subVersion Summer Camp
July 17-27, 2025 in Chicago
Facilitated by Public Media Institute (Lumpen Radio, Buddy Chicago, Co-Prosperity, MdW, etc)
PMI is a part of The Buddy System
subVersion Summer Camp is a Do-It-Together series of gatherings and calls to action!
We invite artists, educators, musicians, filmmakers, activists, designers, and workers of all stripes converging in Chicago this summer to help us make posters, music, t-shirts and merit badges while we make friends, comrades, and plans. Let’s make camp.
Join us in Bridgeport, the Community of the Future (and beyond), for ten days of camaraderie, fun and resistance to the spread of fascist culture. subVersion Summer Camp will foster collective re-education through public conversations, workshops, classes and happenings. We’ll present a broad range of creative forms of protest, and participants will be able to choose their own solidarity adventure… kickball or tag, puppets or banners, ballots or stink bombs?
CURRENT ExhibitionS
Parallel to Hell
Le Hien Minh
May 2nd - June 6th, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2nd, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Le Hien Minh, Me So Horny, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
For her solo show at Co-Prosperity titled Parallel to Hell, Le Hien Minh presents a new body of work comprising two sculptures and a large hand-painted, site-specific text-based work. This body of work critically examines how American pop culture has impacted Vietnamese female identity. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including Hollywood films, American pop music, Vietnam War iconography, and traditional Vietnamese motifs, she weaves these elements together to create powerful objects that radiate an otherworldly aura. Le Hien Minh approaches this new work through a surrealist and metaphysical lens, blending fantasy and nightmare to create artwork that is both alluring and unsettling.
How To See in the Dark: Closing Activations
June 1st @ Co-Prosperity
3219-21 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60608
Symposium: 11:00AM - 3:00PM
How to See in the Dark's symposium gathers artists, scholars, and activist's to refract the show's theme through their various socially engaged, activist, and philosophical practices: music, dance, image making, writing and computational media.
Past PROGRAMS and exhibitions
exhibition texts
Co-Prosperity started an initiative in 2021 with the help of our Co-Pro Council that commissions writers to produce responses that document/review/analyze/discuss/talk about their experiences of our exhibitions. Are you a writer? Get added to our Writer’s Bank here!
About Co-Prosperity Chicago
Co-Prosperity is a gallery and HQ for Public Media Institute: a non-profit organization that brings you independent media projects like Lumpen Magazine, Lumpen Radio, and Lumpen TV, a gallery in upstate New York, Buddy (an artist store at the Chicago Cultural Center), and MdW: a coalition of artist-run organizations in the Midwest!
Come visit us at 3219 S MORGAN ST, Chicago, IL, and follow us on Instagram to see our Open Hours!