RAISIN
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“A radical Black woman playwright found her excellent work embraced as an arts-based format to encourage dialogue on inclusion and justice in cities across the world. Even after Lorraine Hansberry’s death, the span of her narrative has grown over the past sixty years...”
Asha Iman Veal, curator
Asha Iman Veal, curator
Featured artists:
Kioto Aoki (Chicago) / Coletivo Anastácia Berlin (Berlin) / Jared Brown (Chicago)
Marina Viola Cavadini (Milan) / Amy Sanchez Arteaga + Misael Diaz (Cog•nate Collective) (So. California) Jory Drew (Chicago) / Işıl Eğrikavuk (Berlin) / Max Guy (Chicago) / Kyle Bellucci Johanson (Chicago) Kierah “Kiki” King (Chicago) / Diya Khurana (Mumbai) / Kat Liu (Chicago) / AJ McClenon (Chicago)
Clemens Melzer (Berlin) / Joelle Mercedes (Chicago) / Chip Moody (Chicago) / Joseph Mora (Chicago) Nahum, Ale de la Puente, Juan José Díaz Infante, and Tania Candiani (Mexico City and Berlin)
Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O'Neal (Chicago) / Alessia Petrolito (Turin)
Delilah Salgado (Chicago) / Aaron Samuels (Los Angeles) / Rohan Ayinde Smith (London)
Brett Swinney (Chicago) / Maryam Taghavi (Chicago) / Gloria Talamantes (Chicago)
Tran Tran (Chicago) / Unyimeabasi Udoh (Chicago) / Nayeli Vega (Berlin)
Jakob Wirth (Berlin) / Amanda Williams (Chicago) / Tintin Wulia (Australia) / Zhiyuan Yang (New York)
exhibition on view at 6018North art space
public programs presented live on Lumpen Radio and Zoom
a partner program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2021
Kioto Aoki (Chicago) / Coletivo Anastácia Berlin (Berlin) / Jared Brown (Chicago)
Marina Viola Cavadini (Milan) / Amy Sanchez Arteaga + Misael Diaz (Cog•nate Collective) (So. California) Jory Drew (Chicago) / Işıl Eğrikavuk (Berlin) / Max Guy (Chicago) / Kyle Bellucci Johanson (Chicago) Kierah “Kiki” King (Chicago) / Diya Khurana (Mumbai) / Kat Liu (Chicago) / AJ McClenon (Chicago)
Clemens Melzer (Berlin) / Joelle Mercedes (Chicago) / Chip Moody (Chicago) / Joseph Mora (Chicago) Nahum, Ale de la Puente, Juan José Díaz Infante, and Tania Candiani (Mexico City and Berlin)
Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O'Neal (Chicago) / Alessia Petrolito (Turin)
Delilah Salgado (Chicago) / Aaron Samuels (Los Angeles) / Rohan Ayinde Smith (London)
Brett Swinney (Chicago) / Maryam Taghavi (Chicago) / Gloria Talamantes (Chicago)
Tran Tran (Chicago) / Unyimeabasi Udoh (Chicago) / Nayeli Vega (Berlin)
Jakob Wirth (Berlin) / Amanda Williams (Chicago) / Tintin Wulia (Australia) / Zhiyuan Yang (New York)
exhibition on view at 6018North art space
public programs presented live on Lumpen Radio and Zoom
a partner program of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2021
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CHICAGO (Fall 2021)--We are pleased to announce RAISIN, an exhibition exploring themes from the classic play A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry. Featuring artworks created by Chicago and international artists, the exhibition offers local and global perspectives on ‘home.’ RAISIN opens September 17 as a proud partner of the Chicago Architecture Biennial as they present their fourth edition The Available City.
--- RAISIN opens this fall at 6018North, a three-story house on a residential block in a formerly all-white, now integrated, neighborhood in Chicago. RAISIN explores themes from A Raisin in the Sun—from first-time homeownership, gender dynamics within communities of color, to generational dreams, and more. Public programming includes conversations with visual artists, theater scholars, fair-housing advocates, global migration advocates, as well as live performances. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway. In this seminal work, Hansberry wrote about the Youngers, a fictional Black American family in Chicago whose late patriarch has left behind a life insurance policy that the family can use to purchase a home and enter the American middle class. Many challenges block this family’s path, and the four adult Youngers debate their options for self-determination within a race-biased country, and whether to move to an affordable yet segregated neighborhood, where they will not be welcome. In the 1960s, A Raisin in the Sun was translated into 30 languages, and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award in its debut year. Produced in cities around the world, the play has been bringing solidarity to various struggles against injustice; from residential segregation within the United States, migration politics across Europe, class inequality in China, and apartheid in South Africa. Now, this exhibition presents multidisciplinary artworks inspired by the local importance and global reach of the narrative. Asha Iman Veal is a guest curator at 6018North this year, and is a Humanity in Action Landecker Democracy Fellow. Asha Iman’s visual critical research for this exhibition began in 2016 with the play’s global productions. She has been interested in Hansberry’s play’s long endurance and wide reach. “A radical Black woman playwright,” she says, “found her excellent work embraced as an arts-based format to encourage dialogues on inequity and justice in cities across the world. Even after Hansberry’s death, the span of her narrative has grown over the past sixty years.” 6018North, a house museum within a multicultural neighborhood in a historically segregated city, often explores ideas of home. 6018North director Tricia Van Eck says, “The play and the exhibition ask, ‘Who gets to live where and why?’ Hansberry’s question, over 60 years old, sadly remains relevant as we are still seeing and experiencing the lasting effects of segregation.” David Brown, this year’s artistic director of Chicago Architecture Biennial, has stated one of his goals of The Available City is “broadening the conversation—as amplified by current issues—about the role that collective space can have in cities around the world today.” exhibition on-view September 17 to December 18, 2021 at 6018North art space public programs presented live on Lumpen Radio and Zoom *** Led by Asha Iman Veal (curator), with Shannon Lin and Esraa (curatorial assistants). Programs and communications assistant, Ruby Dudasik. Exhibition associate, Alexis Brocchi. 6018North team, Tricia Van Eck and Nathan Abhalter Smith. ROLE: curator EXHIBITION: Opens at 6018 North, for presentation at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Fall 2021. Supported in part by a generous grant from the 2020 Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship and Humanity in Action; Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faculty Enrichment Grants. exhibition sponsored by:
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