Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 8pm
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}
FREE and open to all – No Registration Required
“The religious spirit must now become social so that all Mankind is seen as Family, Earth as Home.”—John Cage
flux in time: a heterotopic theater from the aborted future (2025) is an experimental performance theater that invites audiences to collectively revisit the past and reimagine the future.
Kyriakos Apostolidis, gordon fung, Kim Nucci, Che Pai, and Kyle Price from //sense–a Chicago-based neo-Fluxus theater troupe, will stage an immersive “theater of mixed means” that weaves a metaphorical and metaphysical network through history, art, and life, paying homage to the legacy of BMC.
Through the embodied actions of its artists, the troupe transforms time and space into heterotopic sites where multiple centers across eras converge in the present moment. Conceiving individuals as living time capsules, the performers fuse human experiences into intellectual rhizomes, cultivating a shared terrain of intelligence, consciousness, and the cosmic mind.
Through reenactment and deconstruction, we symbolically conjure answers from fragmentized cultural memories and history for guidance. By resurfacing past events and refraining from assigning new meaning to them, we invite audiences to recontextualize them into new meanings, solutions, and understandings.
flux in time also draws references from the Voyager Golden Records on NASA’s Voyager probes. NASA’s Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977, which coincided with John Cage’s birthday. Having traveled a distance of 6 billion kilometers, Voyager 1 became the farthest man-made object from Earth. Carrying information about Earth, human history, culture, and intelligence to the unknown territory in interstellar space.
On Feb. 14, 1990, Voyager 1 took one last glance toward us on Earth and shot the famous photo Pale Blue Dot, which inspired Carl Sagan’s book of the same title in 1994. The Earth, “a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena,” appears as a mere pixel. This humbling experience encourages us to rethink our actions and their consequences on Earth and on others. Should humans deliberately use technologies to expand our minds and collective consciousness, we can build a better understanding of the cosmos through knowledge.
flux in time, like the Voyager in arts and life, serves as a cultural checkpoint to gauge our current state by providing a congregation site to celebrate humanity and cope with grief and trauma. Per aspera ad astra, through hardships to the stars, may we build a better future together through love, compassion, kindness, perseverance, and strength.
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.
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.
