Lucky Pierre is a Chicago-based collaborative group working in performance, writing, visual art and unclassifiable events

Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

Think Tank: Humans of Life Row

(2024, installation ) Collaboration with men serving long term sentences at Stateville Prison in Illinois to explore mass incarceration and personal histories.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

Overlay

(2022, gallery installation) A timeline of the Global War on Terror and police violence and the connections between the two.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

Homeschool

(2020, LPFU, on-line lecture series) Two-semesters worth of pandemic necessitated hour-long on-line presentations, workshops, performances, discussions and unclassifiable events.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

Future. Perfect

(2019-20 performance) Forest creatures create a cryptocurrency called “The Lucky” and go to heaven - which could just be Costco.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

A Thing of Great Power and Size Has Gone Missing

(2017, installation, group performance, related programming) A timeline covering he interior of Comfort Station Chicago focused on the destruction caused by Afghan and Iraq wars paired with the war years’ top grossing Hollywood films.

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Precarity Happy Hour

(2016, LPFU, performance, study group) Boys in gold hot pants, a giant squirrel and cocktails help explain the economic precarity in pursuing an arts education. MFAs for everyone!

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

American Slut

(2017-18, performance) American Sniper meets the 80s & 90s AIDS crisis.

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The Sky Is Falling The Money’s All Gone

(2014-15, LPFU, group learning seminar, exhibition) Collective investigation in London and Chicago exploring links between economic precarity and environmental decline.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

Actions for Chicago Torture Justice

(2013, collective writing project and installation) A community-based project and installation responding to the systematic torture of Black men and women at the hands of the Chicago Police Department.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

I Hate America! (I Love America)

(2013, LPFU, group learning, exhibition, performance) 6 month collaboration between US & UK artists culminates in performances and 10 hour conversation between London and Chicago.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

America/n

(2012, performance) 12 hour election day group performance and discussion about the U.S. constitution.

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What We Don’t Talk About

(2011, group performance/discussion) 12-hour conversation marking the 10-year anniversary of America’s war in Afghanistan.

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Emerson Takes a Walk

(2010-13, performance) Ralph Waldo Emerson walk across a city (Chicago, London, Budapest, New York) and stop to give a lecture. The audience and disco-legend Sylvester join the walk. We end up at a bar.

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Rock and Roll: Impatience

(2006-07, performance) In a Chicago bar and music venue, we take on arts funding and the Boeing Corporation (complicit in Bush-era torture rendition flights) all to the music of AC/DC.

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Final Meals

(2006-20, community-based performance, and video installation) We prepare each Texas Death Row final meal request since 1982 and invite volunteers to sit with each meal alone, in an act of witness.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

32 Key Concepts

(2004, group performance) 32 performances about the 32 clip art categories in the Microsoft Office Suite of Software.

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Michael Thomas Michael Thomas

How to Manage Fear

(2002-05, performance ) Getting lost in America while being chased by actor Steve McQueen, dancing with tulips, performing a Haydn oratorio, and yelling at the TV.

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