Saturday and Sunday, October 22–23, 2022
7pm doors / 7:30pm show
Tickets $25 (discounted or free for members)

Chicago's underground gospel industrial project ONO premieres two one-hour theatrical performances at The Lab. These performances consider transhumanism, the multiplicity of death, organized religion, and the long arm of colonization. For this project, ONO will be invoking the language, visuals, and performative elements of Protestant tent revivals.

ONO members:
travis
P Michael Grego
Shannon Rose Riley
Rebecca Pavlatos
Dawei Wang
Connor Tomaka
Jordan Reyes

ONO bandleader P Michael Grego and frontperson travis met sometime before 1980, sharing a love for written and spoken word, the transcendent, and the genuine. After continual poking and prodding, P Michael finally convinced travis to join him in ONO, whose name derives from shortening “onomatopoeia,” underscoring their desire to create “noise, not music.” P Michael handles the audio and travis the words. Since January 5, 1980, ONO’s roster has changed dramatically, but it always fiercely defends a singular construct, that ONO is a: “Performance, NOISE, and Industrial Poetry Performance Band Exploring Gospel's Darkest Conflicts, Tragedies and Premises.”