Friday June 14 • 6pm -11pm Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan Street
Admission: free
The Urban Operating System celebrates
the energy and imagination of people who make the city a better place
to live, work and play in. For our opening show we examine projects that
serve the common good, and connect us to services that everyone can use
in our neighborhoods. These socially engaged projects promote the
cultural use of public space and demonstrate innovative forms for
funding ideas and actions.
The Urban OS is the beginning
of a year long campaign to examine applications promoting opportunities
for renewing our public space. We'll be sharing their ideas so we can
engage in a collective hack of the current urban operating system.
Join
us at the opening show to (re-)introduce yourself to: AREA, Art Bowl,
Truck Farm Chicago, Working Bikes, Cafe Yo!, Community-Supported Art
Chicago, Benton House, Bridgeport Alliance, Bubbly Dynamics, Chaos Brew
Club, Sunday Soup, Neighbor Space, Bike a Bee, Portoluz, Pedal to the
People, Rebuild Foundation, Social Ecologies, Mc Kinley Park Community
Garden, Rebuilding Exchange, Roots & Culture, Southside Hub of
Production, Soup and Bread, Occupied Tribune, Edible Alchemy, Pocket
Guide to Hell, Pedal Power, Garlic & Greens, Dumbo Press, the
Awesome Foundation and Marz Community Brewing.
At 8pm A Pocket Guide to Hell Presents: Snake Oil production.
Doc
Merriwether and his gang of vaudevillians, phrenologists, and
one-man-band bluesmen present an interactive medicine show that's
steeped in Chicago tradition!
In 1918, the Chicago Daily
News came under fire for the “eccentric” medicines advertised in its
pages. Join editor Victor Lawson as he determines whether to believe in
the Doc's Miracle Elixir—or side with the labcoated thugs from the
Pharmaceutical Association, out to drive Merriwether and his snake
oiling brethren from the Daily News columns forever. Samples are free
with a testimonial! Be sure to stop by the apothecary for a swig of
Chicago's other historic panaceas, pick up a promotional almanac from
local zine collective SPOC, get advice for the “female complaints” from
Lydia Pinkham herself, or drop by the notorious 1909 Metropolitan
Medical College to discuss your own future as a bona fide “professor of
medicine.”
With Installations by Amanda Tworek, Charlie Vinz and others.
The Urban OS exhibition is open until June 20, 2013 during Version 13 events and by appointment only.
