Institutional Garbage
@ Sector 2337
2337 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647
Opening Thursday, September 1st, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, December 31st
Institutional Garbage is an online exhibition that presents the administrative residue of imaginary public institutions produced by artists, writers, and curators. This residue includes but is not limited to contracts, email correspondences, documented unproductivity, syllabi, scanned objects, and obstacle courses; collecting such fragments in one place, Institutional Garbage illustrates the backend activities of imaginary bureaucracies in an effort to trace the private life of institutional endeavors. What comes to the fore is not a cohesive, singular agenda, but instead a cross-section of often misfired objects that, once assembled, try to tease out new strategies for community arts production, education, sustainability, and value assessment.
The resulting website will launch on September 1st, 2016 on the occasion of Wasted Hours, a live performance event at Sector 2337 curated by Every house has a door. Institutional Garbage is curated by Caroline Picard and Lara Schoorl with support from The Center Program, in response to a 2014 invitation RISD students posed to The Green Lantern Press on the occasion of the Hyde Park Art Center’s 75th anniversary.
Participating Artists Include: Alberto Aguilar, Brit Barton, Mara Baker, Kevin Blake, Zippora Elders, Rami George, David Hall, Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, Michal Samana, Naqeeb Stevens, Tina Tahir, Anna Martine Whitehead; writers: Lise Haller Baggessen, Daniel Borzutzky, Isaiah Dufort, Patrick Durgin, Tricia van Eck, Jane Lewty, Jill Magi, Nam Chi Nguyễn, Rowland Saifi, Suzanne Scanlon, Mia You and Maarten van der Graaf with Fiep van Bodegom and Obe Alkema; & curators: David Ayala-Alfonso, Britton Bertran, Rashayla Marie Brown, Every house has a door, Lucia Fabio, João Florêncio, Stevie Greco, Jeanine Hofland, Renan Laru-an, La Keisha Leek, Sofia Lemos and Vincent van Velsen. Online Exhibition Design: Pouya Ahmadi.
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Tags: Anna Martine Whitehead; writers: Lise Haller Baggessen, Brit Barton, Britton Bertran, Caroline Picard, Daniel Borzutzky, David Ayala-Alfonso, David Hall, Every house has a door, Institutional Garbage, internet, Isaiah Dufort, Jane Lewty, Jeanine Hofland, Jill Magi, João Florêncio, Josh Rios and Anthony Romero, Kevin Blake, La Keisha Leek, Lara Schoorl, lberto Aguilar, Lucia Fabio, Mara Baker, Mia You and Maarten van der Graaf with Fiep van Bodegom, Michal Samana, Nam Chi Nguyễn, Naqeeb Stevens, Obe Alkema, Patrick Durgin, Pouya Ahmadi, Rami George, Rashayla Marie Brown, Renan Laru-an, Rowland Saifi, Sector 2337, Sofia Lemos, Stevie Greco, Suzanne Scanlon, Tina Tahir, Tricia Van Eck, Vincent van Velsen, Wasted Hours, Zippora Elders
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