A Rule By Nobody: Screening
@ The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N. Milwauke Avenue
Opening Sunday, October 16th, from 7PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, October 16th
Presented by Third Object
As part of the Fall Curatorial Residency
at Sector 2337
The Nightingale Cinema, 1084 N. Milwaukee
Sunday, October 16th, 7 pm, $5
A Rule By Nobody is an exploration of the boredoms, frustrations and pleasures of bureaucratic routines. Drawing its title from Hannah Arendt’s definition of bureaucracy, the exhibition takes the bored energy of office labor and channels it into a multipart dive into the sublimely overflowing inbox, the inky warm Xerox room, the balled up wads of red tape, and the moments of escape that punctuate the droning beige sameness of nine to five.
This video program is a motivational, team-building corporate retreat through other people’s daily grinds. The works in the screening emulate and parody various workplaces and their hierarchical structures to reveal inner formulas, dogmas and breaking points.
Screening artists:
Hanne Lippard
Kay Rosen
Liz Magic Laser
Simon Denny
Ellen Nielsen
Jodie Mack
Lawrence Weiner
Pilvi Takala
Andrew Norman Wilson
This exhibition series is organized under the Fall Curatorial Residency at Sector 2337. It is composed of a two-part group exhibition, an ongoing back room installation, a video screening at the Nightingale Cinema, a live performance, and a printed publication. A Rule by Nobody Part II, which includes Stephen Kwok, Kelly Lloyd, and Christopher Meerdo, opens at the Sector 2337 project space October 22, 2016.
Third Object is a roving curatorial collective based in Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Slow Stretch, Mana Contemporary Chicago; Satellites, The Franklin; Were the Eye Not Sunlike, ACRETV and Fernwey; and Mossy Cloak, Roots and Culture. Third Object is Ann Meisinger, Raven Munsell, and Gan Uyeda.
A Rule By Nobody is made possible through the support of Sector 2337, the Propeller Fund, Direct Office Furniture Warehouse, Video Data Bank and the Nightingale Cinema.
Image Credit: Pilvi Takala, still from The Trainee, 2011.
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Tags: A Rule By Nobody, Andrew Norman Wilson, Chicago, ELLEN NIELSEN, jodie mack, Kay Rosen, lawrence weiner, liz magic laser, Nightengale, Pilvi Takala, Sector 2337, simon denny, third object, West Town
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