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