Lily Scherlis: Pool Party

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Artist and writer Lily Scherlis presents Pool Party, a performance lecture about friendship as a source of care in contemporary capitalism.

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This registration form is to attend Pool Party in person at the Logan Center for the Arts. In-person attendance is now FULLY BOOKED, but the event will also be live-streamed via Zoom. To register to attend virtually, click <a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aal-ekzDTDW09XAh1-m3SQ" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.Pool Party is about how friendship does and doesn’t live up to its idealizations. It features material from the television show BoJack Horseman, recent in-depth interviews conducted by the artist, original animations, and some thoughts on swimming pools.Lily Scherlis’s writing has been published in Cabinet, Post45 Contemporaries, Avidly, Harvard Review, and Jacket2, and is forthcoming in Guernica. Her work has been shown at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and featured in programming at the Smart Museum of Art. She is a PhD student in English and Theater &amp; Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.Organized on the occasion of Smashing into my heart.