Pleasure Rebel

08/14/2015

08/27/2014

Thanks to Sheila Regan for this preview of tonight's Pleasure Rebel!

Pleasure Rebel, a subversive performance series at Bryant-Lake Bowl, is expanding in scope by bringing in an out-of-town artist. Qilo...

07/28/2014

Guess what? The next Pleasure Rebel is scheduled for Wednesday, August 27- featuring Qilo Matzen, Pramila Vasudevan, and Moheb Soliman. Seriously, whoa. Brains (and hearts and spirits and bodies) will be exploding in this room. More info soon.

05/19/2014

So psyched to read Mimi Nguyen's piece about Pleasure Rebel: "Sometimes I feel alone when sitting in a dark theater, but that wasn’t the case with Pleasure Rebel. The performances brought strangers together -- not an easy task."

A few nights ago, I saw this performance series called Pleasure Rebel and it wasn’t like anything I’d ever seen before. The night started off with a performance by Mad King Thomas, a group of...

11/16/2013

“One student of mine who was involved in The Great Refusal said to me ‘I’m not gay,’ and I said well, it’s not about who you sleep with,” says co-curator Oli Rodriguez, who is also a professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “I argue that your work is q***r in terms of how it challenges -isms. I think about q***r as the intersectionality of race, class, and gender, of work that is always questioning and critiquing, and not just being passive. It’s about instilling a new notion of q***rness that doesn’t deal with sexuality or sex.”

CHICAGO — Just because you say art’s q***r doesn’t mean it’s about depictions of dicks and vajayjays, man. Over the past few months, two large-scale exhibitions dealing with changing notions of wha...

08/21/2013

Chris Roberts (Pleasure Rebel/August 2014)

come see the show: http://bryantlakebowl.com/theater/pleasure-rebel-new-performance

08/20/2013

Andrea Jenkins/TYSN Leadership Academy Troupe (Pleasure Rebel/August 2013)

come see the show: http://bryantlakebowl.com/theater/pleasure-rebel-new-performance

08/16/2013

I take this as I good sign. Buy your tickets asap.