Sunday, September 9 // 12-4PM

Water Music on the Beach will begin at 6018 North Kenmore within the Living Architecture exhibition, a site of immigration. At 12:30PM Balas and Wax lead us in a procession and discussion about the materiality of migration, a force which drove people from their homes in the process of creating Lake Shore Drive in the Edgewater neighborhood. From Ardmore Avenue, SPQ will lead us to Lane Beach at Thorndale Avenue and Sheridan Road for an afternoon of sound performances with Simon Anderson, Katinka Kleijn with Jasmine Mendoza, Norman Long with Gwyneth Anderson and Sara Zalek, Steve Marquette with Aurora Nealand, James Singleton, and Paul Thibodeaux, AJ McClenon, and Carlos Salazar Lermont. This year’s Water Music is a collaborative project with Roman Susan Art Foundation.

This summer, four Summer Youth Employees from different parts of Chicago will:

- LEARN WOODWORKING

- LEARN VIDEO: FILMING AND EDITING

Project mission:

4 teenagers are trained by 2 master carpenters to learn woodworking, video making and editing. Most importantly, they learn cooperation: to work with each other, mentors, and artists, along with stick-to-itiveness. The program rethinks the potential of immersive body-based education. The high degree of the students' work and their esprit de corps confirms the value of treating education as a dynamic space: emphasizing bodily skills, repetition, and technique and an appreciation of older, often forgotten systems of production and bodily movement. While the woodworking honors craftsmanship, the video production allows for a highly experimental approach. The students film their woodworking process, interviewed the artists they worked with, and compile the footage into videos.

This project is made possible as a part of the Year of Creative Youth organized by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE).

Now in its 5th year, working with neighbors and friends, we will present One Long Table on the last Sunday of the month in July. 

6018North – 6018 N. Kenmore

December 1-3 and December 8-10

Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays

Black Out Dinners is an experiential event, a three-course vegetarian dinner in the dark created by a chef and served by Chicago Lighthouse employees. These dinners continue the 6018North mission of connecting people through intimate, transformative encounters.

Black Out Dinners will be held at 7:00 pm for two consecutive weekends December 1-3 to December 8-10 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The suggested donation is $75-$125. Click here: For more information and to purchase tickets at Eventbrite.

Chefs serving three-course vegetarian meals:

December 1, 2, 3 – Eric May and the Easy Eats crew

Soup: Mulligatawny (curried lentil soup) with roasted apple raita

Salad and entree: Sesame nopal cactus salad and Oaxacan tamales with shitake mushrooms and molé negro

Dessert: Sweet potato cake with coconut cream cheese frosting

December 8, 9, 10 – Chef Giuseppe and Sonia Yoon from Midnight Kitchen Projects

Soup: Creamy soup with asian spices and preserves

Entree: Textured mushroom risotto

Dessert: Glazed cake in two flavors

We will meet in 6018North’s first floor to view the menu and order wine in the light, and then be escorted to the dark ballroom upstairs. After the meal we will have dessert together downstairs and engage in a conversation led by the Chicago Lighthouse servers about the experience.

Black Out Dinners included in Crain’s Top Ten To Do for the weekend.

Check out some of the press about last year's dinners, and RSVP for your spot now:

Black Out Dinners explore how to accomplish mundane tasks – eat with a fork or hold a glass – relying on just four senses. It also allows diners to consider how much of our reliance on the visual sense affects how we taste. – Megy Karydes, Forbes

In the age of Instagram, photographing and posting vibrant pictures of food online has become a social norm — one that lets you show off beautiful meals as works of art. But a new interactive exhibit at one of Edgewater's historic and unique mansion-turned-artist-space is aiming to force diners to hone in on the taste and smell of the meal. – Linze Rice, DNAinfo

2018 Press

Sixtyinchesfromcenter 6018North’s Black Out Dinners with The Chicago Lighthouse

Generous support for the Black Out Dinners is provided by EyeWantEyeWear, Charleston Bar and Cream Wine.

Open Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays from 1-5 PM through January 7

A Room Has Its Own Voice captures the sonic frequency or acoustics of a room. Artist Troy Briggs 'tunes' the interior rooms to the same frequency. Without visual cues, A Room Has Its Own Voice asks us to listen to rather than look at the architecture of a room.

Troy Briggs is an interdisciplinary artist. He employs technology and sound and everyday objects to create subtle interventions in public and private space. Often slow and almost always very quiet, he creates works that connect listeners and viewers to sounds and images that speak to the delicacy of human connection though the simplest of means. Briggs has exhibited in Chicago, Portland, Oregon and Berlin. He teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and sculpture, sound and new media at Cathege College.

Make Me a Rainbow

October 1, 2017 – January 2018

Preview: Saturday, September 30 // 6 PM

Make Me a Rainbow is part of the 2017 Terrain Biennale, a multi-site exhibition occurring in outdoor locations worldwide. Outdoors on the roof of 6018North, Chicago artist Joey Asal, using water and perfume, will create an olfactory rainbow that occurs during twilight, the golden hour. The scents in the atomizer mist sprinkler system reflect the diverse backgrounds of the neighborhood residents.

Inside on the top floor of 6018North, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas will create an installation based on “Los Voladores de Papantla,” an ancient Mesoamerican ritual during which participants dance on top of a 98 foot pole. Zendejas’ work will spin, creating a rainbow of colors as a parallel to Asal’s outdoor work.

The exhibition will also include previously installed outdoor projects, including the 6018North planters and roof garden by Sarah Mallin and an alleyway garage mural by Moises Salazar.

Joey Asal is a graduate student of design at the School of the Art institute of Chicago. In addition to a rich portfolio of dynamic large scale site-specific installations, Joey is a trailblazer exploring the sensory experience in all its capacities, most notably as it relates to the sense of smell.

Rodrigo Lara Zendejas was born in Mexico 1981. After he graduated from University, he has been teaching courses and workshops in Mexico and the U.S.A. Rodrigo Lara received his BFA from Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lara's work has been shown extensively in Mexico, the US, Canada, Europe and China. Currently he lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Sarah Mallin is a chef, gardener, and yogini extraordinaire. As a graduate of Moksha Yoga Center’s first teacher training program in 1989, Sarah incorporates yoga and mindfulness with edible gardening, nutrition, cooking, and healing through her biodynamic business Pyrite Sun. She also teaches classes in home cooking and gardening for the Peterson Garden Project in Chicago.

Moises Salazar is an artist working in painting, drawing, and sculpture, video installation. Currently a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, he aims to present new possibilities for exploited people, undocumented immigrants, and people of color through his work.

Abraham Avnisan, Judd Morrissey, Jennifer Scappettone

September 30, 2017 // 6-9 PM

This collaborative performance and installation by Abraham Avnisan, Judd Morrissey, and Jennifer Scappettone will tap the sprawling veins of urban architecture, mining the material and telecommunications infrastructures within a house, while channeling the histories of its inhabitants and their spectral predecessors. Combining original and archival sources, and employing a custom augmented reality system, the artist's project high resolution Lidar scans of 6018North, to create an immersive yet otherworldly experience of the space.

Abraham Avnisan is an artist, technologist and educator whose work is situated at the intersection of image, text, and code. He holds M.F.A. in Art and Technology Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A in Poetry from Brooklyn College. Abraham works as a freelance computer programmer and lecturer at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses on mobile app development and immersive virtual environments.

Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist who creates poetic systems across a range of platforms incorporating electronic writing, internet art, live performance, and augmented reality. He is the creator of digital literary works including The Precession: An 80 Foot Long Internet Art Performance Poem, The Last Performance [dot org], and The Jew's Daughter. He is a recipient of a Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, a Fulbright Scholar’s Award in Digital Culture, and a Mellon Foundation Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship. Judd is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies and Writing.

An artist, translator, and teacher, Jennifer Scappettone was born and raised in New York. The recipient of a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005, she has lived in Italy, Virginia, Japan, California, and Chicago. Her collections of poetry are the chapbooks Err-Residence (2007), Beauty (Is the New Absurdity) (2007), and Thing Ode / Ode oggettuale (2008), translated into Italian with Marco Giovenale, as well as the book-length From Dame Quickly (2009) and The Republic of Exit 43 (Atelos, 2016). Scappettone teaches at the University of Chicago.

Press

The Chicago Maroon Telephones Lines and Veins Intertwine at "Savageness"

You can’t help but wonder what the dilapidated walls of 6018North manor have seen as you weave through the wine-sipping and cheese-sampling crowd on its steps. Inside, unhinged doors and a wall traversed by a moss-like creature make you even more curious about the history of this manor-turned-contemporary-art-space that has become a performance venue for this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial.  

Scappettone, Morrissey, and Avnisan took turns articulating a prophecy dooming 6018North’s “image of immobility.” They spoke of the house as a “nexus” at the center of many worlds, with invisible sprawling veins connecting it to electricity generators, stamp mills, and mines. Their performative transmission of data paid tribute to the once-vital telegraph and telephone networks that contractors and miners far from home relied on to tell bureaucratic stories about this very house. 

Just outside the wall was another work hosted by the Biennial: the Chapuisat brothers’ In Wood We Trust, a convoluted wooden structure with entrances on the second floor and through a window on the first floor. Scappettone entered the shadowy shaft while Morrissey took the stairs, leaving a befuddled crowd with a glitchy recording of Bing Crosby’s “Pennies from Heaven.” Half of them followed. For those who remained, live feeds from the different miners’ headsets were projected onto the building’s walls, allowing the audience to simultaneously crawl upwards through a dark labyrinth and stand upright at its summit. 

Media

Savageness on Vimeo

Chicago Magazine Art & culture Ten Things to Do in Chicago This Week

.Savageness, or There Are Veins Embraced in the Property

Art:A trio of artists will use three-dimensional, remote sensing images of 6018North—the Edgewater art venue housing this one-night installation—to create an augmented reality performance that reimagines the history and architecture of the building.
FREE 9/30 from 6–9 p.m. 6018North. 6018north.org

For this year’s Expo Chicago at Navy Pier, we are excited to partner again with 3Arts to present a 3Arts awardee and a 3Arts Projects artist. VIP will be located on the second floor of Expo, take the stairs near Eataly Cafe or the elevator near Northern Trust Anchor Lounge. 

Who needs a microphone? Who needs a stage? Within VIP’s democratic lounge – in the floor above the Fair – the public is invited to create and build platforms together. Aram Han Sifuentes’s Protest Banners Talking Back offers a communal space for people to participate, speak up, and resist. Materials, as well as skills, are shared to create a large communal banner. In this space, voices are supported and everyone is invited to come together in solidarity through making. And making is a form of resistance. Onye Ozuzu’s Project Tool is a dance performance and installation in which a sprung wood dance floor is built. The audience is invited to watch and/or learn the skill of woodworking and reconnect body, task, and tool. What is learned physically, emotionally, and conceptually during the building process, shapes the ongoing performance. In this time of insecurity in the arts, Project Tool and Talking Back offers the opportunity to connect, work with each other, and stand strong in the embodied fact that we can literally build our own platforms.

Protest Banners Talking Back will be active 12 PM to 9 PM on Wednesday, 11 AM to 7 PM Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and 11 AM to 6 PM on Sunday. Below is the full listing for Project Tool performances:

Wednesday, September 13 – Opening Preview

12-4 PM: Jessica Marasa and Onye Ozuzu

6-9 PM: Jessica Marasa and Keyierra Collins and Onye Ozuzu

Thursday, September 14

11 AM - 2 PM: Keyierra Collins and Anna Martine Whitehead

3-7 PM: Onye Ozuzu and Jessica Marasa 

Friday, September 15

11 AM - 2 PM: Keyierra Collins and Jessica Marasa

2-5 PM: Anna Martine Whitehead

3-7 PM: Onye Ozuzu

Saturday, September 16

11 AM - 2 PM: Keyierra Collins and Onye Ozuzu

3 PM - 7 PM: Keyierra Collins and Onye Ozuzu and Jessica Marasa 

Sunday, September 17

11 AM - 2 PM: Onye Ozuzu

3-6 PM: Keyierra Collins and Onye Ozuzu

Press for VIP:

Bad at sports's Lise McKean writes that on the floor above the din of the main exhibition, 6018North partnered with 3Arts to create VIP: Very Important Platforms. Aram Han Sifuentes’s Protest Banners Talking Back invites visitors to participate in making a large communal banner.

Chicago Magazine's Jason Foumberg in Embrace the Expo highlights Aram Han's Protest Banners in his "most anticipated high points and [that] will give you a sense of the trends driving the market."

Chicago Tribune's Terrence Antonio James writes about Aram Han Sifuentes and her Protest Banner Lending Library.

Vice Magazine's Cedar Pasori highlighted VIP:

"In showcasing art that was typically not for sale, the fair achieved an unusual depth and relevance. Here was an art fair like many others, but which had also extended outward from its primary venue to take in digital billboards around Chicago (OVERRIDE: A Billboard Project) and the DuSable Museum (Singing Stones by the Palais de Tokyo), as well as a room upstairs from the fair's main floor (VIP: Very Important Platforms)...these exhibitions and events articulated a range of environmental and sociopolitical concerns.

In a room above the fair's main hall, local arts organizations 3Arts and 6018|North presented VIP: Very Important Platforms, a multipart installation behind a door scattered with golden confetti. Described as a "democratic lounge" and "a communal art-making space in which to come together, speak up, and resist," it echoed the critiques of hypercapitalism in OVERRIDE and Food Chain Project. The entrance of the installation's first space was decked out in confrontational fabric banners by Aram Han Sifuentes, Ishita Dharap, Tabitha Anne Kunkes, and Veronica Casado Hernandez. It also allowed viewers to contribute to the making of two further such works. A second room, featured an performance-installation, described as an invitation to "co-create tools to create a more equitable world," in which dancers constructed a sprung wooden dancefloor."

September 10, 2017 // 1-4 PM at Thorndale Beach

Water Music on the Beach is a series of live performances that highlights Chicago’s proximity to Lake Michigan. The compositions and scores reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water. This year we are partnering with Djaspora Productions to present works by Benelux (Helen Gillet, Lia Kohl, Katinka Kleijn) Marie Casimir and Meida McNeal, Move Me Soul, Damon Locks, Brian Sandstrom, and more. Painting  by Moises Salazar.

Benelux is the triple cello threat of Helen Gillet, Lia Kohl and Katinka Kleijn. Formed at the 2017 New Orleans Instigation Festival, they use their shared musical sensitivity and sense of exploration to meet, while at the same time expanding the group’s direction in each of their very unique individual expertise.

Marie Casimir is a Haitian-American writer and performer interested in the straddling of multiple cultures and languages and how they resonate in the body. Her work has appeared at Dance Union, Links Hall and At The Table.

Ben Lamar Gay is a composer who deals with many components of sound through various folk traditions past, present and future.

Damon Locks is a Chicago based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician, and deejay. He attended The Art Institute in Chicago where he received his BFA in Fine Arts. Recently, he has been lending his artistic and/or teaching talents to organizations such as Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project, Art Reach, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, and at UIC.

Meida McNeal is Artistic and Managing Director of Honey Pot Performance. Over the past two decades, she has produced numerous creative projects as both a solo artist and with Honey Pot Performance, with works performed in Illinois, Rhode Island, Ohio, California, and Trinidad. HPP's newest project, 'ways of knowing,' explores concepts of mastery, expertise, and value, through reciprocal acts of knowledge exchange. The full work will premiere in Spring 2018. Meida also works with the Chicago Park District as Arts & Culture Manager supporting community arts partnerships, youth arts, cultural stewardship, and civic engagement initiatives across the city's parks and cultural centers. 

Move Me Soul is a youth dance company that fuses technique, performance, positivity and creativity. Teens move beyond their limits on and off stage.

Brian Sandstrom Quartet with Steve Hashimoto, Steve Magnone, and TJ Sandstrom. Brian Sandstrom is an contrabass Jazz musician (as well as playing trumpet, guitar, trombone, and percussion). He has been an active player in the Chicago music scene since the early 1980s.

Moises Salazar is an artist working in painting, drawing, and sculpture, video installation. Currently a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, he aims to present new possibilities for exploited people, undocumented immigrants, and people of color through his work.

Quinn Turley is not a dj but for Water Music on the Beach he is.

For more info click here

The Chicago Tribune previews the Instigation Festival

New City Stage previews the Instigation Festival

July - September 2017

This summer, four Summer Youth Employees from different parts of Chicago will:

- LEARN WOODWORKING - build an outdoor deck-like structure and jungle gym working with artists and master carpenters

- LEARN VIDEO: FILMING AND EDITING –­ gain the skills to create a video about their experience, as well as create video interviews with artists about their work

- BLOG AND UPDATE SOCIAL MEDIA – let our followers know what we're up to.

Project mission:

4 teenagers are trained by 2 master carpenters to learn woodworking, video making and editing. Most importantly, they learn cooperation: to work with each other, mentors, and artists, along with stick-to-itiveness.  This year the youth are working with the Chapuisat Brothers to build In Wood We Trust. The program rethinks the potential of immersive body-based education. The high degree of the students' work and their esprit de corps confirms the value of treating education as a dynamic space: emphasizing bodily skills, repetition, and technique and an appreciation of older, often forgotten systems of production and bodily movement. While the woodworking honors craftsmanship, the video production allows for a highly experimental approach. The students film their woodworking process, interviewed the artists they worked with, and compile the footage into videos.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts

Neighbors: Come join us on Sunday, July 23rd from noon to 5 pm for food, music, and entertainment!

6018North's annual neighborhood gathering event, One Long Table, is returning to the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue. Neighbors join together to share their international food. 

Fun awaits for all! For kids we have a bouncy house, face painting, fingernail painting, games, the water-balloon toss show down, and more! 

April 21, 2017

This breakfast/conversation asks: How can we work together to effect change? We discuss proven strategies of community organization by two groups – Enrich Chicago and EESP (Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project) – who are challenging injustice. We look to these to develop (like Indivisible) successful and replicable strategies. Offering specific and doable suggestions, tips, and ways of working, we illustrate the power of a shared vision to bolster existing programs, organizations and to create an action plan for achievable change.

Working with Ladydrawers (Sheika Lugtu, Rivven Prink, Leila Abdelrazaq) we encourage you to develop and then share your personal or organizational action plan.

Curb Appeal
August 23-March 5, 2016 (+ elements of this project remain on view from the outside)

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, A Plea for Playgrounds, 2014 and Public Podium for 6018North, 2015
A Plea for Playgrounds – a 12 foot seesaw requiring cooperation to operate – is the result of a collaboration between artist Jim Duignan, a group of elders, and Jennifer Gray, architectural historian at Columbia University in New York. Additional influences were Jane Addams’s Hull-House and the 1905 manifesto A Plea for Playgrounds, which draws connections between poverty, health, democracy, and access to playgrounds. Working with the elders’ stories of their youth, which often revolved around playgrounds as social centers, Duignan and Gray created A Plea for Playgrounds to galvanize awareness about playgrounds as community spaces. The seesaw and the podium, Public Podium for 6018North, encourage the public to reimagine the physical and social spaces of the public sphere, front lawns and porches as interactive zones.

+ Luftwerk, Degrees of Lightness, 2015
Diptych, three layers of transparency film, color lighting
By overlapping three separate gradients of red, blue and green, Degrees of Lightness reveals grey-scale. Placed in 6018North’s windows, the color changing lighting illuminates and shifts the spectrum of each hue. Luftwerk is Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, who create art installations that merge elements of light with facets of architecture and design.

+ Moises Salazar, Gloria, 2015
Spray paint, acrylic on metal
Moises Salazar has created a mural on 6018North’s two garage doors working with Edgewater neighborhood’s youth. A recent ChiArts high school graduate, Moises is a 6018North Summer Youth Employee and is attending SAIC in the fall.

Sarah Mallin has created an edible garden on the roof of 6018North’s front porch and in its planters. The work is a public demonstration garden as an inspiration to encourage people to grow food wherever they live, even if in unlikely places.

+ Amanda Williams’ IIT class (Dea Ivanovic, Meriem Sakrouhi and Luis Yanez), Color in Text
Three architectural students from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) will transform 6018North’s red carpet on the sidewalk and its front door. Dea Ivanovic, Meriem Sakrouhi and Luis Yanez have created a compelling sequence of spatial thoughts based upon color from the sidewalk to the Joseph Albers inspired door that connects the back door to Moises Salazar’s mural on the garage. 

Open Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays from 1-5 PM through January 7

A mushroom insulation wall Mykitas Epoch – Genesis by CV Peterson asks visitors to rethink insulation, an often imperceptible or ignored aspect of architecture. Peterson elevates insulation into a relief sculpture using Ecovative’s mycelium mushroom poured into her designed and chiseled molds. The wall relief traces the history of fungus from its beginning, through to penicillin, to the future with plastic eating mushrooms. Mykitas Epoch – Genesis is supported in part by Ecovative.

CV Peterson is an interdisciplinary artist residing in the Chicago area. Their work combines scientific exploration of microbes that can consume plastics and art to examine environmental devastation through immersive interactive installations and explorations of fungus and plastic as art mediums. They received their MFA (’16) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA (’14) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA ('10) from Gustavus Adolphus College in Japanese studies and studio art with a Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. 

October 1, 2015- January 3, 2017

Chicago-based Mexican artist Rodrigo Lara Zendejas’s project is based on his grandparents’ small personal chapel in their home in Mexico. This soaring project fits within 6018North’s first floor living room and drawing room, where statues and benches line the space. 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.

PRESS

The Creators Project (Vice) "A Dilapidated Mansion Becomes an Experimental Art Gallery", October 21, 2015

Le magazine du Monde "Tours et Detours a Chicago" lists 6018North as "Expos Underground au 6018North", October 17, 2015

Ohio Street Beach
October 1- March 5, 2016

House is al life-size minimal outline of a typical two-story Midwestern house. Framed with aluminum poles and joints, House project an archetypal image of a house that can be visually and somatically experienced. Dreamlike, the structure is placed half on land (the beach) and half in the lake, to reference Chicago’s real and metaphorical connections to water.  Without roof, walls, or floor,  no barriers keep out the wind, rain, sun, and waves. Blending the inside and outside of architecture, the sparse lines of House define the space as physically and psychologically open, exposing architecture and how we metaphorically view, think, and dream about homes. House is presented in conjunction with the the Chicago Architecture Biennale and Chicago Artists’ Month. It is generously supported by the Chicago Park District.

Sarah FitzSimons combines sculpture, photography and video to create pieces that range from temporary interventions to permanently placed work. Her projects often involve oceans, deserts, rivers, or mountain ranges, and explore collisions of the physical and metaphoric. She has exhibited internationally and in cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Beach, Atlanta, Burlington, and Cleveland, and has installed numerous pieces outdoors. FitzSimons has been awarded residencies and grants from the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, I-Park, and the Ohio Arts Council.

Kjell Theory Opening Performance at House by ATOM-R
Ohio Street Beach
Thursday, October 1, 2015 from 12 to 1 PM

ATOM-R is a provisional collective exploring forensics, anatomy, and 21st century embodiment through performance, language and emerging technologies. Participants include Mark Jeffery (choreography) and Judd Morrissey (technology and dramaturgical systems) merge digital literary practices and performance, both of whom were members of Goat Island performance group. The work is performed by Justin Deschamps and Judd Morrissey. 

Kjell Theory is an in progress Augmented Reality (AR) performanace juxtaposing the historical narrative of gay computing pioneer Alan Turing’s forced chemical castration with algorithmic mutations of Guillaume Apollinaire’s 1917 play, The Tits of Tiresias. In Apollinaire’s text, for which he conied the term surrealism, a woman names Theresa transforms into the blind male prophet Tiresias, and her husband gives birth to 40,049 babies. 

PRESS

Dezeen Magazine "Sarah FitzSimons outlines a traditional American house with Chicago lakefront installation" - features House and highlights 6018North's Chapel and Its Elemental, October 8, 2015

Chicago Magazine, "Who Made That" - Jason Foumberg highlights Sarah FitzSimons House, September 2015

October 1, 2015- May 15, 2016

Hours are Saturday and Sunday from 12-5pm

This exhibition – throughout 6018North's house – draws from Rem Koolhaas’s 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 include Teresa Albor, Deborah Boardman, Coppice, First Office, Lise Haller Baggersen with Jason Pallas, Jane Georges, Vlatka Horvat, 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, and Rodrigo Lara Zendejas and others.

Click here to watch a video walkthrough of the
"It's Elemental" exhibition.

PRESS:

The Creators Project (Vice) "A Dilapidated Mansion Becomes an Experimental Art Gallery", October 21, 2015

Archpaper "Chicago Preview" - highlights Its Elemental, September 30, 2015

EXPO

Sept. 22 – 25

Navy Pier (6018North’s 2nd floor usual space above the fair)

3Arts & 6018North at Expo Chicago 2016

3Arts and 6018North present VIP: Very Important Performances

Employing graffiti, monologues, brick laying, book making, and a procession, VIP: Very Important Performances – in the floor above the fair – presents diverse expression not as spectacle, but as creative fuel for artists challenging artistic and social norms. Within VIP’s democratic lounge, Miguel Aguilar and Chris Silva turn the walls into graffiti canvases; Amanda Williams presents rehabilitated bricks; Fawzia Mirza disrupts Donald Trump’s Islamophobia; and Rashayla Marie Brown and Folayemi Wilson have a say on professional pay and artistic agency while Regin Ingloria chronicles the proceedings through artists’ books. By joining in these performances, VIP invites you to co-create a more equitable art world. 

Visit us via:  the stairs next to Expo Video or the elevator by the Northern Trust anchor lounge

VIP performance times: Something is always happening!

Ongoing performances Thursday - Sunday:

- Miguel Aguilar and Chris Silva’s graffiti painting (outside on Navy Pier and inside VIP space)

- Amanda Williams’ wall construction (in VIP space)

- Regin Ingloria’s artist’s books pedestals (roaming through the Fair and in VIP space)

Additional performances in VIP space: 

Thursday, Sept 22

7pm Rashayla Marie Brown procession through the fair leads to VIP

8pm Fawzia Mirza performance in the VIP space

Friday, Sept. 23 

1:30pm Fawzia Mirza performance in the VIP space

Saturday, Sept. 24

1:30pm Rashayla Marie Brown discusses artistic value with lawyer Patrice Williams

Sunday, Sept. 25  

1:30pm Fawzia Mirza performance

This show is a partnership with 3Arts and 6018North. All artists presented are 3Arts awardees except for Rashayla Marie Brown, a 3AP artist.

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts

This summer, four Summer Youth Employees from different parts of Chicago will:

- LEARN WOODWORKING - build windows and work on other woodworking projects

- LEARN VIDEO: FILMING AND EDITING –­ gain the skills to create a video about their experience, as well as create video interviews with artists about their work

- BLOG AND UPDATE SOCIAL MEDIA – let our followers know what we're up to

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts

Neighbors: Come join us on Sunday, July 24th from 1 pm to 5 pm for food, music, and entertainment!

6018North's annual neighborhood gathering event, One Long Table, is returning to the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue. Neighbors join together to share their international food. 

Fun awaits for all! For kids we have a bouncy house, face painting, fingernail painting, games, the water-balloon toss show down, and more! 

For both kids and adults we have:

Graffiti artist Miguel Aguilar's live painting

Sound artist Norman W.  Long's sound walk

Visual artist Dana Major's crystal readings

Magician Sean Masterson's table magic & magic show

and more!

May 29, 2016 

11am - 4pm

Fluxfest Chicago is an annual event, in its 6th season, that brings together artists from around the globe, to interact for 4 days at various venues throughout Chicago. 6018North presented the following program for Fluxfest 2016:

Final Gathering: Potluck Performance, Conversation, Collaboration, Community ...

Saturday and Sunday, May 13-14 from 12:30 - 3:30pm

Get feedback on your art portfolio from one of Chicago’s top women curators. Or listen to others receive advice in these public crit sessions. Register for 20 minute sessions with Janice Bond, Jessica Cochran, Alexandria Eregbu, Susan Friel, Alison Glenn, Wendy Miller, Annie Morse, Lauren Pacheco, Neysa Page-Lieberman, Allison Quinn, Sydney Stoudmire, Tricia Van Eck and Julie Rodrigues Widholm.

Saturdays 2:30pm

January 30 - March 5, 2016

Red Line Service: Soup for the Mind is an exhibition and programming series inspired by the recent Bryant Settlement Agreement concerning Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. This agreement, in an attempt to restrict the widespread and routine disposal of the people's belongings by city authorities, lists what can and can't be legally possessed by segments of Chicago's homeless population. The exhibition and programming at 6018North encourage viewers to consider what constitutes a home and the possessions within it.

Saturday programming at 2:30pm from January 30th to March 5th includes lunch and film screenings at 6018North:

January 30, The Trials of Muhammed Ali

Feb 6, What Happened Miss Simone?

Feb 13, Weather Underground

Feb 20, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Feb 27, Cesar Chavez

March 5, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Events are free and open to all, with a special invitation extended to Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. We invite visitors with the means to do so, to bring items that Chicagoans experiencing homelessness are allowed to possess under the Bryant Settlement Agreement. These include gloves, hats, socks, boots, coats, blankets, sleeping bags, suitcases. Please only bring new items. 

Red Line Service: Soup for the Mind is presented by Red Line Service Collaborative which seeks to reframe art’s possibility as a broad social justice endeavor. As cultural practitioners deeply concerned with the widespread poverty that defines and beleaguers Chicago, Red Line Service presents an ongoing series of social interventions into these issues within the terms of artistic practice. Focused primarily on homelessness, this work is embodied and personal, insisting on a robust and enduring engagement with the world. For more information about Red Line Services online click here. For Facebook click here. 

Click here for more information about the Settlement Agreement

"Portable personal possession" as defined by this agreement are:    a sleeping bag or bed roll, not more than 2 coats, not more than two pairs of shoes or boots, not more than five blankets, and not more than 3 bags or suitcases. From October through April, homeless people in lower Wacker Drive may have up to 5 additional blankets and 1 additional sleeping bag or bed roll with them. 

Read here about RedLine Service review at Weinberg Gallery

Saturday, February 27

6018North ballroom

3:00 - 5:00pm

Following upon Eva Meyer-Keller’s Death is Certain performance at Links Hall, the Berlin-based artist joins two Chicago artists in a lecture-performance to discuss each of their process and to present excerpts of previous and upcoming works. Eva Meyer-Keller, whose practice intersects performance and the visual arts, joins Kirsten Leenaars, whose work is a hybrid between performance, social practice, and video, and Jennifer Reeder, a filmmaker and visual artist. Light food and drinks served in this intimate setting. 

BIOS

Eva Meyer-Keller (1972) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She works at the interface of performance and visual art. She has presented her work in 30 countries on 6 continents in a wide range of contexts and sites. Before studying for four years at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam she studied Photography and visual art (HdK), Berlin and London (Central St. Martins and Kings College). Eva develops projects alone and in collaboration with other artists. She also lends herself as a devisor/performer to other choreographers and woks as a dramaturgical/mentor. Own work Her artwork is distinctive due to its meticulous attention to detail. Eva often uses everyday objects from her immediate surroundings, things that she finds at home, in the supermarket or in the tool shed. This inevitably lends the work an obsessive, domestic aesthetic Her working method always remains marked by the constructive disregard for maintaining any boundary between the visual and performing arts.

Kirsten Leenaars’ practice is a hybrid of social practice, video and performance based work. In her practice Leenaars engages with specific people and communities. Her work oscillates between fiction and documentation, reinterprets personal stories and reimagines everyday realities through staging, improvisation and play. She examines the very nature of our own constructed realities, the stories we tell our selves and the ones we identify with and explores the way we relate to others. In her work she brings to light a shared humanity, often through humor and play. Recent projects include producing a series of 3 performances Notes on Empty Chairs, about loss, community and empathy for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; creating the video #thisistomorrow with Washington DC based performers and musicians in response to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner; producing the science fiction film: The Invasion of the Hairy Blobs, currently edited at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; and Not In Another Place, But This Place… (Happiness) – a video project exploring notions of happiness, responsibility and policy focusing on the Edgewater community in Chicago. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, amongst others at: Museo Universitaro del Chopo, Mexico City, DCAC, Washington DC, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Glass Curtain Gallery, Threewalls, Gallery 400, 6018 North, and Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, Printed Matter, New York, the Wexner Center, Columbus, and at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Kunst Fabrik, Munchen. Leenaars is an Assistant Professor at the Contemporary Practices department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial. She won a Creative Capital Grant in Moving Image in 2015 and short film funding from the Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2016.

Lecture - Performance in Three Acts is a collaboration with Institut Goethe and IN>TIME 2016 Performance Festival

Credits:

Death is Certain by Eva Meyer-Keller

Image of Jennifer Reeder

Kirsten Leenaars' The Imaginary Center of Perception, 2015

Photo credit: Clare Britt

Data We Breathe Salon: Caroline Bergvall, Judd Morrissey, and Jennifer Scappettone, with special guest cris cheek

Sunday, February 27

6pm

Poetry, presence, data, drinks, all while breaking bread together. Caroline Bergvall, Judd Morrissey, and Jennifer Scappettone kick off their Gray Center experiment, The Data That We Breathe, which examines the physical and poetic dimensions of breath. Looking at the shared roots of the circulation of breath — through poetic inspiration, bodywork practices, molecular and data structures in the air, the channeling of architecture — the salon invites participants to delve into ideas of interconnection, transformation, and receptivity.

In this in-progress presentation of The Data That We Breathe, in the stripped housing of 6018North, Caroline Bergvall, Judd Morrissey, Jennifer Scappettone, and special guest cris cheek explore copper as a conductor: the material basis of historical and contemporary domestic interiors and telecommunications infrastructure. This is a topsoil performance of mining to be staged in the fall, sounding invisible data and exploitation pathways that connect the continents. Via the shared roots of breath’s circulation—through poetics, bodywork practices, particulate and data structures in the air, the channeling of architecture—the IN>TIME salon invites participants to listen for junctures of interconnection, transformation, and receptivity.

Bios

Caroline Bergvall, writer and artist based in London, works across art forms, media and languages. A strong exponent of writing methods adapted to contemporary audiovisual and multilingual and other contextual concerns. Starting-points and source materials readily emerge from both ancient cultural detail and contemporary cultural artifacts or political events. Projects alternate between textual pieces, audio works, drawings, installations, and live performances, often in collaboration. Most recent output Drift (Nightboat, 2014) awarded a Judith E. Wilson Fellowship in Poetry and Drama, University of Cambridge. The performance version of Drift for live voice, percussion (Ingar Zach) and electronic text (Thomas Köppel) toured the UK in 2014 and was presented at Olavsfestdagene, Norway, July 2015. Other publications: Meddle English (2011) and Fig (2005) as well as a DVD of earlier installations Ghost Pieces (2010). Solo exhibitions: John Hansard Gallery (Southampton 2010), Vita Kuben (Umeå, 2014), Callicoon (NY, 2015). Has presented works at: Tate Modern (London), Khoj Centre (New Delhi), Fondation Vuitton (Paris), Mamco Museum (Geneva), NorrlandsOperan (Umeå, Sweden), Powerplant (Toronto), Samtidsmuseet (Oslo), Fundacio Tapies (Barcelona), MCA Denver a.o. Writer-in-Residence, Whitechapel gallery, London, 2014. Current project in development: Raga Dawn, an outdoors sunrise performance. Prologue for 2 voices (w/Anouk Molendijk) premiered in Geneva (June15) and SALT festival, Northern Norway (August15). Full piece for vocal text and electronic bass-harp being prepared and composed for touring Summer 2016.

Jennifer Scappettone’s work with languages spans scholarly and creative modes of inquiry. Poetry collections include From Dame Quickly (Litmus, 2009) and Exit 43, an archaeology of Superfund terrain and opera of pop-up pastorals forthcoming from Atelos Press. Her critical study, Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, received Honorable Mention in the Modernist Studies Association’s annual book prize competition. Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which she translated, won the Academy of American Poets’s Raiziss/De Palchi Prize; she has since founded PennSound Italiana, and is at work on translation of Venezianella the Futurist, by F.T. Marinetti. She has collaborated with musicians, dancers, and designers on site-specific projects, including most recently Marco Ariano, Walter Paradiso, and the Difforme Ensemble (on Exit 43 operettas for video and performance), Kathy Westwater and Seung Jae Lee (on the performance work PARK, with showings at Fresh Kills Landfill, Pratt Institute, New York Live Arts, and elsewhere), composer Paul Rudy and AGENCY architecture (on X Locus, documentary sound collages of the underground for the courtyard and tract of Trajan’s aqueduct at the American Academy in Rome). She is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago.

Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist who creates poetic systems across a range of platforms incorporating computational text, internet art, live performance, and augmented reality. He is the creator of digital literary works including The Precession: An 80 Foot Long Internet Art Performance Poem (2011), The Last Performance [dot org] (2009), The Jew’s Daughter (Electronic Literature Collection, 2006), and My Name is Captain, Captain (Eastgate Systems, 2002). He is a recipient of acknowledgements including a Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a Fulbright Scholar’s Award in Digital Culture. His projects have been included in a broad range of festivals, conferences and exhibitions with recent venues including Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Buenos Aires), Zero1 Garage (San Jose), Eyebeam (NYC), Le Cube (Paris), Casa das Caldeiras (Coimbra), Anatomy Theater & Museum (London), Performing House (York), Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Landmark Kunsthalle (Bergen), House of World Cultures (Berlin), Teatre & TD (Zagreb), and the Chicago Cultural Center. His work has been the subject of numerous critical studies and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, RAINTAXI, and the Iowa Review. Judd is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies and Writing. In 2012, he co-founded the performance and technology collective Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r). The group are in a long-term residency at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Chicago. Their first work, The Operature, premiered in 2014, and they are currently working on new large-scale project, Kjell Theøry, scheduled for completion in 2017. More about Judd Morrissey at judisdaid and atom-r.

and

"down with the dabs"
awake, i was consumed with desire, to make a small portrait of this place, documented right here by walks and talks instead of filtered through a machine online like a six foot tall owl, barely out of the woods pulling makeshift strings

within earshod to make this language a different language pod
re-spelled to de-note unvoiced sound

cris cheek is a documentary poet. He worked with the Consortium of London Presses in the mid 1970s to run a thriving free print shop. In 1981 he co-founded a collective resource in the east end of London at Chisenhale Dance Space, working alongside choreographers, musicians and performance artists to make creative collaborations. cris taught Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2002) and has been a professor at Miami University, Ohio since 2005. Most recent publications are the church, the school, the beer (Critical Documents, 2007) and part: short life housing (The Gig, 2009). He currently lives in Northside, Cincinnati. 

Images, from top to bottom: 

Caroline Bergvall, Judd Morrissey, Jen Scappettone, screenshot from The Data That We Breathe (February 2016). 

"North" section. Electronic text sample from Caroline Bergvall’s collaborative performance Drift (2014). Generated by Thomas Köppel.

Judd Morrissey, screenshot from The Last Performance [dot org] (2007).

Screen capture from Jennifer Scappettone’s Exit 43 as collaborative geotext installation, generated by Judd Morrissey (2013).

The unexpected violence that tears us apart, the uncontrollable splendor or solemnity of our celebrations, the cult of the death, end up disconcerting the foreigner . . .

— Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude

Sunday, November 1 at 5 PM

Participating artists: Emilio Rojas with Mev Luna, Blair Bogin,  Dana Major, and CV Peterson

Me moría is an installation/altar/performance alluding to the Mexican celebration of theDay of the Dead on November 1st. This programming responds to the current installation Chapel by  Chicago-based Mexican artist Rodrigo Lara Zendejas (based on his grandparents’ personal chapel in Mexico). The word Memoria in Spanish which means memory, if separated (me moría), translates to I was dying.

The events of Me moría integrates the Latin American ritual into a contemporary North American context. Re-visiting the signification that the celebration invokes, the artists intend to bring to surface the unspoken fear of death in western-consumption-popular culture, and the relationship between our fragility, memory, dying, remembering and honoring.

In a participatory live performance, the audience is invited to build a collective altar comprising of rituals, performative gestures, photos and offerings in honor to lost ones and in recognition of Death. At the same time Emilio Rojas' mother builds up an altar in her house in Mexico City, in honor of her brother, Alfredo, and a live feed of the transforming altar and performance is simultaneously projected, uniting both rituals and countries. 

Other performances include CV Peterson painting The Perplexity of growth or Stagnation - yellow flowers on the wall within 6018North’s "scene of the crime" room.  Blaire Bogin gives personal astrological readings, Dana Major gives personal crystal meetings, and Marcella Torres creates an altar to honor her Mormon ancestors. Food includes tamales, rice and beans.

October 3, 2015 – October 25, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3 from 1 to 3 PM
Ongoing Performances: Sundays at 2 PM, the space will be open from 1-3 PM
Closing Reception: Sunday, October 24 at 3pm

During the month of October, Every House Has A Door presents Caesar’s Bridge at Comfort Station in Logan Square. Caesar's Bridge is a performance based on the ideas behind Julius Caesar building a bridge over the Rhineland. The sculptural/architectural installation by Ilie Paun Capriel places the audience below the orator of the performance. Every House Has A Door – Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish – create performances based on historically or critically neglected subjects, in which the subject(s) remain absent from the works. Distinct modes – recitation, installation, movement, music – invite the viewer to assemble the parts in duration and to rediscover the missing subject within their own space and time.

* Every House Has A Door's Caesar's Bridge received a Chicago Tribune's Best of 2015 Visual Art review by Lori Waxman.

PRESS

The Chicago Tribune “The Best of 2015 in Chicago Visual Art,” December 2015 – picks Every House Has A Door’s Caesar’s Bridge as Best Paradox, Best View, and Best Reveal. 

Hyperallergic "A Performance in Chicago Reimagines Caesar’s Bridge" - a review in comic form by Caroline Picard, October 16, 2015

October 17-18, 2015 (the performances have occurred but Lise Haller Baggesen's installation remains on view until July 2016

Theatre de la Ville
Paris, France

Pleasure Zone takes you on a journey – through Michal Samama’s and Keijaun Thomas’s body-based performances – to spaces rarely seen in the Theatre de la Ville. Michal Samama, whose performances investigate quotidian movement over time, will lead audiences up to Sarah Bernhardt’s loge to experience Samama’s visceral relationship to the late actress’s original bathtub within the loge. Keijaun Thomas, whose performances question normative movement and behavior, will lead audiences up to artist Lise Haller Baggesen’s glam installation within a former 1970s bar, which celebrates disco as a radical inquiry into the politics of pleasure, ecstasy, and desire. 

Pleasure Zone is divided into two performances. Half of the audience follows one performer, the other half follows the other performer. The audience returns to the original starting point to follow the other performer. 

To honor the upcoming COP21 Paris climate talks at the United Nations, we are serving water with organic herbs - melisse and mint - from Marjetica Potrc's garden La Semeuse at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers.

Works in show:

Lise Haller Baggesen
Sound of Silver, Talk to Me, 2015
Mixed media installation within Theatre de la Ville bar (turned disco room)
This work references the 1970s disco era as a form of social protest against normalcy and the corresponding politics of pleasure.  The paintings, disco balls, flashing lights, and music mix the private and public world of living within a creative zone of pleasure.

Foreign Object – Curtains, 2015
Performance by Michel Samama
Costume by Elnaz Javanidizaji
Navigating the body between the theater space and the backstage, between life on stage and life behind the curtains, Michal Samama leads the audience from the theater lobby into Sarah Bernhardt's bathtub.

Part I: Selective Seeing: Corners You, 2015
Performance by Keijaun Thomas
Performing with gold fabric, a whistle, plastic cups and bags, and hair glue, Thomas guides audiences through the pleasure, desire, and jouissance of libidinal discourse and movement on the way to Lise Haller Baggesen’s disco room.

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

September 20-25
Artist Residency with Marjetica Portc and Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) students

Tues, Sept. 22 and Wed, Sept. 23 at 12 PM Noon

Lunch time talks at the Jean Luc Mylane Pavilion in the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park (Corner of Columbus and Monroe)

Marjetica Potrč and her students from the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) will lead two lunchtime discussions about food, water, and soil. 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.

Bring your lunch and join us! Water, soil, and food discussions ask: How are these resources used and protected? How thinkers/artists are reinventing their usage? How they can best be used to form/sustain communities?

During their artist residency they will visit a number of sites that work with food, soil, and community including The Plant, City Farm, Sweet Water Foundation, National Resource Defense Council, Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project, Experimental Station, Theaster Gates' Dorchester Project, Xavier Wrona's Mehode House, and Care for Real. Artist studio visits and meetings include Ken Dun, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Nance Khelm, Faheem Majeed, Claire Pentecost, Frances Whitehead,  Amanda Williams, and more.

We Care A Lot – pdf

6018North presented within the Special Exhibitions section of EXPO CHICAGO on both the 1st and 2nd floor.

Navy Pier, September 17-20, 2015

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 will occur in this space:

Alice Berry, Reconciliation
September 17, 7:00-9:00 pm
September 18 - 20, 1:00-5:00 pm
The artist will offer therapeutic counseling sessions to discuss how to reconcile a creative life within a secular world that may not value art. Ten minute sessions are available on a first come, first served basis. Visit the space to sign up.

Mikey McParlane and Caleb Yono, Foolish Heart of the Golden Boy
September 17, 8:00 pm
September 19, 3:00 pm
Loosely based on a story about Pope Leo X, who had a boy painted gold in his honor and as a result died. The performance will be staged in relation to Rodrigo Lara-Zendejas' Chapel.

Dana Major, Crystal Seeing
September 17 - 19, 5:00-9:00 pm
Dana Major employs quartz crystals to see the internal light of the participant, known as scrying, to offer a positive, constructive fortune. Twenty minute sessions throughout the weekend are available on a first come, first served basis. Visit the space to sign up.

For more information on programming and tickets for EXPO CHICAGO, visit expochicago.com.

PRESS

Art Forum - Discussion of Chapel at Expo Chicago 2015

Newcity, "Special Exhibitions Announced for Expo Chicago 2015" - highlights 6018North as part of Expo Chicago's Special Exhibitions

June 26 – August 21, 2015 at the Jean-Luc Mylayne’s Millennium Park Chapel

This sound series, curated by 6018North for the Art Institute’s Jean-Luc Mylayne pavilion, focused on breath to create a sonic landscape that complements Mylayne’s method of photographing birds. The inimitable Claire Chase, flutist from ICE, kicked off the series on Friday, June 26. Performances took places on Friday evenings in the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park throughout the summer. 

Performances:
June 26 – Claire Chase
July 3 – Alejandro Acierto
July 17 – Douglas Ewart
July 24 – Graham Stephenson
August 7 – Carol Genetti
August 14 – Katherine Young
August 21 – Nomi Epstein and Kenn Kumpf 

July 26, 2015 at 6018North

One Long Table connects neighbors through art, games, magic, spoken word, and international food.

In 2015, Summer Youth Employees completed the following tasks at 6018North:

- Built two exhibitions for Chicago’s first International Architecture Biennale, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas' Chapel and Bryan Saner's piece for Its Elemental, at 6018North

- Built an architectural project for EXPO Chicago

- Documented, filmed, and posted about their construction process on 6018North’s website and social media    

- Assisted artists Bryan Saner and Rodrigo Lara Zendejas with constructing windows and pedestals within 6018North 

- Learned how to shoot and edit film with artist Zachary Hutchinson

- Documented the process of preparing these exhibitions

- Interviewed and filmed artists Rodrigo Lara Zendejas and Jim Duignan

- Filmed and edited footage of The Air We Breathe sound performances

- Created a video documentary (stop gap film) of the artistic process of creating work for Chicago’s first International Architecture Biennale

February 21-22, 2015

Fluxfest Chicago is an annual event, in its 5th season, that brings together avant-garde artists from around the globe, to interact for 4 days at various venues throughout Chicago. 6018North presented two programs for Fluxfest 2015:

A FLUX-EVENING: An evening of Contemporary Fluxus Performance
February 21, 2015 at 6018North
As part of Fluxfest 2015, Fluxers from around the globe present an evening of performance, interactive events, mailart making, sound works, and playful mayhem. Fluxus performances blur the boundaries of art and daily experience with actions ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, quiet and contemplative to loud and interactive. Curated by Keith Buchholz and the Worldwide Contemporary Fluxus Community.

A LISTENING PARTY: Psych Records
February 22, 2105 at 6018North
The final event of Fluxfest 2015 is a listening party for Psych Records. Founded in 2011, Psych Records has released a staggering array of vinyl LP’s, audiocasettes, and cd’s documenting both contemporary Fluxus sound work, and previously unpublished works by classic Fluxus artists such as Wolf Vostell and Milan Knizak. Kommisar Hjular & Mama Baer create limited edition releases, often available with one-of-a kind collage or sculptural covers. Many of the LP’s include sound work by artists present.

December 12, 2014 - February 12, 2015 at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India

Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project connects art, food, and ecology through projects by artists, activists, and farmers from primarily India and the United States. This “knowledge hub,” within an organic garden (with free organic tea served daily) presents photographs, drawings, diagrams, artists’ books, and pamphlets that highlight how communities are redefining their critical needs and devising their own solutions for long-term sustainability. This exhibition – and its companion show at Spice Harbour – creates an inviting conversational space to connect, discuss, and discover potential solutions to ecological, social, and economic challenges faced by farmers and consumers around the world.

Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project presented two discussions in the series Cross Pollination: How to connect Art, Food & Nature

If we believe we are what we eat, what would happen if we truly valued food and its creation? This discussion connects the creative work of artists, cultural activists, small businesses, and organic farmers to address some of the extreme environmental, social, and economic challenges facing local and global communities in India and the US.

Invited artists: Ravi Agarwal, Prayas Abhinav, Deborah Boardman, siteWARE: Chicago, Forager collective, Kate Daughdrill, Jim Duignan, Ken Dunn, Fernando Garcia Dory, Alexis Elton, Marianna Fairbanks, Vanessa Filley, Amber Ginsburg & Lia Rousett, Han Seok Hyun, Manish Jain from Shikshantar, Arun Kumar HG, Jenny Kendler, Kevin Kaempf, Nance Klehm, Sarah Mallin, Eric May, Meg Mitchell, Ruchika Negi & Amit Mahanti, Emmanuel Pratt, Ted Purves, Marjetica Potrč, The Plant, Peterson Garden Project, Akshay Raj Singh Rathore, Stuart Roweth, Frances Whitehead 

Seed bank donations by: Ken Dunn’s Rebuild Exchange, Kevin Kampf’s compost bags, Katherine Alexandria’s seed bombs, organic seeds from Delhi (courtesy of Hemant Sareen) and Kerala seeds in both English and Malayalam – the local language (courtesy of Kiran Sadandan)

Organic garden of vegetable plants - tomatoes, lady’s finger, chili peppers and spinach - grown by Kochi resident Tecady Matthew Varghese.

Manish Jain demonstrated how cow dung could be used for facials and soap.

The almirah and bookshelf were filled with artists’ books, handouts, and agricultural books on sustainable farming, permaculture, composting and exhibitions related to agriculture and social practice.

December 18, 2014, Aspinwall House, Kochi, India
Speakers: Akshay Raj Singh Rathore , Arunkumar HG, Kiran Sadanandan
Moderated by: Tricia Van Eck 

February 9, 2015, Aspinwall House, Kochi, India
Speakers: Ravi Agarwal, Jason Taylor, Cheruvayal Raman, Kiran Sadanandan
Moderated by: Akshay Raj Singh Rathore 

Press:

The Hindu Times, "Kochi-Muziris Biennale" - Indian newspaper highlights Rooting (India): The Knowledge Project's artists' discussion at the Kochi Biennale.

What is transformation? Is it changing the world or changing how we view the world? This event pairs three unique transformational experiences. Timed during Chicago Artists Month, this event is for artists to nurture themselves, since many of CAM events involve artists giving to others. While artists are often called on to create group or societal transformations, this event offers unique ways of experiencing transformation together.

Gift Circle with Lara Oppenheimer and Maureen Walrath
What is a gift circle? A gift circle is a simple from of gift economy – the original economy, the family economy, the tribal economy — a shared economy. In a gift circle, you ask for what you need and you offer from your abundance. You express a need — every need is acceptable — to the group with no expectation of it being fulfilled. Then the circle goes around again and you offer a gift, something you would like to share with no expectation of it being accepted.  A wide range of things have been shared: a bag of pears, an external hard drive, an Indian dinner delivered to your door, editing skills, conversation in Arabic, French, Italian & Spanish, studio visits, research help (from a librarian), etc., etc. Afterwards, people check in with the folks whose gifts/needs/wishes spoke to them and schedule exchanges. 

Lumetype One on One with Caro D’Offay and Laura Gilmore
What is Lumetype? Lumetype is a process that transforms objects into a light source through phosphorescent paint and photographic paper. Each person is invited to use their hands to illuminate photo-paper, which is then developed using photographic chemicals. Unlike photography, the phosphorescent paint reveals the wave/particle duality of light, scattering and revealing depths. This individual Lumetype of your hand potentially reveals how light works dualistically, but how the world may also be working and revealing itself — both logically and creatively — at this moment in your hand.

Frames and Perception with Alice Berry
Frames and Perceptions is a group engagement in a therapeutic experience. If art is an agreement between an artist and an observer, group therapy is a similar pact between participants to experience together. This shared moment — an hour long client-centered therapeutic session for the group — explores the connections between perception and therapy; and art and experience. Following the Gift Circle, Frames and Perceptions offers a therapeutic space to meditate together upon the issues and concerns that often accompany the acts of giving and receiving.

September 18–21, 2014 at EXPO CHICAGO: The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, Navy Pier, Chicago

From the Incas to kings and queens, popes and bishops, celebrities, and hip hop rappers, bling has transfixed our eyes and captured our imagination. Bling Bling examines optical excess, pairing it with protest and glamour, presenting a social experience of luxury. This second floor blinged out space – replete with a faded Louis Vuitton garden, a disco pumping protest songs, a series of performances including a portrait dress-up studio, and a group exhibition – offers an experiential, social, and sensorial experience that highlights art’s connection to bling, spectacle, and democratic self-expression.

Artists include: Steve Atkins, Lise Haller Baggessen, Christine Harrison Frei, Beth Kamhi, Jason Pallas, Christopher Saclolo, and Sadie Woods. Performances by Murat Adash, Nelly Agassi, Alice Berry, Kendall Delashment, Christine Harrison Frei, and others.

Press:

Artforum, "Chicago Hope" - highlights Bling Bling at Expo Chicago, "the most exclusive chill-out rooms were in a second level of the fair. This was 'Bling Bling,' a project of the nonprofit 6018North" 

The Architect's Newspaper, "Return of the Pier Show" - discusses Bling Bling at Expo Chicago

September 7, 2014 at the beach next to the Waterfront Cafe, Berger Park

This series of live performances responds to and highlights Chicago’s proximity to water. The compositions and scores - involving multiple performers and solo performances - reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water.

Artists include:
Alejandro Acierto
Simon Anderson
Articular Facet: Ryan Dunn, Jeff Kowalkowski
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Jesse Malmed
William Jason Raynovich

August 24, 2014

City Alive With Dreams is a two year long public art project of filling the city with musical interpretations of people’s sleeping dreams.The initial phase of collecting the dreams of one person a week was part of 6018North's Home: Public or Private? exhibition. The second phase transformed the dreams into artwork and poems, which became songs – since music is such a prominent part of Chicago’s heritage – performed throughout the City. If dreams, art, and culture are the soul of a city, this performance in the verdant backyard of 6018North, aims to reawaken your dreams as a source of inspiration for you as well as the City as a whole.

City Alive With Dreams is created by artist Carron Little who is an In The Works Artist in Resident for Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. 

Artists include: The Queen of Luxuria, Richard Blakeney, Christian Cruz, Alana Parekh, Nora Sharp, and others.

July 27, 2014 at 6018North

One Long Table, 6018North’s annual block party, connects neighbors through art, games, and international food.

Dressed to the Nines images by Christine Harrison Frei, taken during One Long Table, were included in 6018North's Bling Bling at Expo Chicago 2014.

March 2014 

6018North presents five artists’ new installations and performances that involve the audience in the works’ creation and/or reception. The artists offer an intimate exchange and dissemination of ideas about the possibilities of risk in public encounters and social engagement. The various forms of risk taking not only stimulate ideas about physical and psychological risk but question how empathetic encounters in art and social practice can effect social and artistic change.

Encounters include various types of risk taking (those taken previously, in the moment, and those that involve the artist and/or the audience):

Kirsten Leenaars’ screening of her film NOT IN ANOTHER PLACE, BUT THIS PLACE… (HAPPINESS), 2013 is accompanied by a live performance by Leroy Bach, Dan Bitney, and Matthew Lux. The work was originally created in Edgewater as part of 6018North’s Happiness Project, where Leenaars asked 46 Edgewater residents what would make a more perfect society. These answers informed the film and many of the interviewees are the actors.

Murat Adash’s Body Building, 2013 is a durational work for multiple performers who observe the audience while the audience observes the performers.

Sanaz Sohrabi in As if they fall, 2013 performs under heavy stones suspended from 6018North’s walls. The audience is invited to move through the performance.

Alyssa Moxley’s Same Side of the Street, 2013 is a camera obscura installation that projects the images and sounds of people outside the front entrance of 6018North onto speakers made of translucent paper.

Michal Samama‘s Move Like A Body, 2013 is performed for two hours within a locker, which functions as a frame for her body. Moving throughout the evening within an institutional locker, while breathing through a whistle, her vulnerable body mediates between the dynamics of body, voice, power, and vulnerability.

Peter Ferry, Staying the Course, (ongoing) Each note in David Macbride’s score represents an American solider killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Joshua Kent’s The flowers in the field are free, 2013 is a subtle performance installation that is revealed at the end of the evening when the artist discusses the divisions between life and art, poverty and surplus, and invisibility and aesthetics.

Risky Encounters is created in collaboration with Columbia College’s RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice exhibition, Feb. 10-April 26, at Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery, curated by Amy Mooney and Neysa Page-Lieberman, with The Hyde Park Art Center, 6018North, and Rebuild Foundation. RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice considers the interdependent role of empathy and risk in socially engaged art as practiced by Chicago contemporary artists. The exhibition focuses on artists who work in a public arena to foster connections between individuals and to activate communities. The work is divergent in medium, content and scope, but shares an interest in initiating and negotiating relationships through personal interaction. Working with cultural partners and sites across the city, RISK highlights some of the most exciting projects emerging in this field and explores artists’ motivations and viewers’ expectations of social art practice.

Generously supported by a grant from The Joyce Foundation.

Special thanks to: 
Amy Mooney and Neysa Page-Lieberman
Penelope and Robert Steiner
Columbia College
School of the Art Institute
Illinois Arts Council Agency
The Propeller Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art

February 12 – 15, 2014, Chicago
Presentations at the College Art Association’s 102nd Annual Conference

Escape Group, The People in Dining Room 5 Wish to Have Your Attention
Arranged as a play to take place in three installments over the course of three days, The People in Dining Room 5 Wish to Have Your Attention presents time-based works relating to difference, health, and family within a dramatic structure. Escape Group is Anthony Romero and Jillian Soto.
Featured artists include: Daviel Shy, Nic Kay, Judith Leeman, Joseph Hutto, Jennifer Patino, Blake Russell, Oli Rodriguez, Precious Davis, and more.

Jillian Bruschera, Yesterday's Paper
Yesterday’s Paper is a pop-up papermaking station where you can try your hand at pulling a simple sheet of handmade paper - all made from the collected conference waste.
Yesterday’s Paper is a “Make and Take”:
- You donate paper waste from the CAA conference.
- Using an electric blender, we turn this trash in to pulp for paper making.
- You help aid the pulp-making process by shredding your trash into small postage stamp sized squares. 
- Sheets dry over night at Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper and return, serving as take-away material.
- You are invited to either “Take or Make”: Take a piece of this paper or mark-make on one of these papers (drawing, writing, etcetera) and leave it behind for the next person.
Conference attendees involved with the table become part of a workflow that results in community-created paper artworks. Yesterday’s Paper is a way to generate conversation about hand papermaking, sustainability, waste, and the community engaged art form known as social practice. Yesterday’s Paper is in conjunction with Columbia College’s exhibition Social Paper: Hand Papermaking in the Context of Socially Engaged Art. 

June 4, 2014 at 6018North

Presented by 6018North, Pivot Arts, & Edgewater Sustainability Project

This panel discussion interweaves three fields with the power to shape and transform our world.

Moderator:
Lee Bey, WBEZ architecture critic

Panelists:
Marissa Lee Benedict, sustainable artist
Howard Learner, Director of Environmental Law and Policy Center
Peter Nicholson, Founder of Foresight Design and Green Drinks
Jennifer Walling, Executive Director of Illinois Environmental Council
Frances Whitehead, Lead artist designing the 606
Monica Willemsen, Architect and Designer of Loyola’s Center for Environmental Sustainability

Michal Samama performs with a plastic bag on 6018North’s porch as people arrive.

September 27 - October 31, 2013 at FLATS Studio, Chicago

Housed within a former bank, this multi-media art exhibition. emphasizes diverse and holistic interpretations of the American Dream. Created for EdgeUP – a Chicago Artists’ Month festival of Edgewater and Uptown – the exhibition celebrates these neighborhoods as successful examples of the melting pot. The works reflect the neighborhoods’ unique diversity and emphasize utopian ideas of community. While some works point out problems, other works highlight the people maintaining America – its ideals, land, gardens, and public spaces – as well as the artists and groups who holistically and dynamically build community through art.

FLATS Studio space is generously donated by Cedar Street Co. This exhibition was highlighted by Time Out: 5 Art Shows to See.

Featured artists:
Lise Haller Baggesen, Deborah Boardman, Stephanie Brooks, Derek Chan, Andrew Balster, Pate Conaway, Helen Maureen Cooper, Lamont Hamilton, Erol Scott Harris, Kirsten Leenaars, Tony Lewis, Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Judy Natal, Phil Peters, Cheryl Pope, Jason Reblando, Macon Reed, Montgomery Perry Smith, Christine Tarkowski, and Vince Tiley

EdgeUP: A dynamic art festival that celebrates Edgewater and Uptown

October 2013

“where democracy occurs does matter
in how democracy occurs” 

EdgeUP kicks off Chicago Artists Month’s spotlighting Edgewater’s and Uptown’s unique diversity.  Through exhibitions and artistic encounters at the lakefront, in unique spaces, and on the streets, we connect neighbors and artists to dynamically build community through art. 

People Tend to Sit Where There are Places to Sit
Lawrence and Wilson Red Line L stops
Artist Annie Feldmeier Adam’s moveable outdoor chairs, based on urbanist William H. Whyte’s studies of public space, create public seating in Edgewater and Uptown and construct social space through art.

Piano Playing in Public 
FLATS Studio space
Free participatory piano playing, free piano lessons and programmed performances. Piano generously provided by Keys 4/4 Kids.

Be All You Can Be: Skill Shares 
4660 North Broadway
Chicago Studios’ visions for Uptown are displayed. Throughout October, self-empowerment talks, skill-shares, and performances are led by artists, actors and entrepreneurs including Keith Buchholz, Iker Gil, Karen Faith, Tom Burtonwood, Carlos Matallana, etc. Brandon Alvendia’s mobile printing studio documents the conversations.

Englewood in Uptown
Lawrence CTA Red Line station viaduct, 1117 West Lawrence, 2013
Artists Amanda Williams and Chelsea Culp collaborated on and completed a public, interactive mural based on colore(d), an exploration of artistic and commercial color choices in Englewood, and Joseph Albers’ color theory.

Sunday Afternoon at La Gran Manse 
6018North
These weekly public studio visits at 6018North pair professional artists with self-taught artists to provide critical conversations about art making and how to navigate the contemporary art landscape. Participating artists: Jane Georges, Claude Lawrence, Hoyun Son, Annie Feldmeir Adams, Katrina Petraukis, Claire, Phil Peters, Gregory Chapusiat, Licha De La Pena, Jenny Kendler, Indira Johnson, Kirsten Leenaars, Judith Brotman, Philomena O’Halloran, and Marissa Lee Benedict

Silent Dance Party
Dance with me…  is an interactive installation of a silent dance party by artist Meg Duguid with Artist Carl Warnick as DJ. 

Kuramoto Model Bike Gatherings
Artist David Rueter’s customized, interactive blinking LED lights with microcontrollers and radio units broadcast a radio signal creating a kind of blinking, synchronized mass when gathered together, like certain species of fireflies.

Dissecting Norton
Combining two operas at the same time, this performance, organized by musician Julia Miller, creates unexpected, improvisational moments within order.

Swing Set Drum Kit
6018North
Dave Ford’s interactive sonic sculpture encourages kids and adults to build rhythmic sounds through swinging. 

One Long Scarf
Berger Park, Margate Park, and Clarendon Park
Knit and crochet in the parks to create a 2 mile scarf connecting Edgewater to Uptown. At the end of October, the scarves are distributed to social agencies in the EdgeUp area.

September 19-22, 2013

For HOME, four artists have designed individual rooms to create an “artists’ home” – a kitchen, living room, bedroom, and studio – within EXPO. John Preus and Dilettante Studio’s kitchen, built from reclaimed cabinetry hosts performances, workshops, and talks curated by Laura Shaeffer from SHOP with John Marciniak. Sabina Ott’s chill-out living room offers EXPO attendees a captivating space to relax, while Jane Jerardi’s performative bedroom presents a dreamy moment of longing. Lise Haller Baggesen has recreated her artists’ studio – replete with disco balls, glitter, and glam – for you to sit in and contemplate life as an artist.

July 28, 2013

One Long Table stretched from Thorndale to Rosemont to join neighbors through multiethnic food and music. Various performances occured on 6018north's porch.

Press:

Proximity Magazine discusses 6018North's intersection of art, food, and community and One Long Table

February 9 – March 2: Saturdays and Sundays 2-5pm

(This show remains on view by special appointment) 

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.

Vlatka Horvat (born in Čakovec, Croatia) makes works in sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, and photography. Her projects often focus on re-arranging or reconfiguring objects, built space, and social relations at play in it. She lives and works in London, and was recently  an Open Studio resident at the Hyde Park Art Center.  

Door to Door, 2011/2013 is created in cooperation with www.in-time-performance.org/ 

Press:

Time Out gives Vlatka Horvat's Door to Door installation Critic's Pick.

Monday, July 10, 2013  

Moderated by Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, this discussion focuses on the City of Chicago's artistic and music plans for Uptown and how this impacts artists and neighbors. Speakers include Alderman of the 48th Ward, Harry Osterman; Deputy Commissioner of Arts Programming, Angel Ysaguirre; and Tricia Van Eck.

February 24, 2013
6018North

Mailart
John Cage Radio Performance
Door Painting
Fluxus Inspired Drinks

Studio Art Open Session

The Empathetic Body: Performance and the Blurring of Private Self in Contemporary Art

Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor

Chair: Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH

Encountering the Empathetic Audience in Contemporary Art

Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH

Kate Lorenz, Hyde Park Art Center

Vesna Krstich, Upper Canada College

Potluck: Bring/Do/Be What You Can

Amy M. Mooney, Columbia College Chicago

Discussant: Katrina Chamberlin, independent artist

Between Places: Chicago-Detroit

Opening: Saturday, December 8, 2012
6018 North Kenmore, Chicago, IL

Between Places is an exchange and exhibition project between students from:

CCS (College for Creative Studies, Detroit, faculty Chido Johnson) 
SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, faculty Kirsten Leenaars) 

exploring the following:

What it means to have a sense of place and belonging. 
The dream of leaving which is as powerful as its countervailing dream of roots. 
The desire of wanting to go elsewhere while at the same time experiencing or creating a sense of displacement.

The first event will be in Chicago, hosting the CCS Students at 6018 North on Saturday December 8, the second event will be in Detroit, hosting the SAIC students at the PLAV gallery, 3105 Holbrook St, Hamtramck, MI, on Sunday, December 16.

Participating students:

CCS: Austin Brady, Megan Leigh Jessup, Sean Maxwell, Tom Burns, Fatima Sow, Andrew Mehall, Maggie Kozma, Benjamin Thompson, Eric Maurer, Kristina Sheufelt, Shaina Kasztelan, Jen Wang, Leucochloridium Paradoxum, Joanna Marie Care, Jordan Stohl. Faculty: Chido Johnson
SAIC: Jonathan Fleming, Nicholas Narai Garcia, Yutao Huang, Jacob Dimuzio, Cassie Kelsey, Kalee Peters, Kelly Sullivan, Savannah Snead, Kendra Bergman, Abby Chieppa, Teak Ramos, Erin Gelke, Lauren Butler, Chrissy Laing. Faculty: Kirsten Leenaars
Both faculty members Chido Johnson and Kirsten Leenaars were included in Koffer Kunst: Suitcase Art: Chicago + Detroit

Twenty artists’ works each from the Midwest cities of Chicago and Detroit were brought together via suitcases to meet with the work of two Hamburg artists. Featuring painting, drawing, collage, video, artists' books, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition highlights these distinct urban areas as manifested through art. The individual artworks invited both parallel and contradictory readings in the encounters that happen between the works and the cities in which they are produced. Presented at Kunsthaus Speckstrasse – Hamburg’s famous artists’ community space – the exhibition was co-curated by Tricia Van Eck, from Chicago’s 6018NORTH and Kerstin Niemann from FILTER, Detroit.

Chicago Artists:

Noelle Allen (Drawings), Carol Jackson (Leather collage), Jason Lazarus (Photographic newsprint), Kirsten Leenaars (Drawing), Harold Mendez (Sculpture), Lucky Pierre (Book), Cheryl Pope (Banners), Deb Sokolow (Drawing), Deborah Stratman (Video), Jan Tichy (Video, book, and lightbox) 

Detroit Artists:

Brian Baker (Book, print), Christina Galasso (Collage), Scott Hocking (Photography and sculpture), Steve Hughes (Zine magazines), Chido Johnson (Video), Melanie Manos (Video), George Rahme (Collage), Gilda Snowden (Painting), Corine Vermeulen (Photography), Graem Whyte (Sculpture)

Special guests: Cordula Ditz (Hamburg); Karin Jobst (Hamburg)

Extra Events:

Book presentation and lecture talk by Hamburg photographer, Karin Jobst.
Date: November 25, 4pm
Location: Kunsthaus Speckstrasse, Gängeviertel, Speckstrasse 85, Hamburg
Her publication, “Karin Jobst – Detroit for John, Mary Lou and Mr. Duke,” was recently published by Kerber Verlag.

Lecture discussion by Tricia Van Eck and Kerstin Niemann: “Art and Art Production in Chicago and Detroit”
Date: November 21, 7pm
Location: Amerikazentrum Hamburg
Am Sandtorkai 48, 20457 Hamburg
Afterwards the curators will give an exhibition tour at Kunsthaus Speckstrasse.

Marissa Benedict's Art Boat

October 26, 2013 at Hollywood Beach, 5757 N. Sheridan

Artist Marissa Benedict rowed her handmade wooden boat built with wood from fallen Chicago trees. She rowed with Olympic rower/artist Lia Rousset from Edgewater to Uptown’s southern beach (Montrose). This projects connected Edgewater and Uptown.

October 5-28, 2012

What happens when our private life becomes public and public space becomes private?  Located in a dilapidated mansion - 6018North - the exhibition presents multiple artists exploring this question through installations within the rooms of the house. The investigations and activities presented explore the social, cultural, and political ramifications of our shifting conceptions of public and private space.

Artists include: Teresa Albor, Lise Haller Baggesen, Rebecca Beachy, Sandra Binion, Troy Briggs, Deborah Boardman, Sandra Binion, Cupola Bobber, Keith Buchholz, Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch, Collective Cleaners, Meg Duguid, Daniela Ehemann, Maria Gaspar, Jane Jerardi, Jennifer Karmin,  Joseph Kramer with Radius, Carron Little, Lou Mallozzi, Trevor Martin and Vicki Fowler, Jesus Mejia and Ruth, Harold Mendez, Meredith and Anna, Katrina Petrauskas, Jesse Schlesinger, and Vintage Theatre Collective

Events:
Carron Little’s Dream Minds
Public reading of dreams each Monday night at 7:30pm

Artists Talk Saturday, October 20 at 12:00 - 1:30pm: 
What does it mean for an artist to make art for the public, in public? What is "in public" and who is a "public"? Judith Butler recently questioned Hannah Arendt's "the space of public appearance" stating that we need to ask the purpose of public space, how a public forms, who appears where and when, doing what, and what are the conditions that supports this appearance?  This discussion asks what is "the space of public appearance" for an artist and is there a distinction between work made for "the space of public appearance vs. work that is made for the studio and gallery? Who is the public (or plurality) that work is being made for, and how is this public (or plurality) meant to respond? 
Caroline Picard moderates artists discussing their work from the exhibitions Home: Public and Private and The Happiness Project. Artists include:
Jennifer Karmin, Kirstin Leenaars, Lise Haller Baggeston, Harold Mendez, Meredith and Anna, Carron Little, Troy Briggs, and Rebecca Beachy.

Jennifer Karmin’s 4000 Words 4000 Dead Events:
October 27
Community discussion, potluck dinner 6pm at 6018North
Iraqi war veterans, Iraqi refugees , scholars, writers and peace activists gathering for an informal discussion. Featured participants include:  
Iraqi writer Mahmoud Saeed, Iraq Veterans Against the War member Peter Sullivan, Voices for Creative Nonviolence member Kathy Kelly & American Friends Service Committee member Mary Zerkel. 

October 28
Interactive street performance initiated 6018North's microphone/public address system.

PRESS

Home: Public or Private? received Best of 2012 accolades in The Chicago Tribune and New City.
The Chicago Tribune: Claudine Ise included Home: Public or Private? in her best visual art of 2012 picks:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-20/entertainment/ct-ae-1223-best-visual-art-20121220_1_helen-molesworth-apartment-galleries-guerrilla-girls
New City's Jason Foumberg chose Home: Public or Private? as top 5 art exhibition of 2012
http://art.newcity.com/2012/12/20/newcitys-top-5-of-everything-2012-art/

Newcity, "Special Exhibitions Announced for Expo Chicago 2015" - highlights 6018North as part of Expo Chicago's Special Exhibitions

France Culture "Lise Haller Baggesen, artiste de Chicago..." - radio discussion with Lise Haller Baggesen for Please Zone a Paris installation, October 18, 2015

Newcity, "Newcity's Top 5 of Everything 2012: Art" includes Home: Public or Private? in top 5 art exhibitions of 2012

Chicago Tribune, "Home Show Review at 6018North" - features Home: Public or Private?

Newcity, "Review: Home: Public or Private?" - recommends of Home: Public or Private?

The Chicago Reader, "Miss Julie | 6018North" - recommends of Miss Julie as part of Home: Public or Private?

Sixty Inches from Center, "Radius: A Sonic Lens" - feature on Radius and Joseph Kramer, artists in Home: Public or Private?

Columbia Chronicle - Feature about Jennifer Karmin's "4000 Words 4000 Dead" installation for the Home: Public or Private? show

The Chicago Poetry Calendar - Feature about Jennifer Karmin's "4000 Words 4000 Dead" installation for the Home: Public or Private? show

September 30, 2012 on the beach next to The Waterfront Cafe, Chicago

This series of live performances responds to and highlights Chicago’s proximity to water. The compositions and scores - involving multiple performers and solo performances - reflect, react to, or personify the sounds of water.

3:00pm: Jonathan Chen and Jamie Kempkers
- Jonathan Chen, Composition for Two Strings and Electronics, 2012

3:15pm: Simon Anderson
- George Brecht, Three Aqueous Events, Summer 1961

3:25pm: Frank Rosaly
- Water Mobile, 2012

3:40pm: Simon Anderson
-Chieko Shiomi, Water Music
-George Brecht, Drip Music: 2nd version. 1959-62
-Tomas Schmit, Zyklus

4:30pm: Jonathan Chen & Christopher Preissing
- Alvin Lucier, (Chicago) Memory Space, 1970

4:45pm: Meg Duguid
- Ovation, 2012

5:00pm: a.pe.ri.od.ic
- Performers: Billie Howard, Nora Barton, Joseph Clayton Mills, Robert Reinhart, Matthew Oliphant, Jeff Kimmel, Alex Temple, Kenn Kumpf, Brendan Finucane, Shanna Gutierrez, Nomi Epstein
-James Tenney, Swell Piece, 1967
- Dedicated to Alison Knowles

6:00pm: Chicago Phonographers
- Performers: Eddie Breitweiser, Todd Carter, Chad Clark, Dan Godston, Ed Hermann, Mike Junokas, Christopher Preissing
-Music By For In And Out of the Water, 2012

PRESS

Bad at Sports, "Top 4 Weekend Picks" - recommends Water Music on the Beach, 2012

Chicago Magazine, "Your Top 5 Plans This Week" - recommends Water Music on the Beach, 2012

August – November, 2013

For Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons, Nance Klehm dug a hole in 6018North’s front lawn. The work reveals the historical record of human disturbance and biological regeneration specific to 6018North’s front lawn. Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons is a sensual point of entry into the cosmos underfoot in the City.

The hand-dug hole measures 2 feet wide by 4 feet long by 3 feet deep. The public is invited to carefully enter the cavity and take time to sit, smell, feel, listen and look. Sitting in the cavity, participants will be at, above or below the soil horizon. This soundscape of the soil allows people to sit within and learn about the soil, its composition, texture, smell, and history.

The exhibition is a collaboration with Archeworks.

For more information and footage of Nance digging this hole, click here.

Links:
New City’s review of Earth Cavities/Soil Horizons
Sound artist Paul Dickinson’s recording from the hole

July 22-28, 2012 at 6018North

CURE is the second in an annual series of works by Lia Rousset and Amber Ginsburg that publicly shares the intimate materials and practices of farming. The two artists wove roughly 2,600 plants into the 6018North space. The three-week installation enabled long-term storage of the past year's garlic harvest. CURE visualizes the care that is needed to generate and sustain food production, as well as community.

Throughout history garlic has been used both in food preparation and healing. Visitors sample freshly grated garlic with lemon juice, which mitigates garlic breath, and are invited to share other restorative “cures” by writing them on the wall.

Sunday, May 20 at 3pm at 6018North

What can art do? and what is to be done?
This discussion, moderated by Willa Taylor, Education Director at Goodman Theatre, discusses the intersection of arts and community. Four Artistic Directors illustrate their efforts to employ the arts as a tool for social change:

Mica Cole, Free Street Theater
Bonnie Metzgar, About Face Theatre
Michael Rohd, Sojourn Theatre
Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH