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Blog Post Archive
Open Engagement 2013 no. 02 : A Utopia of Dispute Might Be Better / Regarding Ethics & Failure
I keep trying to trace emergent themes at Open Engagement. Our organizers have done a good job of marking three umbrella categories, under which each panel, presentation or discussion resides. These headings, Public, Context, and Institutions, feel like hubs through which a larger, interconnected current runs. One conversation bleeds into the next. Institution could be [...]
Open Engagement 2013 no. 01
There is a reason they made a show about this town; it’s so true it’s a cliché : Portland is a kind of paradise. From the Tiki bar at the airport to the food truck shanty town we hit at midnight where twenty-thirty somethings fulfilled all college cuisine fantasies (the center of the parking lot [...]
Catholic Craft
Guest Post by Robert Burnier I once had a penchant for the obsessive, compulsive traditions of certain Dutch painters like Paulus Potter, Adriaen van der Spelt and Jan van Cappelle, so whenever I was in an encyclopedic museum, I would always make my way toward those galleries. Afterward, however, I would go straight [...]
JODIE MACK presents…
Indefatigable– it’s the only word I can think of that in some small way describes Jodie Mack. You can see it in the sheer volume of her accomplishments, including the number of films she’s created, the places they’ve screened, the teaching positions she’s held (and holds!), and the film festivals, exhibitions and performances she’s organized, [...]
The Ineffable Homestead
Walking up to the clapboard rancher surrounded by a sod lawn in front of a brick building whose facing side was painted a sky blue, an uneasy feeling of displacement crept up my spine. On one side was downtown Detroit, the other was suburbia. Except it was some sort of self conscious version of suburbia, [...]
Fernweh and Heimweh
“Social Practice” has caught on as a name, as well as a practice. I’m relieved to see relationship aesthetics (Nicholas Bourriard) dropped from the vocabulary list along with the litany of terms: new genre public art (Suzanne Lacy), dialogic art (Grant Kester), participatory art practices (Claire Bishop), more recently art of social cooperation (Tom [...]
EDITION #9
Rose Halpern TWENDING 2013 SAIC Fashion Show Headlessness Pointed Shouldews Space Tennis “Inappwopwiate beadwok” Empty suitcases Gas masks Tunics Veils Abstwact bulk Inconvenient pockets Pockets-as-hand-passageways Deconstwucted Camo...Show More Summary
Meanwhile…On Comics Journalism and an Interview with Sarah Glidden
Artist and cartoonist, Sarah Glidden was recently chilling out in Chicago after a long stretch of traveling abroad. I was first introduced to her work in 2011 when I was embroiled in a comics based travel project of my own. Since our first exchange, Sarah has been an invaluable resource for helping me think through [...]
Week in Review: Loss, Courage and House Plants
It is Sunday all over again and the world is a flutter with mother’s day sensation. The plethora of touching mother/child photographs everyone is posting on facebook, the emails, the phone calls, magazine covers and television advertisements. Even the florist in your grocery store has likely been staffed and stocked to the brim. The week’s [...]
HIGH FIVE: Anahita Ghazvinizade’s film nominated for Cannes
I caught this on the Red Eye — SAIC student from Iran nominated for Cannes award SAIC student’s short film nominated for Cannes award It’s only been two years since Anahita Ghazvinizadeh moved from Iran to the U.S. to pursue a film-focused master’s in studio art at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, but the [...]
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (5/10-5/12)
1. Black Damp at Johalla Projects Work by Jessica Taylor Caponigro. Johalla Projects is located at 1821 W. Hubbard St. Reception Saturday, 7-10pm. 2. No Gods No Masters at Chicago Artists’ Coalition Work by Jesse Butcher, James Green, and Christopher Meerdo. Chicago Artists’ Coalition is located at 217 N. Carpenter St. Reception Friday, 6-9pm. 3. [...]
Young at Heart: One View of Twin Cities
Guest post by Eric Asboe My favorite pieces of art in my house were made by children — the volcano floor mat, the map of the United States with a Mason Dixon line to California, the drawing of a space shuttle with its top next to its base because the paper is too small to [...]
Fantastic Voyage: An Interview With Christopher Kardambikis
There are about nine people in the world who can pull off a Clark Kent outfit – you know, the button-down business shirt that is unbuttoned to reveal a giant S. Christopher Kardambikis is one of those people. The Superman reference can point to a number of things: Christopher’s dashing good looks, his nerd-level interest [...]
A Plant as Familiar: The Use of Plants in Contemporary Art
Guest Post by Faye Kahn¹ Contemporary society occurs within a system of objects: toasters, cars, latch hooks, extension cords, hair pins, keys, cards, bunk beds, and so on. It is this very system (see also: pile, archive, collection, etc.) that contemporary artists have assimilated & reappropriated as a catalogue of their raw material. In [...]
On Courage
“Courage is the great enabling virtue that allows one to realize other virtues like love and hope and faith. To have courage is to be willing to look unflinchingly at catastrophic circumstances and muster the will to overcome the fear, never to fully erase and eliminate the fear but overcome the fear, so that fear [...]
Kevin Kurtz Pierce May 16, 1957 – May 2, 2013
It is my sad duty to report the loss of a wonderful guy who along with his wife the delightful Annie Morse put on New Years Day parties of legend. He was a lovely person and I am deeply saddened to hear of his passing. Please keep Kevin and his friends and family in your [...]
What Chicago’s Art Scene Can Learn From Vampire Bats
The art world loves community. Well, the art world loves the word, “community.” Or, at least, it might, if we could figure out what the “art world” is, anyway, which is by no means a new problem. The issues may in fact be quite closely related. The art world is one of those subcultures that, [...]
Week in Review : Road Trips, Dinner Parties and Other Exit Strategies
It’s a busy time of year and a busy week on top of it. MFA and BFA events left and right, writing and grading papers, final presentations, vacation plans, residency plans, devised escape attempts, and closing remarks. That’s right folks, summer is almost upon us. #huzza But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. [...]
MAINTENANCE #1
A. The Death Instinct and the Life Instinct: The Death Instinct: separation, individuality, Avant-Garde par excellence; to follow one’s own path to death—do your own thing, dynamic, change. The Life Instinct: unification, the eternal return, the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species, survival systems and operations, equilibrium. Show More Summary
Top 10 Weekend Picks! (5/3-5/5)
1. Wild Life Sanctuary at The Mission Work by Jenny Kindler. The Mission is located at 1431 W. Chicago Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm. 2. Fathom and Fray at Schneider Gallery Work by Caleb Charland. Schneider Gallery is located at 230 W. Superior St. Reception Friday, 5-7:30pm. 3. Multiplices at Threewalls Work by Marissa Lee Benedict. [...]