Architorture
Found construction objects from various development sites act as foundations for critical ‘architortural’ performance text and photography. Text, printed on envelopes, and documentary photographs of Chicago Housing Authority's (CHA) Hope VI mixed-income developments are bound and manipulated onto the found objects using material such as: rope, nails, plastic, wire, electrical tape, and office clips. This process forces integration and conversation between various mediums to (in)form Architorture. The cloaked, beheaded, and bound proposal sculptures visualize the CHA's intensive screening formalities, spatial determinism, and questionable housing regulations for displaced residents of twice-cleared public housing communities. Depicted proposals include the Cabrini-Green, Parkside of Old Town, and Village of Westhaven homes.
Architorture was exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in Continuous Span, a group show curated by Jim Dempsey and comprised of the Spring 2017 Bridge Program cohort featuring: Jory Drew, Juan Guzman, Janis Kanter, Micaela Krol, Grant Newman, Jane Norling, Pooja Pittie, and Toya Simmons.
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