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Featuring Interviews with: Mike Bancroft (Co-op Image), Wafaa Bilal, Sara Black (Material Exchange), Brett Bloom (Temporary Services), Aquil Charlton (Crib Collective), Salome Chasnoff (Beyondmedia), Marianne Fairbanks (Mess Hall), Edra Soto Fernandez, Nicole Garneau, Theaster Gates, Amanda Gutierrez, Craig Harshaw (Insight Arts), David Isaacson (Theater Oobleck), Jennifer Karmin (Anti Gravity Surprise), Nance Klehm, Edmar and Rachael Marszewski (Lumpen), Mark Messing (Mucca Pazza), Anne Elizabeth Moore, Sonjanita Moore (Kuumba Lynx), Laurie Palmer, Amy Partridge (CAFF Collective), Mary Patten (Feel Tank Chicago), Coya Paz (Teatro Luna), Dan Peterman (Experimental Station), Jon Pounds (Chicago Public Art Group), Aay Preston-Myint (Chances Dances), Toufic El Rassi, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa (Polvo), Deborah Stratman, Shannon Stratton (threewalls), Brad Thomson, travis (American Veterans for Equal Rights), Dan S. Wang, Rebecca Zorach (Feel Tank Chicago), and more.

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