Every house has a door

11/10/2022

In this season’s newsletter Matthew Goulish shares the story of how Selected Plays of Jay Wright Volumes I and II came to be published by Every house has a door and Kenning Editions. We’re so grateful to be able to share a reading of the first 10 pages of Wright’s play ‘Passage’ this Saturday at 4 pm at Corbett vs. Dempsey. Please join us and performers Sebastián Calderón Bentin, KAO RA ZEN, Matthew Goulish, and Jenny Polus. It will be directed by our own Lin Hixson and be followed by a live musical set for solo saxophone by Nick Mazzarella.

Read or be read to here: https://www.everyhousehasadoor.org/newsletter/dramatic-radiance-of-dedication

11/07/2022

https://www.everyhousehasadoor.org/performances/upcoming/selected-plays-of-jay-wright

Every house has a door on FB.

09/11/2022

Even with this rain, it’s sheltered and dry under the boathouse and we’re on for the performance today, September 11, at 2 pm! Grab your coat and join us.

Broken Aquarium is presented as part of Night Out in the Parks. Free and open to the public, this roughly 45-minute performance will have seating for approximately 65, with ample standing room.

Co-presented by Every house has a door, the Croatian National Theatre, the AHRC Leadership Fellows project, "Performance Philosophy and Animals,” and the Chicago Parks Department Night Out in the Parks. This project was made possible by support from The MacArthur Funds for Art and Culture and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund, Croatian National Theatre Ivan Zajc Rijecka & Rijeka 2020 — European Capital of Culture, and the generosity of individual donors.

09/10/2022

Tomorrow, Sunday September 11, is our performance of Broken Aquarium at the Humboldt Park Boathouse. We’ll be performing under the shelter at 2 pm rain or shine!

The performance is 45 minutes long and is free and open to the public. We’ll have seating for approximately 65, plus plenty of room to stand or sit on cushions.

Please join us tomorrow, we’re so happy to finally share this with you.

More information on the performance here:

The performance titled Broken Aquarium is embedded within the large-scale, multi-year project The Carnival of the Animals and was planned to premiere in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic led to indefinite postponement. Free and open to the public, this roughly 45-minute performance will have limited s...

09/06/2022

Announcing an affiliated event:
Readings from An [Interrupted] Bestiary + Done Dying screening, Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Tuesday Sept 13
7pm
Uncle Art Gallery, 1359 N Maplewood Ave


Amsterdam-based contemporary theater scholar and researcher Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca will read selections from a creative response to Every house has a door's The Carnival of the Animals. Conceptualized as a hybridized artist talk and open studio, Laura invites the audience to witness the praxis of performance philosophy research through making and writing in relation to the work of others. The work presented was developed alongside Laura's large-scale multi-year AHRC-funded Leadership Fellowship titled Performance Philosophy & Animals: Towards a Radical Equality. Initiated in 2019, she participated in rehearsal residencies and saw early work-in-progress presentations of Every house's latest work Broken Aquarium. Disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic Laura's project witnessed the adaptation of many artists' practices in response to lockdowns, limitations, and instability.

08/15/2022

Grateful for this feature from Chicago Dancemakers Forum!

It's the . Let's spotlight Chicago Dancemakers.

Chicago Dancemaker, Every house has a door!

Lin Hixson, director, and Matthew Goulish, dramaturg, formed Every house has a door in 2008 to convene diverse, intergenerational project-specific teams of specialists, including emerging as well as internationally recognized artists. Drawn to historically or critically neglected subjects, Every house creates performance works and performance-related projects in many media.

>>> everyhousehasadoor.org

They will be performing in Humboldt Park on Sept 11th.

📷: Scarecrow, 2018, LookOut Series, Steppenwolf Theatre, Photo by Yoni Goldstein [ID: Performer Matthew Goulish jumps in the air in an abstracted scarecrow costume while artist Essi Kausalainen sits at desk behind him with arms and fingers stretched to the sky.]

07/21/2022

Today we’re featuring our treasured long-term collaborator, Essi Kausalainen. We’ve been lucky to work with Essi since 2016, when she joined Matthew and Lin at the Rauschenberg residency to develop Scarecrow (2019). The partnership has felt kismet since its inception, as Essi and Every House Has a Door had been following each other’s work (Lin was teaching about Essi in her classes!) before we were introduced.

We are so grateful to continue our work with Essi on our large-scale, multi-year project The Carnival of the Animals, which includes the upcoming performance, Broken Aquarium. About her intricate textile work for this piece, Essi says “Most of the creatures we address are endangered because the environment they live in gets destroyed. I use the textiles in my process of understanding this connectedness, the merging of the body and the place. The textiles also have a function as an extension, a kind of a prosthetic, for the performer to become more-than-human. To meet their human shape in a new way, to enable them to move, and therefore to think, in an altered way.”

12/31/2021

Dear friends and supporters, We completed two years of our quarterly newsletter this week. Read or be read to at the link in bio. See you in 2022, stay safe ‘till then. We miss you.

12/03/2021

Huge thanks to Matthew Mehlan at Experimental Sound Studio for this great interview in advance of our screening tomorrow. We'll livestream our latest short film on the ESS Twitch channel tomorrow at 1pm and 7pm CST. Hope to see you there!

This Saturday, December 4th, 2021, our current Archive Artists in Residence Every House Has a Door - led by director Lin Hixson & dramaturg Matthew Goulish - will present 5 Beginnings ESS, a new work made utilizing materials found within the Creative Audio Archive's ESS Collection.

11/28/2021

We are very honored to be the 2021 Archive Artists in Residence at Experimental Sound Studio. They will screen our short film on Saturday, Dec. 4th twice! 1pm and 7pm Central
We hope you will join us!

As “Archive Artists in Residence” at the Experimental Sound Studio, Every house has a door will premier a new short film, 5 beginnings ESS. Every house has a door director Lin Hixson and dramaturge Matthew Goulish selected five works from the ESS archives and invited collaborating artists to re...

11/03/2020

Matthew Goulish will join the Social Emergency Response Center to host a writing workshop: SERC is Open the Day After the Election! Draw, breathe, listen, dance, bake, write, talk, plot...- https://mailchi.mp/92589c2f794f/serc-after-the-election

SERC is Open the Day After the Election! Draw, breathe, listen, dance, bake, write, talk, plot...- https://mailchi.mp/92589c2f794f/serc-after-the-election

07/09/2020

The annual summer course co-taught by our director Lin Hixson, dramaturge Matthew Goulish, and fellow performance-maker Mark Jeffery is going online this year. As always, this course is available to non SAIC-degree seeking learners through SAIC’s continuing studies.

This 3-week summer intensive online course constructs itself as a weave of practices of performance, writing, installation, and documentation, with projects in varying degrees of individual and collaborative engagement. Reduced tuition rate for non-credit participants available.