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Curb Appeal
August 23- September 30
August 23- September 30
Curb Appeal is the aesthetic look or visual appeal of a location – lawn, porch, windows, door, roof – from the curb. For the 2015 Terrain Biennale – an exhibition occurring in multiple outdoor locations – Curb Appeal re-envisions the way people use their homes – lawn, porch, windows, door, roof – as potential intersections of community play, food production and artistic creation through artistic transformation. Jim Duignan's seesaw, A Plea for Playgrounds, and podium, Public Podium for 6018North, reimagines how front lawns and porches can be interactive playgrounds and community spaces. Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) have installed Degrees of Lightness in the front window and Sarah Mallin has transformed the roof into a garden. Moises Salazar's mural on the garage door uses the color design of IIT architectural students (Dea Ivanovic, Meriem Sakrouhi and Luis Yanez) who conjoined the red carpet and sidewalk colors to connect the front of the house with the back. Since the home often symbolizes the American dream, if we can rethink how private homes are used communally, perhaps we can reimagine how public spaces and resources are better utilized for the benefit of all.
EXPO Chicago
We are creating two spaces within EXPO. On the 1st floor Shotgun offers a site of perpetual motion, while on the 3rd floor Chapel offers a contemplative space for rest and repose.
Shotgun
Los Angeles-based architects First Office’s (Andrew Atwood and Anna Neimark) Shotgun is a deceptive space of two connected doors. Mimicking the movement of Expo attendees, the two doors open and close to create four galleries of perpetual motion. Originally designed in 1927 by Marcel Duchamp, First Office has redesigned the structural and ornamental details to fit the standard elements of Shotgun House construction, with the decoration and molding also serving as structural elements. First Office is the recipient of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.
Chapel and Antechamber
Chapel is based on Chicago-based Mexican artist Rodrigo Lara Zendejas’s grandparents’ small personal chapel in their home in Mexico. Chapels—the earliest spaces of Christian worship—were often just a room within an individual’s home. While personal chapels are now relatively rare, the number and size of private art collections and personal art museums has increased, becoming contemporary temples of secularism. As a nod to these art temples, Lara Zendejas’s chapel is filled with statues of artists, rather than his grandparents’ statues of saints. Next to Chapel, Chicago artist Kathleen McCarthy is creating an experience of an antechamber. In addition, a series of performances occur in the Chapel and Antechamber including Alice Berry’s cathartic sessions and Mikey McParlane’s and Caleb Yono’s Foolish Heart of the Golden Boy which is loosely based on a story about Leo X.
Shotgun
Los Angeles-based architects First Office’s (Andrew Atwood and Anna Neimark) Shotgun is a deceptive space of two connected doors. Mimicking the movement of Expo attendees, the two doors open and close to create four galleries of perpetual motion. Originally designed in 1927 by Marcel Duchamp, First Office has redesigned the structural and ornamental details to fit the standard elements of Shotgun House construction, with the decoration and molding also serving as structural elements. First Office is the recipient of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.
Chapel and Antechamber
Chapel is based on Chicago-based Mexican artist Rodrigo Lara Zendejas’s grandparents’ small personal chapel in their home in Mexico. Chapels—the earliest spaces of Christian worship—were often just a room within an individual’s home. While personal chapels are now relatively rare, the number and size of private art collections and personal art museums has increased, becoming contemporary temples of secularism. As a nod to these art temples, Lara Zendejas’s chapel is filled with statues of artists, rather than his grandparents’ statues of saints. Next to Chapel, Chicago artist Kathleen McCarthy is creating an experience of an antechamber. In addition, a series of performances occur in the Chapel and Antechamber including Alice Berry’s cathartic sessions and Mikey McParlane’s and Caleb Yono’s Foolish Heart of the Golden Boy which is loosely based on a story about Leo X.
We Care a Lot - Stewardship of Land in the Neighborhood
September 20-25
Marjetica Portc and her students from the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, as part of the HBK will lead a week of lunchtime discussions about food, water, and soil. Participants include: Brian Holmes; Claire Pentecost, Nance, Khelm, Ken Dun, Jenny Kendler, Frances Whitehead, Fahim Majeed, NRDC, and more. The Art Institute’s Jean-Luc Mylane public pavilion in the Lurie Gardens of Millennium Park serves as a lunchtime place for reflection and exchange of ideas around climate change. The intent is to encourage reflection on our connection to resources and what we can do to better sustain them.
Architectural Projects for Chicago's Architectural Biennale
Sarah FitzSimons's House
October 1 - 21
Sarah Fitzsimons’s House is an extremely minimal outline of a life-sized 2-story house. Framed with aluminum poles and joints, the house connects Chicago’s architecture and Lake Michigan. The house will sit half in the water and half on the land (the beach) of Oho St. Beach. Blending the inside and outside of architecture, its minimal lines define the space of a house yet it physically and psychologically opens and exposes architecture and how we metaphorically view, think, and dream about homes. (Center image from Djerassi in California. Left and right images are mockups)
Rodrigo Lara Zendejas' Chapel
Oct. 3 - Jan. 3
The chapel is based on his grandparents’ small personal chapel in their home in Mexico. It is meant to be a portable chapel and will be first presented at Art Expo Chicago in September and then move to 6018North for the Architectural Biennale. Chapels—often rooms within individual’s home—were the earliest spaces of Christian worship. Lara Zendejas’s project is scaled to fit within 6018North’s 1rst floor’s living room and drawing room. Statues and kneeling benches line the drawing room. As a nod to the replacement of personal chapels with personal museums, Lara Zendejas’s chapel is filled with statues of artists and architects, rather than the Catholic saints in his grandparents’ chapel.
It's Elemental
October 3 - Jan 3
Rem Koolhaas’s 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale The Elements of Architecture exhibition presented what he considers the fundamentals of buildings: the floor, wall, ceiling, facade, balcony, corridor, door, toilet, stair, etc. to analyze the components of architecture. However, he claimed to exclude design and art from the analysis. This exhibition looks at the same elements but through artists’ eyes and asks how do artists approach the architectural elements of floor, wall, ceiling, door, toilet, etc.?
Artists include: Teresa Albor, Deborah Boardman, Dzine, First Office, Nance Klehm, Vlatka Horvat, Moises Salazar, Bryan Saner, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, etc.
Artists include: Teresa Albor, Deborah Boardman, Dzine, First Office, Nance Klehm, Vlatka Horvat, Moises Salazar, Bryan Saner, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, etc.
Every House Has A Door's Caesar's Bridge: A Reenactment
October 3 - 25
During the month of October, Every House Has A Door presents Julius Caesar at Comfort Station, a small communally engaged space in Logan Square. Caesar's Bridge is a performance based on the ideas behind Julius Caesar building a bridge over the Rhineland. Every House Has A Door is Lin Hixson, Director, and Matthew Goulish, Dramaturg who create performances based on historically or critically neglected subjects, in which the subject(s) remain absent from the works. The sculptural/architectural installation by Ilie Paun Capriel places the audience below the orator.
Performances: Saturday, October 3 from 1-3pm & Sundays 10/4; 10/11; 10/18; 10/25 from 1-3pm
Performances: Saturday, October 3 from 1-3pm & Sundays 10/4; 10/11; 10/18; 10/25 from 1-3pm
In Wood We Trust
Chapusiat Brothers
April- July 2016
The Chapuisat Brothers's In Wood We Trust is a large wooden structure and exhibition venue that transforms our perception of the space it occupies and the people within it. Both an architectural intervention and a residence for its community of builders and visitors, it is a deceptively playful yet dramatic utopian experiment in building community through architecture and art. While the main floor of the structure serves as a pavilion for exhibitions, performances, and gatherings, below and above visitors are invited to physically thread through winding passages, trap doors, and slides, as well as get lost within its intricate maze. Located between architecture, sculpture, and playground, the Chapuisat Brothers's work challenges our perceptions of space, movement, and gravity, while questioning distinctions between architecture, art, work, play, and communal exchange. In the process, it posits that the corporeal and convivial pleasure of experiencing art should not be separated from its visual and intellectual components.
On View at 6018North
The interior space of 6018North is a project in flux for artists to recreate anew
While 6018North is often itinerant - creating thought-provoking and compelling artwork in nontraditional spaces in Chicago and beyond - its mansion is a project in continual artistic flux. Flood damage in 2011 exposed its original structure and bones, creating unexpected and provocative pairings of historic masonry with more than a century’s worth of renovations atop. In response, 6018North’s artists often create work in relation to this existing structure and its history. Artists have made changes, such as adding walls and disco balls, or removing layers of paint and debris. The house is filled with site specific, risk-taking, cross-disciplinary experimentation, and collaboration.
Vlatka Horvat Door to Door *
This site-specific work "reinstalls" the many doors of 6018North to create a physical questioning of borders and their ability to organize space, ideas, and people. The door is a powerful part of theatre of regulating access – a servant to solitude and privacy, an invitation, chance or permission for entrance, a barrier to strangers or intruders. On the other hand, a door that’s been unhinged from its frame enacts a certain abandon of the normative space and normative behavior in such a space. In the process of pushing a dilapidated mansion to be even more physically dysfunctional and yet more open, Vlatka Horvat creates a metaphor for the possibilities and/or limits of artists' intentions to affect the social relations of those who participate within public and private space. Door to Door continues the artistic interventions created for 6018North’s Home:Public or Private? exhibition to question how to make public what is often considered private.
Door to Door, 2011/2013 was created in cooperation with www.in-time-performance.org/
* Door to Door received Time Out's Critic's Pick.
Door to Door, 2011/2013 was created in cooperation with www.in-time-performance.org/
* Door to Door received Time Out's Critic's Pick.
Jane Georges At This Very Moment
This installation of a thousand leaves, woven into 6018North's first floor walls, was created in September 2013. Working with beeswax, the artist preserved last fall’s leaves and the house’s history, since the original 1910 wallpaper in the dining room was of leaves, following the Prairie style of connecting the inside with the outside.
Lise Haller Baggessen and Jason (J. Thomas) Pallas installation
This collaborative installation pairs Baggessen's velvet painting Silver Lining and her glammed out installation Self Portrait as Narcissus with Pallas' Selections of Civil Rights Images from the IEA (Institute for Encyclopedic Amalgamation) Collection. Encompassing the 2nd floor hallway, floor, and walls, the artists combined two vastly different, yet both historical empowerment movements - glam disco culture and Civil Rights - to juxtapose various forms of social protest. The public is invited to scratch off the silver prints to reveal Pallas’s historical images of protests.
Jesus Mejia & Ruth New Colossus
Jesus Mejia & Ruth's New Colossus, 2012 references Emma Lazarus's sonnet at the base of the Statue of Liberty- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." When hands are placed behind one's back and into the holes, the arrested hands contrast with the wind chimes' and Statue of Liberty's invitation of unbounded movement.
Alyssa Moxley Same Side of the Street
Alyssa Moxley's Same Side of the Street, 2013 is a camera obscura installation that projects the image of what is outside the front entrance of 6018North onto translucent paper.
Jennifer Karmin 4000 Words 4000 Dead
For Jennifer Karmin's 4000 Words 4000 Dead, 2008, 2012 words were culled from an online public poem and memorial to the 4,487 American soldiers killed in Iraq. The bathroom within the home is a metaphor to ritually cleanse the returning American soldiers.
Amanda Williams Color(ed) Theory: Englewood in Edgewater
Amanda Williams' architectural painting within the ballroom, Color(ed) Theory: Englewood in Edgwater, 2013 is her assemblage of colors such as Harold's Chicken Red, Ultrasheen, Currency Exchange Yellow and Pink Oil Moisturizer used by commercial establishments to sell products to African Americans.
2016 Fundraising events for the upcoming rehab of 6018North
I. Three Cats Naming Contest
1. Democratic - the name with the most votes is one cat's name
2. Autocratic - 6018North's Board chooses one cat's name
3. Capitalistic - the highest bidder names one cat
II. Gong Wash
This all night ritual cleansing with gongs cleanses you and 6018North's energy
III. Black out
We turn off the lights. Then we feed you. In the dark.
I. Three Cats Naming Contest
1. Democratic - the name with the most votes is one cat's name
2. Autocratic - 6018North's Board chooses one cat's name
3. Capitalistic - the highest bidder names one cat
II. Gong Wash
This all night ritual cleansing with gongs cleanses you and 6018North's energy
III. Black out
We turn off the lights. Then we feed you. In the dark.