Multi-Sensory Placemaking: A Social Practice Experience

Deem’s third symposium in collaboration with the MCA Chicago will open with an evening of conversation, music, and mingling in partnership with Rebuild Foundation and onsite at the St. Laurence Elementary School on the South Side.

This celebratory kick off event brings full circle the cover story with Theaster Gates that grounded Deem’s fourth issue, and which took place here exactly three years ago when the building was still under construction.

Friday’s program will offer an embodied experience of the now-finished space, initiated by a continuation of Issue 04’s conversation between Gates and cofounder/creative director Nu Goteh (which will expand on the multi-sensory potentials of placemaking as a mode of social practice) and followed by a sound experience presented by seminal Chicago house DJ and cultural guardian Duane Powell.

Please note:

The Friday, October 24 event does not take place at the MCA.