@switchhookprojects 𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴 : Ruby Que and Raychel Carrión will be extended throughout EXPO, closing Sunday April 27th 📷 @eugenetangible

images from my show with @switchhookprojects installed along the north branch canal of the Chicago River. ‘futures’ was accompanied by a text I wrote which was made into a wonderful printed publication by @thisisaboutmysink who documented the works along with @rubyq.ue ~ the text begins with memories of my dad working as an irrigation contractor and later a salesperson of sprinkler heads. I observe the frequency of water metaphors in financial language and discourse through the lens of his being laid off in 2008. Ultimately, the text helped me work through why I was first drawn to the water pump as a form. Installing the sculptures outdoors helped me to relinquish control over those narratives and over the objects themselves. Their connection to an unseen system is implied but ultimately is a forgery. “..many things are explained to us as cycles. Maybe, it’s supposed to be comforting when there isn’t an ending, but to begin again, replete with the same stuff you set off with. A notion that you are making a circle, though one too large to notice it’s curvature in any given moment. I prefer imagining many crisscrossing lines, not knowing if they intersect, depending on where you’re looking at them from. This way, there’s no expectation to get back to where you started. This way, you don’t feel so bad if you lose everything along the way. These sculptures are about scarcity, like a white bike where a cyclist was killed, a discreet monument to something senselessly lost.”

I, I I am so very happy to be showing with @switchhookprojects In tandem with the show, S-H has produced a limited run publication featuring a conversation between @lucaangeloklauba and myself It has been an absolute pleasure working alongside these really wonderful creators, curators, collaborators and friends. @thisisaboutmysink & @lucaangeloklauba thank you endlessly for all the work that has gone into bringing this to life, for every conversation and hand lent along the way <3

Today’s the day! 🍄 💛 🎨 We’ll be celebrating our love of public art with an afternoon of good fun at James Stone Freedom Square at 3615 W Douglas. Join us at 3pm for the official kickoff, or come by early to explore projects in North Lawndale, help paint a mural at 1330 S Millard or support the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival! Terrain or shine!! 🍄 💛 🎨 #terrainexhibitions #terrainbiennial #terrainbiennial2023 #artopening #chicagosukkahdesignfestival #csdf #chicagoarchitecturebiennial

just got these images of the work included in @switchhookprojects “ten desirous adjustments” hosted by the american back center many thanks to @thisisaboutmysink and @lucaangeloklauba for the invite, the other artists in the show for their thoughtful work, and to @mikey.mosher for the documentation! (from right to left) “0043” “0017” 0031” “0044” laminated collages 18” x 24”

Opening tonight at @rib_rotterdam , in good company 🩵! Posted @withregram • @laurenz.space We are very pleased to announce that 'On your side of things' continues its journey and will open its 2nd part at Rib, Rotterdam, this Saturday 1 July. Maziar Afrassiabi, founder and director of Rib, has expanded the show by inviting 5 more independent initiatives: 5OU6ÎLES (Lyon), De Player (Rotterdam), Playbill (Amsterdam), SB34 (Brussels) and Treignac Projet (Treignac), to join our ongoing conversation on new beginnings, endings and precarity. The second part of 'On your side of things' will be presented under the umbrella of Rib's durational programme 'The Last Terminal', which simultaneously reflects on Rib's future and its finality. For more on the programme at Rib and Laurenz's contribution to it, see the link in our bio. See you in Rotterdam! On your side of things - part 2 hosted by Rib (@rib_rotterdam ) and part of the exhibition ‘The Last Terminal Volume II, Part 2: The Ribbon–Cutting Approach’ Opening: July 1, 19:00 - 23:00 Live Performance by Peter Fengler: 21:30 Location: Rib, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B, Rotterdam With contributions by: 5OU6ÎLES (Lyon) @5ou6iles De Player (Rotterdam) @de_player_rotterdam Enterprise Projects (Athens) @enterprise_projects Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels) @etablissement_den_face Laurenz (Vienna) @laurenz.space Marwan (Amsterdam) @marwan_amsterdam Playbill (Amsterdam) @_playbill Rib (Rotterdam) @rib_rotterdam SB34 (Brussels) @sb34_thepool_clovis Significant Other (Vienna) @significantother.art Switch-Hook (Chicago) @switchhookprojects Treignac Projet (Treignac) @treignacprojet Winona (Brussels) @winona_mon_amour Title credit: “Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin

We are very pleased to announce that 'On your side of things' continues its journey and will open its 2nd part at Rib, Rotterdam, this Saturday 1 July. Maziar Afrassiabi, founder and director of Rib, has expanded the show by inviting 5 more independent initiatives: 5OU6ÎLES (Lyon), De Player (Rotterdam), Playbill (Amsterdam), SB34 (Brussels) and Treignac Projet (Treignac), to join our ongoing conversation on new beginnings, endings and precarity. The second part of 'On your side of things' will be presented under the umbrella of Rib's durational programme 'The Last Terminal', which simultaneously reflects on Rib's future and its finality. For more on the programme at Rib and Laurenz's contribution to it, see the link in our bio. See you in Rotterdam! On your side of things - part 2 hosted by Rib (@rib_rotterdam ) and part of the exhibition ‘The Last Terminal Volume II, Part 2: The Ribbon–Cutting Approach’ Opening: July 1, 19:00 - 23:00 Live Performance by Peter Fengler: 21:30 Location: Rib, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B, Rotterdam With contributions by: 5OU6ÎLES (Lyon) @5ou6iles De Player (Rotterdam) @de_player_rotterdam Enterprise Projects (Athens) @enterprise_projects Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels) @etablissement_den_face Laurenz (Vienna) @laurenz.space Marwan (Amsterdam) @marwan_amsterdam Playbill (Amsterdam) @_playbill Rib (Rotterdam) @rib_rotterdam SB34 (Brussels) @sb34_thepool_clovis Significant Other (Vienna) @significantother.art Switch-Hook (Chicago) @switchhookprojects Treignac Projet (Treignac) @treignacprojet Winona (Brussels) @winona_mon_amour Title credit: “Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin

Thank you all for coming by during the @independentspaceindex last weekend! For everyone who couldn't make it, we'll be in the space next Monday (12.6.23) from 4-6pm. On your side of things June 2 - June 18 open by appointment Location: Linke Wienzeile 36/1c, 1060 Vienna, Austria Laurenz in conversation with: Enterprise Projects (Athens) @enterprise_projects Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels) @etablissement_den_face Marwan (Amsterdam) @marwan_amsterdam Rib (Rotterdam) @rib_rotterdam Significant Other (Vienna) @significantother.art Switch-Hook (Chicago) @switchhookprojects Winona (Brussels) @winona_mon_amour A big thank you to our friends from @atelier_magari for the wonderful display! Title credit: “Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin

Tomorrow (3. June ,6—9 pm) we open ‘Living Room’ in Amsterdam (maybe you’ve heard) but today (2. June) in Vienna: ‘On your side of things’ Posted @withregram • @laurenz.space For this year's edition of the @independentspaceindex , Laurenz invites his friends from Athens, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Vienna and Chicago to present their stories in the space at Linke Wienzeile 36 and to reflect on existence, precarity, new beginnings and endings. What do we do as an independent space, for whom, under what conditions and why? 7 international spaces will tell their stories about how life is on their side of things. On your side of things June 2 - June 18 Opening: Friday, June 2, 14:00 - 18:00 with drinks at 17:00 Opening hours during the @independentspaceindex : Friday, June 2 - Sunday, June 4, 14:00 - 18:00 Location: Linke Wienzeile 36/1c, 1060 Vienna, Austria Laurenz in conversation with: Enterprise Projects (Athens) @enterprise_projects Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels) @etablissement_den_face Marwan (Amsterdam) @marwan_amsterdam Rib (Rotterdam) @rib_rotterdam Significant Other (Vienna) @significantother.art Switch-Hook (Chicago) @switchhookprojects Winona (Brussels) @winona_mon_amour Title credit: “Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin

Dear friends! Join us this Friday June 2 for the opening of 'On your side of things'. Laurenz will host Enterprise Projects, Etablissement d'en Face, Marwan, Rib, Significant Other, Switch-Hook and Winona, presenting artworks, envelopes, nocturnal animals and shipping tubes by artists, curators, cultural practitioners and arrangers of art in space and time.* Join us at Laurenz tomorrow at 17:00 for afternoon drinks and feel free to visit already at 14:00 - we are open during the official opening hours of @independentspaceindex Friday - Sunday, 14:00 - 18:00. See you tomorrow! ‚On you side of things‘ Opening: Friday, June 2, 14:00 - late, drinks at 17:00 Opening hours during @independentspaceindex Friday June 2 - Sunday June 4, 14:00 - 18:00 Location: Laurenz, Linke Wienzeile 36/1C, 1060 Wien Photo credits: 1 - Enterprise Projects, 2021, photo by Stathis Mamalakis 2 - Etablissement d’en Face, Steinar Haga Kristensen. Owl (Gleaners Edition), 2016., photo by Aaron Amar Bhamra 3 - Marwan traveling to Vienna, photo by Monika Georgieva 4 - Rib, ‘pointing to the initiation of this direction in our program’ by Maziar Afrassiabi 5 - Significant Other, photo by Laura Amann und Jen Kratochvil 6 - Switch-Hook, Luca Klauba and Zola Rollins, photo by Zander Raymond 7 - Winona, photo by Aaron Amar Bhamra * ’arrangers of art in space and time’ quote by Marwan Title credit: ‘Travelling Together’ by W.S. Merwin

From the 59th St. Metra station few months ago 🫶🏻

For this year's edition of the @independentspaceindex , Laurenz invites his friends from Athens, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Vienna and Chicago to present their stories in the space at Linke Wienzeile 36 and to reflect on existence, precarity, new beginnings and endings. What do we do as an independent space, for whom, under what conditions and why? 7 international spaces will tell their stories about how life is on their side of things. On your side of things June 2 - June 18 Opening: Friday, June 2, 14:00 - 18:00 with drinks at 17:00 Opening hours during the @independentspaceindex : Friday, June 2 - Sunday, June 4, 14:00 - 18:00 Location: Linke Wienzeile 36/1c, 1060 Vienna, Austria Laurenz in conversation with: Enterprise Projects (Athens) @enterprise_projects Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels) @etablissement_den_face Marwan (Amsterdam) @marwan_amsterdam Rib (Rotterdam) @rib_rotterdam Significant Other (Vienna) @significantother.art Switch-Hook (Chicago) @switchhookprojects Winona (Brussels) @winona_mon_amour Title credit: “Travelling Together” by W.S. Merwin