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Angela Ferreira: Zip Zap and Zumbi
Venue: DePaul Art Museum
Event Phone: (773) 325-7506
Admission Price: Free
Architecture has played a major role in Ângela Ferreira’s research-based practice, in which buildings and structures are used as starting points for works of art that often engages with complicated colonial histories in Portugal and sub-Saharan Africa. For Ferreira, who was born in Mozambique, buildings are anthropological, sociological, political and aesthetic structures. Her work at DPAM triangulates a dialogue across time and geographies between the modernist forms of Mies van der Rohe, Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes, and vernacular architecture found in Portugal, Brazil and throughout countries in Africa.
This exhibition, organized on the occasion of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings together two installations that come out of her in-depth research and represent geopolitical conflicts that are still being played out today. “Zip Zap Circus School” (2000-2002) references two failed projects: one by Mies van der Rohe in Den Haag and another by Mozambican modernist architect Pancho Guedes in Cape Town. Its sculptural and architectural materialization points to the idea that architecture can be seen as an object of desire and social change by a largely ignored community in a highly politicized and socially explosive South Africa of the end of the twentieth-century. By building a portion of Guedes’s architectural project as an art work, the artist rendered the idea of the dream as a political act.
This exhibition, organized on the occasion of the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings together two installations that come out of her in-depth research and represent geopolitical conflicts that are still being played out today. “Zip Zap Circus School” (2000-2002) references two failed projects: one by Mies van der Rohe in Den Haag and another by Mozambican modernist architect Pancho Guedes in Cape Town. Its sculptural and architectural materialization points to the idea that architecture can be seen as an object of desire and social change by a largely ignored community in a highly politicized and socially explosive South Africa of the end of the twentieth-century. By building a portion of Guedes’s architectural project as an art work, the artist rendered the idea of the dream as a political act.
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Sunday December 10, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday December 9, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday December 8, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday December 7, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday December 6, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday December 3, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday December 2, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday December 1, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday November 30, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday November 29, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday November 26, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday November 25, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday November 24, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday November 23, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday November 22, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday November 19, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday November 18, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday November 17, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday November 16, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday November 15, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday November 12, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday November 11, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday November 10, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday November 9, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday November 8, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday November 5, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday November 4, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday November 3, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday November 2, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday November 1, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday October 29, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday October 28, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday October 27, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday October 26, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday October 25, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday October 22, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday October 21, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday October 20, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday October 19, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday October 18, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday October 15, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday October 14, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday October 13, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday October 12, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday October 11, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday October 8, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday October 7, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday October 6, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday October 5, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday October 4, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday October 1, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday September 30, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday September 29, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday September 28, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday September 27, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday September 24, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday September 23, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday September 22, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday September 21, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday September 20, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday September 17, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday September 16, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday September 15, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday September 14, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Wednesday September 13, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
Sunday September 10, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Saturday September 9, 2017 | Start Time:12:00pmEnd Time:5:00pm |
Friday September 8, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:5:00pm |
Thursday September 7, 2017 | Start Time:11:00amEnd Time:7:00pm |
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