Ways of Knowing

ways of knowing is a collaborative, process-based performance project exploring concepts of mastery, expertise, and value through reciprocal acts of knowledge exchange. This project stems from the question of what is “mastery” or “expertise”? ways of knowing asks the public to share their skills and stories of expertise with us as we share HPP’s process of codifying our own methods of art making. In 2018 ways of knowing partnered with six different organizations and artists to host public guided dinners at Links Hall in Roscoe Village, Homiey in Humboldt Park, with Amina Dickerson in South Shore, HOMEroom with Erin Kilmurray in Humboldt Park, High Concept Labs in Pilsen, SAIC at Nichols Tower in Homan Square, and The Solarium with Sojourner Wright in Rogers Park. From these interactions we have created a full-length performance piece that blurs the line between audience and performer. Project partner On The Real Film has created a new immersive video work that takes the form of multiple projections in nine sections utilizing footage from community gatherings, interviews, portraits, and stylized video montage. Central video themes are: Opening Ritual, Systems of Knowledge, Ancestral Knowledge, Bias, Knowledge as Product, Knowledge’s Toll, Informed Knowledge, Failures of Knowledge, and Mastery/Alternative Knowledge Economy. Running November 2-10 2019 at Experimental Station. All shows at 7:30pm and all end with a collective feast.