Curator Sadie Woods developed this proposal during the 2016 Curatorial Intensive in Dakar. The proposal later became the exhibition Hot Seven: The Chicago Breakdown at the Gene Siskel Film Center and The School Of the Art Institute Chicago, on view from August 6 – September 25, 2016.
Hot Seven: The Chicago Breakdown examines the notion of community and what it means to thrive with regard to issues and perspectives unique to diasporic populations in Chicago. Re-examining social responsibility and cultural agency, this exhibition will survey a conceptual and visceral people’s history with power structures, navigating dominant narratives and representation, and possibilities for resistance. These works highlight perspectives of what it means to be alive in a time/space of intersecting histories, geographies, and subjectivities providing a local homegrown narrative. Exhibition runs from Saturday, August 6th through Sunday, September 25th, 2016.
Featured artists: Janice Bond, Ricardo Gamboa, Amanda Gutiérrez, Roberto Martinez, Oli Rodriguez, Darryl Terrell, and Darius Thomas.
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To learn more about this proposal please email Sadie Woods at ewoods2@artic.edu. To learn more about the Curatorial Intensive email info@curatorsintl.org.
