Hello Friends!

Join us this coming Tuesday night (2/16) for the InCUBATE-curated portion of the Cabinet of Curiosities series at the MCA: The Metaphysical Club.

The Metaphysical Club is a one-night-only re-convention of the historic conversational society that was active throughout the 1870s in Cambridge, MA. It counted among its members future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, psychologist William James, and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce. It was here that American Pragmatism was born as a “half-ironic half-defiant” reproach to European metaphysics.

The event will feature presentations by:

Rozalinda Borcila
Joe Grimm
Liz Joynt-Sandberg
People Powered (Lora Lode & Kevin Kaempf)
Bert Stabler
Fereshteh Toosi

We might think of these six Chicago-based artists as working in a pragmatic fashion, sharing the philosophy’s values of experimentation, sensitivity to context, and the assertion that notions of truth are arrived at through lived experience. This rekindling of the historic Metaphysical Club address the ideas motivating a group of artists working to blur the line between art and the everyday.

The event is FREE to all. Full details below. We hope to see you there!

XO InCUBATE

The Metaphysical Club

Tuesday February 16th, 2010 / 6 – 7:30 PM

Museum of Contemporary Art: 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago IL 60611

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