Artists pack a punch during Columbia College’s Chicago Artist Festival
Apr 30, 2024 | By Megan Kudla
Thrown into the pages of a comic book, two femme superhero-like characters deliver punches and land blows to a sound score of WHACKs and THWAPs. The wind-sweeping battle turns into a playful catfight, which morphs into a fiercely sensual duet that is entangled with desire, temptation and resistance. It oozes with extraordinary power through both physical strength and sexuality. The competition in Erin Kilmurray & Kara Brody’s “Knockout” is cutthroat, but it’s the attraction that may be fatal…