Clutch Gallery is pleased to present 41.8757° 87.6244°, a group show curated by students in Professor Rhoda Rosen’s Contemporary Cartography course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 41.8757° 87.6244° identify the historic Michigan Boulevard district in the Chicago Loop area where the School is located.
41.8757° 87.6244° rethinks the idea of the dérive, otherwise known as “drift;” an intuitive movement through space based on a reading of interior and exterior cues; a wandering through space.
41.8757° 87.6244° is a card file filled with typewritten
and handwritten texts on 3”x5” index cards. Each text is an instruction, a
prompt to follow. Each prescribes a way to interact with the environment, a quest, described in
concrete or abstract terms. 41.8757° 87.6244° provides cues for new methods of
transit through spaces that are both familiar and unfamiliar.
Please join us on opening night for a special event, as
our exhibition at Clutch Gallery helps launch the new Arts District of the Society of Smallness.
OPENING EVENTS:
a. Walking Tour by Clutch Gallery’s Education Department
b. Cartography Office Performance
***Please note that the Arts District opens at 10 AM ***
*Performances begin at 6 PM*
Participating artists:
Yesenia Bello, Isabel Bogarin, Bella Bruk, Jennie F
Crichlow, Frederick James Eschrich, Marissa Leigh Fine, Chiara Giulianotti ,
Alessandra Maria Gomez-Misserian, Henry Christophe Harris, Heather Anne
Mackenzie, Gabriela Renee Mendez, Coco A Menk, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Madee
Byrne Miller, Arndis Y Otharsson, Compton A Quashie, Suzanne Lois Reid, Mitsu
Miriam Salmon, Jasmyn Grace Smith, Victoria Leigh Thurmond, Rita Wang, Connie
Alice Connie Westlife