Saturday April 23
Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating
open-end 2000 W. Fulton #310
6pm – 1am $5 Donation
(Includes Urban Gardening Kit)

How can urban environments become areas for personal and ideological transformations? How can artists create charged public space? In this show we expose the dynamics and aesthetics of street art and recent guerrilla communication. We consider public space in urban environments as a forum for change, and explore, visually, ways of altering and reclaiming our surroundings.

Program
6pm: Artist Dinner (for participants and Pass holders)

7pm: Workshops, Presentations, and Urban Gardening Kit
Workshops include onsite silkscreen by members of Diamonds on Archer, among others. Artworks made in multiple by Version>05 artists will also be available for visitors of the show to take home and distribute in their own neighborhoods. Works include posters, stencils, stickers, photocopy art and numerous objects meant for public display will also be available for visitors of the show to distribute in their own neighborhoods.

Ongoing: Exhibition includes original artworks and documentation of works installed on location elsewhere including installations, billboard modification, graffiti analysis, live art and public intervention. Artists include Avangard, Chris Damage, Sayre gomez, Mike Freimuth, Toyshop Collective, Abe Lincoln Jr., Evil Design, Yok Yoker, Arofish, Aay Preston-Myint, Alexis Negron, Elisa Harkins, Barry, Bwana Spoons, Ilana Percher, Andrea Fritsch, Neil Brideau, Linday Key, Draftsmen, Elke Reinhuber, fi5e, Horsie, jUStin!katKO, Andrei, Thomaz, Pink Nun, Kevin Dee, Replacements Needed, Tragic Beauty, You Are Beautiful, Marty Garcia, Sean Capone, Kevin Dee, Sonic Supper, Helen Kongsgard, Logan Bay, Edmar, Visionary Projects, Ilana Percher, Win Vitkowsky, Brian Klein, In the Weather, Gary Kachadourian and many others..

Additional projects featured in Urban Gardening Exterior Decorating

Sticker Shack by Andreas Ullrich, Marcel Tasler, Matthias Marx, Alexander Dorn
The Sticker Award Bureau from Germany operates from a wooden shack in various Chicago street locations during the festival. Stickers are created and distributed to passing citizens. An international sticker collection will be exhibited.

Gruppe Ideal by Andreas Ullrich, Marcel Tasler, Matthias Marx, Alexander Dorn
Photographic documentation of billboard interventions by the group "ideal." Actions sponsored 100% by the European Union.