Polly Peachum's Punch and Judy featured in Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.'s music video 'We Almost Lost Detroit'click to watch

MAY 12, 2013

MOCAD

Proudly presented "The Rabbit and The Elephant Call-in Show" at Mike Kelly's Mobile Homestead Opening!

"Roadside Attraction" the transforming picture cube, was revisited at the Hatchback opening Friday April 26.



DIA Moment: Puppetslam Detroit!
September 14, 2012 8pm

"Check out this puppetry-for-adults event which features scenes by veteran puppeteer Maurice Greenia and internationally renown puppet designer and artist Shoshanna Utchenik." 

More here

BECOMING SLOVENIAN

2012 TOUR

MANY THANKS to all of the hosts & supporters of Becoming Slovenian!

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Shoshanna Utchenik, an American artist in Slovenia, interprets live public exchanges into a visual, poetic book exploring identity politics.

"I believe peace is rooted in individual self-awareness and compassion for others. The Becoming Slovenian project uses specific moments of culture clash, humor, and beauty to open up big questions and consciousness about the human condition, and how connected we all are. Sometimes the smallest everyday exchange shifts reality imperceptibly in a new direction, toward a world we hadn't yet imagined." READ MORE HERE

Aug 25, Saturday, 3-6pm UTC+1 (Slovenia time)

Live Online Conversation with artist Shoshanna Utchenik and curator Mojca Grmek, hosted by

on tinychat.com

POSTOJNA Aug 21-24

Festival Zmaj 'ma mlade

OPENING: Aug 21, Tuesday, 9pm
LOCATION: Karst Research Institute vestibule,

Titov trg 2, Postojna

KOPER Aug 13-18

Koperground Festival
http://www.dpzn.org/koperground
OPENING: Aug 13, Monday, 8pm, Regional Museum of Koper garden, Kidričeva 19 Gallery: MKSMC, Gregorčičeva 4, Koper

NOVO MESTO Aug. 8-11

Galerija Simulaker
http://www.simulaker.si/napovedujemo
Opening: Wednesday 8. avgust, 19.00
Workshop: Thursday, 9. avgust, 16.00-19.00



Interstate Arts Kitemaking Workshop

Saturday April 14, 2012

11am-3pm Free

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Family Day
220 East Chicago Ave,
Chicago, IL 60611

Activate the sky, public space, and daily cast-offs with a little bit of magic as we

upcycle plastic grocery bags into kites.

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2011

CARDBOARD CASTLE PROJECT

 The Cardboard Castle Project is a series of quick, down and dirty community collaborations that construct temporary architectural sculptures out of cardboard, playfully exploring how private versus public spaces affect our relationships to each other. The project creates space for dialogue about our personal conceptions of ‘home’ as they may or may not relate to attachment, impermanence, and the American Dream.

Since I've started the Cardboard Castle project, recent media frenzy over Caine's Arcade and the nostalgia it sparked speak to our universal drive to create our own spaces and define our world, at every age. Watch the internet sensation, grown out of a little boy granted the time and space to 'do nothing,' with 'nothing,' usually so taboo in today's parenting culture... watch here.

Read an ode to pillow forts in the NY Times here.

And an article advocating free play called "Einstein May Never Have Used Flashcards, but He Probably Built Forts" from the Harvard Grad School of Ed here.

October 8, 2011

11am-3pm Free 

Museum of Contemporary Art      Family Day

in conjunction with the exhibition: "Joseph Cornell: Out of the Box"

220 East Chicago Ave,
Chicago, IL 60611
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October 9, 2011

1pm-4pm Free

Hyde Park Art Center                    Second Sunday

5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
t: 773-324-5520

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September 15, 2011

Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements, Ambient Cloud Installation with Diane Christiansen, Chicago

Notes to Nonself Art Installation

2010

•Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

•Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis

•KAPSULA gallery, Ljublana Slovenia

Collaborators Diane Christiansen and Shoshanna Utchenik expanded the small gallery into a fantastical landscape, metaphoric for the activity of the mind.  Viewers were invited into a meditative garden, collaged with notes and drawings from the transatlantic correspondence between two artists navigating motherhood, marriage, careers, mortality and spirituality. Also on view was animation by Christiansen, Shelly Dodson and Matt Marsden, with sound by Steve Dawson.

KAPSULA gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia

June 8 through 24, 2010

Becoming Slovenian Performance/Artist Residency

Shoshanna Utchenik, an American married to a Slovene, began assembling a subjective guide to her own assimilation. She moved her studio to the KAPSULA gallery for the duration of the exhibition, to ask the public:

What must I do to become Slovenian?

Viewers were invited to bring instructive objects as well as ideas to the ongoing performance.



July 5, 2008 Ana Desetnica Street Theater Festival, Ljubljana Slovenia



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Cardboard Castle handmade gifts made from remnants of the Ephemeral Empire

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