Dan S. Wang

Extensive interview about Dan Peterman's building at 6100 S. Blackstone in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The enormous building was gutted in a suspicious fire and eventually rebuilt and reorganized under the name The Experimental Station. Peterman describes the character and cultural life of the original building and the endless political and bureaucratic challenges that he faced in the struggle to rebuild. A good window into Chicago city politics and the difficulty in maintaining an autonomous cultural practice in Chicago. The Baffler and magazine and the initiative Blackstone Bicycle Works - tenants of 6100 S. Blackstone - are also discussed.

A collections of possible walks around Chicago that focus on personal memory, spatial histories and user generated submissions of exploring the city of chicago.

Overview of meal-based residency program held at Joong Boo Market. Author chooses artists, then they meet and discuss art over a meal.

This book is part of a multi-city exhibition called Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements. It strives to invite artists and poets to consider what it means to "organize your own" in the context of social and racial justice. It also includes histories of organizing that form the foundation of today's self-determination movements.

Founded in 2005, AREA Chicago supports the work of people and organizations building a socially just city. AREA actively gathers, produces, and shares knowledge about local culture and politics. Its newspaper, website, and events create relationships and sustain community through art, research, education, and activism. *

Dan S. Wang interviewed Dan Peterman about a range of topics: Peterman's art practice, the community that inhabited the building at 61st Street and Dorchester, the fire that destroyed the building, the struggle against the city to rebuild, and the rebirth of the building as the Experimental Station.

Founded in 2005, AREA Chicago supports the work of people and organizations building a socially just city. AREA actively gathers, produces, and shares knowledge about local culture and politics. Its newspaper, website, and events create relationships and sustain community through art, research, education, and activism.

Proximity is a Journal of writing, art and photography. This issue focuses on imaginary cities.

A quarterly art and design periodical.

Record of all works presented at "Takeover," an exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center from April 24-June 11, 2006. The concept of the exhibit was that artists were "asked to assume control of the building as a medium for an artwork or series of artworks. Artists were invited to correspond, utilize, or deconstruct the art center" (from curator's introduction). Includes wide variety of contemporary art created in various media.