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3 Acres on the Lake : DuSable Park Proposal Project
Laurie Palmer, Patricia Phillips, Christopher Robert Reed
Chicago, IL: WhiteWalls, Inc.. 2003
In 2001 Laurie Palmer sent out an open request for proposals to transform an unused patch of public land set aside by the city of Chicago in 1987 as a future park dedicated to Haitian-French trader Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first permanent non-native settler of Chicago who was black. Palmer initiated the project upon learning about the dedication of the space – an abandoned landfill in reality – and the city’s long apathy to actually transforming the plot. Her desire was to contest the public-ness of this "public space".
"The project invited, without city sanction or authority, speculative proposals for how a small plot of public land in Chicago might be used. There was no jury, no winner, and no prize. It was an invitation to irony, fantasy, and utopian imaginings but also an attempt to pry open city planning processes for public scrutiny and participation," says Palmer.
Through an extensive cataloging of the plot of land, essays covering DuSable and the city as site for art, as well as sixty four artistic and architectural proposals, 3 Acres on the Lake offers a complex investigation of the tenuous existence of truly public space in American cities mesmerized by high-income development.
Category: Book
$12.00
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Filler
Michael Colligan & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Andy Hall, Matt Hanger, Steve Lacy
Chicago, IL: WhiteWalls & Academy Records. 2002
This single length record features individual tracks by Chicago visual artists Andy Hall (aka Mrs. Hound), Matthew Hanner, and Steve Lacy, and free improvisers Michael Colligan and Fred Lonberg-Holm with the chickens of Barnes Hill Road. Each of the four tracks lasts two minutes. The record is parallel-grooved, a rare process by which the two tracks on each side are each on a separate groove. The two grooves (and in this case the confusion created by the clear vinyl) make it impossible to know which track you will hear just by dropping the needle. The idea behind this project was to create a product that used specialized, outmoded, and process oriented techniques to maximize the physical properties of a vinyl recording. Everything right in front of you. Nothing virtual but your enjoyment.
Category: Audio Vinyl
$5.00
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Whitewalls. No. 16 (Spring 1987)
Ken Friedman, guest editor
Chicago, IL: White Walls Inc.. 1987
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
This issue focuses on Fluxus and features writings and contributions from a number of figures associated with the movement as well as later artists influenced by Fluxus.
Contributors include: Eric Andersen, Gregor von Bismarck, George Brecht, Brian Buczak, Philip Corner, Jean Dupuy, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, and Robert Watts.
Category: Periodical
$65.00
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Whitewalls. No. 21 (Winter 1989) Palimpsests
Laurie Palmer and Timothy Porges, editors
Chicago, IL: White Walls. 1989
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
This issue is a return to themed issues after a break in issues 19 and 20. It also indicates the continued efforts of editor Timothy Porges to re-articulate the mission statement of Whitewalls ten years after its inception. The theme of "Palimpsests" is appropriate to this effort. From the editors: "A palimpsest, in a lexical sense, is a situation of overwhelming. One text becomes the substratum, or context-of-underlying assumptions...the term seems more useful than, say, the more traditional 'Image/Text' in that it establishes a certain kind of relationship...It is a relationship of alternating displacement and appropriation characteristic of the avant-garde which has realized that the middle-ground between cooptation and marginality is now reduced to an effective zero."
Contributors to this issue include Jeanne Dunning, Susan Morgan, Paul Chidester, Kay Rosen, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and David French.
Category: Periodical
$10.00
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Whitewalls. No. 23 (Fall 1989) Regarding An/Other
Timothy Porges and Laurie Palmer, editors
Jeanne Dunning, guest editor
Chicago, IL: Whitewalls. 1989
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
This issue is in collaboraton with the Visiting Artists Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The theme title, "Regarding An/Other", comes from a series of lectures of the same name held at the Art Institute in which three artists and three theorists spoke on representations of "the Other" in culture, history, and contemporary art. Contributors to this issue include Stephen Melville, The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), Sunshine Mills and the LAPD, Martha Greever, Mary Kelly, Edgar Heap of Birds, and Sander l. Gilman.
Category: Periodical
$65.00
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Whitewalls. No. 30 When Worlds Collide
Susan Snodgrass, managing editor
Chicago, IL: Whitewalls Inc.. 1992
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
From the editor: "'When Worlds Collide' features artists whose work bridges more than one language and explores that juncture where different languages collide or intersect." Features include Leone & MacDonald's use of stenographic symbols as a linguistic system, Kay Rosen's text-based works, David Keating's altered Volkswagen advertisements, and half of a performance text by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
Category: Periodical
$6.00
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Whitewalls. no. 25 (Spring 1990) Art and Healing
Kristine Stiles, guest editor
Chicago, IL: White Walls Inc.. 1990
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
Themed issue on "Art and Healing." Contributors include: Suzanne Lacy, Kristine Stiles, Christo, Hermann Nitsch, Lynn Hershman, Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Category: Periodical
$15.00
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Whitewalls. No. 26 (Fall 1990) Petty Crimes for the Common Good
Susan Snodgrass, managing editor
Chicago, IL: Whitewalls. 1990
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
This issue's theme, "Petty Crimes for the Common Good", is from an evening of performances by the same name hosted by Whitewalls. The work addresses artist's attempts at creating change within the art canon and the social sphere. Contributors to this issue include Joe Matunis, joan Dickinson, Andrew Stones, AVI, The Guerrilla Girls, Annie West and Lys Martin.
Category: Periodical
$15.00
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Whitewalls. No. 27 (Winter 1991)
Susan Snodgrass, managing editor
Chicago, IL: Whitewalls. 1991
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
This issue is the first with Susan Snodgrass acting as the head editor and a more political bent to the magazine's features and themes. This theme, "Rants and Regrets" features Greg Boozell examining the model offered by America's Most Wanted for political control, work by Iris Moore and Suzie Silver, the text of the performance "Philosophy in the Bathroom" by Rachel X. Weissman, and a documentation of the Goat Island performance piece "We Got a Date."
Category: Periodical
$15.00
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Whitewalls. No. 28 Identity and Self-Definition
Susan Snodgrass, managing edtor
Chicago, IL: Whitewalls. 1991
Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of "writings by artists."
From the editor: "In this issue of Whitewalls, entitled Identity and Self-Definition, artists address the issue of identity, using either personal history and biography or, in some cases, their own image. Although some artists comment on their marginalized positions, many celebrate their difference." Contributors to this issue include Jaqueline Chang, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle., Philip Soo, Stashu Kybartas, Mary Patten and Jin Lee.
Category: Periodical
$15.00
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