ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality), in collaboration with Abraham Avnisan, will culminate their residency at the Bridgehouse Museum with a talk about their work in progress, The Tenders: A Last Dance.

Blending live performance and their unique work with augmented and virtual reality, The Tenders uncovers multiple histories encapsulated within the site of the DuSable bridge in order to trace the relationships between land, power, capital, and colonialism from the 18th century to today. The work will make interventions into the accepted narrative of public monuments using augmented reality, 3D scanning technologies, projection mapping, and the staging of a “last dance” of precarious belonging that mourns the continual removal of marginalized bodies from the spaces they inhabit while performing a queer celebration of multiplicity.

The ATOM-r Bridgehouse Artist Residency is part of the Togetherism program curated by Public Media Institute in fall 2019, and integrates a series of activations at the McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum organized by Tender House Project and Public Media Institute.