https://thenight.gallery The Night Gallery Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:41:39 +0000 https://thenight.gallery en http://thenight.gallery/2021_Penarroyo Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:41:39 +0000 The Night Gallery 415083 Manifest Destiny&nbsp; Cyrus Peñarroyo November 5-November 28, Nightly Location: 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL Manifest Destiny, Cyrus Peñarroyo2021 This short film uses the medium of architecture to assert the presence of both a local and global Filipina/x/o community that continues to be the subject of American imperialism.The film is motivated by two parallel observations: ethnic enclaves like Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles are undergoing gentrification, and Filipino-American nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Filipina/x/o nurses play an essential role in the American healthcare system, with 1 out of 20 registered nurses in the United States receiving their medical training in the Philippines. They are frontliners, more likely to work long hours in emergency rooms and intensive care units, thus increasing their risk of getting sick — Filipino-Americans represent 3 out of 5 COVID-related nurse deaths in California alone. Concurrently, Historic Filipinotown is nearing the 20th anniversary of its designation, yet residents have expressed concerns about displacement and cultural erasure at the hands of developers.Through descriptions of hospitals and Historic Filipinotown’s urban fabric, the film attempts to draw out symmetries between varying states of (dis)appearance, (in)visibility, and aspiration. Cyrus Peñarroyo is a Filipino-American designer and educator whose work examines architecture’s entanglement with contemporary media and digital culture. More specifically, his research investigates the urbanity of the Internet – how networked technologies shape urbanization and how media spheres influence built environments. He is an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, where he was the 2015‑16 William Muschenheim Fellow. Manifest Destiny&nbsp; Cyrus Peñarroyo November 5-November 28, Nightly Location: 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL Manifest... http://thenight.gallery/2021_MacQuarie Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:41:34 +0000 The Night Gallery 415082 Nightshift Spitalfields&nbsp; Julius-Cezar MacQuarie November 5-November 28, Nightly Location: 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL Nightshift Spitalfields, Julius-Cezar MacQuarie2020, 10:25 min In this 10-minute documentary, Ali, a Bulgarian-Turkish porter at the night market, works six nights a week, often on 15-hour shift, loading and transporting goods. These nightshifts are incredibly demanding, mentally, emotionally and physically. Like Ali, many workers have families, but it’s almost impossible to have a proper family life when on graveyard shift duty. They can’t take proper part in society; they can’t organise to improve their conditions – they are just exhausted and worn down. These night workers are an invisible group of people who keep the city running with their labour. Those of us who sleep at night have no idea that they even exist, but without them, the supermarket shelves would be empty in the morning. That’s bad for them and likely even worse for London, which relies heavily on their labour to function as an urban metropolis. Dr. Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a filmmaker and anthropologist trained at Central European University. He is concerned with the invisibility of migrant nightshift workers from discussions on today's capitalism. He founded the Nightworkshop to research night work in global and smaller cities. He produced three short films (Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Shift Workers in London, UK, 2013) | Nocturnal Lives: Day Sleepers, UK, 2015 | Nightshift Spitalfields, UK, 2020) and a podcast (NightWorkPod, CEU Podcasts, Budapest, 2018). Nightworkshop is a project set up to research migrant night workers in cities. It uses mixed methods to capture and make visible the hidden lives of night workers. The short films, photo collections and podcasts zoom into aspects specific to lives spent in physical labour at night. By building a bridge between the researcher, the protagonists and the audience, the exhaustion, embodied precarity and the hidden nature of night work appear in the spotlight. Nightshift Spitalfields&nbsp; Julius-Cezar MacQuarie November 5-November 28, Nightly Location: 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL ... http://thenight.gallery/2021_Night-Owls-Research Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:36:22 +0000 The Night Gallery 410357  Nightshift Spitalfields &amp; Night Owls, Columbus Nightshift Spitalfields, Julius-Cezar MacQuarie Night Owls, Columbus, Future Firm October 2-November 4, Nightly &nbsp;Outdoors at 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN <img width="775" height="437" width_o="775" height_o="437" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e2c9953992edac4139b55a4efed06ebd05e3f87ba145da845a291f727ad6fb7d/Screen-Shot-2021-08-18-at-12.45.30-PM.png" data-mid="1127296" border="0" /> Nightshift Spitalfields, Julius-Cezar MacQuarie2020, 10:25 minIn this 10-minute documentary, Ali, a Bulgarian-Turkish porter at the night market, works six nights a week, often on 15-hour shift, loading and transporting goods. These nightshifts are incredibly demanding, mentally, emotionally and physically. Like Ali, many workers have families, but it’s almost impossible to have a proper family life when on graveyard shift duty. They can’t take proper part in society; they can’t organise to improve their conditions – they are just exhausted and worn down. These night workers are an invisible group of people who keep the city running with their labour. Those of us who sleep at night have no idea that they even exist, but without them, the supermarket shelves would be empty in the morning. That’s bad for them and likely even worse for London, which relies heavily on their labour to function as an urban metropolis.Dr. Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a filmmaker and anthropologist trained at Central European University. He is concerned with the invisibility of migrant nightshift workers from discussions on today's capitalism. He founded the Nightworkshop to research night work in global and smaller cities. He produced three short films (Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Shift Workers in London, UK, 2013) | Nocturnal Lives: Day Sleepers, UK, 2015 | Nightshift Spitalfields, UK, 2020) and a podcast (NightWorkPod, CEU Podcasts, Budapest, 2018).Nightworkshop is a project set up to research migrant night workers in cities. It uses mixed methods to capture and make visible the hidden lives of night workers. The short films, photo collections and podcasts zoom into aspects specific to lives spent in physical labour at night. By building a bridge between the researcher, the protagonists and the audience, the exhaustion, embodied precarity and the hidden nature of night work appear in the spotlight <img width="4000" height="2168" width_o="4000" height_o="2168" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1faed12fbf6b42ace651f66ad080f90c0385ffd6152cfcc3ca14c4a699a02740/MANUFAC.jpg" data-mid="1127298" border="0" /> Night Owls, Columbus, Future Firm 2021, loopingWhat is the “midnight city”? This research explores the unique urbanism and socio-cultural conditions of the night-time city, specifically in Columbus, IN. This research expands on the topic of the “Midnight Palace” installation through mapping, surveys, and interviews. Mapping at the local and national scale will be presented each night, showing locations of night-shift workers and their demographics. Additionally, additional visual representations explore the idea of a discontinuous public space at the midnight hour: documenting the limits faced by those seeking food, amenities, and recreation in the nocturnal times. This project is building concurrently a series of live interviews with “night owls” in Columbus, IN, in order to better document the personal, experiential, and biological experiences of night time citizens. Future Firm is a Chicago-based architecture and design research office. We design on behalf of the secret lives of cities, in collaboration with changemakers and dreamers. Founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke in 2015, the architecture practice spans diverse scales: from exhibition spaces to residential and commercial buildings to urban and territorial speculations. We focus on using design to synthesize the aims and efforts of multiple stakeholders, catalyze transformation for individuals and groups, and create flexible space for diverse needs.  Nightshift Spitalfields &amp; Night Owls, Columbus Nightshift Spitalfields, Julius-Cezar MacQuarie Night Owls, Columbus, Future Firm October 2-November 4,... http://thenight.gallery/2021_MacQuarie-and-Penarroyo Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:35:28 +0000 The Night Gallery 410356  Night Owls: A Conversation with Julius-Cezar MacQuarie &amp; Cyrus Peñarroyo November 5, 2021: Opening screening and discussion (Columbus &amp; Zoom) 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Event RSVP&nbsp; Webinar Link&nbsp;Facebook Event&nbsp; Location: 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN Online via Zoom This event featured a conversation between filmmaker-anthropologist Julius-Cezar MacQuarie and designer-educator Cyrus Peñarroyo. MacQuarie and Peñarroyo discussed "Nightshift Spitalfields" and "Manifest Destiny," two short films being screened at Midnight Palace through November 2021. Their conversation explored their research into night shift workers in London and the U.S., from the physical, emotional, and mental toll of those working "graveyard shift" to the states of (dis)appearance, (in)visibility, and aspiration of the Filipinx diaspora working in hospitals in LA. This conversation was moderated by Ann Lui, principal at Future Firm. This conversation was hosted both online on Zoom and in-person at Midnight Palace, 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN. In 2021, The Night Gallery presents Night Owls, an exhibition in Columbus, Indiana, as part of the Midnight Palace installation at Exhibit Columbus: New Middles. Event Photos <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6cd387018f3d439cf9ec2596d697207b965bd2c1652a48b5a4a01e95330fa0b7/FF_Film-Conversation_11_05_013.jpg" data-mid="1139412" border="0" /><img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/28720f2a87a1f3ce913de06818b94c1c729763cfaa73692552afd48a39879cae/FF_Film-Conversation_11_05_021.jpg" data-mid="1139414" border="0" /><img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/65c11d9da18c350576bd50ed9f3318f32c764d9833daf8978338352bf0b8d403/FF_Film-Conversation_11_05_025.jpg" data-mid="1139413" border="0" /> Dr. Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a filmmaker and anthropologist trained at Central European University. He is concerned with the invisibility of migrant nightshift workers from discussions on today's capitalism. He founded the Nightworkshop to research night work in global and smaller cities. He produced three short films (Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Shift Workers in London, UK, 2013) | Nocturnal Lives: Day Sleepers, UK, 2015 | Nightshift Spitalfields, UK, 2020) and a podcast (NightWorkPod, CEU Podcasts, Budapest, 2018). Nightworkshop is a project set up to research migrant night workers in cities. It uses mixed methods to capture and make visible the hidden lives of night workers. The short films, photo collections and podcasts zoom into aspects specific to lives spent in physical labour at night. By building a bridge between the researcher, the protagonists and the audience, the exhaustion, embodied precarity and the hidden nature of night work appear in the spotlight. Cyrus Peñarroyo is a Filipino-American designer and educator whose work examines architecture’s entanglement with contemporary media and digital culture. More specifically, his research investigates the urbanity of the Internet – how networked technologies shape urbanization and how media spheres influence built environments. He is an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, where he was the 2015‑16 William Muschenheim Fellow.  Night Owls: A Conversation with Julius-Cezar MacQuarie &amp; Cyrus Peñarroyo November 5, 2021: Opening screening and discussion (Columbus &amp; Zoom) 6:30 PM... http://thenight.gallery/2021_Hanusik-and-Schalliol Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:28:20 +0000 The Night Gallery 410353  New Middles at Night Selected night time photography from Exhibit Columbus Photography FellowsOn the Origins of High Water, Virginia Hanusik From the Mississippi Watershed, David Schalliol August 19-October 7, Nightly Locations: Outdoors at 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN <img width="2048" height="1637" width_o="2048" height_o="1637" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/01600fc504836ea6eae03c284ee2e74ef2123e57a08134541c7758e390165abf/Hanusik-2.jpg" data-mid="1115246" border="0" /><img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7879070444ec57fbba287d9b4e354ab6bf9ddf80b43a1afe887099e05dea4750/Shakopee_MN_2021-copy.jpg" data-mid="1115245" border="0" /> On the Origins of High Water, Virginia Hanusik Engineering decisions to control flood waters in Montana, Indiana, and Colorado have environmental impacts as far away as the Gulf of Mexico. Although the region is intricately connected by a shared resource, there is a division between who has benefited and who has been harmed by over a century of human engineering to manipulate the river’s water flow. Infrastructure is not neutral; it is a physical marker of conflict that results in both loss and gain. Floods can no longer be considered a natural occurrence; they are often the result of policies which protect certain communities over others. By photographing sites of structural significance throughout the human-altered Mississippi River watershed, this project explores the social and environmental impacts of its infrastructure. Virginia Hanusik is an artist whose projects explore the relationship between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her work has been exhibited internationally, featured in The New Yorker, National Geographic, British Journal of Photography, Domus, Places Journal, The Atlantic, MAS Context, and Oxford American among others, and supported by the Pulitzer Center, Graham Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. She has lectured at institutions including Columbia University, Bard College, New York University, and Rutgers University about landscape representation and the visual narrative of climate change, and is on the board of directors of The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans where she coordinates multi-disciplinary projects on the climate crisis. Her current body of work examines flooding and the politics of disasters in the Mississippi River watershed. She is a 2020-21 Photography Fellow with Exhibit Columbus and lives in New Orleans. From the Mississippi Watershed, David Schalliol Inspired by the environmental systems that unite the Mississippi watershed, my project for New Middles focuses on two themes revealed in the landscape: systems of interconnection and representation. First, the project highlights the production, consumption, and distribution systems that generate local and global connections. Second, the project features physical representations of people’s relationships with their surroundings. By combining these two elements, I wish to address these simultaneously personal and systematic interconnections between the environment, economics, and politics that are essential to understanding life in these Middles — and how to establish solutions to a changing climate, environmental justice, and more. David Schalliol is an associate professor of sociology at St. Olaf College who is interested in the relationship between community, social structure, and place. His work has been supported by institutions including the Graham Foundation, the Driehaus Foundation, and the European Union and been featured in publications including Social Science Research, MAS Context, and The New York Times. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies (UTAKATADO) and co-author of The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America (The University of Chicago Press). David exhibits widely, including in the 2015 and 2017Chicago Architectural Biennial, the Centre Régional de la Photographie Hauts-de-France, and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and he additionally contributes to documentary films, including Almost There and Highrise: Out My Window, an interactive documentary that won an International Digital Emmy for Non-Fiction. His directorial debut, The Area, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and has been broadcast as part of America ReFramed.  New Middles at Night Selected night time photography from Exhibit Columbus Photography FellowsOn the Origins of High Water, Virginia Hanusik From the... http://thenight.gallery/2021_Adrien-Merigeau Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:28:03 +0000 The Night Gallery 410352  Genius LociAdrien Merigeau Courtesy the author and Kazak ProductionsOpening: August 19, 2021. 9:30 p.m. Location: Outdoors at 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN 47201RSVP One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/68f9558cb1b60759624c33a2bd3c5e18e6c2b062ffdfce0b0ec780d6d6c22f3e/GENIUS-LOCI_2_-KAZAK-PRODUCTIONS--FOLIMAGE.jpg" data-mid="1115239" border="0" />Adrien Merigeau is a filmmaker and art director based in Paris, France.  Genius LociAdrien Merigeau Courtesy the author and Kazak ProductionsOpening: August 19, 2021. 9:30 p.m. Location: Outdoors at 323 Brown St., Columbus, IN... http://thenight.gallery/2021 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 15:34:43 +0000 The Night Gallery 407678  2021 Night Owls In 2021, The Night Gallery presents&nbsp;Night Owls, an exhibition in Columbus, Indiana, as part of the Midnight Palace installation at Exhibit Columbus: New Middles. Columbus is a city of night owls: 39 percent of the population works in manufacturing, compared to 9 percent nationwide. Among this group, many second and third-shift workers begin their “days” in the evening and finish work in the morning. Other residents also burn the midnight oil: restaurant workers, truckers, parents of newborns, dedicated stargazers, residents with families overseas. However, many civic and amenity spaces only serve the sunlit-hours. How can we design for the midnight city? Night Owls presents film, video, animation and other works which document and are inspired by the lives of second and third-shift workers and spaces of nighttime, past, present, and future. In a world where the majority of design focuses on the daytime and the lives of 9-5 workers, Night Owls focuses on the worlds we live and build at night. Located at the Cummins Sears Building in Columbus, Indiana, Midnight Palace is a temporary installation inspired by the atmospheric qualities of nighttime and designed for the city’s night owls. It features a “wall of light” inspired by the historic light-bulbs from Columbus’ streetscape. Night Owls will be exhibited on a series of screens in the installation, which will host “drive-in” and “walk-by” screenings of different scales throughout Exhibit Columbus, August to November 2021. In partnership with YES Cinema. <img width="2000" height="1546" width_o="2000" height_o="1546" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5b39826ad29503d97fb86f4b12694adf3f56a331b9aeaee865ddc110716243e5/Midnight-PalaceFuture-Firm_006.jpg" data-mid="1127294" border="0" /> Schedule August 19  Genius LociAdrien Merigeau August 19–October 1Selected night time photography from Exhibit Columbus Photography Fellows &nbsp; On the Origins of High Water Virginia Hanusik From the Mississippi Watershed David Schalliol October 2–November 4  Nightshift SpitalfieldsJulius-Cezar MacQuarie Night Owls, ColumbusFuture Firm November 5  Night Owls: A Conversation with Julius-Cezar MacQuarie &amp; Cyrus Peñarroyo November 5–November 28 Nightshift Spitalfields  Julius-Cezar MacQuarie Manifest Destiny  Cyrus Peñarroyo  2021 Night Owls In 2021, The Night Gallery presents&nbsp;Night Owls, an exhibition in Columbus, Indiana, as part of the Midnight Palace installation at Exhibit... http://thenight.gallery/2020_office-ca Wed, 02 Sep 2020 01:44:30 +0000 The Night Gallery 382881  Let Me Tell You About My Houseoffice ca (Galo Canizares + Stephanie Sang Delgado)✨Opening✨October 23, 2020 — 7:00 p.m. Drive-Through / Walk-By Only — No Gathering, Remarks, or RefreshmentsLocation: The Night Gallery (Bridgeport) - 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60608 RSVPOn Exhibit: October 23-November 12Location: The Night GalleryIn consideration of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, this event will take place outdoors with 6-foot social distancing; masks will be required at all events. Please RSVP so we can manage crowd sizes in public space. <img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/13136aace4c838b4c05b3f4058812a0f4764413b463d557663d725a98248fd0a/Web09.png" data-mid="976505" border="0" /><img width="1000" height="800" width_o="1000" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/eb20b956a8fd30b66bfec16199ff7685b6e009471d1f561bb01bbfb8d68563c8/Web03.png" data-mid="976506" border="0" /> The 21st Century has yet to fulfill its predecessor’s promise of capsule, pod, and spaceship living. While calls for architecture to become hi-tech or metabolic resulted in canonical experiments and striking images, cities never quite accepted the concept of space-age living. The imagined futures of the 60s and 70s became footnotes in the history of various modernisms, rejected by a public more concerned with automobiles, mass media, and accruing capital. But even though “plug-in” cities and “capsule” skyscrapers didn’t become mainstream, building components did evolve to become, according to Reyner Banham, an “ensemble of domestic gadgetry [that] epitomizes the intestinal complexity of gracious living.”4x4 House is an exploration of this domestic gadgetry and a radically pragmatic response to the call for new modes of domesticity. It does not propose novel forms, but instead repurposes existing technology to produce new spatial conditions. Using one of the most common building components, the hydraulic elevator, 4x4 House revisits the notion that a house can be a machine for living in. With 16 possible configurations and an externalized fluid insulation envelope, it reverses the typical arrangement of a house’s intestinal systems to produce space that is modular, mutable, and accessible to all. About office caoffice ca is a design research collaborative led by Galo Canizares and Stephanie Sang Delgado, who are fascinated by the absurdities of constraints, codes (in every sense), and histories of architecture. Founded in 2014, they research curious objects such as software, duct tape, mylar, and bean bags. Canizares is the author of Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet (2019), and Sang Delgado is a registered architect and a previous Teaching Fellow at the School of Architecture at Taliesin. Both currently teach at the Texas Tech College of Architecture.  Let Me Tell You About My Houseoffice ca (Galo Canizares + Stephanie Sang Delgado)✨Opening✨October 23, 2020 — 7:00 p.m. Drive-Through / Walk-By Only — No... http://thenight.gallery/2020_Michael-Yoshimura Wed, 02 Sep 2020 01:39:13 +0000 The Night Gallery 382880  ShotengaiMichael Yoshimura✨Opening✨November 20, 2020 — 7:00 p.m.Location: The Night Gallery (Bridgeport) - 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60608 RSVPOn Exhibit: November 20-December 10Location: The Night GalleryIn consideration of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, this event will take place outdoors with 6-foot social distancing; masks will be required at all events. Please RSVP so we can manage crowd sizes in public space. <img width="1140" height="485" width_o="1140" height_o="485" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d999427f8128dcfe3efc43f700d2cda4e9d2c2c004025b7d60994d53369d729f/MYoshimura_Shotengai_01.jpg" data-mid="976501" border="0" /> Shotengai investigates Takaharu’s role in a future society extended through technological infrastructures - a story about space, city, and technology. Set in 2100, Takaharu lives in a humble mid-rise building off a shotengai, somewhere in a dense Japanese city. The story reflects upon his everyday actions as a maintenance worker for a large corporation’s code database. As the years have progressed, Takaharu has become increasingly jaded, and the bits of broken memory which narrates the film gives ques to his past employment, as a black market code hacker.About Michael YoshimuraMichael Yoshimura is a CG Artist based in Toronto, Canada. Michael received his Bachelor &amp; Master of Architecture from the Azrieli School of Architecture &amp; Urbanism. Michael has also studied in Spain at Universidad Europa de Madrid. His passion lies in combining the mediums of film, CG animation, and architecture - exploring their potential through cinematic visual narratives. He has previously worked in Canada and Japan, at the offices of Atsushi Kitagawara Architects, AGATHOM Co, DIALOG, and Denegri Bessai Studio.  ShotengaiMichael Yoshimura✨Opening✨November 20, 2020 — 7:00 p.m.Location: The Night Gallery (Bridgeport) - 3149 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60608 RSVPOn... http://thenight.gallery/2020_Ciera-Mckissick_Avery-Young Wed, 02 Sep 2020 01:27:00 +0000 The Night Gallery 382878  Black Independence Day All DayCiera Alyse McKissickeryday. new mercy(s) pt. 2&nbsp;avery r. youngin collaboration with South Side Home Movie Project✨Opening &amp; Live Performance✨October 10, 2020 — 7:00 p.m.Location: Principle Barbers (North Lawndale) - 3820 W. Ogden Ave., Chicago, IL 60632 RSVPOn Exhibit: October 11-October 22Location: The Night Gallery This event will present a “double feature”: a new video work by Ciera McKissick and a live peformance by avery r. young, in collaboration with South Side Home Movies Project ongoing series Spinning Home Movies. The presentation of the works will be followed by a short conversation moderated by Bobby Price of Principle Barbers. In consideration of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, this event will take place outdoors with 6-foot social distancing; masks will be required at all events. Please RSVP so we can manage crowd sizes in public space.&nbsp; Black Independence Day All Day <img width="692" height="386" width_o="692" height_o="386" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/cc546b58340f25f1dd99df38edb9a71d0fbe5c670ab80b4707485a31cdb505ea/BID.png" data-mid="976523" border="0" /> Inspired by Arthur Jafa's "Love is the message" collage style video, Black Independence Day All Day is a glimpse into black history and black contemporary culture, centered on moments of joy and freedom rather than trauma. The collage video juxtaposes images and footage of black business enterprises in Oklahoma which lie at the helm of America's racial history and tensions, James Baldwin, Spike Lee's Malcolm X, the Texas Prison System with 12 O'Clock boy inspired racing, Nina Simone, Grace Jones, double dutch competitions, hand games, and movement of black bodies. Black Independence Day All Day&nbsp;asks the questions "What does freedom look like? What stories will and should be told about black history?" These questions are answered through a visual representation and explore the parallels of black identity through a historical and modern day context in a series of spliced videos and audio that encompass the layers of blackness. eryday. new mercy(s), Part 2 <img width="1442" height="804" width_o="1442" height_o="804" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3e397da50faf6a4f89eab1a44b2d5b446957a8a558bad25de43c11c45738779b/averyryoung_sshmp_oct102020_nightgallery_1.jpg" data-mid="986546" border="0" /> Interdisciplinary artist avery r. young along with musicians Corey J. Wilkes and&nbsp; Justin Dillard will create a live ekphrastic work in reaction to a home movie of the 1968 King Riots in the East Garfield neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, from the South Side Home Movie Project’s Jean Patton Collection.&nbsp; The music will be improvised as the musicians encounter the footage together for the first time. Spinning Home Movies is a 30-minute curated set of vintage home movie footage from the South Side Home Movie Project digital archives, soundtracked by some of Chicago’s top DJs and Musicians. Each episode features a new themed film collection accompanied by soulful vibes artfully mixed by the week’s featured DJ to warm your heart and spirit. Learn more about Part 1 of this work by avery. r young here&nbsp;avery r. young -&nbsp; Vocals Corey J. Wilkes - Trumpet, Percussion Justin Dillard - Keys; percussion About Ciera McKissick Ciera McKissick is an independent writer, curator, cultural producer, and the founder of AMFM. She is also the coordinator of Public Programs at the Hyde Park Art Center, and Communications Associate at Ox-Bow School of Art. She created AMFM, originally a web magazine, as an independent study project in 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Journalism and Mass Communications. Her work since then often involves collaboration through supporting Black and brown artists, local arts organizations, and seeks to stimulate community engagement that's driven by inclusivity, accessibility, intention, and care.About avery r. youngInterdisciplinary artist avery r. young is a 3Arts Award winning teaching-artist, composer and producer with work that spans the genres of music, performance, visual arts and literature. Examining and celebrating Black American history and culture, his work also focuses in the areas of social justice, equity, queer identity, misogyny and body consciousness. As a writer, this Cave Canem alum has work featured The Breakbeat Poets, Coon Bidness, to be left with the body and Make Magazine. He has also written curriculum and essay on arts education which appear in Teaching Artist Journal and A.I.M. Print. His new full-length release, “booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid,” features songs and other sound designed created during his Arts + Public Life and Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (APL/CSRPC) artist residency. It was during this residency that he worked worked on sound design and concrete poems called "cullud sign(s)." Through voice, sound, visual art and performance, young is constantly exploring the forms and spaces in which poetry can exist. Most recently, he is the vocalist on flutist Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening (FPE Records) and his poetry is featured in photographer 3Arts Awardee, Cecil McDonald Jr.’s debut book, In the Company of Black (Candor Arts) and his first book neckbone (Northwestern University Press) was released in June 2019. He is currently one of four directors for the Floating Museum and touring with his band avery r. young &amp; de deacon board. Learn more about avery at averyryoung.com. avery r. young photo credit: Marvin Michaels About Spinning Home MoviesSpinning Home Movies is produced and presented by Arts + Public Life (APL) and South Side Home Movie Project (SSHMP), with support from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) and Chicago Arts Access. Each episode features a 20-30 minute set of 8mm, Super 8mm or 16mm vintage home movie footage shot by South Side residents from the 1920s to 1980s, curated and soundtracked by Chicago DJs, musicians and performing artists. Each episode is followed by a live discussion, “The Rewind,” where the Spinning Home Movies production team, guest artists and film donors dig deeper into the episode’s themes, discuss the curatorial and creative process, share the back story behind the film clips, and reflect on the unique experience of engaging South Side artists with this local film archive. SSHMP was founded in 2005 by Arts + Public Life director Jacqueline Stewart, and works to ensure that the diverse experiences and perspectives of South Siders will be available for study and appreciation by larger audiences and future generations through the collection, preservation, digitization, research and screening of home movies generously donated to the archive. Learn more about the South Side Home Movie Project and explore the digital archives at sshmp.uchicago.edu/ Event Photos <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0204195a1042d8e24b2a6c1ee8dbf419bb446b59a84a93967506e8cdf3eb7703/IMG_0116.JPG" data-mid="1000077" border="0" /><img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/79814716a88b83fb76bb6eaf9488fbe4c99edb0bfa0a6ab2f6a1075345ff559c/IMG_0108.JPG" data-mid="1000076" border="0" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fe195ffb33c1b1424bc3d051180b7349ea9f601f0858ca1b2413ed3f682ca002/IMG_0151.JPG" data-mid="1000078" border="0" />  Black Independence Day All DayCiera Alyse McKissickeryday. new mercy(s) pt. 2&nbsp;avery r. youngin collaboration with South Side Home Movie Project✨Opening...