
Lucky Pierre is a Chicago-based collaborative group working in performance, writing, visual art and unclassifiable events
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.
In the Future Something Will Have Happened
(2022-24, performance) A conversation, a silent walk, a performance for one. WELCOME TO THE FUTURE! (everything’s going to be alright).
Homeschool
(2020, LPFU, on-line lecture series) Two-semesters worth of pandemic necessitated hour-long on-line presentations, workshops, performances, discussions and unclassifiable events.
Future. Perfect
(2019-20 performance) Forest creatures create a cryptocurrency called “The Lucky” and go to heaven - which could just be Costco.
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.
The Old Is Dying, The New Cannot Yet Be Born
(2017, LPFU, group learning, exhibition) We attempt to capture the chaos and resistance of the first 100 days of the first Trump administration on a communal timeliine.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Lucky Pierre Free University (LPFU)
(2013- present, group learning platform) Lucky Pierre’s fully unaccredited art school and group learning platform.
What We Don’t Talk About
(2011, group performance/discussion) 12-hour conversation marking the 10-year anniversary of America’s war in Afghanistan.
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.
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.
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.
32 Key Concepts
(2004, group performance) 32 performances about the 32 clip art categories in the Microsoft Office Suite of Software.
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.