“Walk the Gap, Beyond Here, Beyond Now”
Artist Walks Series Summer 2025
This summer, guest artists will curate place-based interactive experiences, embracing the idea of “the gap” as a space between identities, times, and realities.
We will be hosting four walks, beginning on Saturday, July 5, 2025. Please RSVP via Facebook using the QR code. More information for each event is listed below.
Listening to the Train with Shi-An Costello on Saturday, July 5
River Park Listening with Jeannette Dominguez on Sunday, July 21
Experiments of Perception: Body as Canvas with Mónica Guzmán on Saturday, August 9
Graveyard Meander with Eliza Fernand on Sunday, August 24
Events are free and accessible for all.
Posters designed by Nat Brotherton.
Our 2025 Artist Walk Series is funded in part through a CityArts Program grant—thank you DCASE!
Listening to the Train, with Shi-An Costello
Saturday, July 5, starting at 4:00 pm at the Peterson/Ridge Metra Station.
Shi-An will guide walkers through the regularly occurring sounds in and around the station as participants discover them together, drawing on themes like memory, place, connections, and divisions. This 1.3 mile walk will conclude at Experimental Sound Studio, where Shi-An will give a short demo-performance on 'prepared piano' using the sounds that were uncovered on the walk, while describing compositional techniques and extra-musical inspirations behind creating music with these found sounds.
Shi-An is a classical concert pianist, curator and composer of film, video, and concert music. He has appeared as a guest artist with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Architek Percussion, Warhol Dervish String Quartet, and others. Shi-An has recorded four albums and his film credits include Flight of the Butterflies, Softly - A GIANT STEP, and Are You Happy With The Answer?
