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Backstory Cafe and Social Center, 2008-11
Backstory Cafe and Social Center, 2008-11 [Co-owner and Organizer]Experimental Station, Chicago, IL Backstory Cafe and Social Center was founded in 2008 and cooperatively owned by Sara Black, Saadia Shah and Robin Hewlett at the intersection of Chicago’s Hyde Park and Woodlawn neighborhoods in the Experimental Station. Backstory was: a RESOURCE CENTER providing a meeting place…
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Bus Stop Shelter, 2008
Bus Stop Shelter, 2008Points of Interest, Braddock, PA We participated in Points of Interest, conceived by Braddock Active Arts, a collaborative group of Braddock, PA residents that “aims to provide living models of possibility and transformation and catalyze sustainable growth and revitalization. We envision a community in which all residents are considered artists, empowered to change…
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Convergence Cafe, 2008
Convergence Cafe, 2008 A contribution to Democracy in America: The National Campaign Exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY curated by Creative Time InCUBATE invited Material Exchange to design and build a temporary cafe to facilitate their Sunday Soup Granting Program. We had access to some materials from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and…
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MX Pinball, 2008
MX Pinball, 2008Eyebeam, New York, NYGoods and Services, Pittsburgh, PAGallery 206, Grand Rapids, MI Created for the traveling exhibition Other Options, organized by InCUBATELike all artists, we face the dilemma of funding, and of how to support ourselves and sustain the art-making process. We made the machine as an inquiry into forms of currency. We…
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The Way Things Drag Their Futures Around, 2008
The Way Things Drag Their Futures Around, 2008Threewalls SOLO, Chicago, IL Materials: White Oak sp. Quercus alba, White Mulberry sp. Morus alba, Yellow Pine sp. Pinus palustris, Plastic, and Terracotta Beginning with a fallen tree, and parts of other trees slated for felling, we have fashioned an uncanny artifact suggesting a variety of possible causes…
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Left Luggage, 2007
Left Luggage, 2007Gallery 400, Chicago, IL Left Luggage was our contribution to the exhibition Pathogeographies: Other People’s Baggage, organized by Feeltank Chicago at Gallery 400. Using packing crates that are themselves left luggage, from the MCA’s Massive Change exhibition, Material Exchange designed the Left Luggage installation on the model of a baggage check. It houses,…
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Provisional Library, 2007
Provisional Library, 2007Contribution to Another Story, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures. -Heraclitus the Obscure…
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Street Level Youth Media Workshop, 2007
Street Level Youth Media Workshop, 2007 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Chicago, IL Material Exchange collaborated with both Free Geek Chicago and Street Level Youth Media on a workshop to build two student-designed computer stations made out of recycled materials and computer parts. Some wood was collected from the storage space in the basement of Street Level, a couple of painted ply-wood…
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Coat Check, 2007
Coat Check, 2007Pass it On: Connecting Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture, A+D Gallery of Columbia College, Chicago, IL For its contribution to DIY, Material Exchange offered not an artwork or an informational display, but a service. In the spirit of D.I.Y.-labeled alternatives to mainstream spheres such as those of music, urban farming, or political punditry, Material Exchange’s…
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Biographical Extensions II, 2007
Biographical Extensions II, 2007Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL Biographical Extensions II was the second part of a two-part project that began at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. For three months prior to that exhibition we collected discarded and unwanted materials from various MCA waste streams to create a site- and material-specific installation. Material…