Image from left to right: Martine Viale, Carron Little, Jeremy Pauly, ieke Trinks, Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks, Olivia @ESS, Allen Conkle, Regin Igloria and Michal Samama.

Who we are

The outofsite_chi artist collective is made up of a diverse group of artists from Africa, Canada, France, India, Netherlands, Scotland, and the U.S. Artists include: Beau Coleman (Canada), Carron Little (Scotland/ U.S.), Dimple B Shah (India), Duff Norris (NYC, U.S,), Fereshteh Toosi (Miami, U.S./ Iran), ieke Trinks (Netherlands), Jolanda Jansen (Netherlands), lo bil (Canada), Martine Viale (France), Meghan Moe Beitiks (Canada/ Lithuania), Odun Orimolade (Africa), Rachel Lindsay-Snow (Chicago, U.S.).

Our History

outofsite_chi was born out of a conversation on the WPB Arts Committee thinking about how we can create unexpected surprise for the public as people came home from work on a Friday night. This was February 2011 and in a car ride Whitney Tassie turned to Carron Little and said ‘Do It’. The conversation grew with other people to gather research. Carron Little sat down with Joseph Ravens who was Director of Dfbrl*r to brainstorm possible names. Joseph knew about the Out of Site performance art festival in Dublin that was no longer running and Carron loved the camp connotations of the name and how the anachronym was OoS in reference to oz. We added ‘chi’ for Chicago that is also about the internal body flow that applies to performance art practices. The public performance festival has been organized by Carron Little each year since 2011 in addition to other events that supported the sharing the artist’s work and expanded the cultural conversation about the live public performance art practices.


In 2020, we pivoted to working as an artist collective having bi-weekly meetings in zoom with a summer break of one month and a winter break of one month. Today we work as an artist collective making decisions by consensus, programming, organizing collaboratively and reflecting on our work. We are a diverse group of women, non-binary, and trans artists who are committed to feminist practices of non-hierarchical methodologies.

We have taken the time to work with artists over the long-term and be a platform to assist them in the development of their work. Engaging with the outofsite_chi community is a long-term commitment to developing a practice of public performance art.

With the opening of Flow • embody in site in 2021 we have expanded our programming to support research development of performance art in public spaces. As Flow grew to be an international platform so did our community of artists and we have had the pleasure of working with artists from around the globe. Along with the third annual symposium of Flow • embody in site we created Intercity in collaboration with WORM, Rotterdam. This project was co-curated by ieke Trinks & Carron Little. This project was an evolution of the work we have been creating in the pandemic and we innovated with methods of adapting technology to share the live experience in two different cities simultaneously.