THE CLIMATE: A People’s Salon

Steve Reidell is an artist from Chicago. He has worked in many facets of the city's music scene as a member of rap duo Air Credits, production team The Hood Internet, and experimental record label Volutus. Additionally, he composes music for television and film. Reidell formerly worked as the art director for Chicago music venues Metro and Smartbar.

More About Air Credits

s the musical duo of Reidell and Sandifer. Their band has traveled through time from the very recent nearfuture, where the climate situation has worsened significantly and clean air has become the planet's primary form of currency. Air Credits have arrived in our present-day timeline to warn us about the forthcoming realities we face.  

Clinton Sandifer creates under the name ShowYouSuck. They are a rapper, producer, performance artist, and one-half of the band Air Credits. Clinton is based in Chicago and releases self-produced music and videos on a regular basis via Bandcamp and YouTube. 

They also host a monthly variety show at Subterranean called the Dream Blunt Rotation, every last Wednesday of the month. 

Daniel Kisslinger is a Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories, voices, and artworks of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media, and is the Co-Creator of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. A twice Webby-nominated podcast producer, Daniel has also been named an Artist Fellow as part of the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project, as well as a Power of Cash Narrative Change Fellow by Economic Security of Illinois. His words have been featured in NY Times bestseller We Do This ‘Til We Free Us and The New Normal, a salon journal published by The Hoodoisie. Daniel also edits CTU Speaks!, a podcast produced by the Chicago Teachers Union, and also works as a consultant helping organizations, individuals, and companies build humanizing, subject-to-subject podcasts from scratch.

Damon A. Williams is a movement builder, organizer, hip-hop performing artist, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media, and the Co-Creator of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. He is the co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of supply trips to support the Ferguson uprising in resistance to the murder of Mike Brown. Williams and #LetUsBreathe transplanted the experiences from the front lines and continue to organize direct actions and community enrichment events throughout the streets of Chicago and in their movement building community center The #BreathingRoom Space, with the mission of utilizing cultural production and popular education to redistribute power and resources, eradicate systemic violence, and transform inequity. In honor of his leadership, Damon been named a TIME Magazine’s 2020 Guardian of the Year, a Field Foundation 2021 Leader for a New Chicago, a Margaret Burroughs Fellow by the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project, and a Power of Cash Narrative Change Fellow by Economic Security of Illinois.