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Archive for November, 2009

Juan Chavez @ Linda Warren

December 11, 2009
“Dragging the Leash”: Juan Angel Chavez
December 11th – January 16th
Project Space: Shannon Kerrigan
Opening reception with artist Friday, December 11th, 6-9 pm

LINDA WARREN GALLERY
1052 W Fulton Market
Chicago, IL 60607
p. 312.432.9500 f. 312.432.9502
linda@lindawarrengallery.com

Hours: Tues–Sat, 11-5 PM and by private appointment

Trendbeheer Meets Proximity

December 18, 2009 2:00 pm

Trendbeheer Meets Proximity
December 18 to December 20, 2009
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St.

Opening reception: 7pm-9pm December 18, 2009
Performances Program 9pm – 1am December 18, 2009
Featuring Jeroen Kuster, Michael Perkins and special guests.

VHS Film Festival Program: December 19 , 2009 7pm

For the past two years Public Media Institute and Proximity magazine have been collaborating with Trendbeheer.com, [...]

The Tupajumi Exhibition


An exhibition of work by the Rotterdam based Tupajumi Foundation.

Founded in 2001, Tupajumi is a foundation created solemnly for the promotion of selected artists. The idealistic principle behind the foundation is ‘If we share, we all benefit.’ With the growing support of artists, designers, friends and sponsors we organize international exhibitions at crucial locations within [...]

Fire & Judgement

We were delighted to receive in the mail a KC-135 Ground Tracking Guide and discovered a project that might be of interest to some of our readers. You can view more about the event here. You may participate in the event this Wednesday at Midnight. Join the Intermod forum to see what is going on. [...]

Everybody Wants Some

Reality art star tv show, School of Saatchi, is playing on BBC, without Saatchi.

Now might be a good time to check out a residency in Rotterdam.

AREA Chicago is having a Wants and Needs Fundraiser Dec 11.

Phil Collins is the Guardian’s Artist of the Week.

Chicago Art Review interviews Brennan McGaffey, a cool dude.

Will someone explain to [...]

Super Bad Ass Show Opening Video

A quick look at all the wonderment that occurred  at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. November 20, 2009

Adam Eckberg @ Thomas Robertello

December 11, 2009
ADAM EKBERG – In the between
December 11, 2009 – February 6, 2010
Opening reception Friday December 11, 2009 5:00 – 8:00PM

Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present In the between – an exhibition of new photographs and video by Chicago-based artist Adam Ekberg. In the between is Ekberg’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Continuing with the [...]

Super Bad As Show Preview

We are almost finished installing the Super Bad Ass Show. Here are some photos that I took from the past few days. Stop by this weekend, buy some art from Hui-Min’s Seeking Art Bargain Basement, enjoy hot new musical sounds, drink fancy Hornswoggler cocktails and potions, and dig the fantastic work by some of our [...]

Surprises @ Heaven Gallery Nov 19

Our annual Select Media Festival opens at Heaven Gallery this Thursday Nov 19, 2009.
Program one features work by Tim and Eric, Douggpound and some of their friends. Program 2 features videos by Peter Glantz and Caton Volk.

The works are exceptional.

Watching You

Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely

Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions

The FBI tracked Studs Terkel.

Hans Ulrich Obrist has a conversation with Raoul Vaneigem.

Chicago’s Camera Network Is Everywhere

Future Facing

Old Gold presented Future Facing last Nov 13. It contained works by Aline Cautis, Josh Mannis and Andy Roche. Video documentation below:

If Felt Like a Kiss

Bad At Sports Episode 220: Liam Gillick

Hui-Min Tsen is opening up some interesting questions and relating quite nicely with our neighbors in Bridgeport.

Jesus! Where the hell have we been? Sharkforum is now Blogtastic!

Ack..It’s harder to stay with this guy.

Our Online Editrix posted some pics from here recent show.

And really, please… bittorrent this film.

Paul Lloyd Sargent @ Mess Hall

November 22, 2009
Precious Cargo: The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
a presentation by Paul Lloyd Sargent

November 22nd, 5-7pm
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
www.messhall.org
(via CTA: Morse stop on the Red Line)

In conjunction with the release of AREA magazine’s Peripheral Vision issue, Precious Cargo: the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River is an interactive workshop by Paul Lloyd [...]

PARTY CRASHERS @ Concertina Gallery

November 21, 2009
PARTY CRASHERS
Dick Blau
Micah Lexier
Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger
Davida Nemeroff
Annie Pootoogook
Carrie Schneider

November 21 – December 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Sundays, 12:00 – 5:00pm

‘There is a popular notion that the photographer is by nature a voyeur, the last one invited to the party. But I’m not crashing; this is my [...]

SMF8: Hypnosis Experiment @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

November 22, 2009
Select Media Festival 8

Sunday, November 22, 2009, 8-11 pm
free

Closing hypnosis experiment

Co-Prosperity Sphere • 3219 S. Morgan Street

‘Artist Jacob C. Hammes will perform hypnosis on a group of artists and audience members in an attempt to draw out subconscious associations and experiences of sensory phenomenon such as catalepsy, synesthesia, and astral projection.

SMF8: It’s An Oralasstravaganza! @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

November 21, 2009

Select Media Festival 8

Saturday, November 21, 2009, 8-11 pm
FREE

It’s An Oral Asstravaganza!

Co-Prosperity Sphere • 3219 S. Morgan Street

‘It’s An Oral Asstravaganza! Serious Shit Shall Be Slung @ The C-PS! Floss Your Dentures- Pulled Pork’s On The Plate! Mind Your Little Lambs- This One’s For The Kiddies! Miniature Ponies Provided @ Door! Be There & [...]

SMF8: The Super Bad Ass Show @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

November 20, 2009

Friday, November 20, 2009, 7 pm to 1am
Select Media Festival 8

SUPER BAD ASS Exhibition Opening and Happening

Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S Morgan St.
Exhibtion opens 7pm
Admission: $8 after 9pm

An exhibition featuring the work of:

Juan Angel Chavez, Dayton Castleman, Stephen Eichorn, Aron Gent, Jeremy Tubbs, Hilary Olson, Tom Torluemke, Gunsho (James Quigley), Berry Sanders, [...]

SMF8: Video program @ Heaven Gallery

November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7:30 pm

Select Media festival DAY ONE: THE VIDEO PROGRAM

Heaven Gallery
1561 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd fl
Admission: $6

Two shorts programs that are 100% goodness.

Surprises!
(curated by Eric Wareheim & Doug Lussenhop)

For the opening of SMF8 we asked our longtime friend Douggpound to show us what mischief he and his friend are up to [...]

Untitled – The Film

It was  difficult to decide whether this film was a parody spoof project. Thanks Trendbeheer!

Yes Men Interview

We made some of the Yes Men sit down and conduct an impromtu interview while they were at our space, The Co-Prosperity Sphere. It’s probably worth checking out. Visit Lumpen TLVSN for a gander.

LUMPEN TLVSN (interview) – The Yes Men at Co-Prosperity Sphere from lumpen on Vimeo.

Artists Run Chicago Digest

The Artists Run Chicago Digest is out. Researchers, historians and art educators should not sleep on the beautifully JNL designed, limited edition journal. Co-produced by Green Lantern Press and threewalls it contains:

Interviews, essays and responses along with floorplans, exhibition histories and other visuals archive and present a 10-year time period in Chicago’s artist-run culture while [...]

Karaoke Marfa

There is little evidence that the land US Route 90 travels though as it arcs from El Paso to Marfa (Population: 2,121) is not the fabled middle of nowhere. That is, almost no evidence.

Call for stuff: Seeking Art Bargains!

Call-for-Entry : The Seeking Art Bargain Basement
Artists need CASH?? Do you have surplus ART??  Clear out your studios and make way for new work all while earning some extra money to continue your practice — the Seeking Art Bargain Basement is back. Check out the details here.

AN ARCHITEKTUR BERLIN @ Storfront for Art and Architecture


In this context the event “Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture” takes up the task of exploring possibilities and conditions of a socially committed architectural practice.

Optimism and Everyday Life” with Claire Pentecost @ Threewalls

November 5, 2009
November 5th:

Public Culture lecture: “Optimism and Everyday Life” with Claire Pentecost,   7 PM

In Search of the Mundane, organized by Randall Szott and the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday (InCUBATE) will feature extended conversation and programming about the arts of [...]

The Seeking Art Bargain Basement Drop off at C-PS


Call-for-Entry : The Seeking Art Bargain Basement
In Co-operation with Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Select Media Festival.

Artists need CASH?? Do you have surplus ART??  Clear out your studios and make way for new work all while earning some extra money to continue your practice — the Seeking Art Bargain Basement is back!
Originally located in a booth at [...]

Radar Eyes NYC

November 6, 2009
RADAR EYES, an exhibition of hallucinogenic prints curated by Canadian printmaking duo Seripop, Chicago gallerist Reuben Kinkaid, and The Space L.I.C. will open Friday, November 6th, 7pm at Fardom Gallery, 25-17 41st Avenue, Long Island City.

Around the corner, a secret space will stash many more prints and a new installation by NYC artist Sakura Maku. [...]

Events and Nonsense

Bad At Sports interviews Temporary Services.

Our patron, Reuben Kincaid, brings the Radar Eyes print show to NY.

Art Review magazine’s Power 100 meet the The Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World

Saturday November 7 is Media Democracy Day.

A sweet Satellite Alphabet set

threewalls and TheGreen Lantern Press release The Artist’s Run Chicago Digest at HPAC [...]

Release of Artists Run Chicago Digest

November 8, 2009
Sunday November 8, 2009
The Artists Run Chicago Digest
threewalls and The Green Lantern Press are pleased to announce our latest publishing collaboration, The Artist’s Run Chicago Digest, a complimentary publication to the exhibition Artist’s Run Chicago (curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn) at the Hyde Park Art Center, May 10th-July 5th, 2009.

The ARC [...]

AREA release

November 1, 2009
Release of AREA #9 Peripheral Vision: A Local Reader Inside and Outside Chicago!

November 1, 2009 from 2:00pm till 5:00 pm.

The release party will be coinciding with the closing party for The Demise of the South Side Community Art Center at the South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. (CTA: Indiana stop on the [...]

The ACT-I-VATE Experience & Salon @ Quimby’s

November 13, 2009
The ACT-I-VATE Experience & Salon at Quimby’s

Dean Haspiel, co-founder of the premier online comic art collective, ACT-I-VATE.com, will be hosting a multimedia salon to celebrate the release of The ACT-I-VATE Primer,  16 original stories by some of the most highly respected visual storytellers working today. This will also be the Chicago debut of The [...]

Jules Feiffer: Depression-Era Comics @ Francis W. Parker School

November 7, 2009
This fall marks the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival! Celebrate with us as we explore the many facets of Laughter, including conversations about classic and alternative comics.

For more information and tickets to all events taking place this fall, visit us online at www.chicagohumanities.org or call our box office at 312.494.9509.

Jules [...]

Matt Groening and Lynda Barry @ UIC Forum

November 5, 2009
This fall marks the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival! Celebrate with us as we explore the many facets of Laughter, including conversations about classic and alternative comics.

Matt Groening and Lynda Barry:

Cartoonists in Conversation

Matt Groening (creator of the The Simpsons, Futurama, and Life in Hell) and Lynda Barry (Ernie Pook’s [...]

Chris Ware and Jules Feiffer @ Francis W. Parker School

November 7, 2009
This fall marks the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival! Celebrate with us as we explore the many facets of Laughter, including conversations about classic and alternative comics.

For more information and tickets to all events taking place this fall, visit us online at www.chicagohumanities.org or call our box office at 312.494.9509.

Chris [...]

“Meat!” Print Exchange Show @ Spudnik Press

November 6, 2009
“Can’t think of the word “eat” without an “m?” Or are you a militant vegan? Fall somewhere in between? Ever feel like a piece of meat? Everyone has an opinion about meat, and we want you to make a print about yours: the good, the bad, the bloody, the cooked, and the overlooked.”

contact angee@spudnikpress.com if [...]

Kathleen Waterloo & Julie Karabenick @ Melanee Cooper Gallery

November 6, 2009
Opening – November 6, 5-8pm (exhibition runs through December 30th) read more about the artists here.. [1] [2] Melanee Cooper Gallery 740 N Franklin St