STUDIOS:
A.  the Rumpus Room
B.  SITE Office
C.  Workroom
D.  Convertible Stage
E.  Main Gallery
F.  Black Public Radio
G.  Anode

PORTABLES:
H. Mobile Silk Screening Cart
I. Silver Galleon Press
J. Community Garden Canoe
K. Portable Nomadic Studio

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A. the Rumpus Room

The Rumpus Room was a replica of a basement on the Northwest side of Chicago that is used as a rehearsal space, a composing studio, a venue, a print-making, woodworking and technology workshop, a collaborative art project, classroom and gallery, and most importantly, a fully-functioning recording studio that packs away in under two hours, turning the space into a social club.

The atmosphere of the Original Rumpus Room has always inspired creativity, and the room at the museum was designed to do the same. This studio installation was built by Brian McNally, Faiz Razi, and Beth Wiedner. Original Rumpus Room (below) is owned by Gwen Ihnat & Brian McNally. Tiki Bar (above, far left) was built by George Ihnat in 1963.


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B. SITE Office

The SITE Office was a physical manifestation of Stockyard Institute Teaching Experiments or SITE. SITE is a multi-media publication initiative that seeks to locate and combine transdisciplinary fields of knowledge in hopes of reconstituting and reimagining educational resources through the lived experiences of teachers. Productions of interest include, but are not limited to, visual art and education curriculum mapping, lesson / unit plans, scholastic research documents, educator experiences and radical experimentation. SITE reviews, revises, and accepts writing, lessons, and curriculum from educators who think creatively. SITE also houses a wall dispenser that is a collection of zines on a broad range of artist profiles, collaborative projects, community interventions, creative experiments and an ongoing catalog of all the individuals and groups working in and through the Nomadic Studio. Jim Duignan, Beth Wiedner and Faiz Razi designed this studio installation and project. Watie White painted the mural on the back wall during the exhibition. ___________

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C. Workroom

The Workroom was a place to sit down and make sketches and notes for the handful of projects we solicited from artists. It was also a space to gather for some of our small workshops and a public access arts studio for those who wished to organize ideas of their own. It was equipped with a variety of materials, art supplies and contemporary and historical references. This studio installation was designed by Jim Duignan.
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D. Convertible Stage

Throughout the exhibition, the Convertible Stage in the main gallery transformed several times to represent different venues in Chicago that have closed. A\V Aerie, the loft space in Fulton Market’s warehouse district and the underground club, Union Rock Yards in Humboldt park were paid homage through both the recreation of the venues as well as through encore performances of the bands who played the nights the venues closed.

The artists involved in these venues are still active creative forces to this day, and were given an opportunity to become nomadic and move their spaces within our walls. The stage was designed by Faiz Razi with Marshall Preheim and Pat Kenneally of A\V Aerie and Rich Fessler and Mark Oster of Union Rock Yards. Jose Rosello aided in the construction of the Union Rock Yards stage.

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E. Main Gallery

The Main Gallery was a congregational space. It functioned as a classroom, a venue, a workshop, a staging area and was host to the majority of the events at Nomadic Studio. The gallery was flanked by Jeff Zimmerman’s imposing photo-realistic paintings, “Nort” and “Sowf” and Dayton Castleman’s cardboard F-16 Falcon and Canadian Goose, titled “Chicken”. Rob Funderburk also painted “the Robin and the Worm,” a 468 sq ft. mural behind “Chicken”. In addition, the Convertible Stage changed regularly to give the room an inviting, yet constantly evolving atmosphere.

We understand that artists tend to work from the home by default as well as necessity; the Rumpus Room should be viewed as a model for what a home studio can be. The recording interface will allow us to not only document all performances and presentations, but also teach recording and serve as communal space.

EVENTS WERE FREE
2350 N Kenmore (Kenmore and Fullerton, enter through Richardson Library, first doors on the left)

[7.8]
5pm – House Warming
Exhibit doors open to the public.
6pm -Steve Albini – Moving a Home Studio Owner and Recording Engineer Steve designed Electrical Audio and moved his home studio, where he recorded for over 10 years. A Montana native and graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in journalism, Steve has made over 1000 records by over 1000 bands.

7pm – Live Music w/ Bric-a-Brac, onono, Small Awesome
Music performances will take place in the Rumpus Room, a fully-
functioning ‘home’ recording studio. All three bands consist of musicians that have rehearsed or recorded in the Rumpus Room.

[7.15]
6pm – Protect Your Neck w/ Alex Maiolo and Bob Farster Alex Maiolo has worked with The Future of Music Coalition for almost nine years, primarily focusing on the health insurance crisis as it relates to the working musician. He is a partner at an insurance agency and a musician. Bob Farster has worked as a credit expert and loan officer helping those without the strongest financial backgrounds to purchase homes and business spaces for themselves.

[7.22] 6pm – Home Recording Panel w/ Greg Norman, Mark Greenberg, and Brian McNally. Greg is an engineer at Electrical Audio and owner of Studio Greg Studios II, a recording studio in his house with fancy equipment and a few rooms for recording stuff. Brian McNally is an electrician and owner of the Rumpus Room, and Mark Greenberg, owner of Mayfair Recordings, a music-for-use company that specializes in music composition, music and sound recording, and sound design.

[7.24]
11am – Solar Powered Theremin Workshop w/ Knox Revitte. Workshop will take place in our satellite space 0170, a science lab in DPU. Open to the first 20 people. Knox Daley Revitte is a musician, recording enthusiast, tinkerer, and life artist. Ze has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing hir MS in Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul University.

just got some pictures of the exhibit today and thought I’d share for folks nowhere near. There’s quite a bit to the space, and it’ll be changing a lot. some art being added is going to integrate with some of the existing art, and stuff will go in and out of the space.

“Chicken” by Dayton Castleman. Dayton hand-built this out of cardboard and a wood frame. the plane is about 18′ long and 75lbs.

for scale, here’s Dayton (in yellow)

across the main gallery space is Jeff Zimmerman’s “Nort” and “Sowf”. they’re about 6ft tall each. odd thing. Jim, our director, found this particular artist, I had nothing to do with it. “Nort” is actually a portrait of my dear friend of almost a decade and fellow forum member, barndog. I had no idea! salut.

this is Mike Slattery’s Mobile Silkscreen cart. it is beautiful and functional.

between the front of the Museum and the back, Brendan Hudson’s “Black Public Radio” adorns the back wall of the radio broadcast/mixing booth.

This is the entryway to Ian Bennet’s “Anode” installation. He put it up in thirty-nine minutes, including the time it took to get it off the truck. Dude is a demon.

Inside “Anode” are the current set of Ian’s “Cathode” Musical Chairs. We’re going to be doing something different with the sound sources on this one. Instead of the random band generator, we’re going to install dual solar powered theremins. We’ll be building them @ Knox’s Theremin workshop on the 24th . It’s free. Come build one. We have 20. maybe bring a soldering iron. And some tin snips.

Around the corner is the Canoe/Community Garden. I encourage you to bring a succulent if you so feel. It was built by Eric Utrech (Resquiescat), and finished by Jim Duignan and Nikki Jareci

Next is Brandon Alvendia’s “Silver Galleon Press”. It’s a portable bookmaking studio that packs up into this:

although it’s not completed fully in the shot, here is the rumpus room:


this one took Brian, Beth and I many many hours. I hand-cut 200+ 9” tiles out of contact paper and beth and I manually checkerboard-ed the floor. The control panels in the knotty pine have been wired into XLR, 1/4” and headphone jacks with volume pots. They run into the broadcast booth. We’re going to be testing them out in the next few days, getting sound and using the space to record submissions for the musical chairs random band generator.

We got a lot of photos of the opening, but I left them off to show off the art. However, for y’all (and us)–Steve, in the rumpus.

His shirt was louder than the PA.

The room sounds great. here’s a video of Small Awesome in the space.

There’s actually quite a bit more in the space than that, too. There’s an entire artist studio area, as well as a production office with library, seating, etc. Considering that the Museum was completely empty two weeks ago, I couldn’t be happier with how the first phase of this exhibit has turned out.

[Saturday 7.24]
11am – Solar Powered Theremin Workshop w/ Knox Revitte. Workshop will take place in our satellite space 0170, a science lab in DPU. Open to the first 20 people. Knox Daley Revitte is a musician, recording enthusiast, tinkerer, and life artist. Ze has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing hir MS in Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul University.

We have kits available, please RSVP if you plan on coming. We’re in need of odds and ends like soldering irons (we have a few) and tin snips and such, but all you’ll need will be there.

If you plan on attending, this workshop is in 0170, our satellite space down the street. it’s an old science lab. it’s great. here is a pictogram on how to get there from the museum:

Also, on Saturday, we are pleased to announce an Art and Dance show of incredible students in the gallery space:

Photo time! July was a blast. this is just a small portion of what has been documented. Photos by Jim Duignan, Kelsey Moher, Kelli Becker and Beth Wiedner

Meeting with ConNatural Artists, Arts of Life and Anode Gallery for Night at the Museum Show

Bob Farster and Alex Maiolo presenting the ‘Protect Your Neck’ panel. Audio coming.

Solar Theremin Building Workshop w/ Knox Revitte. Video coming (thanks, Jim Birch!).

Night at the Museum w/Arts of Life (an organization that works with disabled artists), Connatural Artists, Bear.Illa and Anode Gallery. Special shout out to David Kreuger of AoLife, the artist photographed with Ian Bennett, for his excellently titled piece “Go & See the Reptiles”. Go and see the reptiles! incredible. The easeled art was done by a bunch of high schoolers, and is being auctioned off to benefit Arts of Life and Connatural Artists to help their inspiring programming.

and while we’re here, all the stuff that’s being documented is going into our production office, SITE (it’s actually where I’m posting this). Lots of lesson plans and such coming soon.



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This includes a song by Joe Miller (Tourism) with Katie Sullivan, a live track from NS opening night from Small Awesome (kerble and Mr. Chimp) and the full audio from both the Home Recording panel with Mark Greenberg (Mayfair), Greg Norman (greg) and Brian McNally (black taj) moderated by me (kerble) and the Protect Your Neck panel on Finance and Insurance for artists with Bob Farster (R.F.F.) and Alex Maiolo (alex maiolo). thanks to all of you!

Everything was recorded at Nomadic. when you download some full albums, there’s plenty of hidden bonus stuff (Nomadic Audio vol 5 has about 40 minutes of Tourism stuff from NS), although the archive is nowhere near done. I have about 30 hours of stuff to go through, so it’ll take a while.

enjoy!

We will also be recreating the appropriately titled, A\V-Aerie, a Chicago-based loft space. A\V-Aerie represents one of many venues for art and performance that has had to close its doors. However, like most closed spaces, those involved have remained vital and creative artists in spite of setbacks.

The mission of bird sanctuaries is generally to be safe havens—rest areas on the way to something beyond. They are where the creatures receive the best care that the sanctuaries can provide and are given the opportunity to behave as naturally as possible in a protective environment. A sanctuary can also be a location that is traditionally used for worship, meditation, asylum, contemplation, and reflection.

At the Nomadic Studio, Bird Sanctuary represents a refuge for artists, a place where one’s meaningful practice can be shared with others, a space where you struggle and grapple with new ideas and gain enrichment from creating and showing, teaching and growing. A studio can be like a home; it can be a place of healing and new learning. As nomadic artists and educators we migrate from place to place, situation to situation like birds seeking new nests, a new home for our ideas and inventions. In considering how much we enjoy birds as a model of play, freedom, and their nests habitats for recuperation. We also just think birds are extremely rad.

it pleases me to invite you to the opening of the Bird Sanctuary @ Nomadic Studio this Thursday August 12th. The art this month has changed over quite a bit and will reflect our winged friends. The fine featured artists for this month are Rob Funderburk, Susan Hall, Nikki Jarecki, Christophe Roberts, Jay Ryan, Tom Stack and Diana Sudyka. The pieces we’ve got in are remarkable. You are in for a treat.

Bird Sanctuary in the Nomadic Studio
All events are in the DePaul Art Museum
2350 N Kenmore (Fullerton and Kenmore enter through Richardson Library)

Thursday August 12
12-1 pm – Black Public Radio – All are welcome to listen in, broadcast, share content and come in to learn how to build your own radio station.

5-8 pm – Opening
6 pm – Jay Ryan Live printmaking with Mobile Silkscreening Cart
7 pm – Live music in the Rumpus Room with Zikr

Thursday August 19
12-1 pm Black Public Radio – All are welcome to listen in, broadcast, share content and come in to learn how to build your own radio station.

6 pm – Video and talk about studio with AndrewandAndrea – “In the summer of 2000 we lived in three places. The illegal smoking lounge, the office – usually reserved for graphic design / publishing / sundry arts administration duties, and the studio. Our real home was the studio.”

Saturday August 21
10 am – Joanna Lakatos and Mitch Hurst – Harnessing the Power of Online and Social Media for Community Impact. Joanna and Mitch are independent consultants to not for profits and grantmaking organizations. They will conduct a workshop on innovative and exciting trends and opportunities in the sector dealing with social media and constituent engagement.

7 pm – Last night of A/V-Aerie $6 cover – Live music by Tim Kinsella, Baby Teeth, and Willis P. Jenkins. These music performances tonight are encore performances by the three bands that played the night A/V Aerie closed its doors.

Thursday August 26
12-1 Black Public Radio – All are welcome to listen in, broadcast, share content and come in to learn how to build your own radio station.

6 pm Mary Mattingly Talk – Mary Mattingly explores the themes of home, travel, cartography, and humans’ relationships with each other, with the environment, with machines, and with corporate and political entities. She will discuss her work.

Saturday August 28
10 -1 pm Bird building zine release and Stockyard Open Studio

We recently had a few off site events images and such forthcoming:
August 4-6 Summer Studio (Off Site) Sullivan Galleries with Brandon Alvendia
August 7 OpShop (Off Site) presentation of mural work @ NS with Rob Funderburk

OK. I can’t take it anymore. I’ve been looking at Rob Funderburk’s mural all day and I have to spoil a bit of the surprise. We helped Rob paint a giant mural behind Dayton Castleman’s “Chicken” piece (without moving it) for about 30 hours this weekend and it’s phenomenal:

there’s a bunch of info about the mural on Rob’s site here, as well as a half hour discussion he did on the project, as well as his work on A\V Aerie here.. I could listen to this dude talk for hours. just incredible.

we also have brand-new, never-before-seen work by Tom Stack, Jay Ryan, Susan Hall.
Christophe Roberts’ work blew my mind. you have not seen anything like it.

August was a whirlwind of awesome stuff, and as usual, here’s a photographic rundown of the events that took place. Photos by Jim Duignan, Faiz Razi, Beth Wiedner, Joe Miller, Jacob Knabb, Samantha Dite and Keith Brown.

Bird Sanctuary opening:

the Portable Nomadic Studio is currently being filled with replicas of all the art, and we’re going to be sending it to two shows in Aarhus, Denmark and Vienna, Austria after the exhibit closes. We will be, in effect, mailing them our exhibit. so funny, to me.

Diana Sudyka’s awesome etchings. these were all her archival copies of long-since-gone artwork, and we were thrilled to have them. These are all 2 or 4-color copper plate etchings. Diana will use things like needles to etch the plates into fine and intricate patterns. the photos do not do the beauty of these pieces justice.

Susan Hall’s phenomenal work with lace, paint and wood adorned the walls of the Rumpus Room. Grackle, the close-up piece, was completed the day before we received it, and was done on wood given to Susan by Brian McNally, the owner of the real Rumpus Room.

speaking of which, the city awarded me a CAAP grant for the rumpus to cover a bunch of my costs.

also, in the Rumpus, behind the bar, was Erik Stenberg’s Hooters. jesus, look at the thing. Ian Bennett of Anode gallery made the frame out of an old loom. there’s even a level built into the frame. I never want to let go of this thing. sadly, I will have to.

speaking of which, the 2nd set of Musical Chairs that Ian painted, (“cathode”) was just installed at Columbia college (gallery C33) for a couple months. these don’t have the random band generator, but are instead equipped with dual solar-powered theremins that we built in the class run by Knox Revitte last month. more on that after the opening there this thursday (5-8pm).

We also had the second largest install of Tom Stack’s incredible work to date.
The one in the center, Fisheries was unveiled at the opening. in fact, it was hung on the wall of the gallery during the opening, as Tom drove down from Milwaukee after having finished it that afternoon. Tom gets the “Road Warrior” award for driving back and forth between milwaukee several times in one day to help make this happen. thanks to all the folks who lent us their Stack pieces for the show.

This is the work of the phenomenal Christophe Roberts. he builds these beasts out of Nike boxes, exclusively. We spotted a chimp of his a few weeks prior to the show and immediately contacted him about “Hawk’s Revenge” and “Our Bird”. Funny story about “Our Bird”: when we were unwrapping it in the SITE office in back of the studio, two gentlemen walked in. I pointed out that Christophe made all of his work out of Nike boxes. One of the guys worked for the athletic department @ DePaul, and had an office full of nothing but Nike boxes. now Christophe is getting every Nike box that comes through the school. He’s getting another 100 or so this week. so crazy.

here is Dayton Castleman’s “Chicken”, now paired with “the Robin and the Worm”, a mural by Rob Funderburk. we helped Rob paint this ~468 sq ft mural without moving the airplane. it was extremely fun and time-consuming. I could listen to Rob talk for hours. he’s a dude. more on his piece soon.

next up are 4 brand-new prints from Jay Ryan. Three incredible pigeons and one incredible Jay. well, two:

Jay used Mike Slattery’s mobile screenprinting cart to not only lead a demonstration on screening stuff, but he allowed us to squeegee our own pigeons to take home. I think Jay yelled “It’s a Pigeon!” maybe 70 times that night. thank you, Jay!

another screening we had that evening was the install of Katrin Schnabl’s “Number 16,” which is a growing trellis of morning glories. she has another trellis that she made (also out of plastic bags) that is going to be converted into a coat for a dance performance.

here are some crowd shots! the folks up top are watching Jay and co. do their thing, Dominic and Drea of the museum are catching Joe Miller’s excellent band, Zikr in the rumpus room.

Zikr in the Rumpus. they were a perfect cap to the evening. we did a radio session, as well as a day-long recorded rehearsal with these fine fellows that will be posted soon.

Outside of being a contemporary cultural Chicago neighborhood, Back of the Yards is also the birthplace of the Stockyard Institute, a community art and re-education project formed in 1995. It offered an array of radical community art / education programs that are still in service throughout Chicago today. Steeped in traditional DIY activism, liberating pedagogy, and urban street arts, Back of the Yards month celebrates years of passionate nomadic practices, visual art, and emergent knowledge systems that draw attention to communities in need. The Stockyard Institute has become a reputable Chicago institution and serves as a productive model for alternative art education in the city.

To remember the origins of the Stockyard Institute, Nomadic Studio will offer alternative programming that center on historic Do-It-Yourself street-level practices including reading, journaling, bookbinding, underground music venues, break dancing, storytelling, education, collectivity, and more.

We will also be recreating the appropriately titled Union Rock Yards, a Chicago-based underground rock club. Union Rock Yards archived every musical performance and event that came through the space. URY is a model of how artists can move into a non-traditional space and build a community.

During Back of the Yards, we celebrate the origins of the Stockyard Institute. The Nomadic Studio will offer alternative programming that centers on historic Do-It-Yourself street-level practices including reading, journaling, bookbinding, underground music venues, storytelling, education, grass-roots collectivity, and more.

Back of the Yards is one of Chicago’s 77 unique neighborhoods, deriving its name from the industrial and residential settlement near the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. from 1865 to 1971. Like most de-industrialized communities in Chicago, when the jobs vanish the residents follow, leaving large gaps in urbanism ripe for new immigrant populations. As a somewhat invisible working-class area, it is also vulnerable to gang violence and suffers from various forms of economic depression.

Outside of being a contemporary cultural Chicago neighborhood, Back of the Yards is also the birthplace of the Stockyard Institute, a community art and re-education project formed in 1995. It offered an array of radical community art / education programs that are still in service throughout the city today. Steeped in traditional DIY activism, liberating pedagogy, and urban street arts, Back of the Yards month celebrates years of passionate nomadic practices, visual art, and emergent knowledge systems that draw attention to communities in need. The Stockyard Institute has become a reputable Chicago institution and serves as a productive model for alternative art education in the city.

*In direct relation to this theme, we will be re-creating the appropriately titled Union Rock Yards, a Chicago-based underground rock club. (Union Rock Yards archived every musical performance and event that passed through its space. URY is a model of how artists can move into a non-traditional space and build a community).

[ 9.11 ]
12pm – Publishing Process Workshop w/ Brandon Alvendia Brandon will be conducting a workshop on the entire Silver Galleon Press publishing process. Participants will be guided through the production of their very own bound publication. Text acquisition (online text databases/rapid book scanning/PDF preparation), printing (laser/photocopier/inkjet) and binding (staple/thermal/mechanical) strategies will be explained with a emphasis on using inexpensive, easy-to-obtain materials and straightforward, easy-to-un­derstand techniques.

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7pm – Union Rock Yards w/ Bottomless Pit, the Bismarck, Bear Claw Music performances are encores from the last night of the now-closed Humboldt Park venue, Union Rock Yards. Bottomless Pit play “their blues”. Affectionate and brusque, languid and bracing, they are nearly peerless modern post-punk. Washington’s The Bismarck are a rock band that plays rock music. Bear Claw creates powerful, noisy, yet melodic songs utilizing its obtuse instrumentation of two bass guitars and drums.

[ 9.23 ]
2 pm – Food, Art, and the Politics of Agriculture in Contemporary Social Practice w/ Liena Vayzman How do artists activate dialogue on the cultural politics of food and agriculture? This talk pinpoints an invigorated flowering in current U.S. art practice, with global implications: food as site for discourse and action. In the context of sustainability imperatives and climate change concerns, public attention is drawn to the politics of food production and distribution. The talk will demonstrate how artists lead the way to action with vital, diverse strategies. Artists function as farmers and cultural critics; interrogate the origins and processes of the food we eat; and link to green movements, heralding a change in zeitgeist. The use of food in art practice deploys strate­gies of collaboration, de-materialization, social interaction, sustainability, urban agriculture, and cross-cultural cuisine. Bringing Victory Gardens to City Hall and worm bins to museum lobbies, transforming lawns into vegetable gar­dens and breaching cultural divides through shared recipes, artists catalyze expanded awareness of possibilities for arts civic engagement.

6-8pm – Form and Content of Writing w/ Thea Liberty Nichols, Patrice Connolly, Claudine Ise, Abraham Ritchie and Bert Stabler – Panelists will engage in a casual discussion that examines the form (newsprint, published monographs, online journals or blogs) and content (criticism, interviews, exhibition re­views, press releases or scholarly essays) of their writing.Their individual practices, including the texts that inform and inspire them, will be examined alongside the colleagues and organizations with which they collaborate. In conjunction with Studio Chicago, the ways in which their studio environment, and indeed the city itself, contextualizes their practice will also be explored.

Claudine Isé has worked in the field of contemporary art as a curator and writer. Isé was Associate Cu­rator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and an art critic for the Los Angeles Times. She currently writes for artforum.com, art:21 blog, ARTnews, New City, and badatsports.com.

Abraham Ritchie is a writer as well as the Editor for ArtSlant: Chicago, the creator and administrator of The Chicago Art Blog on the Chica­goNow network and WordPress, and also writes for NewCity. He has previ­ously written about art for Madison Newspapers, Inc.

Thea Liberty Nichols is an arts administrator, independent curator, and writer who lives and works in Chicago. Along with managing Intuits Study Center, she also acts as Co-Director of 65GRAND

Patrice Connolly is the Curatorial Associate for BMO Financial Group’s Corporate Art Collection where she crafts catalog texts describing and contextualizing the art works in their holdings. She has been contributing freelance art exhibi­tion reviews to Newcity since 2008.

Bert Stabler is a teacher, writer, curator, and artist living in Chicago. He feeds on the living.

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10am – CULTURAL FERMENTATION 101: Sauerkraut Making and Interac­tive Theory Workshop w/Liena Vayzman–In this hands-on workshop, we are going to make sauerkraut and other easy fermented vegetables from local veggies. We will read aloud from “Wild Fer­mentation” and other texts make links between fermentation and transforma­tion. How can we transform identity using the what’s in the air, how can we imagine transformation and possibilities? Just as making sauerkraut preserves tradi­tions, the local seasonal harvest, yet transforms them into new forms that come about from a generative collaboration with beneficial microorganisms, identity transforms from interaction with the multitude of forces, visible and invisible, practical and theoretical.

Come get your hands salty! Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring any of the following if you can — fresh veggies (cabbage, carrots, ginger, apples, greens you can ferment any fresh produce! — so bring the extra abundant harvest from your garden or a community garden), glass jars, mixing bowls, knives, cutting boards, sea salt. We will provide many of these ingredients hopefully we can all share! You will chop, shred, and learn the ba­sics of starting a jar of sauerkraut to take home with you, where it will develop its flavor over time.

And yes, there will be music!

During the month, Nomadic Studio will hold an Extraneous Education Conference for teaching artists. We will discuss various strategies that point to future practices that may engage broader communities in art, education, the everyday, activism, and community collaboration, thus bridging the gaps that exist between theory and practice.

During the month of November, we will have an open office where we will be reflecting, organizing, and documenting the previous months’ programs for the purposes of galvanizing future efforts for SITE. Feedback and participation is highly encouraged.

Nomadic Studio is entering its last two weeks, and we’re preparing for a massive de-install, so if you want, come on out and check it out before it’s checked out.

I haven’t had much time for the visual updates, as we’re compiling a huge catalog of all the events and photos and such, so my graphic time has been spoken for.

anyway, we have been invited to participate in an exhibition with Rum46 in Aarhus, Denmark, so we will be shipping the portable nomadic studio there in a week. We are, in actuality, mailing our exhibit to them for their exhibit.

Beth and Brian and I have been recreating all of the art in the space in miniature and it’s really coming together:

and for taking the joke too far:

also, we have been building a shipping case for the Portable Nomadic Studio:

heh.

yo dawg, I heard you like museums, so I put a museum in a museum in a museum in your museum, in a box, so you can be in a museum while you carry a museum within a museum.

Ahoy!

For the last month of Nomadic Studio, Tourism played three shows in the space. on the last day (November 20th), we shot “Tour Video”, a 20-minute tour of Nomadic Studio with musical accompaniment.

it’s in 10 parts (“nomadic 3.0-nomadic 3.9″) and mostly features the gallery as it was on the day we left. it turned out pretty great.

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Tourism performs closing day
on the Union Rock Yards stage
@ Stockyard Institute’s Nomadic Studio
11/20/10 @ DePaul Art Museum

Tourism is George Joseph Miller IV and Faiz Razi

Video Tour by Beth Wiedner

the videos are here. they range from 9 seconds to 6 minutes. There is a complete listing of the art and artists featured in the videos on each page.

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Exhibit is closed!

we’re working on a catalog that is forthcoming. we’re 25 pages in, and have yet to talk about the art. lot of great photos of the spaces and such, but tons more to do:

here is a download link to the pdf of the first portion if you’re interested. enjoy!

also, the portable nomadic studio has made it to Aarhus denmark, and is being shown @ Rum46 for the next few months. I can’t read the following, but I’ma post it:

Det er rum46 en stor glæde at invitere til åbning af:The Portable Normadic Studio og The Biking VikingsONSDAG
D. 1. DEC. 2010
KL 16 – 18

Alle er velkommen, rum46 serverer en udsøgt nomadisk vikinge glögg.

The Biking Vikings er titlen på en cykelperformance, som rum46 udførte i New York i oktober måned 2010. Projektet består bl.a. af en række performative handlinger, som kærligt reformulerer flere Fluxus-events fra 60′erne.

Uddrag fra The Biking Vikings blev efterfølgende præsenteret i udstillingsprojektet Nomadic Studio i Chicago. Nomadic Studio retter bl.a. opmærksomheden mod værdien af flytbare og midlertidige arbejdsrum og temporære projekter.

The Portable Normadic Studio

rum46 har nu fornøjelsen af at kunne præsentere både projektet The Biking Vikings og The Portable Nomadic Studio udstillingen, som vi netop har fået tilsendt i en komprimeret model- og kuffertudgave af udstillingsopbygningen og platformen i Chicago.

Den 1. december åbner og folder vi The Portable Nomadic Studio kuffert ud og præsenterer tekst, lyd og dokumentationer fra projektet. Vi ser også frem til at vise den nyredigerede video samt fotos, tegninger og objekter fra The Biking Vikings.

Kom og se ‘Ballonkoncerten’, ‘Flaskeposten’ og ‘The Recipe that went up in Smoke’.

Biking Vikings

Udstillingen er åben 2.dec. – 17. dec. 2010 tirs. – fre. kl. 14 – 17

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