Facility Chicago

See you on 4/12 from 2-4PM to celebrate the next iteration of the Niche Project on the Addison Street facade of Facility.

“I Know That’s Right” by Bianca Pastel

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Mosey on by FACILITY before March 27th for a sidewalk viewing of ZJ Pan’s “Jeez, I Can’t Find My Knees.”

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📸 Don Yoshida
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Pan works with sculptures, installations, performances, and electronics to curate playgrounds. Like a child’s half-finished thoughts, impulsive yet stirring, his work are vessels that deflate trauma, shocks, and simulations. Pan investigates the mediated uncanniness propagated through social media, news, and everyday experience under the looming ghosts.

Pan animates objects’ forms and functions in a DIY approach, where familiar objects are digitally engineered and childishly treated. These objects induce shocks in his life, such as missiles, his middle school, Apple’s AirPods, sad looking stuffed animal, and frogs singing in hell, eliciting a reaction that starts with laughter and then evolves from unease to disturbance

I’M THEM
4.20.19—1.1.20
A Facility art/work by Bob Faust

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Continuing our participation in , a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression and solidarity. Join us as we take part this November 21-22, using our voices, art, and energy to stand against censorship and celebrate freedom. Follow to learn more.

***”I’m Them” is the inaugural installation of the Tarp Project, hanging on the southernmost facade of Facility. It is a typographic response to an Us vs. Them problem. By embedding the word ‘I’M’ into the word ‘THEM, Faust asks the viewer to see themselves outside of their own tribe in an attempt to dismantle the separation and subsequent judgment brought on by ignorance.