Art & Art History
Slow Dance at the End of the World
Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St.
Slow Dance at the End of the World is a live performance activation of exhibiting MFA artist Erin E. Lynch’s interactive installation Je suis un cowpoke. It unfolds inside a makeshift range-shed where labor and ritual blur into something tender, absurd, and unresolved. Visitors are invited into a drifting choreography of intimacy, where tools hum and bodies negotiate the stakes of closeness at the edge of collapse. Somewhere between camp and elegy, the performance asks what kinds of love survive in closed worlds, and whether intimacy can still leak sideways at the end of things.
ABOUT
Erin E. Lynch (b. 1996, Chicago, IL) is an artist and filmmaker working with 16mm film, video, sound, installation, and text. Drawing on film theory, psychoanalysis, and camp, her work explores spectatorship, humor, and multispecies life through genre cinema’s formal slippages. She was named a 2025 Artist To Watch by Comfort Station.