Students/Participants
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Resistance Architecture with #TheLetUsBreathe Collective – Project Fielding, 2019
Resistance Architecture, The Breathing Room, 2019-ongoing The Free Town Field Build was a design-build workshop organized by the teachers’ collective Project Fielding to create Resistance Architecture with and for members of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an alliance of artists and activists who organize to imagine a world without prisons and police. Project Fielding defines Resistance Architecture…
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Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2016
Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2016 In June 2016 Project Fielding held its inaugural Tooling Camp at the Experimental Station in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Project Fielding is founded by Sara Black, Billy Dee, Amber Ginsburg and Donesha Thompson. We consider building to be a gesture of craft, which by nature is slow, requires…
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Attention Feeder, 2016
The Attention Feeder, 2016Sector 2337, Chicago, IL The Attention Feeder is a two hour collective exercise in prolonged attention. We will begin by creating a shared vocabulary for use during a series of guided narratives on the interwoven relationship between living, nonliving and human perception, as a way to perceive in less anthropocentric ways. Texts included…
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Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness
Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness, 2015Museum of Contemporary ArtFamily Day WorkshopChicago, ILwith Raewyn Martyn Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness, was a workshop created for child participants at the MCA’s Family Day. Raewyn Martyn and Sara Black created an open landscape of full scale tables adjacent to an area on the floor filled with disassembled and broken…
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19 Admirals Way, 2014-15
19 Admirals Way, 2014-15 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Cantebury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealandhttps://19admiralsway.wordpress.com The Whole House Reuse (WHR) project is organized by Rekindle, a New Zealand building waste reuse initiative established after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Project organizers gained access to one earthquake-damaged home that was slated for demolition, and collaborated with contractors to take the building…
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Attention Feeder, 2014
The Attention Feeder, 2014 [Workshop Leader]ACRE residency, Steuben, WI The Attention Lab, a two-session workshop that took place at ACRE residency in the summer of 2014, gathered participants in the pursuit of prolonged attention and understanding of the Anthropocene. To help perceive this human made geologic era, we engaged in the shared reading of texts, discussion of…
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Living As Form (Nomadic Version), 2014
Living As Form (Nomadic Version), 2014 [Curator]Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH In the first decade of the 21st century, a critical mass of culturally infused activism and social engagement emerged. A diverse practice, socially engaged art is shaking up the foundation of art discourse, while sharing techniques and intentions borrowed from fields far beyond the arts.…
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Object Recovery, 2011
Object Recovery, 2011In conjunction with the Without You I’m Nothing: InteractionsMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Performances daily, 12pm-5pm from April 19 – 24 This performance-based project addresses ideas of loss, repair, or renewal through the conceptual transformation of a broken object. Working together with visitors who bring broken objects to the museum, Black and…
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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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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…