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AREA News

News specifically related to AREA and affiliated projects
  • People’s Atlas of Chicago: Two Events on January 15th 2009

    by AREA   |   Published Jan. 5, 2009

    Thursday January 15th 2009 is Unofficially "Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago" day on the northwest side of Chicago.

    Join AREA Chicago in Wicker Park (Chicago) this coming Thursday January 15th for two events related to our Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project. The first is a collaboration with Around the Coyote Festival (Funded by the Wicker Park SSA #33) which involves an exhibition of all of our Peoples Atlas of Chicago maps at the Wicker Park Field House (1425 N Damen Ave, Chicago) from 5-8pm. Then head down the street from 8pm-10pm to STOP SMILING Magazine's Storefront (1371 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL) where we will be celebrating the release of "Experimental Geography" a book by Melville House Publishing about mapping and art that features AREA's Peoples Atlas project. AREA's People's Atlas work is partially supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Contact areachicago@gmail.com for more information

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Report Back

  • ReportBack #1: Tamms/Laurie Jo Reynolds @ Hyde Park Art Center

    2008-03-25
    A report back on the day of the tenth anniversary of Tamms CMAX prison, concerning an event called TalkingPoint at Hyde Park Art Center, December 10, 2007 by Laurie Palmer It felt like a great weight falling off; or like a stone decomposing in response to vibration. The weight was an old calcified idea, a prohibition that [...]
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  • AREA Chicago Announces a New Web Project: Report Back

    2008-02-11
    A new weblog dedicated to documenting events and people’s impressions of them throughout Chicago AREA Chicago, the publication and event series, has initiated this as an extension of its ongoing interest in documenting activities at the intersections of arts, education, research and activism in Chicago. The site is meant to fill in some of the gaps [...]
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1968

  • Release Event for 68/08 Issue of AREA

    2008-12-06
    AREA Chicago #7 Magazine Release Event: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance December 6th, 2008 1-4pm at Jane Addams Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted Chicago IL 1pm-2pm Public release of new issue of AREA on the theme of the legacy of 1968 in Chicago, 2pm-4pm Performances, Films and Speaking by: Nicole Garneau’s Uprising performance; Lucky [...]
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  • Planning Meeting

    2008-06-21
    Come to a meeting about the 68/08 Issue of AREA Chicago at 2129 N Rockwell at 6pm on Tuesday June 24th, 2008. You must RSVP for this meeting at areachicago@gmail.com. Bring ideas for the issue and a willingness to contribute time and energy to this project. More info: The project Blog http://1968.areachicago.org featuring 10 guest correspondents from [...]
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  • Will the Left Ever Learn to Communicate Across Generations?

    2008-06-21
    This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Maurice Isserman deals mostly with the relationship between Michael Harrington and Tom Hayden. Harrington famously lambasted Hayden following the release of the “Port Huron Statement” which was an early document of the Students for a Democratic Society. The article also deals with the unintended consequences of [...]
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  • The Sixties and the presidential race

    2008-06-21
    Daniel Finkelstein in The Times Online discusses the role of the presidential candidates McCain and Obama in transforming the legacy of ‘68
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  • Zizek on “The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68″

    2008-06-21
    This was printed in this month’s In These Times. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3751/the_ambiguous_legacy_of_68/
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