Projects

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CURRENT PROJECTS:

/ANSWERS (Sessions 1-12)/

ANSWERS investigates the fate of the meaning of words within collective environments where complex concepts often circulate as operational definitions. In Sessions 1-12, a series of question and answer sessions were conducted during normal working hours with NATO military personnel stationed at two NATO Headquarters locations in Europe...

Active duty Army members stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona take a break from their workday to explain the function of the Uniform and speculate the meaning and purpose behind its issuance by the government in 2005 for use in Iraq and Afghanistan...

COLLABORATIVE / CURATORIAL:

/Arte no es facil: Havana at the Center/

Amor Pirata explores collaborative art practices outside centralized institutional frameworks by engaging practices of emerging Havana-based artists. Through discussion, documentation and engagement, we hope to serve as a foundation for increasing ties between like-minded communities in Chicago and Havana...

Ferris Gallery

/Revolutions Ferris Gallery /

DOVA temporary joins the Ferris Gallery in presenting the curatorial group isthmus in their second project, REVOLUTIONS. Exhibited here is an array of artists creating work in a variety of media that playfully addresses the concept of “revolutions,” resulting in a multiplicity of interpretations: abstract, formal, technological, social and political. One goal of this project seeks to establish a curatorial tradition based on continuous change, rotation and re-figuration...

/O n Paper/

On Paper is a curatorial effort by graduate students from the University of Chicago’s Dept. of Visual Arts under the auspices of Smart Museum curator Stephanie Smith. We approached the project by establishing a set of criteria gleaned from a critical discussion of recently acquired work by Michael Rakowitz. With these notions in mind, we each culled through the Smart Museum’s database and selected artworks that spoke to the group’s concepts and our own aesthetic sensibilities...