On the weekend of January 12th – 14th, 2007, I was in Chicago, to introduce and promote Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume 2 at Links Hall in Chicago. The screening was part of program 2 of Off the Map and Into the Murk: Spelunking into Puppetry, a 4-week puppet themed performance and film series curated by Barbara Whitney that ran from January 5th-28th, 2007.
Category: Chicago
Feast of Fun #461, Chicago (appearance)
On September 26, 2006, I appeared on Feast of Fun, a Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast. On show #395 – Life on Marsian, I spoke with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion about puppets, studying theater at Cal Arts, gender, and the war in Iraq.
Feast of Fools #395 – Life on Marsian, Chicago (appearance)
On September September 25, 2006, I was a guest on Feast of Fools #395 – Life on Marsian. Feast of Fools which later became Feast of Fun, is a Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast hosted by Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion that showcases celebrity guests, artists, musicians, actors, and members of the LGBT community and those who support them. This particular show was recorded over the phone on the Valencia Campus of CalArts shortly after I arrived there for my MFA degree.
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Kate Bornstein, Feast of Fun (podcast)
On September 18th, 2006, Kate Bornstein appeared on the Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast, Feast of Fun Podcast #390 – A Fate Better Than Death, to discuss their book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. In talking with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion, they briefly discussed my performance work.
“Marsian hails back to a long tradition of artistic fools, who twist the culture around well beyond the regular artistic way of twisting culture around to a point of impossibility and absurdity that makes you rethink all of reality”
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PuppetSlam.com – soft launch
On March 9th, 2006 I launched Puppetslam.com, a website that cataloged, connected, supported, and generated awareness for adult evenings of short-form puppetry and what would evolve into the Puppet Slam Network over the next decade.
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On January 3rd, 2006, I appeared on Feast of Fun podcast (then Feast of Fools), a Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast hosted by Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion.
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On April 5th, 2001, images of my work from the Undergraduate Exhibition at Gallery 2 in Chicago (one of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago galleries) were featured in the Chicago Journal.
Strings Attached, Chicago (Exhibition)
On March 31, 2001 – Strings Attached, an installation of puppets and a doll I created while finishing my degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) opened at Gallery 2 in Chicago. Strings Attached was part of the 2001 Undergraduate Exhibition featuring the graduating BFA class at SAIC and ran through April 13th, 2001.
Puppet Runway, Chicago (performance)
Photo: Jean Lachat, Chicago Sun Times, 2000
2001, ©Marsian De Lellis
On Friday, June 23rd, 2000, I performed Puppet Runway at the Columbus Drive Performance Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the culmination of their summer Puppetry Institute. Assisting me with puppeteering in these performances was Maya Press. Later in 2002, I performed Puppet Runway at Perishable theater in Providence, RI
Apocalypse, Chicago (performance)
In 1998, I choreographed and performed a movement piece inspired by William S. Burroughs’s Apocalypse at Big Chicks in Chicago, as part of Feast of Fools, a cabaret hosted by Fausto Ferños with the Chicago Radical Faerie Circle.