Country-of-origin exhibition now on view at I space
CHICAGO – A nearly ubiquitous country-of-origin label seen on countless U.S. consumer goods is the subject of a new exhibition on view through Nov. 14 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois.
The exhibition, "made in china: Erik Hemingway and Allison Warren," explores the meaning of the phrase that appears on a practically endless stream of consumer goods marketed worldwide.
Hemingway, a professor of architecture at Illinois, and Warren, an instructor in the UI School of Architecture, organized the exhibition as part of a research project they initiated during a residency in China in the summer of 2008 and continued there last summer.
The exhibition features installations, one of which is a series of video projections of urban Chinese street views presented from three perspectives: vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. The video images will be projected on a screen fabricated from common white-rice bags, stretched and sewn together.
The exhibition also includes interactive components that will be used to inform the continuing data-collection and research process.
Additional features of the exhibition:
– Nine video monitors displaying interviews conducted at Beijing Architectural Studio Enterprise.
– Drawings and disassembled, hanging bicycle parts, extended from the gallery ceiling. Hemingway said the bicycle parts represent the deconstruction of one of the eight most frequently mass-produced products made in China.
–Postcard questionnaires, which visitors may fill out to share their views and opinions with the researchers.
Along with Hemingway and Warren, the exhibition project team includes UI graduate architecture students Stephanie Adamczyk, Winmay Au, Nicholas Brown, Matthew Cho, Montana Crady, Aeron Hodges, Chen Xi Hu, Alloy Kemp, Xu Nan Li, Limeng Lu, Tashio Marinez, Jonathan Reyes, Kurtis Rottunda, Owen Wang, Lili Xu and Yiyuam Zou.
I space at 230 W. Superior St., Chicago, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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