To set the stage: this friendship turned love story turned experimental culinary collaboration started at Logan Square’s venerable Lula Cafe.
Well, I suppose it started a little earlier than that.įri 6/23, 6 PM, Mana Contemporary, 2233 S. As culture critic Zeba Blay writes, “Art suspends time and, in doing so, gives us space to think about the unthinkable.” Out of this vast abyss of time, despair, and possibility, the pop-up and supper club TXA TXA was born. Unstructured time, an invaluable resource to the visionary mind, was in abundance. To the degree that collective and personal malaise would allow, many artists experienced a grief-fueled renaissance of creative proliferation. Comeuppance for my haughtiness came in March of 2020.Ĭreative expression offered what little respite was possible during those bleak early months and subsequent years of uncertainty.
The premise seemed garishly utopian, hyperbolic at best: a silly fantasy about how art prevails over everything. When I first read it in 2015 (with the beloved Empty Bottle Book Club), I was not buying what Mandel was selling. This group of artists, dubbed the Traveling Symphony, live by the motto “survival is insufficient”-perhaps also the thesis of the book. As they renegotiate the human condition sans societal infrastructure, the nomadic band of protagonists form a Shakespearean performance troupe-bringing classical music and theater to establishing settlements. John Mandel’s novel of the same title, follows a motley crew of survivors around the Great Lakes region following a pandemic that killed all but. Station Eleven, the impactful TV show based on Emily St.
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