8 Acts of Love: Situated Encounters

8 Acts of Love is an interactive exhibition inspired by the Out of Site Chicago artist collective's archive (https://www.outofsitechicago.org/). Over the past thirteen years, this international collective, comprising women, trans, and non-binary artists, has come together through collaborative, multimodal public performance across diverse global locations. United by the transformative power of performance art and practice research, the work in Out of Site Chicago’s archive has been co-curated as 8 Acts of Love by Dr. Alice Bell, Associate Professor and Fine Art Programme Leader, and Carron Little, Out of Site organiser and Artist in Residence at the University of Lincoln, UK. This project brings together the sites of Chicago, US, and Lincoln, UK, in an integrated exploration of how diverse artistic and social encounters can engage different places, spaces, artists, students, and educators, opening new avenues for cross-cultural understanding and exchange.