If one were to accurately use his or her imagination, (s)he would see Caroline standing roughly at 67 inches with straight blonde hair that flows just past the corners of her jaw. In the afternoons, she is jogging through Wicker Park, sometimes with a Walkman wired to her ears, while at others, simply running with two birds pressed to them. This is what she likes to call having Birds in Stereo. Through the evenings, she is hard at work either painting or in the midst of practicing the art of bookbinding. In the past, she has sung and played tambourine for the insanely prolific rock-outfit, Thee Iran Contras.

The scene is this. It is Sunday and we are in New York City, specifically the West Village, say somewhere around 10th and Greenwich Street. Out of a five-story brownstone steps a man, wearing glasses and a small, black woolen cap which hides his hair which has its way of being curly. We zoom, then pan upwards, finally resting at a window on the fourth floor framed by a firescape. Inside, a small black cat amuses herself on top of a manuscript entitled, God Bless the Squirrel Cage.
 
 

Jason currently lives in New York, juggling various things. Currently, his bedroom is an exact replica of a bedroom in Quebec around the year of 1982. While he was only three at the time, there's something about how the room is perpetually backlit which gives him and many others this impression. With this in mind, it is easy to imagine a saxophone playing outside his window over top of seasonal showers. He performs under the moniker Tan or Boil and is currently holed up recording a proper full-length. In conjunction with Green Lantern, he plans to — at last — publish his quasi-essay, Text Messaging and Desire: A Meditation on a Newly-Imagined Eros.
Uniform Tessellations: A Music Series at the Green Lantern

During the 2007/8 season, the Green Lantern is pleased to host a series of musical events with the goal of engaging audiences in a critical dialogue about alternative visual and aural culture in Chicago. These performances will supplement the work on display in the gallery and add another means of accessibility for understanding and participating in arts culture.

“Uniform Tessellations” aims to bring together heterogeneous audiences to muse on the significance of decentralized local culture. What kinds of diversions do we create for art and music in Chicago when it is presented in independent spaces? How does our relationship with this city inform the way we think about the art coming out of it? How will art and music complement each other when they mingle in the same space?

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