Theaster Gates
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The Listening Room: at Seattle Art Museum, the artists’ medium is wax.
Record Store — an installation presented by Seattle Art Museum in collaboration with [storefront] Olson Kundig Architects (MacDowell architect Tom Kundig’s firm) — on December 13th in Seattle attempted to remove the barrier between artist and audience, Record Store encourages the community to participate in the curation of this Olson Kundig Architects-designed traveling installation. Record…
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Dance Dorchester!
dance locally to vintage sounds culled from Dorchester Projects’ Dr. Wax Collection heavily leaning on music that ‘jus grew’ out of our community: this friday, june 24th, 7pm til 10pm. bring your favorite summertime dish to share with friends 100% wax spun by dj ayana
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Dorchester Projects June 2011
Visit us at Theaster Gates’ Dorchester Projects (recently featured in the Chicago Reader) this Friday Night (June 3rd from 7p-9p), as well as on Sunday, June 12th, from 3p-5p. Come with a story about how music has impacted your life…. About the Dorchester Projects: Dorchester Projects seeks to explore the ways in which thoughtful spaces…
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Theaster Gates’ Dorchester Projects
What do you get when you mix a maverick artist with strong community ties and an Urban Planner? For one thing, Theaster Gates. For another, the Dorchester Projects, pictured above. Theaster has been purchasing properties in the Woodlawn/Grand Crossing neighborhood for a few years now, and has quietly acquired the stock of the former Dr. Wax record…
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Arts and Activism: Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis
art, above: from “Public Address”, an art installment/retail concept curated by Ellen Rothberg. Chicago, 2008. Thursday, October 1st at Bronzeville’s Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, there will be a panel discussion focusing on the Arts scenes in these three cities (and the intersection of art and community activism). Panelists and other participants will be…
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Representations: A Letter, An Essay, and Five Questions
from the Experimental Station: On Friday, April 10 at 6 pm, at the Experimental Station, Lee Ann Norman and Theaster Gates (below) will be presenting the next happening in their year-long series entitled “Representations: A series on Culture, Politics and Aesthetics.” Please join Lee Ann and Theaster at the Experimental Station for “A Letter, an Essay, and…
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JB Monorail by Theaster Gates
a bit about the residual effects of 1968 in Chicago (specifically on the West Side). Published in 68/08 on Dec. 6, 2008 in AREA/Chicago by Theaster Gates There are moments when I think that my life on the Westside of Chicago had no real relationship to the history of political struggle. I had not yet been…
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Blue Sky Black Monk
A convergence of African-American and Japanese cultures and sounds is happening tonight on the South Side of Chicago…. from the Experimental Station’s website: Please join the Experimental Station, Columbia College, and Theaster Gates in presenting “Blue Sky Black Monk,” Japan’s Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club and Chicago’s Black Monks of Mississippi. During the last three months,…