Join Chicago-based artist JeeYeun Lee to hear about the ongoing Shore Land project, a series of audio walks that contemplate the lakefront as a liminal space between land and water—simultaneously a public good, treaty violation, and strategy to suppress insurgence. Attendees are invited to experience Lee’s narrative walking guide for Berger Park. Please bring headphones and an internet-connected device to stream the audio. Transcripts are provided and a few additional headsets are available to share.
Beginning at the Berger Park Cultural Center, visitors are encouraged to move through the park while listening to and/or reading Lee’s track for Berger Park, which features an interview with Billie Warren (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) and readers Mehrdad Azemun, Mark Diaz, Heather Miller (Wyandotte Nation), and Zachary Nicol. Visitors then return to the Cultural Center for a short presentation by Lee about the project.
JeeYeun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist based in occupied Potawatomi territory now known as Chicago. Through performance, objects, and socially engaged art, her work explores dynamics of connection, power, violence and resistance. Her work has been shown in Chicago, Detroit, Santa Fe, Ohio, Missouri, and France. She has worked with social justice and community-based organizations for over thirty years in immigrant rights, economic justice, LGBTQ issues, and domestic violence. She holds an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MA in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and BA in Linguistics from Stanford University.
This event is presented as part of Roman Susan’s Navigations, an ongoing series of artist-led projects in and about public space. It is supported by Hyde Park Art Center’s Artists Run Chicago Fund as part of Art Design Chicago.
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An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and organizations across the city, Art Design Chicago is a series of events and exhibitions that highlight the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
