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 [...]
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.
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. [...]
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.
Ok here is our last celebration of what we loved last year. Rachel Hewitt wraps it up.
Abigail Satinsky shares her favorite events at the Orientation Center on Studio Chicago
Time Out says small is beautiful
Vocalo shares the high and low points of architecture in Chicago from 2000-2009
Chicagoist’s Top 9 Of ‘09
Steve Ruiz likes five from last year
New City’s Jason Fouberg high fives it, too.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Old Gold presented Future Facing last Nov 13. It contained works by Aline Cautis, Josh Mannis and Andy Roche. Video documentation below:
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.
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 [...]
Nate, our captain of tranquility, suggests we all listen to philosopher Boris Groys on the aesthetic responsibility via Frieze podcast
Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys gave a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self–revelation and self–positioning in public space
New York City Garbage. For $100.
If you haven’t already, you really must listen to Bad At Sports Episode 210 with the Director of the Chicago MCA, Madeleine Grynsztejn.
Art World magazine to end, perhaps due to the fact their idea of an Art World doesn’t exist?
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University opens in NY- pedagogy as art action.
It must be a [...]
For those of you who like illuminated urine containers as street art please check out the most recent lighting installation by Luz Interruptus.
So last night NEXT and ART CHICAGO kicked off at The Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago. After some ping-ponging around the building my friend April and I found the Rueben Kincaid booth, as well as various out of town friends.
Along the way the buzz was, of course, the economy accompanied by swine flu and the [...]
We just ran into Git this weekend during a foray into some pretty mediocre art openings in Chicago. Somehow we came across John’s blog while discovering Brian Ulrich on the 50 States Project (post below). Ahh the internet.. So John has been asking friends to curate some YouTube vids recently. Yes, that might sound [...]
The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA.
Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State [...]
Clio-award winning Luden’s cough drops commercial from 1967 with a Frank Zappa soundtrack. Thanks Richard Metzger.
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.
Here is nice concept to emulate next Valentines day: exhibit some very tasty treats amidst some delicious art. Artist and Contributing Editor, Mike Genovese, sends some warmth and cheer via photos from a fundraiser that took place at Oh Wow in Miami. Pictured here is artist Jen Stark hanging with a nice lad. Wish we [...]
The Stinger may be your future condo.
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.
Video of the controversial Renaissance Society Panel, Is there such a thing as a Chicago artist anymore? is on YouTube. Enjoy. There are twelve in the series!
We Joined Facebook after realising LittleSis.org (see post below) was cool. Please add us as your friend while you are browsing the universe.
Perfect gift for the holidays. We hope to send these to all our friends.
Repost from our buds in Rotterdam, Trendbeheer.
