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This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some
of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago
contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for
cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the
arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds,
apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into
contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while
complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s
70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its
beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the
legacy.
This week: Duncan and guest host Randall Szott talk to the fine folks from InCubate. After that interesting interview we flush the whole effing thing down the toilet by reviewing Harry Potter the Exhibition, where porno and Matthew Barney are discussed.
About InCUBATE (from their website):
In ways that have only become possible in the past few years, artist
collectives and experimental institutions have begun to actively re-imagine
alternate art worlds and alternative forms of curatorial practice in
an attempt to disengage from the more traditional strategies governing today’s
art market.
InCUBATE is a research institute dedicated to challenging current
infrastructures, specifically how they affect artistic production. As art
historians and arts administrators, our goal is to explore the possibility of
developing financial models that could be relevant to contemporary art
institutions, as well as collective or individual artist projects working
outside an institution. Particularly, we are exploring financial models which
are less constrained by external controls and market concerns and which are
more effective, more realistic, and more relevant to both art and the everyday.
Our goal is to continue to conceptualize new possible situations, document
these innovations, and make this information available to everyone.
InCUBATE does not have non-profit status, instead we see our role as
exploring new possibilities outside of the traditional models of 501c3 tax
exempt status. We are interested in creating a network of opportunities and
creative discussions, as well as sharing resources for creative urban and
community planning and self-sustaining situations for art production. These
activities include investigating current practices in public/private
sponsorships for arts organizations, debating the pros and cons of
incorporating as a non-profit, alternative means for financing
‘under-the-radar’ arts projects, and hosting exhibitions and symposiums to
spark public discussion.
Centered in a storefront space adjacent to Chicago’s historic Congress
Theater, we consider our location to be an integral part of our activities and
mission. We are interviewing local artists, curators, organizers, and
collectives whose thinking extends beyond traditional modes of production and
distribution. These discussions will be made public in order to start an open
source of information-sharing about processes and strategies. While exploring
our own process of becoming a research institute, we will also become a
resource for others, which will manifest in various on-going projects.
One of these projects aims to assist the production of future projects.
Through using the open source software MediaWiki, InCUBATE plans to create a
wiki that will function to collect information for projects, collect historical
and contemporary data about discursive art making, as well as information
directed by the wiki users.
This week: Duncan talks to Paul Morris the Art Czar of a number of art fairs who really goes by the title of Vice President of Art Shows & Events for Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. to discuss Artropolis, his history as an innovator and gallery owner, and where the art world is headed.
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT:
A night you won't
forget...if you live to remember!!!
Friday, May 29th,
You Oughta be in Fangs, written & directed by Death by Design
Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and
free-flowing booze, head to a secret speakeasy run by the conjoined Whisper
Sisters. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, the Sisters
entice their guests with vampish performers, seductive strains and intoxicating
elixirs. But watch your step – lest you should shimmy straight into the arms of
their Vampire suitors, who slip incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to
their brood.
Join us for our first artist-directed fundraiser, You Oughta Be in Fangs
by Death by Design. Featuring
hot-jazz by D.J. Coffin Banger, a medicine show by Sanjula Vamana, vampire
bites by The Bleeding Heart Bakery, open casket portraits, a secret potion
hunt, prohibition era coffin varnish (ie. booze) and much much more.
A one-of-a-kind event, You Oughta Be in Fangs is a prohibition era meets
the undead, housed in Chicago’s spectacular The
International Museum of Surgical Science. Unlike any event threewalls has ever held, You
Oughta Be in Fangs is our first spring fundraiser, a new annual artist
designed and directed ‘experience’ where guests become ‘part of the art’.
Death by Design, Co., is a special effects and video-based company established
by artists Michelle Maynard and Teena McClelland in May 2005. The Death by
Design team constructs film sets and immersive environments at select locations
where clients are invited to enter the set and engage in an in-depth
conversation with life through their own "Hollywood" death.
Visitors can either watch the action unfold or be part of the story-line,
infiltrating the artwork as live (and dead) bodies. You Oughta Be In Fangs is
their first ‘party’ environment/installation, where party-goers, immersed in
the set, become characters in a speak-easy riddled with the undead.
Take a bite of the visual arts and help support threewalls support artists.
Costumes encouraged!
7:30-8:30: VIP Preview with appetizers, live entertainment,
and open bar.
8:30-11:30: General Admission with dessert, and open bar.
This week: Duncan and Richard get a sneak preview of the Contemporary Galleries in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lisa Dorin the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art is our guide. Duncan draws some wacky parallel between Kerry James Marshall's paintings and the Matrix. Richard refers to the juxtaposition of Nauman's Clown Torture and Robert Ryman's Charter Series as "If the CSO had a G.G. Allin/ J.S. Bach double bill".
Lisa answers the question: was it a complete pain in the ass to install Richard Serra's ten thousand pound work Weights and Measures?
Ms.
Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A.
from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She lives and works in New
York City. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions
in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and is
included in numerous public and private collections. Among recent
awards and grants she has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation
grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts grant. She was
appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994 and is currently professor of
painting/printmaking.
This week: Duncan and guest host Randall Szott talk to the fine folks from InCubate. After that interesting interview we flush the whole effing thing down the toilet by reviewing Harry Potter the Exhibition, where porno and Matthew Barney are discussed.
About InCUBATE (from their website):
In ways that have only become possible in the past few years, artist
collectives and experimental institutions have begun to actively re-imagine
alternate art worlds and alternative forms of curatorial practice in
an attempt to disengage from the more traditional strategies governing today’s
art market.
InCUBATE is a research institute dedicated to challenging current
infrastructures, specifically how they affect artistic production. As art
historians and arts administrators, our goal is to explore the possibility of
developing financial models that could be relevant to contemporary art
institutions, as well as collective or individual artist projects working
outside an institution. Particularly, we are exploring financial models which
are less constrained by external controls and market concerns and which are
more effective, more realistic, and more relevant to both art and the everyday.
Our goal is to continue to conceptualize new possible situations, document
these innovations, and make this information available to everyone.
InCUBATE does not have non-profit status, instead we see our role as
exploring new possibilities outside of the traditional models of 501c3 tax
exempt status. We are interested in creating a network of opportunities and
creative discussions, as well as sharing resources for creative urban and
community planning and self-sustaining situations for art production. These
activities include investigating current practices in public/private
sponsorships for arts organizations, debating the pros and cons of
incorporating as a non-profit, alternative means for financing
‘under-the-radar’ arts projects, and hosting exhibitions and symposiums to
spark public discussion.
Centered in a storefront space adjacent to Chicago’s historic Congress
Theater, we consider our location to be an integral part of our activities and
mission. We are interviewing local artists, curators, organizers, and
collectives whose thinking extends beyond traditional modes of production and
distribution. These discussions will be made public in order to start an open
source of information-sharing about processes and strategies. While exploring
our own process of becoming a research institute, we will also become a
resource for others, which will manifest in various on-going projects.
One of these projects aims to assist the production of future projects.
Through using the open source software MediaWiki, InCUBATE plans to create a
wiki that will function to collect information for projects, collect historical
and contemporary data about discursive art making, as well as information
directed by the wiki users.
This week: Duncan talks to Paul Morris the Art Czar of a number of art fairs who really goes by the title of Vice President of Art Shows & Events for Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. to discuss Artropolis, his history as an innovator and gallery owner, and where the art world is headed.
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT:
A night you won't
forget...if you live to remember!!!
Friday, May 29th,
You Oughta be in Fangs, written & directed by Death by Design
Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and
free-flowing booze, head to a secret speakeasy run by the conjoined Whisper
Sisters. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, the Sisters
entice their guests with vampish performers, seductive strains and intoxicating
elixirs. But watch your step – lest you should shimmy straight into the arms of
their Vampire suitors, who slip incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to
their brood.
Join us for our first artist-directed fundraiser, You Oughta Be in Fangs
by Death by Design. Featuring
hot-jazz by D.J. Coffin Banger, a medicine show by Sanjula Vamana, vampire
bites by The Bleeding Heart Bakery, open casket portraits, a secret potion
hunt, prohibition era coffin varnish (ie. booze) and much much more.
A one-of-a-kind event, You Oughta Be in Fangs is a prohibition era meets
the undead, housed in Chicago’s spectacular The
International Museum of Surgical Science. Unlike any event threewalls has ever held, You
Oughta Be in Fangs is our first spring fundraiser, a new annual artist
designed and directed ‘experience’ where guests become ‘part of the art’.
Death by Design, Co., is a special effects and video-based company established
by artists Michelle Maynard and Teena McClelland in May 2005. The Death by
Design team constructs film sets and immersive environments at select locations
where clients are invited to enter the set and engage in an in-depth
conversation with life through their own "Hollywood" death.
Visitors can either watch the action unfold or be part of the story-line,
infiltrating the artwork as live (and dead) bodies. You Oughta Be In Fangs is
their first ‘party’ environment/installation, where party-goers, immersed in
the set, become characters in a speak-easy riddled with the undead.
Take a bite of the visual arts and help support threewalls support artists.
Costumes encouraged!
7:30-8:30: VIP Preview with appetizers, live entertainment,
and open bar.
8:30-11:30: General Admission with dessert, and open bar.
This week: Duncan and Richard get a sneak preview of the Contemporary Galleries in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lisa Dorin the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art is our guide. Duncan draws some wacky parallel between Kerry James Marshall's paintings and the Matrix. Richard refers to the juxtaposition of Nauman's Clown Torture and Robert Ryman's Charter Series as "If the CSO had a G.G. Allin/ J.S. Bach double bill".
Lisa answers the question: was it a complete pain in the ass to install Richard Serra's ten thousand pound work Weights and Measures?
Ms.
Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A.
from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She lives and works in New
York City. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions
in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and is
included in numerous public and private collections. Among recent
awards and grants she has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation
grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts grant. She was
appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994 and is currently professor of
painting/printmaking.
This week: Duncan talks to Paul Morris the Art Czar of a number of art fairs who really goes by the title of Vice President of Art Shows & Events for Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. to discuss Artropolis, his history as an innovator and gallery owner, and where the art world is headed. 
This week: Duncan and Richard get a sneak preview of the Contemporary Galleries in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lisa Dorin the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art is our guide. Duncan draws some wacky parallel between Kerry James Marshall's paintings and the Matrix. Richard refers to the juxtaposition of Nauman's Clown Torture and Robert Ryman's Charter Series as "If the CSO had a G.G. Allin/ J.S. Bach double bill". 
