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Excursion: Bubbles and Clouds
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
This field trip begins with a meet up at the MoCP for a briefing session and group viewing of the Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy exhibition with participating artist Rozalinda Borcilӑ. Participants will then set off on a facilitated walking excursion to explore the geographic, social, and aesthetic impact of petrocapitalism by investigating the current wave of investment bubbles and real estate mega-speculation in downtown Chicago. ...
Workshop and Discussion: Mapping Petroleum Lives
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Led by exhibiting artist Rozalinda Borcilă, this mapping-from-below workshop uses prompts and facilitated exercises to develop a discussion of the various ways petroleum shapes our daily lives as an economy, a source of energy, and as a specific way of organizing the social world. Participants will work together to produce a number of mind maps and diagrams of the various systems that mediate our relationships...
Workshop - Seeing Dust: DIY Particle Sensor
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Exhibiting artists Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter will lead this workshop, in which participants will learn about particulate matter air pollution and build their own electronic sensor. All necessary supplies will be provided (one dust sensor kit per group or family), and participants can sign up to either build a sensor or simply attend to learn more about issues related to air pollution, particle tracking and environmental detection and...
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Lecture in Photography: Martha Rosler
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Martha Rosler creates incisive social and political analyses of the myths and realities of contemporary culture. Her work explores issues from daily life and the mass media to architecture and the built environment, and in particular, the ways in which these subjects affect women. Her works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American...
Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy features MoCP commissioned works by artists in response to the environmental and public health impact of petcoke, a dust-like waste product containing carbon, toxic heavy metals, and other dangerous compounds resulting from oil refining processes in the Chicago region and beyond. In addition to photography, the exhibiting artists use multi-channel video installations, sculptural objects and interactive...
Lecture in Photography: Joel-Peter Witkin
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Joel-Peter Witkin is renowned as the creator of elaborately constructed and often erotically charged photographic tableaux exploring grand themes of religion, sex and mortality with continual references to art history. Witkin has pursued complex issues of the human condition for more than 40 years through people most often cast aside by society. Witkin’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of...
Excursion: The Black Snake Tour of Aurora
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
The Black Snake Tour of Aurora: Petrocapitalism and Resistance in the Global Suburb How is Aurora connected with Indigenous struggles against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Bakken Oilfields, Tar Sands & other extractive industries? Join us for a people’s tour of petrocapitalism in Aurora, IL as we activate knowledges and memory to unsettle the mechanisms of this global suburb. Participants will visit a data center that is vital...
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Opening Reception: Viviane Sasssen: UMBRA
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Join us for an opening reception for Viviane Sassen: UMBRA. UMBRA is an exhibition consisting of photography and multimedia works by acclaimed fashion photographer Viviane Sassen (Dutch, b. 1972). The work in UMBRA, which means shadow in Latin, emphasizes the play of light and shadow that is characteristic of her work. The artist is also known for her alluring color photographs in which form and content balance on the...
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Lecture in Photography: Barbara Tannenbaum
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Will Success Spoil Photography? Why is an Andreas Gursky photo currently worth fifty times more than an Emmet Gowin or a Cindy Sherman fourteen times more than an Aaron Siskind? How – and why – did this escalation in price and status occur? Photography’s move into the same marketplace as painting and sculpture has altered our perception of the medium’s dual nature as object and as image. What do these changes bode for the future of...
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FIRST LOOK: 2017 MoCP Fine Print Party
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Please join the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Museum Council, staff, and artists for a public unveiling of four new prints that will be added to the MoCP Fine Print Program. Prints will be available for sale. All proceeds will support MoCP exhibitions, public programs and community engagement efforts.
$50
Lecture in Photography: Jennifer Blessing
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum @ 600 S Michigan Ave, Illinois City, IL
Jennifer Blessing is senior curator of photography at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Throughout her career, she has curated many photography-based exhibitions, including Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video (2014), Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective (2012), and Francesca Woodman (2012). Most recently Blessing curated Photo-Poetics: An Anthology (2016), a group exhibition...
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Lecture in Photography: Deana Lawson
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
For nearly a decade, Lawson has been investigating the visual expression of global black culture and how individuals claim their identities within it. Her staged portraits draw upon Western and African diasporic conventions of self-presentation, popular culture, mythology, and religious rituals and beliefs—emphasizing dialogues among the past, present, and future of black culture. Lectures in Photography are...
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Grace of Intention
Museum of Contemporary Photography Colum
Monuments are deliberate gestures—objects or structures created to commemorate an event, person or era. Their meaning is usually imposed, and they often serve as focal points for aspirational civic and political attributes like valor and sacrifice, or to underscore a foundational political narrative. But their meaning can transform, changing over time as the relevance of their symbolism ebbs and flows due to social and political shifts. Like...
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