High Concept Labs
High Concept Labs is located at 1401 Wabansia Ave in Chicago, across the street from The Hideout
Opera Cabal
a Chicago-based ensemble of musicians and interdisciplinary artists bent on the creation and production of experimental opera, music and theater.
Artists-In-Residence
Our recent projects
Welcome to High Concept Laboratories
Mission Statement
The mission of High Concept Laboratories is to partner with Chicago-area artists and performers to foster the creation and development of new artistic works. By working as a producing partner, we seek to provide space, resources and administrative support to projects of merit. Through this, we aim to nurture new works through every step of the creative process from creation, to development, to performance.
Opera Cabal
Opera Cabal creates and performs concert music, opera and theater, drawing its repertoire primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring works of emerging and established composers and writers, and breathing new life into compelling older repertoire.
A resource for emerging performers, Opera Cabal creates opportunities for those with a vested interest in contemporary musical performance at the highest artistic level. The ensemble brings its work to unlikely venues, aiming to broaden the audience for contemporary performance
usw hits Chicago and New York!
Check out the reviews of Opera Cabal’s hit usw:
http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/opera-classical/82992/opera-cabal-smashes-conventions-and-chairs-in-the-radical-usw
Pavement Group
Pavement Group commits itself to providing dynamic performance opportunities for the next generation of theatre artists, arts managers, and audiences. We dedicate ourselves to new plays. Pavement Group endeavors to make contact with an audience previously unspoken to.
We strive to lay the foundation–both pragmatic and institutional–that fosters fresh plays and makes contact with new audiences. Through development, dramaturgy, and the pairing of playwrights and directors, Pavement Group provides the artistic and practical atmosphere needed for great plays to reach fruition.
Now Open!
PUNKPLAY
By Gregory S. Moss
Directed by David Perez
About:
When Duck and Mickey discover “punk” it’s like nothing they have ever heard. It’s fast – it’s alive – it’s already dead. Told at break neck speed in a terrifyingly young vernacular, punkplay explores identity and the impulse to explode out of your adolescence.
Part of Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep
Joe Miller
images from “Unity” by Joe Miller and J. Thomas Pallas
About AIR Joe Miller:
“Joe does incredible works using several different mediums, using a range of antiques, environments, and everyday objects as his canvas.”- Taylor Castle, photographer
Joe Miller recently received his MFA from the University of Chicago and his work can be seen on self-created Free Walls throughout the city and at the Empty Bottle.
“Every site offers an interesting potential related to presence, the logic of the activity itself, and its perpetual cycle. Yet these sites also gain an interesting perplexity through instances of collaboration…
…Exploration of these happenings relies on discovery as an indicator of progression and development. By entering an already flourishing life source through mild interference and formulation, I have gained a confidence in this procedure that enhances the dialogue between me, my work, observers, and participants.”
-Chicago Art Journal, 2008
