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For Immediate Release
Contact: Yana Balson, 215.568.5513 (Director, Vox Populi)
Kait Midgett 215.413.3101 (Director, Project Room)
Tim Fleming, Rodger Cooley 312.733.2263 or 312.666.4566 (7/3 Split,
The Butcher Shop, Chicago)
July at VOXPOPULI, BaseKamp, and Project Room
Come see how they do it in the Windy City. As part of our ongoing
goal of exhibiting emerging artists from outside the Philadelphia
area, Vox Populi, BaseKamp, and Project Room have rounded up a herd
of our Midwestern counterparts and are bringing them east. The artists
are all members of artist run spaces such as our own. This exhibition
begins Friday, July 13th and continues through Friday, July 29th.
There will be two opening receptions Friday, July 13th from 7-11
PM at Vox Populi and BaseKamp, and Saturday, July 14th from 6-12
PM at Project Room. The Friday evening reception at BaseKamp will
feature video screenings at 7 and 10 PM. The Saturday opening reception
at Project Room will feature outdoor video viewing after dusk as
well as music by Chad Whetherbee, Hoopty Heaven, Roach Howson, and
Tre.Fad.. All events are free and open to the public.
The artists of The Butcher Shop and 7/3 Split, Chicago
Since 1997, the Butcher Shop has provided a venue for artists not
interested in showing in traditional spaces. By providing a forum
for these artists to interrelate, these artists of different backgrounds
have worked together to develop a sense of community. Typical is
a recent exhibition spotlighting public art, called Department of
Space and Land Reclamation, which featured a weekend of live public
art happenings, ranging from street theater to graffiti to social
political billboard art.
Seven Three Split, an artist run space, opened in October 2000 with
"I never thought I'd be a Halloween Costume", a sound installation
event featuring all local Chicago artists. Due to their neighborhood
location, they have attempted to merge different audiences and art
practices. They strive to infiltrate art systems and structures
through take home media and web based activities.
The show was conceived and organized by Kait Midgett, artist and
Director of Project Room, and artist Rodger Cooley from The Butcher
Shop, both of which were interested in creating a city to city gallery
exchange. The counterpart to this exhibition was a group show in
Chicago that included members of Vox Populi, Space 1026, BaseKamp
and artists whoíve shown at the Project Room.
This weekend marks the release of Seven Three Split's second media
CD compilation which will be freely distributed at each opening.
Seven Three Split will be curating, with the help of K and D Productions
(a local multi-media energy producing whatever, wherever and whenever
they can), a video compilation of new Chicago works to be screened
at BaseKamp and Project Room. The work to be installed at Vox Populi
varies from hi-tech sexual training gadgetry to cream puff pastel
text painting - a fine line. Basekamp will host their audio artists,
who will be playing sound generating Max patches directed out of
their laptops. The Chicago audio artists are also scheduled to collaborate
with Philadelphia audio artists during the opening reception at
Project Room. Seven Three Split is located at 971 W. 18th Street,
Chicago, IL 60608. For more information and images go to www.seventhreesplit.org.
Vox Populi is located on the fourth floor of 1315 Cherry Street,
just one block from the convention center. Vox is open to the public
Wednesday through Sunday from noon-6 PM. Email at vox at vox@op.net
BaseKamp is located at 7XX Chestnut Street. BaseKamp gallery hours
are Thursday through Sunday, noon-5PM. Project Room is located at
960 N.8th St. Project Room is open to the public Wednesday and Friday
from noon-5 PM. <
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