6018North is an Affiliate Partner for the Chicago Architecture Biennial

Chapel and Its Elemental
October 3, 2015 - January 3, 2016

6018 N. Kenmore
Open Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 5 PM

Rodrigo Lara-Zendejas, Chapel
Chicago-based Mexican artist Rodrigo Lara Zendejas’s project is based on his grandparents’ small personal chapel in their home in Mexico. This portable chapel - also presented at Expo Chicago - fits within 6018North’s first floor living room and drawing room. As a nod to the replacement of personal chapels with personal museums, Chapel is filled with statues of artists and architects, rather than the Catholic saints in the chapel that inspired Lara-Zendejas.

Its Elemental
This exhibition – throughout 6018North's house – draws from Rem Koolhaas’s The Elements of Architecture exhibition for the 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale. The architect presented what he considers the fundamentals of buildings: the floor, wall, ceiling, facade, balcony, corridor, door, toilet, stair, et cetera 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 presents how artists approach the architectural elements of floor, wall, ceiling, door, toilet, et cetera. Participating artists: Teresa Albor, Deborah Boardman, Coppice, First Office, Lise Haller Baggersen with Jason Pallas, Vlatka Horvat, Jane Jerardi, Jennifer Karmin, Nance Klehm, Jason Lazarus, Luftwerk, Dana Major, Sarah Mallin, Kathleen McCarthy, Alyssa Moxley, CV Peterson, Jesus and Ruth, Bryan Saner with Francis Garcia, Emilia Vidal-Hallet, Moises Salazar and Devonte Washington, Jessie Schlesinger, Amanda Williams, Yann Vanderme, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, and others.

Sarah FitzSimons, House
Ohio Street Beach
October 1-25, 2015
Framed with aluminum poles and joints, House is an extremely minimal outline of a life-sized two-story house. Connecting Chicago's architecture and Lake Michigan, the house will sit half in the water and half on the land (the beach) of Ohio Street 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 the architecture and how we metaphorically view, think, and dream about homes.

ATOM-R within House
Thursday, October 1 from 12:00-1:00pm
Ohio Street Beach
ATOM-R performs within Sarah FitzSimons’s House which is physically open to the elements, minimally defining its exterior and interior. The performative collective responds to the house by exploring how bodies are simutaneously liberated and contained within space.

Every House Has A Door, Caesar's Bridge: A Reenactment
Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening: Saturday, October 3, 1:00pm
Performances take place Sundays at 2:00pm, with the space open from 1:00-3:00pm, October 4-25, 2015
Every House Has A Door (Lin Hixson, Director, and Matthew Goulish, Dramaturg) create performances based on historically or critically neglected subjects, in which the subject remains absent from the works. Caesar's Bridge references Julius Caesar's act of building a temporary bridge to cross the Rhine River. The architectural platform/installation designed by Ilie Paun Caprie serves as a unique stage, placing the audience below the orator.

PRESS

The Spaces "Chicago Architecture Biennial: 10 events not to miss" - features Sara FitzSimons' House, October 1, 2015