Oct 10th 2025

by-passing-upon || Ro(b)//ert Lundberg

@ Watershed Art & Ecology

1821 S Racine Ave, Chicago, IL 60608

Opening Friday, October 10th, from 6PM - 9PM

On view through Sunday, October 12th

Speakers burble in different corners of the room. A tapestry-length score prompts audiences with graphics, musical notation, and text annotations. Various vessels and surfaces marked in multi-colored patterns, for one purpose or another. by-passing-upon invites you into a critical fascination with water infrastructure, playing with possibilities in property lines and watery flows. At the center, curb stops – metal circles in sidewalks and yards covering the shut off valve in a water pipe flowing to a building. Marking division between state- and privately-owned pipes, a physical manifestation of property lines. In noticing, reading, photographing, moving and music-making, curb stops have acted as reminders to ponder the ways water moves with and against real and imaginary boundaries created by humans.

Ro(b)//ert Lundberg
by-passing-upon
a sonic and visual installation celebrating the release of Lundberg’s artist book and album of the same name

Opening reception: Friday Oct. 10 6-9pm, with performances at 7pm by Ro, Paige Alice Naylor, Andrew Tham
Closing discussion on creative scoring: Sunday Oct. 12 at 3pm

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