upcoming events
Date & Time
October 23, 2012
5:00 PM
Opening reception with DJ Madrid
6:00 PM
Conversation with Theaster Gates, Lisa Yun Lee and Barbara Ransby
Location
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 South Halsted Street
About
Our very first Christmas at Hull House, when we as yet knew nothing of child labor, a number of little girls which was offered them as part of the Christmas good cheer saying simply that they
“worked in a candy factory and could not bear the sight of it.” We discovered that for six weeks they had worked from seven in the morning until nine at night and they were exhausted as well as satiated. . .
-Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House
Through a series of contemporary art interventions placed throughout the house over the next year, this exhibition challenges and interrupts the ways that whiteness remains invisible, unexamined, potent and powerful as a dominant aesthetic and political force in society and culture.
Exhibited Artists
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Valerie Piraino
Sadie Woods & Dj Madrid
DJ Jesse de La Pena
Maria Gaspar
Mitchell Squire
Theaster Gates
Lauren Berlant
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* All views expressed are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, or the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts.