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.

Meet the outofsite_chi collective

  • Carron Little

    FOUNDER & ORGANIZER

    Organizer of outofsite_chi since 2011 and convener of Flow • embody in site 2021, 2022, 2023 and sporadic facilitator of Artist Focus conversations. In 2021 ieke & Carron started having conversations about developing the Intercity project and it was created in September 2023. Carron loves to invite artisits to collaborate internationally and specializes in supporting interactive works and tech guidance.

    Carron has produced over a 100 public performances in Chicago since 2011 in addition to creating public engagement projects like The Bank (2013), City Alive with Dreams (2014 - 2015) Neighborhood Magic (2015-2016), LOVE over MONEY (2015), Spare Rib Revisited (2016 - 2018), Gie Ben Ilka Gill | To Give in Each Measure (2021).

    Image by Ann Infield

  • ieke Trinks

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2020 TO PRESENT

    Co-Curator of Intercity, Jury on Flow • embody in site 2021, 2023, and curator of Flow 2021 Finale Flow performance program. Performing with outofsite_chi since 2013 when she was selected by the OoS jury as the 2013 International Artist. ieke has facilitated and organized Artist Focus conversations and is currently working on a magazine of the Intercity project and developing the documentation.

    Image by Carron Little

  • Martine Viale

    OoS COLLECTIVE - 2020 TO PRESENT

    Martine first performed with outofsite_chi in 2011 as our invited International Artist. She has researched and facilitated many Artist Focus conversations and was on the jury of Flow • embody in site 2021, 2022, 2023. Martine has also curated special programs and sporadic public performance art events on the platform.

    Image by Max Wyse

  • Dimple B Shah

    OoS COLLECTIVE - 2021 TO PRESENT

    Performing with outofsite_chi since 2020 and facilitator of Artist Focus conversations. Dimple was on the Jury of Flow • embody in site 2022 and presented a lecture about public performance art in Bangalore, India for Flow 2021 in addition to facilitating various workshops.

    Imade by Anil Kumar Govindappa

  • Beau Coleman

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2021 TO PRESENT


    Created performances with outofsite_chi since 2021, on the Jury of Flow • embody in site 2022, and facilitated presentations and Art Focus conversations since 2022. Also organized a partnership with SPAR2C at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2021.

    Image by Brittany Snellen

  • Duff Norris

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2020 - PRESENT

    Performing since 2014 and facilitator at Flow • embody in site and an active contributor to our conversations.

    Image by Jamie Gannon

  • Fereshteh Toosi

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2020 - TO PRESENT

    Performing with outofsite_chi since 2011 and facilitator at Flow • embody in site 2021, 2022.
    Image by Ji Yang

  • Meghan Moe Beitiks

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2020 - TO PRESENT

    Stewarded for outofsitechi in 2012, and performing with outofsitechi since 2013, has facilitated at Flow • embody in site 2021, 2022 and organized the partnership with LePARC Research Center at Concordia University at Flow 2023 and hosted watch parties.

    Image by Bernard Colbert

  • Marilyn Arsem

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2021 - 2023

    Created Workshops for outofsite_chi and participated in the organizing of Flow 2021, 2022, 2023 and is an ongoing advisor/mentor.

    Image by Dominik Thorpe

  • Jeremy Pauly

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2020 - 2021

    Performed with outofsite_chi since 2015 and was part of the founding OoS Collective in 2020 and curated a special performance program in Brussels, Belgium in 2021.

    Image by Jamie Gannon

  • Jolanda Jansen

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2024

    Founder and organizer of Performance Site (P.S.) since 2015. From 2007 to 2013 I developed a series of performances to provoke people out of their comfort zones. In 2009 Jolanda was selected for the Mentoring Program for emerging artists and curators of ‘Cultuur en Ondernemen and was mentored by Ulay.

    Jolanda’s approach to performance art is finding a balance between studying formal material in relation to the body in movement and its uncontrolled stages. In my latest performance series Paper Study #, since 2015, this basic material paper gives me the opportunity to put the formal material in contrast with the intuitive body.

    Jolanda participated in Flow in 2021 and gave a wonderful presentation at Flow 2022 exploring the capacity of paper as material.

    Image Still from Live Performance by Jolanda Jansen

  • Isabel León

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2024

    Spanish visual artist, performer, independent cultural activist and teacher. A graduate in Fine Arts and scholarship in Athens (Greece) and Havana (Cuba). Official Master's Degree in Artistic Production and Research at the UGR.

    Her work moves between video performance and live action art, media to which she has been intensely dedicated since 2007. She conceives artistic practice as an act closely linked to life, which is why her work is connected to her most intimate feelings, thoughts and emotions. She is interested in the seemingly insignificant, the playful and the absurd with a work that arises from the here and now and in which she leaves a special space for intuition.

    She has participated in numerous festivals, action art meetings and national and international residencies, both in art centres and museums in Spain and in Finland, Germany, Canada, Morocco, Ukraine, Lithuania, Austria and Norway, among others. She co-coordinates the research and creation project EXCHANGE Live Art and gives workshops in art centres, universities and independent spaces.

    Image by Anderer Winkel

  • lo bil

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2024

    Born in Toronto/Tkaronto, lo is a performance maker whose performances involve body-based experiments to generate intuitive felt research and unique site responsive behaviours through spontaneous utterance, impulse-based scores, energetic flows from unconscious content, object manipulation, unexpected humour and inter-relational proposals with audience.

    lo has exhibited her “moving weirdly” work at conferences in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, New York, Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam and Glasgow. lo has exhibited at venues including: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival, Harbourfront Centre, First Thursdays at Art Gallery of Ontario, Luminato Festival Online, Nuit Blanche, Panoply Lab NYC, LADA DIY, Flowchart at Dancemakers, Summerworks, PS We are All Here, Fringe and Rhubarb Performance Festivals in Toronto and has livestreamed performances for SPAR²C (Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research, Alberta) and Out of Site-Chicago.

    Image by Henry Chan

  • Odun Orimolade

    OoS COLLECTIVE 2024

    Odun Orimolade, PhD is a multidisciplinary artist and academic who directs her work in trans-disciplinary approaches, research, and collaborations. Her research interests are in practice approaches, creative engagement, navigation, and influences that challenge and inform creative production. Her research also looks into the issues and initiatives that promote or limit practice as a form of creative capital. She is interested in participatory research practices as an intervention into various spaces. Orimolade lectures in the Fine Art Department, Yaba College of Technology. She has served as coordinator for the UNESCO/UNEVOC center for research and sustainable development, Sub-Dean of the School of Art, Design, and Printing, and Curator of the Yusuf Grillo Gallery. She was instrumental in the establishment and development of the Yaba Art Museum, where she also serves as the Curatorial Director. Orimolade is a Research Fellow of the College of Humaikan Sciences, University of South Africa.

    Image by Kian Shaikhzadeh

Equitable pay for artists

OoS has been a leader in the path for equitable pay for artists writing policy, publishing articles, and advocating on Committees for equitable pay for artists. A hundred percent of our funding goes directly to artists and we are a fiscally sponsored organization.

Our Ethos

Facilitating Artistic Practice

We don’t have themes as we believe artists have the ideas and don’t need to be limited to a thematic response. We curate and select artists who are engaged in an ongoing practice and we like to work with people over the long-term.


Experimental practices

Creating space & time for experimental practices is at the heart of what we do. Creating spaces where artists can experiment, collaborate, and share their work in safe spaces within the context of our community. Then we provide the platform to share it with a wider global community.