Chris Reeves: Syllabus of Effects
@ Ignition Project Space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, June 5th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, June 27th
Syllabus of Effects shares its name with the title of six themed artists books Chris Reeves made in 2024 based on his love of syllabus creation and a desire to share and galvanize unruly pedagogy. For this exhibition, the themes (ambiguity and borderlines, mirrors, gestures & authorship, noisiness, deskilling & reskilling, repetition) stretch off of the page and into the gallery space into six discreet novel displays, miniature exhibitions within the exhibition, featuring artworks, objects, archival ephemera, texts, and footnotes that further elucidate the strings of equivalences and rogue knowledge production the syllabi encouraged. Some of the bigger ideas considered here: mutual kinship and finding symmetry, categorical slipperiness, life during the wartime, art as an occasion for experience, getting lost in the meshes, collaborating without direct collaboration.
Featuring works and footnotes by: Àle Campos, Cat Bowyer, Danny Floyd, Elena Ailes, Jenn Smith, Jesse Malmed, Jessica Zawadowicz, Jonas Müller Ahlheim, Kat Bawden, Laurel Hauge, Lauren Sudbrink, lee rae walsh, Livy Snyder, Madison Mae Parker, Mat Mancini, M. Carson Day, Max Guy, Madeleine Aguilar, olivier, Sloan Klusendorf, Tamara Becerra Valdez
Chris Reeves received his PhD in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a Chicago based creative researcher and artist. His research interests include art and technology, internet art, artists books, Fluxus, performance art, punk and DIY, networks of friendship in art, and localized collaboration. His work has been published in various forms and shapes – as a vinyl LP, a large cardboard mountain, a didactic wall text, an arts journal, and a whoopee cushion – as a means to consider the dialogical between text, content, and material.
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Tags: Ále Campos, Cat Bowyer, Chicago, Chris Reeves, Danny FLOYD, Elena Ailes, Humboldt Park, Ignition project space, JENN SMITH, Jesse Malmed, Jessica Zawadowicz, JONAS MULLER-AHLHEIM, Kat Bawden, Laurel Hauge, Lauren Sudbrink, Lee Rae Walsh, Livy Snyder, M. Carson Day, Madeleine Aguilar, Madison Mae Parker, Mat Mancini, Max Guy, olivier, SLOAN KLUSENDORF, Syllabus of Effects, Tamara Becerra Valdez
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