For Public Consumption Parade Info

For Public Consumption's official opening is THIS SATURDAY at Hyde Park Art Center here in Chicago, from 6pm-8pm. Our opening coincides with 24hr party, Creative Move Too, that HPAC is having from noon to noon, Sat-Sun.

Check-out www.hydeparkart.org for details.

If you're interested in participating in the Parade, show up at 5601 S. Hyde Park Blvd. at around 11:00am on Saturday the 28th. All are welcome to march, dance, cavort, bike, roll, etc, with us.

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Here is a blurb about Por Public Consumption.

The video exhibition, For Public Consumption, presents performances by five Chicago artists on the façade of the Hyde Park Art Center. Each of these pieces asks of you, the public, to take part – to read along, to listen to what is not there, to be complicit in a performance.

In order of appearance: Richard Fox culls Internet confessions and performs the text within the presentational format of PowerPoint. Deva Eveland mugs for our attention and struggles to communicate from within the silent façade. John Bannon turns his camera on the public to present the performance of Chicagoans gathered for a parade. Shawnee Barton wants us to know her as the sum of her favorite things. Morganville and Daniéle Wilmouth present a group of headphone-clad dancers, performing a silent rendition of "Hula Lou".

These artists engage the need to make the private public; the motives of public figures and the authenticity of public façades; the performative aesthetics of everyday life and crowds; how the things we associate with become props for the performance of identity; how culture is distributed to the masses and performed by individuals.

MORE INFO: http://www.linkshall.org/ps-april.shtml

For Public Consumption @ Hyde Park Art Center

For Public Consumption is up and running.

Stephanie Pereira and I curated a performance for video exhibition that is currently on view at the Hyde Park Art Center. The exhibition is a collaboration between Links Hall and HPAC. It features new work by John Bannon, Shawnee Barton, Richard Fox, Deva Eveland, and Morganville & Danièle Wilmouth.

Listed below are several FREE public programs for the current video exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center:

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For Public Consumption, Artist, Curator and Community Disucssion
Sunday, April 15, 2pm
Hyde Park Art Center, FREE
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2007/04/for_public_consumption.php

Discussion with FPC artists, curators, and HPAC public. Traditional panel format will evolve into a public dialogue. Food for thought: What is the public's relationship with HPAC's video display? What are fruitful ways of approaching and consuming artwork? More questions posted on the FPC blog. Public is invited to pose their own questions on the blog.

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Making Something Out of Something, April 11 - June 3
Blog hosted by a different For Public Consumption artist or curator each week. Includes your standard blog posts, alongside new multi-media artworks by the artists and webisodes featuring a new artist each day. Find the blog at http://www.hydeparkart.org/4833/fpc_artists/

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MORE UPCOMING PUBLIC PROGRAMS FOR For Public Consumption:

For Public Consumption Kick-off Parade
Saturday, April 28, 12pm
Hyde Park Art Center, FREE
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2007/04/for_public_consumption.php

The FPC artists and community guests eat up the streets as they parade toward the HPAC 1 year anniversary party, Creative Move Too, calling to the public to join them as they go. The parade will end inside HPAC at the For Public Consumption podium for speeches, effusive thanks and perhaps the regrets of over-indulgence. Contact Parade Organizer John Bannon at JEB *at* johnebannon.com if interested in participating in this parade. Visit www.hydeparkart.org for parade route and further details.

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Performance in Response to For Public Consumption
Thursday, May 10, 7pm
Hyde Park Art Center, FREE
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2007/04/for_public_consumption.php

Interdisciplinary literary event with FPC artist Richard Fox and members of the performance group, BoyGirlBoyGirl.

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We Ate It Up - A student exhibition in response to work from For Public Consumption
Opening Reception Friday, May 18, 2-4pm
4833, Hyde Park Art Center, FREE
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2007/04/for_public_consumption.php

Students from Little Village public school, Telpochcalli Elementary, worked with teaching artist William Estrada and classroom teacher Dana Osterlin to develop creative responses to Shawnee Barton's For Public Consumption Video, "To Celebrate my Favorite Day". The results of their creative efforts will be on exhibition in 4833, Hyde Park Art Center's community space, from May 18-June 3.

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Licking our Chops: For Public Consumption Closing Party
Sunday, June 3, 2pm
Hyde Park Art Center, FREE
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2007/04/for_public_consumption.php

FPC Artist Shawnee Barton invites you to a meal in the her favorite color; a monochromatic feast featuring everything from carrot salad to mac and cheese and sweet potatoes to cheetos...and while you feast, lay your sticky orange fingers on a free copy of Richard Fox's new poems sourced from FPC audience responses.

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Internet opportunities:

Making Something Out of Something, April 15 - June 3
Blog hosted by a different For Public Consumption artist or curator each week. Find the blog at http://www.hydeparkart.org/4833/fpc_artists/

For Public Consumption Bulletin Board, April 15 - June 3
Intentional and happenstance audiences alike are invited to respond to For Public Consumption through a variety of mediums including email, a response box and bulletin board at Hyde Park Art Center, and blog comments.
Email: fpc.hpac *at* gmail dot com.