Ensemble Chicago — There Is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever, and Forever without End.
‘For a city that is probably one of the best analyzed, most carefully described, and incessantly invoked in the western world, Chicago’s art history remains a closely guarded secret. (cited in Prince, 1990)’ , marveled by professor Neil Harris (1988). Yet for a city that once to be the potential art center of the world (Watson, 1943), Chicago art history could be abstracted to a long, passionate process of attempt of staging, through various means, by various groups with various backgrounds. Their past evidently revealed how the city is shaped by art and how the artworks influenced the city development – it is a two-way progress that includes negotiating, learning and resetting the rules of each other. Thus, staging for art in Chicago is to be active, to embed new ideas, to override the existing even if it’s experimental. So there indeed is no time, no end, no today, no yesterday, no tomorrow – there is no you, nor me. There only is ever-changing performance, which is performed by people and for people. There is only momentum, the movement that is always unwarily happening and staging, because everything is moving by themselves by being different from themselves at every point. Therefore, another time then, another end, another today, another yesterday, another tomorrow, another you and another me.