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 [...]
VERSION FESTIVAL 10:
Infrastructures and Territories
April 22, May 2, 2010
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: March 1, 2010.
Version is an annual springtime convergence that brings together hundreds of artists, musicians, and educators from around the world to present some of the most challenging ideas and progressive art initiatives of our day.
This is the Ninth edition.
Submit your proposal online:
http://www.lumpen.com/V10/theme.html
Please spread [...]
We are excited about the release of another issue of our sister publication, Lumpen magazine. Issue 114 should be out this Friday, February 5, during the Save the Whale fundraiser at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Plural Design’s tender care in creative direction makes printing on paper worth it.
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 [...]
Long ago in a world without internet, a few critical publications helped inspire and activate insurrection and counter cultural thinking here in the U.S. These publications provided real cultural coverage and analysis of how our lives were being consumed, co-opted and recombined by The Corporations. The Baffler was one of them. Their critique was a [...]
One of the most interesting public art projects we have ever seen is taking place on a lake in Minnesota. Check out how Art Shanty Projects unfolds. It opens tomorrow!
Good magazine and coudal tipped us off to this.
Please help us create our next and most ambitious installment of the magazine.
Proximity isue 007 is themed “A Catalog of Strategies.” The issue will feature a lengthy directory of participatory, collectivist and interventionist projects and initiatives. We are seeking short entries, essays, and texts about alternative, counter, or oppositional practices and projects, created by individuals, [...]
Issue #006 is themed (An)Other Art Worlds and weighs in at 184 pages.
We invited our friends and friends of friends to contribute to our annual geographically and territorially-based examinations of some other art worlds. This not so random survey of under-represented art scenes, movers and shakers, artist run initiatives, groups, spaces and theoretical constructs helps [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re happy to announce that a week after the pre-release of Issue #5 in print form we have put together a sampling of Columns, Features, Interviews Portfolios, Studios and Reviews for you to view here at our wonderful web site. You can also download a sample pdf here.
We believe whole-heartedly in the power of printed [...]
The fifth issue of Proximity magazine will be pre-released this Friday, September 11, at threewalls* in the west loop during the opening salvo of the fall gallery season.
This issue is devoted to International Contemporary Photography. For a preview pdf of the table of contents and some sample spreads please come back later.
Artists and authors featured [...]
We are pleased to announce that PR, our companion publication, now has its own home here at proximitymagazine.com.
PR is published in between each issue of PROXIMITY. It includes reviews, extended essays and a large graphic/art piece printed in a broadsheet style. You can find PR all over Chicago and they are FREE. So while you [...]
Well, part of it is anyway. We have a full PDF preview available of the table of contents so you can see what you are missing. We think now is the perfect time to support independent publications so we don’t see them die off the way that galleries and various non-profits are starting to.
Check out [...]
Every year the Southern Graphics Council hosts a massive conference that proves exactly why the printmakers are always the cool kids at art school. Glutted with panel discussions, exhibitions, lectures, and of course, parties, the conference can prove to be both exciting and energy draining. Here are a couple of peeks into the mayhem from [...]
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 [...]
Our release party last Saturday was a blast. Thanks for coming. Even if you didn’t get a fresh copy of the new publications we will make it easy for you. Download a preview copy of Matériel at the magazine’s website. You can purchase one at Golden Age, Quimbys, No Coast, Rotofugi, and Penelope’s. They [...]
Margot Harrington and Chad Kouri just finished designing our new sister publication, Pr. Pr is a “Posterletter”–half newsletter and half poster–and it rocks! The over sized broadsheet confabulation features an interview with Paul Chan, whose recent exhibition at the Renaissance Society garnered rave reviews.
Also featured is a beautiful poster designed by Margot and inspired by [...]
Proximity Magazine invites you to participate in the (Con)Temporary Art Chicago Guide. The Guide showcases the best cultural offerings in Chicago during the Spring season – late April to early May 2009. We are creating a map and publication – including directories, articles, and interviews – about what’s happening at places both prominent and secret [...]
Our longest running publication, Lumpen, was just released as issue #111. You can download a pdf of it now. Coming this month will be the release of Matériel, and Pr, a Proximity Publication. On April 24, 2009 we will release Issue #004 of Proximity as well as the (Con)Temporary Art Chicago Guide. Did we mention [...]
Momus, aka Nick Currie, blogs about the death of print. It’s not looking good for pulp in Chicago after the bankruptsies of the Tribune and The Chicago Reader as well as the collapse of print titles like Stop Smiling and Prompt. One interesting fact he pulled out is that for every magazine pronounced dead in [...]
We are sending our sort of top secret broadside magazine project to the printers this week. Matériel is an oversized, newsprint publication that’s a collection of the best/brightest designers/illustrators/photographers work we can find – creating a showcase for their submitted work. It’s a sister magazine to Proximity providing a ‘design’ counterpoint to Prox’s ‘art’ focus. [...]
We thought it was over a year or so ago when we started Proximity, but now that the New York Times decides… it must be so! Read what every art dealer going to the New York Art fairs has sitting on their desk this week. The article, The Boom Is Over. Long Live the [...]
Our contemporary art media buddies at Neoteric Art feature Proximity Magazine as one of their One Question interviews. They asked “What are some of your long term goals for Proximity?” You can read a response here.
Art Shanty at Iron Studios (2006)
Proximity Magazine invites you to participate in (Con)Temporary Art Chicago. This 80-96 page book, to be released along with the next issue of Proximity Magazine, will showcase the best cultural offerings in Chicago during the art fair season – late April to early May 2009.
Our goal is to showcase Chicago [...]
Our friend Daniel is publishing a series of five articles in <H>Art Magazine in Belgium> the series is: ” an introduction to Chicago, Illinois USA and it’s local critical cultural experimentation, written from the perspective of a magazine editor and curator committed to navigating the city. Look for three more articles in 2009 dealing with [...]
Portraits: The Obama Administration
Check out this interactive set of portaits by Nadav Kander from the New York Times.
You can finally subscribe to Proximity using credit cards via our Paypal account. Get the next 3 issues delivered to your mailbox for $30 a year.
Proximity magazine is joining a group of Chicago- based artists at Trendbeheer presenteert @ Art Rotterdam! We will be presenting and sharing publications from Chicago and spend a few weeks conducting research for our first Proximity City Guide. If you are in Holland during the weeks of February 1-14 please come by the show (Feb [...]
If you are interested in supporting critical arts coverage from Chicago then please check out the subscription page.
We are entering our second year publishing this magazine, we are very excited and look forward to the many issues to come. Get on board and you’ll have three new, content filled issues coming to you in 2009.
