TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/22-6/28)
1. Black Light and Make Room June 23, 2017, 5-8PM Work by: William Estrada, NIC Kay, AJ McClenon, Rhonda Wheatley, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Community Futures Lab, Amir George, Patric McCoy and The Underground Museum Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St,...
Carron Little on the Palette of Utopia
Interview with Lise McKean Carron Little came to my attention in 2013 when we launched a conversation at the opening of Chicago 1968, an exhibition of photographs by Stan Rosenstock that she curated at Eyeporium Gallery. Her work in performance and installation...
We Can’t Say Where it Goes: Heather Davis & Etienne Turpin in conversation with Caroline Picard
Capitalism has only been around for a few hundred years. Industrialization is an even shorter period. And the world that we are living in is undergoing rapid change all the time. It seems strange that we are so willing to embrace so many kinds of change that continue ongoing violence in tacit and explicit ways, but are so reticent to embrace change that would result in a lessening of this violence—of course the reasons for this are structural, but we need, at least, to hold on to a perspective that what we are living through is an anomaly and that there are multiple ways of living differently. We don’t need petrocapitalism to survive; it is slowly killing everything we need, from human knowledge systems and cultural vibrancy to the air and water and land and other-than-human creatures.
Takeover or Hijack: Alberto Aguilar on @artinstitutechi Instagram
guest post by Dan Gunn Alberto Aguilar announced his Instagram takeover of the @artinstitutechi feed in a bathroom mirror selfie. He positioned the cellphone to obscure his face and captioned the post with the deadpan statement “This is a takeover. I am Alberto...
