performance. explosion.

9pm. free.
caboladies
http://www.myspace.com/caboladies
driphouse
http://www.last.fm/music/Driphouse
darla marx
http://acid-marshmallow.com/index.php?/ongoing/darla-marx/
rene hell
http://arborinfinity.com/blog/?p=148
henry

free,

Join us at our inaugural exhibition this Thursday.
Featuring work by the members of the (Con)Temporary Art Space

An Evening with Your (Con)Temporaries
Opening reception of (Con)Temporary Art Space
208 S Wabash
Chicago
Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:30 to 8:30 pm

Work by:
Douglas Burns, Tom Burtonwood, Emily Clayton, Theodore Darst, Jim Duignan Josh Finck, Marian Frost, Elizabeth Furani, Laurra Hieber, Serena Himmelfarb, Holly Holmes, Henry James Glover, Nate Lee, Sarah Loude, Ed Marszewski, Rachael Marszewski, Tim Mellon, Andrew Rigsby, Chris Roberson, Kevin Stanton, & Kenneth Zawacki.

The The (Con)Temporary Art Space is open daily from 11:30 – 5:30pm. (except Mondays)
and located at 208 S Wabash downtown Chicago

Visit the Facebook Support group for more info.

LUMPEN MAGAZINE

& THE EVER-SO-SECRET ORDER OF THE LAMPREY

ANNOUNCE SPECIAL PARTY: Save the Whale!

In December 2009, an electrical fire destroyed the Whale, home of Kenneth Morrison, and damaged the adjoining home of Nat Ward and Michelle Faust. All three Pilsen artists and their pets survived, however now there is serious debt and a need to rebuild as soon as possible.

To help, Lumpen Magazine is throwing a benefit concert on Friday, February 5^th at the Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S. Morgan). Tickets are $10. 9pm-2am. Four bands: Black Nag (www.myspace.com/blacknag), Thin Man (www.thinmansongs.com), Son of Cops (ex-Drapes), and Members Only (80s glitter covers). DJaded spins dance songs and the Three Homos (members of mahjongg ) spin until close.

This show doubles as a release party for the 114^th issue of Lumpen, themed “Crisis: Looking for Answers.” The special magazine, featuring swankster graphics and a globe-trotting staff, is free upon entry.

Morrison, Ward, and Faust are all members of the Ever So-Secret Order of the Lamprey. Over almost ten years of Sunday ritual in Pilsen, this secret art society has amassed an archive of over 4,000 art works, including video and robots. Many society members will be staffing tonight’s event.

Lumpen, in Chicago over two decades now, publishes magazines, plans festivals., and makes Korean/Polish BBQ. Recent and ongoing projects include Proximity Magazine, the Version and Select Media Festivals, and the Bridgeport Art District among many others.

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CHICAGO WEEKLY FEATURE: http://tinyurl.com/chicago-weekly

TIMEOUT CHICAGO FEATURE: http://tinyurl.com/ycsjdow

SAVE THE WHALE FACEBOOK GROUP: http://tinyurl.com/shave-the-whale

LUMPEN HQ: http://www.lumpen.com/

Hyde Park Art Center is coming to the Co-Prosperity Sphere..

Artist Run Spaces Tour
January 23, 2010, 11:00AM
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago

The first Artist Run Spaces tour of 2010 travels the Pilsen/Bridgeport area on Saturday, January 23. Join the Art Center staff as we go off the beaten path, see new art, and talk to the artists who run the galleries.

The itinerary consists of five group shows of contemporary art – from ipod art to painting and sculpture – and some drinks along the way. We will visit Antenna Gallery, Ben Russell, The Chicago Art Department, Co-Prosperity Sphere and Second Bedroom Project Space. This tour is free and will meet at 11 am at Café Jumping Bean on 18th Street. Call the Hyde Park Art Center at 773.324.5520 for more information and to reserve a spot.

Saturday, January 16, 2010 9pm – 1am
$10 please. (you will receive a copy of the new issue) or $8 without mag!

Please join us for the release of the sixth issue of Proximity magazine.  There will be an evening of performances by Proximity friends and family as well as an exhibition of works by artists featured in past magazines. The exhibition is part of an exchange project with our friends at Trendbeheer. Works on display will be sent to Rotterdam to be exhibited at Kunst & Complex in early March.

Performances by Implodes, Aleks and the Drummer, Maxwell Citron and Members Only. With DJ J+J+J.

Issue #006 is themed (An)Other Art Worlds and weighs in at 184 pages.

We invited our friends and friends of friends to contribute to our annual geographically and territorially-based examinations of some other art worlds.  This not so random survey of under-represented art scenes, movers and shakers, artist run initiatives, groups, spaces and theoretical constructs helps us imagine and remake the worlds we want to live and work in.

It features reports from Minneapolis, Chicago, Chiang Mai, Los Angeles, Turkey, Rotterdam, Philadelphia, Madrid, New York, Brisbane, and Myrtle Beach.

With work by:
Claire Pentecost,Chris Larson, Dayton Castleman, The Yes Men, Scott Fortino, Niels Post, Aron Gent, Ben Speckmann, Jeffery Stockbridge,  SOFTlab, and Seripop.

And texts by:
Renay Kerkman, Mark Staff Brandl, Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Institiute for Applied Aesthetics,  Noah Berlatsky,  Steve Ruiz, Michelle Grabner, David More, Brian Holmes, Claire Pentecost, Rod Slemmons, Rebecca Zorach, Bert Stabler, Janet Koenig, Anthony Elms, Heath Schultz, Paul Lloyd Sargent, Lauren Rosenblum, Patrick Willi, Jorge Miñano Ramirez, Richard Hutt, Anna Mayer, Allegra Murphy Denton, Renny Pritkin Kristin, Ostberg, Simon Anderson, and Jemima Wyman.

+ much more.

January 29 to February 4, 2010.
opening reception January 29, 2010 7-10pm

Dialogue: Presented by IRUS art (an intercultural collaborative art show between artists in Iran and the U.S.)

Opening: 7-10 PM, Friday, January 29th
Discussion Panel: 5-7 PM, Saturday, January 30th
The Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219-21 South Morgan Street, Chicago.
Free Admission.

Two teams of artists, one in Tehran and another in Denver have assembled under one name: IRUS (Iran – United States). Starting with our mutual respect for art, we have established collaborative projects between our groups. During a one-year period, each group initiated a creative piece and mailed incomplete works back and forth through completion between our two cities: either directly or through friends, relatives or acquaintances who were traveling between the U.S. and Iran. This show demonstrates the fruit of that one-year period: a vibrant collection of intercultural pieces designed to celebrate cultural differences and find harmony through art.Using “Dialogue” as our theme, it is our goal to present the perspectives of each group in a respectful, trusting and encouraging manner. In this process, we are not only developing art, but also participating in a functional dialogue with each other as artists and individuals. One component of the show is the Persian story of Scheherazade alongside the stories of Mark Twain as a conceptual framework for the art, further promoting the exploration of, and interaction between the two cultures.

For the first time in Chicago we will be displaying our dialogue to the public
beginning January 29th till February 4th at the Co-Prosperity Sphere gallery. A
discussion panel with five of the IRUS art artists will be held on January 30th, 5-7 PM.

For more information please see: http://www.irusart.org or contact email hidden; JavaScript is required

DAY TWO of Trendbeheer Meets Proximity
Dec 19 , 2009
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St.

Video Program : 7pm-9pm

Rotterdam VHS Film Festival Program
Niels Post will be screening a specially crafted video program choosing his favorite works from the archives of the festival.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST DAY OF THE ART EXHIBITION AS WELL.

About the show:

For the past two years Public Media Institute and Proximity magazine have been collaborating with Trendbeheer.com, a Rotterdam-based arts initiative, to bring artists and projects to each other’s cities.

This December Trendbeheer will be mounting a show at C-PS to coincide with issue 6 of Proximity magazine, themed (An)Other Worlds.
Issue 6 includes an expansive Rotterdam Section and artists interviewed in the issue will be present in Chicago for the Trendbeheer Meets Proximity exhibition.

Trendbeheer will be bringing information about the Rotterdam art scenes displayed in an ad hoc Info Kiosk.  They will screen a Rotterdam VHS Film Festival program and a present a performance by Jeroen Kuster.

 The exhibition features works by Niels Post, Jeroen Kuster, Jeroen Jongeleen, Petra van Noort and Charlotte Schleiffert, Olaf Mooij, Gyz LaRiviere, Marcha van den Hurk, Koen Taselaar and Villeroy & Boch.

Info on the artists:

Niels Post explores public space and his computer screen in a playful and humorous way. He lives and works in Rotterdam, is the editor of tendbeheer.com and made headlines when he turned the number one landmark of Rotterdam into his own personal postal address.

Jeroen Kuster is a sculptor who is steadily creating and archiving his private animal kingdom mostly using non-organic materials. You can’t have missed him during the last two Version Festivals!

Charlotte Schleiffert is well known for her large scale drawings and installations, for this exhibition she has created three new works. In 1999 she won the Prix de Rome. Her work has been exhibited in many international group and solo exhibitions.

Petra van Noort is a sculptor turned painter. Her sexually explicit large-scale mural won her the Stroom/ The Hague encouragement prize in 2007. She’s also involved in the artist run studio building Singer Sweatshop in Rotterdam.

Olaf Mooij’s work deals with the birth, life and eventually death of mankinds most treasured family member; the automobile. He is very well known for his art cars, lives and works in Rotterdam and is a founding member of the oldest artist-run studio building in the city, Kunst & Complex.

Jeroen Jongeleen commutes between Paris and Rotterdam and has a lot of fun in between. His adventures in forbidden territory seem to balance between playful mischief and urban criminality. By discarding the rules, he turns the city into an urban playground.

Koen Taselaar garduated in 2008 and is quickly making a name for himself drawing anything he can get his hands on. His zines and posters have been exhibited internationaly, at the Co-Prosperity Sphere he will show blown up versions of his modern computer bugs.

Marcha van den Hurk has been photographing, drawing and painting drifters and loners over the last few years. In every portrait she tries to provide a shelter that keeps these drifters safe in the world outside. She also runs the residency program at the Rotterdam artist run initiative Het Wilde Weten.

Gyz la Rivière, his work is about being restless, empty, bored and saturated. In the western world there is a continuing drive for lust and reinventing ‘taste’. He likes to archive this process, so that he is capable of capturing time and separating himself from it. That way he is arranging time like a visual archivist. He lives and works in Rotterdam and is also one of the two HuMobisten.

Dec 12, 2009.

1-6pm

Please stop by for a last viewing of the Super Bad Ass show. The Art Bargain Basement (in our front display window)  will also be open for browsing