SMIZZ’S AREA /CHICAGO CALENDER.

Friday 2^nd October: AREA orientation meeting. ALL Day. Brown Rice experimental performance night 10pm onwards. UPTOWN.

Saturday 3^rd October: School Institute of Art, Chicago – Accidental Publics Symposium.

- Mexican Food downtown + Karokee bar in Wickerpark.

Sunday 4^th October:  AREA Chicago advisorary panel monthly meeting.

AREA office with InCUBATE and the Chicago library finance meeting.  Watching Sunday NFL games and do my AREA work.

Monday 5^th October: Movies, buy art materials and whatever else.

Tuesday 6^th October: Museum of Contemporary art – FREE day – AREA office work day/make art.

Wednesday 7^th October: Meeting with Rebecca @ 10am South Side, Hyde Park Backstory Café/Experimental Station.

Friday 9^th October: Meeting on Friday, AREA work day.  Youth Garage Party fundraiser.

Saturday 10^th October: Copyediting party of Issue 9 of AREA for printing.

Sunday 11^th October: secret History of the university of Chicago tour.

Monday 12^th October : Fundraiser Beyond Media Party – dance – wicker park.

Wednesday 14^th October:  Meeting with Rebecca?

Friday 16^th October: AREA meeting in Bucktown.

Saturday 17^th October: AREA Bustour of Southside history, part of HEARTLAND exhibition at Smart Museum.

Thursday 22^nd October: Freedom School – Workshop, research on activism. RVSP

Tuesday 27^th October: Chicago Cultural Center- Downtown, launch for AREA, Republic Windows Factory book launch. Preview hand out of AREA. 6:00pm onwards.

NOVEMBER 1^ST: AREA NUMBER 9 ISSUE RELEASE PARTY – South side community centre.

Smart Museum of Art presents Heartland - Tonight - 1st Oct

The only links that you will ever need…

Thanks to : http://www.lumpen.com/ for the most amazing links to LOADS of chicago art things and more. (world wide) bold text = Lumpen projects.

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ABC No Rio
Adbusters
Adventure City
Afterall
ANP
Anti Advertising Agency
Apartmento
A Prior
Apop Records
Apres Ski
Area
Archinect
Archive Journal
Aron Gent
Arthur
Art Letter
Arts & Letters
Art Review
Art in the Age
Art Talk AM
Art Shanty projects
Archidirectory
Art Spaces (ORD)
Artist Run Spaces (Chicago)
Art War
Audacity of Art
Audio Dregs
Ausgang
Autonomedia


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Bad At Sports
Back Issues pdfs
Believe Inn
Ben Jones
Bik Van Der Pol
BLDG Blog
Bluestockings
Blog
Book By It’s Cover
Boing Boing
Bonny Fortune & Brett Bloom
Brian Holmes
Brooklyn Rail
Brouwerij ‘t IJ
Bridgeport WPA
Bridgeport WPA photos
Bridgeport All-Stars
Brunerd
buddY

Accidental Publics // October 2 & 3, 2009 / Northwestern University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Accidental Publics
Friday and Saturday, October 2 & 3, 2009
Northwestern University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

A two-day symposium focusing on temporary public artworks that address
an “accidental public” — people, viewers, an audience, or passersby
who are not expecting to encounter a work of art. The purpose is to
theorize and compare the strategies of projects that attempt to bridge
the art and everyday life divide in present tense and real space, and
to engage discussion that explores our intentions and the effects of
choosing to work in this way.

Accidental Publics is organized by Northwestern University’s
Department of Art Theory and Practice and the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago’s Sculpture Department, and co-sponsored by the
Departments of Performance and Arts Administration at The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago. It will include presentations by invited
artists as well as faculty, students, and alumni of area colleges and
universities. Presentations will focus on specific works that have
been realized and have had a public life. Please visit the website of
Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory and Practice (www.art.northwestern.edu
) for additional information as the event approaches.


Schedule of events

FRIDAY OCT 2
The Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University

10:00                        Lecture: Michael Rakowitz

11:15                         Session 1: Spectacle
Industry of the Ordinary: The Weight of a Worn Shirt

Ben Fain: Fire Safety

The Sages: Fishbowl

Tracy Chou: The Rock and Braille Stairwell


Session 2: No one to ask

Brianna Schweizer: It’s About Time

Eric Peterson: Snow Machine

Matt Irie and Dominic Talvacchio: Platform Constellation

Katya Grokhovsky: Send Me Home


1:30 - 2:30 lunch

2:30                         Lecture: Dennis Adams

3:45                         Session 3: Asking for it
Frau Fiber: Redressing New Orleans

Casey Lurie: Apple Structure

Trudi Antoine: Open Doors

Joseph Miller: Empty Bottle Residency

Laurie Palmer: Oxygen Bar



SATURDAY OCT 3
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 280 S. Columbus Drive,
Room 012

10:00             Lecture: Patricia Phillips

10:45                        Session 4: Claiming Public Space
Dara Greenwald and Olivia Robinson: Spectres of Liberty

Theaster Gates : The Dorchester Project

Kyle Tidd: K1-430

Adam Farcus: Store Interventions

Fereshteh Toosi: The Fourth River

discussion with Stephanie Smith



12:45 -  2:00 lunch

2:00                          Lecture: Dan Peterman

3:15                        Session 5: Creating Forums
Incubate: Incubate

Jung A Woo: Mobile Project Space

Philip Von Zweck: Broad Castings

discussion with Stephanie Smith


4:45                        Final remarks:  Patricia Phillips

Participants:

Dennis Adams is internationally recognized for his urban interventions
and museum installations that reveal historical and political
undercurrents in public space and architecture. He is a Professor at
Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

Frau Fiber, a.k.a. Carole Lung, is an artist, activist and nomadic
textile worker.

Theaster Gates is an artist and performer, and he teaches at the
University of Chicago.

Dara Greenwald is an artist and activist based in New York, and Olivia
Robinson is an artist who teaches at Syracuse University. Among many
other activities, they collaborate with Josh McPhee on the Spectres of
Liberty project.

InCUBATE (Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the
Everyday) is a research institute and artist residency program
dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts
funding. InCUBATE will be represented by Abby Satinsky and Bryce
Dwyer, two of the four co-directors, who are current students in The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Master of Arts Administration
program.

Industry of the Ordinary are Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, both
artists and educators currently living in Chicago and teaching at
Columbia College.

Matt Irie and Dominic Talvacchio have been collaborating for
approximately ten years. Irie is based in the Chicago area and teaches
at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake. Talvacchio is based in New
York.

Dan Peterman’s internationally acclaimed work explores the
intersection of art and ecology on a wide range of scales and
platforms. He is co-founder of the Experimental Station in Woodlawn,
and Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Patricia Phillips is an arts writer, curator, educator, and Dean of
Graduate Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her influential
writings on public art have been published and read widely.

Michael Rakowitz’s site-specific work has been widely recognized since
his 1998 paraSite project gained national and international attention.
He teaches at Northwestern University.

Stephanie Smith is Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator
of Contemporary Art at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art.

Fereshteh Toosi is an interdisciplinary artist who teaches in the New
Millennium Studies program at Columbia College Chicago.

Philip Von Zweck is an artist, musician, curator, gallerist, and radio
host who has often hosted the work of others in public places.

Ben Fain, The Sages (Lily and Beau), Brianna Schweizer, Katya
Grokovsky, and Jung A. Woo are recent graduates or current students at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Casey Lurie, Trudi Antoine, Traci Chou, and Kyle Tidd are recent
graduates or current students at Northwestern University.

Adam Farcus and Eric Peterson are respectively, a recent graduate of,
and a current student at, The University of Illinois at Chicago.

Joseph Miller is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago.

Organizers:

Jeanne Dunning is an artist and a professor in the Department of Art
Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.

Laurie Palmer is an artist and writer and Chair of the Sculpture
Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.



Directions and Parking Information for Northwestern University

The Block Museum is located on the southeastern portion of
Northwestern University’s Evanston campus, near the lake and just off
Sheridan Road. Between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, Northwestern visitors must have parking passes in
order to use university lots.  Visitors without passes may find street
parking although much street parking is limited to 2 hours. There is a
public parking facility 2 blocks south of campus on the south-east
corner of Chicago Avenue and Clark Street.

For a map, more parking information, and directions to the Block
Museum visit http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/visit/
Driving directions from the south: Going north on Sheridan Road from
south Evanston, you will see Sheridan curve sharply to the left
(westbound) as it reaches the south end of the Northwestern University
campus, one block north of Clark Street. Look for a large Northwestern
University sign along the westbound stretch of Sheridan Road directing
you to the South Campus Entrance. Make a slight right turn on to
Campus Drive just before Sheridan curves to the west and before
passing the sign. After passing a 2-story parking lot on your right
(you may park there after obtaining a parking permit at the Museum),
you will come to a stop sign and see another sign directing you to
take a right to reach the Arts Circle. Turn right, proceeding east on
Arts Circle Drive. The road will veer north up a slight hill before
ending in the Arts Circle. The Museum is the glass and limestone
building located on the Arts Circle.

From the CTA: Take the CTA Purple Line to the Davis Street Station.
Exit through the east side of the station. Turn left on Benson Avenue
and proceed north ½ block to Church Street. Turn right on Church
Street and walk three blocks east to Chicago Avenue. Make a left,
turning north onto Chicago Avenue. Walk two blocks north to Sheridan
Road. Cross over toward the Northwestern Arch, turn right and walk two
blocks east on Sheridan Road to Campus Drive. You will pass a large
Northwestern University sign on Sheridan Road directing you to the
South Campus Entrance. Turn left on to Campus Drive and proceed north
to the stop sign. Turn right and proceed east on Arts Circle Drive.
You will pass the Marshall Dance Center and the Josephine Louis
Theater on your left, with a short flight of steps between the two.
Just past the Louis Theater, Arts Circle Drive will turn north (to
your left) up a hill. Proceed up a second short flight of steps and
then pass by the Ethel M. Barber Theater. The Museum is the glass and
limestone building located immediately past the Barber Theater.
You can also reach Northwestern and the Block Museum via Metra; visit
the Block web site for directions.

Directions and Parking Information for the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago
SAIC’s Performance Space is located at 280 S. Columbus Drive, between
Jackson and Monroe. To enter the building, you will need to show
Security an ID and have your photo taken. The Performance Space is in
the basement, Room 012.

Public Transportation: All CTA “El” lines will take you to downtown
Chicago; from the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Jackson
Boulevard, walk east towards the lake on Jackson to Columbus Drive and
turn left; the entrance to 280 S. Columbus Drive will be right there.

Driving: There is some street parking on Columbus Drive between 9 and
4 pm, for which you have to feed the new “paybox.” But it is hard to
find spaces, you will be towed promptly after 4 pm, and it is more
expensive than the garage if you are staying the whole day. The
entrance to the closest garage is on Columbus Drive just north of
Monroe, on the east side. If you bear to the right, it costs $14 for a
day; if you bear to the left, it costs more.
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Things to do before the 29th.

• Update my ESTA travel form.
• Get travel insurance
• Ask Orange for special network offers
• Try and sort out my emergency tax
• Buy bath stuff
• Buy a kick-ass bag for my laptop.
• Get some $$$$$$
• See FAME & The Soloist
• Print off ALL DOCUMENTS such as Tickets, photocopy passport, reservations, maps etc
• Make sure i actually have my passport
• Update my i-pod with kick ass songs
• Think about what clothes to take
• Make back-up work on Mac
• Organise work on the Mac
• Blag digital camera off bro
• Sort out SLR
• Buy film for manual film SLR

The Basics!

My practice could be described as a gathering of “evidence” and a dialogical exchange about a wealth anemic and physically damaged world of questions that surround poverty, public space and urban planning within the city.

My art practice, thus interests, is primarily concerned with the fundamental question of how one can create social space in the city and presents a critique of the social values of architecture as spectacle. I create work through a process that resonates my experiences as a city resident, a flanuer, a victim of homelessness and a street artist. The outcome of many artworks metamorphoses into other spaces to accommodate a new position with the social self, and its relevance to the topic on the liveability of cities, whilst many pieces also point to the questions of the power of the resident versus the gentrificator.

AREA Chicago represents an extension of my practice. AREA Chicago creates publications and events that serve the double mission of researching art, education, and activist practices within the city of Chicago and producing and strengthening networks among grassroots practitioners.  My research has always been involved in these areas and so to be involved in this organization on any level would definitely help me develop the networks or/and my skills to continue my research further.

I would like to begin to explore the notion of an art practice that is self reflective on curation. Curation inter-reflects the thinking of the actual art. My audience, meaning, placement and so forth are all considered like that of an publisher or curator.

Chic - a - go Smizz

Hello world,

My name is Sarah Smizz. I’m a college student taking a few weeks out of the academic year to pursue some life experience adventures. In 14 days I will be about to embark on an exciting adventure to the Mid-West of the U.S.A. Ill-o-nois here I come!

I’m a student, artist, educator, wanna be writer of some-sort, adventurer, fast-food-filosopher, the type of girl that you’d love to take home to meet your mom; yet exactly the same kid that your parents would have told you stay away from at school. I am a contradiction brought up on Jack Kerouac, Hemingway and Sartre. A media saturated protege of the post-modern era, I am ultimately looking more to my life.

As an old-skool retired graffiti artist who still carries the street in my work. I can appreciate the autonomy to collectivity and political essences in artists’ work, regardless of the stigma attached to these ideas.

And with that, please follow me as I explore my existential art crisis research project.