While climbing over snaking power cords attached to tall black speakers arranged throughout Cally Spooner’s “Deadtime, An Anatomy Study,” one begins to realize that the walls of the Madlener House galleries are breathing. The sounds of deep, trembling respirations can be heard between the softly halting notes of cello warm-ups, which emanate from the building’s […]
In addition to being some combination of formally delectable, politically astute, and historically poignant, five solo shows currently in Chicago are hilarious.