Archive for the ‘Chicago Culture’ Category

#526 – Rovings

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

quick list #4.

Sounds:

  • Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, The Long Harvest, Volume 1-10
  • Various Artists, National Parks Project
  • Various Artists, Opika Pende: Africa At 78 RPM
  • Various Artists, The Original Sound of Cumbia: The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948 – 79

Words:

  • Josh Kun, Audiotopias: Music, Race, and America
  • Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic
  • Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity

Screens:

  • Paul Goodman Saved My Life
  • The Borgias
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Stages:

  • Penelope, Steppenwolf Theater
  • Aperiodic, Elastic Arts
  • Pretty Monsters, The Whistler
  • Race, Goodman Theater
  • The Seldoms, This is Not a Dance Concert, Harris Theater
  • The Ghost Is Here, Vitalist Theater
  • Invisible Man, Court Theater
  • Fjords, Poetry Foundation
  • Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, The Delicate Hour, Columbia College Dance Center
  • The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Next Theater
  • Enron, Timeline Theater
  • Love and Money, Steep Theater
  • Punk Rock, Griffin Theater

 

 

#275 – Location, Location, Location

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

mapping out aesthetic positioning systems.

Art roving keeps turning up maps. Where do they lead? Why do artists want to make them? Where do they locate us as viewers? It all depends on the situation.

Buenos Aires Tour, 2003

Buenos Aires Tour, 2003, mixed media (box, booklets, postcards, map, CD-ROM, stamps). Courtesy Bomb Magazine.

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Peter Cardone, Chicago Transit Authority Bus and Rail Map, June 2006
2006. Installation (offset printed CTA Map, Adhesive). 68” x 86”
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