Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say
@ Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Tuesday, August 20th, from 11AM - 1:30PM
On view through Friday, August 23rd
August 20, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM: I Wish to Say Performance with Sheryl Oring
Twenty years ago, artist Sheryl Oring set out with a typewriter and offered people a chance to speak their minds as part of her I Wish to Say project. With this work, she sets up a public office – complete with a manual typewriter – and types people’s postcards to the U.S. president. Dressed as a 1960s secretary, she records whatever participants say. Originals are mailed to the White House and Oring keeps a carbon copy for her archive.
To date, Oring has typed 4,241 postcards, typed at hundreds of locations around the United States, from parks and town squares to college campuses and festivals. From August 19-21, she is bringing her show to Chicago to document the mood in the city during the Democratic National Convention and she’ll be at Co-Prosperity from 11:30 to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, August 20. Oring invites people to stop by and speak their minds.
Part of DEMOCRAZY: DNC Counter-Programming at Co-Prosperity. Full program here.
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