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The Fortuitous Sequel to Martin Kippenberger’s Installation, 2007
The Fortuitous Sequel to Martin Kippenberger’s Installation, 2007Experimental Station, Chicago, IL The Experimental Station hosted the First Putt-Putt Green Design Competition, organized and curated by Material Exchange. Area artists, designers, engineers, and school groups, submitted putting green designs, employing a range of circuitous and inefficient means to get the ball into the hole, out of…
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Biographical Extensions I, 2006
Biographical Extensions I, 2006Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL For three months prior to this exhibition, Material Exchange collected discarded art-related materials from the MCA Store, warehouse, offices, grounds, dumpsters, and roof to create a site- and material-specific installation.Working with collaborators Alta Buden, Brendan Sullivan, Dani Henke, Danny Mansmith, David Wolf, Eric Newman, Julia Klein,…
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Culture Walk, 2006
Culture Walk, 2006Del Prado Building, Chicago, IL Featured in The Space Between at Hyde Park’s Del Prado Building (The Former Hyde Park Art Center), this installation entitled “Culture Walk” was comprised of materials salvaged from the Hyde Park Art Center, Sara Black’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Beyond Surplus: A Material Exchange Laboratory, 2006
Beyond Surplus: A Material Exchange Laboratory, 2006 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL In collaboration with designer Isabela Gould at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This design class was a plug-in laboratory for the Material Exchange network, designed to bridge between one donor institution ready to discharge waste materials, and one charity in…
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Wockenklausur Sitting Room, 2005
Wockenklausur Sitting Room, 2005 Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, Smart Museum, Chicago, IL Featured in the exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, the pictured benches and table were designed and built by Material Exchange, at that time comprised of artists Sara Black and John Preus, using exhibition by-products from the Smart Museum of…