LIVING WITHIN THE PLAY
Since 2018, the Poor Farm hosts a long-term research residency called Living Within the Play. This residency explores the contingent nature of hosting and gathering, the fleeting and the reverberating, particular to the moment of temporary, intentional assembly. Using the “artist residency,” a reliably liminal site, as a platform for inquiry and play and party - the Poor Farm becomes a “stage” or “playing field” that can collapse forms from daily life, the studio and the event to produce a living and working space that builds on the natural byproducts of this shared experience (responsiveness) towards a cumulative public occurrence (resonance). This project is coordinated by Mark Jeffrey (Chicago, IL), Kelly Kaczynski (Chicago, IL), Kelly Lloyd (London, UK) and Shannon Stratton (Chicago, IL).
2022 will launch the Poor Farm's sister Living within the Play residency in the Umbrian hill town of Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy.