Farewell Second City! We enjoyed your comedy and bagels but not your polar vortex. This video is really painful to watch, enjoy!
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Hope you all had a lovely valentines day. We sent a special present to The Art Guys.
Here’s what was on the DVD:
We are now in our last week in Chicago and will be posting a reflective video diary soon. We’ve also been updating our daily works page so check that out for more shenanigans.
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Last week we started making a work for each other everyday as a way to free ourselves up a bit. We made a little tumblr to showcase the results. Here’s a highlight from the first week:
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In April 2013 we sent an earnest email to The Art Guys asking if we might visit them during our time in the US.
They have been very obfuscating, and we thought our email correspondence might be worth sharing.
The Art Guys have been making playful, performative, literal and downright funny work for the last 30 years. They are very prolific. Some examples of their antics include illegally landscaping art museum grounds, body-building in the lead up to major exhibitions, and marrying an oak tree. Here’s a great article about their work. We admire the fearless and self-assured spirit of their practice and also that a lot of their work transpires outside the studio (and often outside of an art context altogether).
As a way to cultivate this fearlessness in our own practice and inspired by the classes we’ve been taking at Second City, we’ve challenged ourselves to make a work for each other everyday for the next two months. We will be posting results weekly.
Anyway, we leave for the Art Guys’ home town of Houston in March. Here is a premonition of us teleporting to their studio driveway:
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Went to the hairdresser today.
On the subject of portraits: we’re doing a bit of research on all the comedy shows around Chicago of which there are A LOT. And because we know nothing about the majority of acts we are largely relying on their promotional images and blurbs – which all seem to be pretty much identical to each other. Here’s some images of comedy duos from google:
Went to see a bad sketch show tonight.. hoping the next few weeks with help us to corner our interests in the scene here. In the mean time we thought we’d throw in a ‘Catherine or Kate’ comedy headshot for your non-consideration.
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First day at Second City Training Center. We will be taking improvisation, movement and comedy writing classes for the next 8 weeks. This is a little debrief of our first movement class. ENJOI.
