Author: hobo23@gmail.com
New Work at The Satellite Space: “Bayesian/Bindle” by Amanda Taves
Through photography and installation, Amanda Taves explores identity against the backdrop of a fluctuating social world. She employs commonplace elements such as home interiors, personal objects, and techniques typically reserved for criminal investigation to inspire viewer narratives. Negotiating the expansive economic, political, and religious topography of Chicago’s disparate communities, her work serves to deconstruct the physical and psychological boundaries segregating the city by placing viewers centrally within the landscape. This perspective offers viewers the opportunity to play witness to the private lives of others while highlighting the mutability of one’s own thoughts, opinions, and judgments; transforming the passive act of viewing into a state of active self-reflection.
Amanda has installed Bayesian/Bindle at Uss Gallery’s Residential Satellite Space. The piece includes permanently fixed fingerprints on the banisters in the stairwell and a small book documenting her exploration of the home and environs in relationship to the fingerprint dusting. The book will be released December 1st at Uss Gallery as part of our opening for our new bookstore.
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings- Paintings by Gregory Fitzsimmons (Hobo 23)
Opening: Saturday December 16 @ 6 pm
Hobo 23 (Gregory Fitzsimmons) is a largely self-taught artist living and working in Chicago. He makes paintings, photo-collages, books, and short films. Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings at Uss Gallery, is a result of his use of walking as a psychedelic tactic. In his mid-40s, Hobo 23 returned to school and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and B.A. from The School for New Learning at DePaul University. His work is inspired by the intermedia practice of Brion Gysin and the first-person cognitive experimental methods of scientist John C. Lilly.
Uss Gallery //(312) 508-2591
305c, 3200 West Carrol Street, Chicago, IL 60624-2030
OBJECT EXCHANGE: ALEXANDRIA (GALLERY MAILBOX) BY CHRIS J. STAATS
Chris J. Staats sculpture Alexandria (Gallery Mailbox) is now open as a space for exchanging objects. This is an open-curated space and anyone is allowed to deliver and pick-up art for free. Alexandria (Gallery Mailbox) is located in the backyard at 1620 North Richmond Street in the Humboldt Park Neighborhood of Chicago. There is no need to contact Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects to exchange artwork. But if you would like to text or call, contact Gregory Fitzsimmons at 312-508-2591.
[telephonePiece] by Antoinette Suiter
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[telephonePiece] :: :: 1 (312) 273-5769
Antoinette Suiter has installed [telephonePiece] as part of her residency in Uss Gallery’s Astra 5 Satellite Space.
The [telephonePiece] installation contains a Raspberry Pi running a phone tree application. The application uses Uss Gallery’s telephone landline. Special thanks to Amanda Yamasaki for coding assistance.
[telephonePiece] can be accessed by calling 1 (312) 273-5769 from anywhere in the world, free of charge, from any app or device with a touchtone. This includes WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger– to list two.
The work is included in Antoinette’s solo show, Hiraeth at ArtHelix/SHIM in New York City August 6th – August 19th. The Astra 5 Satellite Space will be manned during the length of the Hiraeth exhibit. For more information go to Facebook Event Page for the show. Live video feed during gallery hours.
Live video stream.
Mail/Postal Art Call for “Astra 5A Memorial Exhibit: Drifting Satellites/Lost Signals”
Open Call to all artists for postal art about missed communications, misunderstandings, lost letters, and garbled messages.
“Astra 5A Memorial Exhibit: Drifting Satellites/Lost Signals”
Medium: Any, Free
Size: Any/Free
All work will be exhibited, photographed and cataloged.
Deadline: December 31, 2016
Send your work to:
Astra5A c/o Hobo 23 (Gregory Fitzsimmons)
1620 N Richmond Street
Chicago IL 60647 USA
All work will be exhibited at Uss Gallery in Chicago and cataloged on the gallery’s website.
Asta5A (Sirius 2) is a damaged and failed communications satellite, which experienced a technical anomaly leading to the end of the spacecraft’s mission in January of 2009. Astra5A continues its asynchronous travels around the earth, but now in a graveyard orbit, filled with messages that cannot be sent or retrieved.
http://www.space.com/6346-failed-telecommunications-satellite-drifts-control.html
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Antoinette Suiter: Astra 5 Satellite Space Resident Artist Spring/Summer 2016
Uss Gallery is proud to announce Antoinette Suiter as Spring/Summer Artist-in-Residence in our Satellite Space Astra 5.
Artist Statement:
“I’m currently investigating notions of the term nostomania in my practice. An outmoded psychological term used to characterize a harmfully extreme form of nostalgia; an unremitting desire to return home or go back to a familiar place exemplifies the affliction. A hyper-fear, horror, and obsession with the objects of home also characterize nostomania. Nostalgia in these circumstances is pushed to a perilous degree, and out of the control of the individual experiencing it.
In terms of materials, I predominantly work with ubiquitous domestic supplies such as carpet, PVC pipe, and wooden framing, to emphasize the uncanny discomfort within the familiar. I use dated materials and patterns in combination with broader signifiers to discuss the simultaneity of memory with the present, and the repetition and trends within a single person’s lifespan. The importance of scale and proximity to the viewer’s own body is also something I’m actively investigating as a significant factor in an encounter with the uncanny.
I view my work as a movie for one; an implied larger narrative abbreviated, displaced, and contextualized within the structure of yet another narrative. The objects I see as de-contextualized movie props in terms of form and subject matter, but also self-contained units complete in their own existence rather than secondary forms remaining from a larger whole. This idea of a world within a world, as well as the intersection of “high art” with the cheap sensationalism of pulp, pervades my work.”
Breakaway Space Astra 5A Crashes to Earth
This morning our Breakaway Space crashed to earth. Astra 5A is the work of Chris J Staats and began it’s mission on October 2oth. The Breakaway Space has been collecting submissions for almost three months. A curatorial team is on-site at the crash collecting material for a future catalog.
Satellite Space Astra 5 and Breakaway Space Astra 5A
Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects has two new mini-spaces designed by by Chris J. Staats, Satellite Space Astra 5 and Breakaway Space Astra 5A. Both spaces are named after the failed Astra 5A commercial telecommunications satellite, currently drifting in an uncontrolled orbit around the earth.
Breakaway Space Astra 5A is now open and accepting work. This is an open-curated space and anyone is allowed to install work, until the Astra 5A falls to earth. The Breakaway Space is located in the backyard at 1620 North Richmond Street in the Humboldt Park Neighborhood of Chicago. There is no need to contact Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects to install work. But if you would like to text or call, before or after installation, contact Gregory Fitzsimmons at 312-508-2591.
Satellite Space Astra 5 will be open beginning in the winter of 2016 for 6-month artist residencies. Artists in-residence will use the space for installations and programming, with support from Uss Gallery Nomadic Projects.
Rendered In An Idiom Other Than For Scientists: Opening February 19th
Krissy Wilson | Christopher Staats | Carly Ries
Molly M. Brandt | Ashley Limon
Rendered In An Idiom Other Than For Scientists displays works that reveal the invisible becoming apparent, emerging as objects of uncanny necessity, where contingency and spontaneity override strong intentions and casual relationships to illuminate the surprising hiddenness of language and images.
New Home Port and Call for Work “Rendered In An Idiom Other Than For Scientists”
Future exhibition (late October 2014): Rendered In An Idiom Other Than For Scientists
“That the laws of nature could change, not in accordance with some superior hidden law…but for no cause or reason whatsoever.” Quentin Meillassoux
Works of the dark, the occulted, and the invisible, emerging as “objects of uncanny necessity,” when contingency and spontaneity override the artists’ strong intentions and reveal the surprising hiddenness of nature and human relationships.
Contact:
Director and Curator: Gregory M Fitzsimmons/ (312) 508-2591
gregoryfitzsimmons.com
http://www.swanmymothersaid.com/
http://www.ussgallery.com/
MANA Contemporary Chicago
c/o Gregory Fitzsimmons #3118
2233 S. Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608