Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 8pm
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}
FREE and open to all – No Registration Required
gordon fung (b. 1988, San Francisco, CA; lives in Chicago, IL) is a transdisciplinary artist-curator who works with large-scale curatorial/collaborative practices, experimental audiovisual performances, new media installations, noise music, experimental film/video, media archaeology, participatory works, and happenings. His works highlight unconventional executions like equipment misapplication, lo-fi presentations, and glitches. Such aesthetics confront the viewers’ understanding, perspective, and point of view on reality through a more philosophical and esoteric investigation.
Inspired by the unique Chicago video/media arts lineage and collectivity in Fluxus, gordon forms and directs the experimental time-based arts collective //sense to showcase large-scale experimental community theater performances, exhibitions, and screenings. Counteracting the marginalization of experimental time-based arts, he curates and fosters a collaborative common ground for sound, video, performance, and media artists to create gesamtkunstwerk through synergy. By democratizing media tools, he empowers and mobilizes the community to rectify media injustice imposed by corporations.
As an experimental audiovisual performer, he has presented in major locations in Chicago and California including Comfort Station, Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Links Hall, MacLean Ballroom, No Nation Art Lab, Non Plus Ultra (Los Angeles), NOT NOT, Tritriangle, the Red Museum, Mosswood Chapel, Cali Pink, Cafe Mustache, Asian Improv aRts Midwest, Lot 49, DADS (Digital Arts Demo Space), and beyond.
Photo of gordon fung with green violin at {Re}HAPPENING 13 by Jesse Kitt.
Kyriakos Apostolidis (b. Drama, Greece 1991) is a performance artist, movement researcher, and the founder of Morphoplastics, a practice-based research project in the field of performance studies—an embodied investigation into the performer’s body as a means of expression and knowledge. Their live performances present movement-based endurance actions while involving audio-visual installations at the intersection of art & technology. In addition to performing with //sense, Kyriakos will present a workshop at ReVIEWING 15.
“Through the project Morphoplastics, I envision a cutting edge perspective for the field of performance that will radically redefine what the human body is, within and beyond art. Art is a lens through which humans give a concrete form to life. Performance is the form of art where art actually meets life and where the human body becomes the mediator and the pivot of this relationship. It is at this point where what the human body is, through the performer’s present body, becomes an open question. I seek to capture something that is deeply rooted in the human condition and articulate it through physical expression. I want to share my investigations with others and create an intersubjective experience between myself and my audience. Thus, I try to understand how the principles of performance and creation exist in the nature of the human body and human communication. Through my art, I attempt to pierce the core of human experience in order to reveal and manifest the essence of the human body.”
Che Pai is a Chicago-based Taiwanese artist whose practice spans photography, performance, and meditation, primarily manifested through the medium of artist’s books. His unique approach involves conducting images and employing book structures to invite play and performance, adding a dynamic layer to the contemplative journey of reading. Drawing inspiration from contemporary literature, slow cinema, and the physical theater of Tai Chi, Che’s artwork transforms the reading experience into a multi-sensory exploration.
Central to Che’s creative process is walking meditation, a practice where internal sensations flow like water and are captured through photographs and moving images, resonating with external experiences. This meditative approach turns photographs into a tactile exploration, emphasizing the role of the body’s senses in his work.
Che’s distinguished bodies of work are recognized and included in collections such as the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also the recipient of the 2023-2025 GSSA scholarship from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education. Currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Che holds an MA in Literature from National Taiwan University. His contributions to the art community extend beyond his creations; he has organized shows for Ta-Chao Production and programmed educational events at Taiwan’s National Center of Photography and Images.
Kim Nucci has performed at SFMOMA, Gray Area, Elastic Arts, CCRMA (Stanford), ODC Theatre, Center for New Music (C4NM), Counterpulse, Dub Club at The Echoplex, BabyCastles, Compound Yellow, and many DIY spaces across California and the US. They have been an artist in residence at Dresher Ensemble’s DEAR Residency, ACRE, Zero1, and Counterpulse. They have made music for/with gabby fluke-mogul, Nava Dunkelman, Sholeh Asgary, Nevin Aladağ’s sculptures, Phillip Greenlief, Marissa Diet, (Sucker Crush), Driven Arts Collective, Alex Cohen, Jordan Glenn, MurderMurder, Mitch Stahlmann, Anastasia Clarke, Madam Data, Brendan Glasson, Rocco Córdova, John McCowen, Sage City Symphony, Gamelan Encinal, Daniel Schmidt, and others. As a sound engineer and theater technician have worked with Jason Moran, Magic Magic Orchestra, Tauba Auerbach/ Glasser, Himali Signh Soin, Spellling, Allen Moore, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Risa Jaroslow, Honey Mahogany, the Money Witch, and others.
Kyle Gregory Price is a genre-fluid composer, percussionist and turntablist by trade, who regularly produces work in other mediums including stop-motion animation, jewelry making, costume design and dance/movement. He has been a practicing artist for over twenty years. Raised in a one stoplight town in Upstate New York, Kyle put himself through college, earned a Bachelors of Music in Composition from SUNY Fredonia in 2005 and was active in the Buffalo art scene for several years before migrating to Chicago in 2010. Since moving to Chicago he has performed solo and collaboratively, and served as the composer and bandleader in various projects ranging from punk and noise to chamber music and free-jazz.
Photos of Kim Nucci and Kyle Price by Jesse Kitt at BMCM+AC’s ReHAPPENING 2025.