Drive-In Happening
@ The University of Chicago, Campus North Parking Garage
5525 South Ellis Avenue
Opening Friday, October 14th, from 6PM - 8PM
The University of Chicago opens its newest arts space with a Fluxus-inspired screening in the concrete bowels of a parking garage.
For one night only, a section of the University’s Campus North Parking Garage will be closed to traffic and its parking spots turned into screening spaces for several of artist Wolf Vostell’s experimental film and video works related to automobiles. Short looping works like Berlin-Fieber (1973), a happening that involved cars driving and parking in different locations in Berlin, and Ruhender Verkehr (1969), a repeated fragment of a 16mm documentary of the creation of Vostell’s first concrete car sculpture, will be projected onto the walls and floors of the garage, between and behind real cars on the ground and lower levels of the partially empty parking structure.
The screening, sculpture, and Concrete Happenings initiative will be introduced by Christine Mehring (Professor and Chair, Department of Art History) and Lisa Zaher (UChicago Arts Conservation Research Fellow).
The evening also features German food and the public debut of Arcade Brewery’s Concrete Traffic, a biting rye beer inspired by Vostell’s colossal sculpture.
Presented by UChicago Arts and the Smart Museum of Art, with funding support generously provided by the University’s Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Film Studies Center.
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Tags: Chicago, Christine Mehring, Drive-In Happening, Hyde Park, Lisa Zaher, Smart Museum of Art, UChicago, Wolf Vostell
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