fall And Winter 2018 Artist Lineup

High Concept Labs (HCL), a Chicago-based arts service organization, today announced the Fall and Winter 2018-2019 lineup of its flagship Sponsored Artist Program (SAP) and recently launched Winter Intensives. Ten artists and collaboratives have been selected to develop, rehearse, and collaborate on new work through the two cost-free programs, and present new work to audiences in Chicago this season.

"Our mission at HCL is to support working artists, regardless of training or institutional affiliation, to experiment, collaborate, play, and catalyze the creative process," said Billie Howard, Artistic Director for HCL. "It's always a joy to welcome new artists to our programs at HCL, because we're not only broadening our community of artists across disciplines, we're deepening our connection to communities in Chicago, as well."

Launched in 2009 and taking place twice yearly, the SAP provides working artists complimentary access to a 1,700-square-foot rehearsal and performance space at Mana Contemporary, a rapidly expanding art center based in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. HCL also provides administrative, marketing, production, documentation, and development support for SAP artists, enabling them to incubate, workshop, perform, and exhibit their projects.

The intensive programs, launched in early 2018 and offered twice yearly, provide one- and two-week studio residencies for artists to develop durational, long-term performances, installations, exhibitions, and other projects in HCL's studio at Mana Contemporary.

Selected by HCL's Artistic Advisory Council, an experienced panel of arts practitioners, critics, writers, and thinkers, artists chosen for the Fall and Winter 2018-2019 SAP and Winter Intensives represent a diverse range of disciplines, from film and writing, to music and movement.

Fall 2018 SAP artists and projects:

1. Matt Bodett (Multimedia) We Are, We Are

http://highconceptlabs.org/matt-bodett/

2. Beth Bradfish (Music)
http://highconceptlabs.org/beth-bradfish/

3. Brittany Harlin (Dance) Breaking Through Vernacular Movement
http://highconceptlabs.org/brittany-harlin/

4. Ginger Krebs (Dance) Escapes and Reversals
http://highconceptlabs.org/ginger-krebs/

5. Ryan Packard (Music, Sound)
http://highconceptlabs.org/ryan-packard/

6. Marcela Torres (Interdisciplinary) Theater of the Unexpected
http://highconceptlabs.org/marcela-torres/

7. Destine Young (Dance) Torque

http://highconceptlabs.org/destine-young/

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Winter 2018-2019 Intensives artists and projects:

1. David Hall & Julia Pello (Interdisciplinary) Stuttering Images

http://highconceptlabs.org/hall-pello

2. Opera Butoh Lab (Interdisciplinary) Opera Butoh Lab

http://highconceptlabs.org/operabutohlab/

3. Shonna Pryor (Visual Art) Tablecloth Archive

http://highconceptlabs.org/shonna-pryor/

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Artists selected for the SAP or Intensives programs also participate in artist critiques and have the opportunity to present works-in-progress, creative workshops, and other performances and installations open to the public, including HCL's Fall Festival.

For more information on present and past artists, and to learn more about HCL's public programming, visit highconceptlabs.org.

High Concept Labs (HCL) supports artists and facilitates dialogue between artists, audiences, and staff members. This increases access and transparency to the artistic process and fosters transformational experiences in an environment of experimentation and discovery. highconceptlabs.org

HCL is supported in part by the generosity of The Chicago Community Trust, The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Illinois Arts Council Agency, The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation, The Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, The Martha Struthers Farley and Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation, N.A., The Norwottuck Charitable Trust, The Samuel J. Baskin Charitable Trust, Mana Contemporary Chicago and individual donors.

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