upcoming PROGRAMS and exhibitions
Delightful Sempahores
Zach Hill / Coco Klockner / Zante Moore with programming by Matt Morris
June 12th - July 24th, 2026
Opening reception: June 12th
Switch-Hook Projects opens on June 12th hosted by Co-Prosperity
A semaphore is an apparatus for long distance signaling, a lamp, a flag, a smoke signal.
From the Greek sema, sign, and phoros, bearer. The works in Delightful Semaphores are sign-bearers. They employ, interrogate and metabolize the signs of identity formation and legibility. An acute awareness of how signs can be employed to signal or disguise, to critique or adorn is not incidental to queer life but innate to it. It is this literacy, built through necessity and desire in equal measure, that is deployed in the work of Zach Hill, Coco Clockner, Zante Moore. Delightful Semaphores is surrealist and pragmatic, neither hopeful nor despairing.
Monument of Offering
Dana Lynn Harper
June 12th - July 24th, 2026
Opening reception: June 12th
The works in this exhibition explore the idealized ancestral lands I have never visited: Indonesia, my mother’s birthplace, and China and Vietnam, where my maternal lineage originates. Drawing from family history, cultural research, and historical art references, these locations are imagined rather than remembered. Landscapes are positioned behind gates, referencing the physical and emotional inaccessibility of my familial history. Through dreamy, constructed environments, I engage with compositional and symbolic motifs found in Chinese watercolor landscape painting, using the study of traditional craft as a form of reconnection. Wrought iron gates allude to systems of exclusion and control shaped by colonial histories, while also reflecting my personal experience growing up in an affluent white neighborhood. The fencing operates simultaneously as a barrier and as a structure of reverence and protection, similar to the way family history is often hidden from descendants.
Community Kitchen Dinners:
Recipes for Survivance
SAVE THE DATE:
July 6 (Cuba)
The Community Kitchen Dinner for Cuba will be fundraising for Global Health Partners
https://ghpartners.org/
June 1 (Palestine) + June 15 (Iran)
@ Marz Community Brewing | 3630 Iron Street, Chicago
[PALESTINE DINNER IS SOLD OUT]
Please consider donating directly to the causes down below!
Sudki’s Kitchen: https://donorbox.org/gaza2026/fundraiser/amer-abdulla
New Forms of Survivance: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-gazans-artists-voices-to-chicago
[IRAN DINNER IS SOLD OUT]
Please consider donating directly to the causes down below!
Two seatings each night:
5:30 - 7:00 PM + 7:30-9:00 PM
Join us for a series of community kitchen dinners, made from recipes for survivance, storytelling, and solidarity.
Survivance, as writer Gerald Vizenor explains, is an active sense of presence over absence, the continuance of stories, and the refusal of mere victimhood; in those dinners we are showing cultures that practice survivance through the continuance of recipes from their homeland gathering around a dinner table.
Inspired by artist projects responding to the imperial occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan including Enemy Kitchen and Combat Kitchen, Community Kitchen Dinners will feature conversations around food, memory, migration from regions the US/Israel empire is currently devastating.
Past PROGRAMS and exhibitions
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!