Nick Costas, Proximity correspondent, sends us this news:
“Acclaimed British artist Michael Landy has transformed the South London Gallery into a 600m³ container for the disposal of works of art. Artists and collectors are invited to bring works to the SLG to create ’a monument to creative failure’.
Works can be brought to the SLG to be [...]
We are on a field trip to The Netherlands to present Proximity magazine and art works featured in its pages!
Our friends at Trendbeheer are hosting our exhibition at the Rotterdam art space Singer Sweat Shop and it will take place Friday, March 12. Our agenda is pretty full. We are meeting up with old and [...]
This February has been really busy for us here at Public Media Institute and Proximity magazineland. This weekend marks an end to our recent programming madness . We hope the following events will provide motivation for you to battle this Chicago winter and give you a chance to check out some exciting new shit.
On Thursday [...]
A few weeks ago we were given the opportunity to work with the Chicago Loop Alliance, a chamber of commerce-like organization that serves the downtown loop area merchants. They started their Pop-Up Art Loop gallery project and gave us the old Ritz Camera store to engage with a project.
We are opening a new joint project [...]
We are going to miss all of our new friends from the Tupajumi Foundation. Their exhibition at the Co-Prosperity Sphere was a great example of how awesome a group show can be.
You can check out documentation of the C-PS show here and here. We look forward to working with them in the future. And you [...]
Proximity magazine contributor Anna Mayer raised consciousness at the LA Anarchist Book Fair this past Sunday.
The great folks of the Tupajumi Foundation are showing their work at Co-Prosperity Sphere this weekend only! See over three dozen works by as many artists from around the world. January 22, 7pm is the opening reception. A performance program with Waterbabies, Joe Kisser and Publicist (from Trans Am) follows at 9pm to 1am. [...]
Here is the first installment of our year-end round up of art projects, exhibitions and actions in Chicago which made a difference to us here at Proximity and the Public Media Institute. Some top ten art exhibitions and other lists will be forthcoming.
Please let us know what your favorites were and email ed (at) proximitymagazine.com [...]
Photographer Carlo Gianferro’s Gypsy Interiors series won a World Press Photo 2009 prize. Enterprising reality tv producers should get on this.
Gypsy Interiors”is a series of portraits capturing the private world of these outwardly loud, vivacious people. Here he finds a rich and profound intimacy, hidden but exhibited among antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, religious images, china, [...]
Trendbeheer, our Dutch partners in art crime, are in Chicago setting up their this weekend-only show at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Please come by this Friday December 18 for the opening and party or visit Saturday, December 19 for the Rotterdam VHS Film Festival program. Check out some photos of the work in progress. The Art [...]
Tonite we had the great fortune of briefly visiting the Don Celender exhibit by Public Collectors, an archive and research project created by Marc Fischer. Marc is a trailblazing researcher, formidable conceptual artist, and socially engaged art worker and I love the fact that he puts so many amazing hard to find materials on the [...]
This year the Whitney Biennial curators have picked fifty-five artists for the 2010 snapshot of contemporary art in America. Chicago artists Julia Fish, Theaster Gates, Jim Lutes, Curtis Mann and Scott Short have been included in the 2010 show. Congratulations you guys!
Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari announce the artist list for 2010 in the [...]
Nancy Klehm is featured in Time Magazine discussing Humanure.
“At one point, Klehm invited her “nutrient loopers” to a potluck and was surprised to see who had agreed to participate. “It was the white collar people, not the ragtag anarchists. Mostly, they were delighted that they got this wacky proposal,” she says. “They didn’t know how [...]
Temporary Services‘ Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer are involved with a great new project called Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics at the Cleveland art space , SPACES. ” Art Work is a newspaper and website that uses SPACES as its distribution hub. It consists of writings from artists, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Adam Farcus sends his top ten links as well as his chest size. Here he’s pointing out some sports logos, the SI database, and more. Don’t miss his lecture Oct 3 at the SAIC for the Accidental Publics symposium.
New York City Garbage. For $100.
Online Editor Ian Whitmore is featured in Vague Paper, A UK-based photography magazine. Ian’s recent work centers around ignored spaces of our built environment. These spaces in between are often invisible to passers by and sometimes badly decorated by its planners. But there is beauty in the planters and melancholic landscape design behind “Nowhere.” Take [...]
Besides wading in the black hole of the publishing business we also got our hands dirty with some art. Last weekend the Co-Prosperity Sphere hosted the excellent Get It Together Show. Check out our flickr site to see some of the work. We promise you will never have to hear 1000 variations of Kruder and [...]
Click here for the photos from last weekend’s openings of “control c, control v” at ebers, Rod Hunting at the coop, “Unusual Suspects” at 2612 space, “The Diorama Show” at The Home Gallery, “Matthew Harris: Beyond China”, “Glenn Wexler: Transit 2″ & “Spellbound” & “Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture” at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Proximity went out and took some photos of last weekends action at Roots and Culture, Eastern Expansion, ThreeWalls, Spoke, Spudnik Press and Chicago Art Department. Check out the Flickr set .
This Sunday, May 10 the Hyde Park Art Center will open its Artists Run Chicago show in Gallery 1. Proximity and its related tentacles will participate in quite a few ways. First we asked our friend Michael T Rea to bring over his Spacesuit for Steven Hawking to represent Reuben Kincaid Artist Management. As part [...]
One of the best shows to have debuted since last year is Cody Hudson’s and Corey Arnold’s jam at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Take take a peak before the show comes down May 9. If you don’t know Hudson you should read this recent interview conducted by the cats that design Proximity magazine: The Post [...]
We don’t know why we have to look at trendbeheer all the time to find out what is happening in Chicago. Those damn dutchies find the darndest things. Like this blog, We are Supervision, which posts some lovely gangbanger artwork. This might make it to a real gallery near you.
Paul Chan is an important and provocative artist whose influence on contemporary art and culture is immeasurable. Please make an effort to see his exhibition of new work and hear him speak at one of his talks.
The Renaissance Society presents three lectures related to an exhibition by Paul Chan, March 1 – April 12, 2009
Paul [...]
We forgot to mention earlier last week that that one hundred years ago, on February 20, the Futurist Manifesto was presented on the frontpage of Le Figaro. Well, Dutch Art mag Metropolis M didn’t forget nor did many other European art fags. Here is a handy link to Futurist Cookbook recipes that we can all [...]
Our friend Niels Post posted his Connect 4 video that aired on national television in Holland some years ago. We bet we could kick his ass in a game.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
“The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at [...]
Magedelena Bors makes household items turn into exquisite sculptures.
Since it’s so cold out we thought we’d illuminate it some more.. During the 2008 Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, German artist Edgar Mueller, a Master of 3d Pavement Art, transformed a huge slice of the East Pier into a dramatic ice age scene.
We are going to start blogging links to individual artists whose work we find inspiring. Please take a look at Sam Winston’s work. His typographical skills are paired with an advanced illustrative craft that is the envy of Design school kids and Book art afficionados everywhere. His installations are not have bad either.
Proximity is in Rotterdam to take part in Trendbeheer Presents @ Art Rotterdam. We posted a few images of the show (a few pre-show and some from the opening night) to give you an idea of the action. We are in the middle of our research mission and will upload some more stuff later.
An art parade, temporary housing structures, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair and expo, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping projects, an open source design agency for social movements, and korean [...]
Trendbeheer presenteert @ Art Rotterdam starts this Tuesday. Proximity magazine is taking part of this massive group exhibition featuring many Chicago-based and Holland-based artists. We will be posting images of our Excursions in Rotterdam soon.
“Although this pursuit may seem to be inevitably elusive and fruitless, I am hoping to gain whatever understanding I can through the process.”
Brad and I studied photography together as undergraduates in Nebraska, he has since gone on to grad school at Yale and continues to make images that stir the mind and the soul. [...]
