PEDAGOGICAL
FACTORY
Pedagogical
Factory Site
Factory Audio
Factory Photos
Bad at Sports
Interview
Chicago Amplified
More Factory Press
ZAWADI PROJECT
About
History
Photo Gallery
PROJECT ARCHIVES
3 Acres On
The Lake
Anafidorka
AREA
Austin Community
Radio
Austin Tourist Bureau
Austin
Walking Tour
Binder Archives
Citizens
Band Radio
Ephemera Festival
Fast Eddie's
Car Wash
Gang-Proof Suit
Harp Project
Howard Arts Lab
LOCO COOL Radio Project
Purchased Garden Displacement
San Miguel Arts
Project
Taxi Project: A Public Project by HaHa
The Autonomous
Territories of Chicago
Urban Rural Wild
Urbs in Horto
PEDAGOGICAL FACTORY
Pedagogical Factory was an open demonstration of ideas and experimentations, taking place in and around a temporary public laboratory in the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) of Chicago. Over the last year the Stockyard Institute has been compiling projects and soliciting proposals from a wide range of individuals, groups, producers and organizations to use the space to initiate forums at the intersection of arts and education. Pedagogical Factory will highlight recent developments in critical education and social art, as well as ask questions about the relationship between contemporary life in the city and learning.
Listen to Pedagogical Factory Recordings:
Talking Point
How We Build (1/2)
How We Build (2/2)
How We Celebrate a People's History
How We Felt
How We Grow
How We Sound
How We Teach
Listen to Rikke Luther (N55) talk with Jim Duignan on the idea of the Pedagogical Factory.
Part 1 (30:34)
Part 2 ( 30:42)
Part 3 (26:22)
Pedagogical Factory Links:
Pedagogical Factory Site
Factory Photos
Bad at Sports Interview
Chicago Amplified
More Factory Press
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ZAWADI PROJECT
About Zawadi Project
The Stockyard Institute works with the Zawadi Program to generate activity in literacy and the arts by introducing artists from around the city and pre service teachers from DePaul University to this important program. In addition to many individual projects, the Stockyard Institute developed a small microwatt radio station for the program, which includes the surrounding neighborhood residents to design programs and aid in the broadcast activities. We also support and contribute to the many programs in the immediate area, namely the Peace Corner, food pantry, and the neighborhood teen group. Our relationship with the volunteers teachers of the Zawadi Program began n 1999.
Zawadi History
Zawadi was brain child of the late Dr. Vera Stevenson, a former Chicago Public School principal and longtime parishioner at Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church. Dr. Stevenson recognized that children in the Austin community on the far westside of Chicago were in need of a social and emotional support network above what was being provided through their schools and families.
To this end, in 1994, she launched the Zawadi Youth Group to fill the needs she saw. She chose the name "Zawadi" because it is a Swahili word meaning "gifts adults give to children." The group has been a great success and has served approximately 75 youngsters annually, grades K-8, for the last 11 years. Most of the children participate in Zawadi for many years. Some of the younsters who started with Zawadi early on, come back as high school volunteers hoping to share their good experiences, camaraderie and peer support and leadership with the current group of children.
The group is staffed entirely by volunteers, many of whom are current or former school teachers, and who have a history of other youth service activities. Zawadi meets alternative Saturdays throughout the school year. Zawadi participants take part in team-building, life skills, academic enrichment, arts and crafts and recreational activities. Volunteers also work with parents to assess the children's academic progress and identify strategies that might help students who are struggling.
Zawadi benefits from an established relationship with DePaul University School of Education, which has led to a great number of opportunities for participants which would never have been available to them otherwise. Some of these opportunities include making a community mural, a video history and a booklet commemorating both Zawadi an the history of Austin. Some of the older students were also able to participate in a computer video production workshop at DePaul University.
Zawadi's budget is extremely small, approximating $50 per session, which goes to supply a light lunch for the children. The budget comes entirely from donations, some of which have come from friends and family of Dr. Vera Stevenson. In addition, when they register their children for Zawadi, parents have been asked to make a small donation. In recent years, however, because of the very tight economy, most parents have been unable to contribute money. Some of them have instead provided juice, cookies, lunch meat and other in-kind goods and services. In addition, the Zawadi volunteers provide funding out-of-pocket.
In 2005, Our Lady Help of Christians Church was closed and parishioners were integrated into St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church. In 2006, Zawadi began again at the new site gaining new volunteers to work on the program.
Zawadi Picture Gallery
Support Zawadi
Please assist us in aiding these children and youth and assuring that a sustainable program will be available for the next generation of children in the Austin community. Please contact Jim Duignan jduignan@depaul.edu with any questions about programs, making a contribution or visiting us at Austin.
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PROJECT ARCHIVES
3 Acres on the Lake
Dusable Life Homes
September 14 - October 19, 2001
location: Gallery 312, Chicago
A Public Project Initiated by A. Laurie Palmer
The youth were invited by artist A. Laurie Palmer to propose a plan for a 3 acre parcel of land where the Chicago River exits into Lake Michigan just south of Navy Pier. The proposal addressed the use of public land and the significant questions regarding access primarily for Mexican families. Youth and some community residents produced two small books of ideas and generated a large scale work for the exhibition at Gallery 312 in September and October, 2001. The complete set of works from around the world were exhibited at Gallery 312 in Chicago and have been published.
www.artic.edu/~apalme
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Anafidorka
1992-1995
This journal project involved Michael Piazza, Brock Lueck, Janine Patten, Rob Kudrle, Renne Dryg and Jim Duignan in an annual publication. The issues have been digitized and will be available on this site.
AREA
AREA is a biannual publication project initiated by the Stockyard Institute and Daniel Tucker in the spring of 2005. AREA's focus is on documenting the intersections of arts, education, and activist concerns and practice in the city of Chicago. Chicago is a nexus point where people pass through and people settle. As a locally focused publication AREA has aimed to identify the influences and activities of people working and living in Chicago. As a critical publication, AREA has focused on projects/texts that represent or embody alternatives to the dominant social and political systems available in Chicago and the world. Changing conditions in Chicago and the world require new ways of interacting, communicating, resisting and living. In addition to gaining a voice within the city to share and speak to each other, we have strived to represent the activities that originate here and share them with the world.
Listen to Nato Thompson speak at Mess Hall in conjunction with AREA Chicago's Infrastructure Series. Recorded by Jim Duignan 2006.
Part 1 (30:29)
Part 2 (30:43)
Part 3 (30:43)
Part 4 (18:36)
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Austin Community Radio
Austin Community Radio was a live microwatt radio broadcast designed and developed by Davion Mathews and Brian Radcliff. The broadcast was aired bi-weekly. Youth directed programs for 3 hours in the evening of music, live interviews, and personal observations on the Austin neighborhood.
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Austin Tourist Bureau
2003
Austin community
The tour bus was a 9 passenger 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Van. The Austin Tourist Bureau was developed to initially introduce area residents to specific sites in their community through random, guided tours. The project evolved to accommodate events and other artist workshops through the Stockyard Institute.
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Austin Walking Tour
Lions and Mandalas by Artist Rosie Presti
In Collusion with Version 4
April 16 - May 1 , 2004 Chicago
Location: Austin Town Hall Cultural Center
A Public Project Initiated by Michael Piazza & Jim Duignan
The Austin Walking Tour was a collection of artists exchanging ideas and testimonies at the Austin Town Hall Cultural Center in conjunction with Version 04. The Version>04: Invisible Networks convergence was an opportunity for creating connections between programmers, artists, scientists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, tactical media provocateurs, designers, architects, critical thinkers and culture workers of all kinds. The Version>04: Invisible Networks convergence brought diverse groups together to share, communicate and organize while also asking participants to discuss these processes. Creating a tangible network of associations between participants, Version>04: Invisible Networks enabled conversations, creative resistance and cultural action.
www.versionfest.org
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Binder Archives
September 14, 2002 -
Binder Archives is a Public Project by Temporary Services
www.temporaryservices.org/si_gang_proof_suit.html
Binder Archives is a portable exhibition that is designed to travel with the greatest of ease. In Binder Archives, three-ring binders and their European equivalents are used as a mode of presenting or containing large quantities of material and information. For this project, individual artists, exhibition organizers, creative people, archivists and groups have produced binders that they have filled with photographs, drawings, documentation, photocopies, printed ephemera, tactile objects, or any other material that can be punched with three holes or stored in a binder. Each binder is a self-contained project or archive of a person's or group's work. Some of these individual binders contain as much material as one might expect to find in an entire exhibit or a book. Viewers can freely handle the binders just as they might browse through books in a reference library. The Stockyard Institute contributed the notes and research for designing a gang proof suit to the Binder Archives.
Binder Archive Exhibition Sites
Sparwasser, HQ, Berlin, Germany, 2006
P74, Llubljiana, Slovenia, 2006
Pavel Haus, Radkersburg, Austria, October 8 - December 3, 2005
The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, September 7 - 28, 2004
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, July 10 - August 22, 2004
Baltimore Museum of Art and various locations around Baltimore, March 2004
Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany, December 2003 - February 29, 2004
Autonomous Cultural Center, Weimar, and Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany and various locations around each city, July - October, 2003
Studio Arts Cafeteria, University of Wisconson-Green Bay campus, April 17, 2003
Project Room One, Portland, February 14 - 16, 2003
Southern Exposure, January 10 - February 8, 2003
6Odum, December 7, 2002
Mike Wolf's Apartment
Ellen Rothenberg's "Text off the Page" Writing Class at SAIC, September 17, 2002
Harold Washington Library, 400 South State Street, 7th Floor, September 14, 2002
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Citizens Band Radio
This project is in the works. 100 CB radios will be placed in the public's hands for audio monitoring, reports and public communications. We are gathering with community members artists, teachers, truckers and others to position CB radios in frequency of one another to establish an audio linkage throughout Chicago.
To get involved contact Jim Duignan at: factory07@gmail.com
Download the Citizens Band Radio Initiative PDF
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Ephemera Festival:
A Celebration of D.I.Y. Culture
Location: DePaul University 2250 N. Sheffield
Curated by Michelle Aiello
Ephemera Festival: A Celebration of D.I.Y. Culture took place at DePaul University's Student Center on September 23, 2005 and was sponsored by the Stockyard Institute. Over thirty independent media makers, artists and crafters showcased their work. The event also featured zine readings, performances and guest speakers.
For more information, or to sign up for Ephemera 2006, please contact ephemera_festival@yahoo.com
2005 Participants
Keynote speaker, Tyler Kahdeman: Zines & Social Justice
Xexoxial Editions Intermedia presentation with reading, sound, movies and animation (www.xexoxial.org)
Guild of Acquired Technology - Circuit Bending Workshop
David Powers - D.I.Y. Computer Music Production
Chicago Zinester Reading - local independent publisher read their work.
Readers include Aaron Cynic (Diatribe Media) Matt Fagan (Meniscus) Abby Glongower, Christoph Meyer (28 Pages Lovingly Bound with Twine), Kate Sandler (Brainiac) and Emerson Dameron (Wherwithall)
The Future Belongs to Ghosts (zine)
28 Pages Lovingly Bound with Twine (zine)
Gutters - zine & mini comic workshop
Nice Lena - D.I.Y. crafts (www.nicelena.com)
Littlepretty - greeting cards (www.littlepretty.com)
Riverwurst / Lepus Press
Radio Free Chicago
DePaul Zine Collection - Richardson Library Special Collections & Archives
Flea Beetle (zine)
KK Shirts - handmade tees & clothing
Temporary Services - artist/activist/self-publishing group (www.temporaryservices.org)
Mintimindi - crocheted stuffed animals, accessories, pattern kits, comics www.minimindi.com
Love Bunni Press (zines)
The 2nd Hand online magazine (www.the2ndhand.com)
Xexoxial Editions - experimental writing and visual verbal lit publisher
So Midwest, Truckface, Susie is a Robot (zines)
Lazy Artists - arts/crafts from art school girls turned real world women
Envision Arts in Oligopoly Publications - self-published book materials
Meniscus (zine)
Loop Distro ( zine) (distro www.loopdistro.com)
David Parisi (writer)
Dream Chocolate (comic)( www.dreamchocolate.com)
Mule magazine (www.mulemagazine.com)
Mr. Pickles handmade cuddlers and other items www.mrpickles.com)
Cutie Cooties handknit goods (www.cutiecooties.com)
Indigo zine and greeting cards (www.copillia.etsy.com)
Stockyard Institute (www.stockyardinstitute.org)
AREA Chicago art/education/activism publication (www.areachicago.com)
Echo Zine Distro (www.geocities.com/echozinedistro)
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Fast Eddie's Car Wash
Date: 1993
Location: Webster Ave 1 block west of Clybourn
The Car Wash Show was my initial venture in organizing a group of artists and to showcase a series of projects in an alternative (non-gallery) setting. Fast Eddies car wash worked as a working class concert arena for improvisational actors and Stoney Island's impromptu rap performance. The project instigated the beginnings of the Stockyard Institute as an attempt to draw various peoples, community places and radical ideas on practice and pedagogy.
The photo which is a document of a larger work, is an homage to Joseph Beuys depicting the workers dressed in gray fedoras, rubber boots and vests washing cars and photographing one another as a collective, democratic performance that was organized by Kris Berube, Jim Duignan, & Robert Kudrle
Some of the artists included Renee Dryg, Arturo Herrera, Michael Piazza, Patrick Collier, Mandy Morrison, Tom McDonald, Kris Berube, Carla Arucha, John Arndt, Brock Lueck, Steve Harp.
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Gang-Proof Suit
Designing a gang-proof suit, WTTW Channel 11 Art Beat Chicago
November 10-28, 2000
Temporary Services "Public Inventions and Interventions"
202 S. State St. Suite 1124 Chicago
January 12- March 4, 2001
Columbia College "PEDAGOGY: Reeling, Writhing, Uglification, & Derision"
The development of this project to design and construct a gang-proof suit began with a series of conversations with youth from the Back of the Yards community of south Chicago. We directed our dialogue to address and, when appropriate, confine selected conditions (power, violence, poverty, abuse) situated within the young people's lives as a primary place to deliberate on what the work could represent. This individual project was not a singular reflection on a neighborhood disorder cited simply through the moderate descriptions and images that stand in for them. The extended exploration through the many months remained a conscious examination of that space in between the reality of a community's troubles and the young person negotiation of home. A space that requires thoughtful study of what remains inescapable in the lives of unsuspecting young people who have limited opportunities to understand and confront that which is often internalized. The conversations regarding the suit continued for two years which shaped a practice of creating work solely in response to our young people's questions. The youth researched the particular components of what visually represented a protective and complete urban outfit that could be worn and withstand stray gun fire while walking to school.
Download Project Objective
www.temporaryservices.org/si_gang_proof_suit.html
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Harp Project
Austin Community History Book was a project produced by Steve Harp and Jim Duignan through the Stockyard Institute with support from the Humanities Center of DePaul University. The project took the form of a walk and dialogue about community history and authorship. The youth used photography to repurpose their neighborhood and developed a book which was later dispensed for free at Urbs in Horto project organized by Michael Piazza and Jim Duignan in Columbus Park on October 12, 2003.
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Howard Arts Lab
Date: 2005-today
Location: 7648 N. Paulina Chicago, IL 60626
The Howard Arts Lab operated within the Howard Area Alternative High School in the Rogers Park community on Chicago's far north side. We explored a center for research and teaching that could accommodate the visual arts education candidates and the students of the high school as partners in the development of projects and curricular strategies as a permanent station for Visual Arts Education in Chicago. We continued a relationship with many producers because of their physical proximity to Rogers Park and installed a low watt radio station within the school for the students and teachers. We have developed the journal AREA with Daniel Tucker and Christian Ryan was instrumental in designing a small recording studio inside the school. Katie Leech developed and ran a Design Studio out of the Arts Lab.
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LOCO COOL Radio Project
Date: Spring 2002
Location: 4741 S. Damen
We own a small watt radio transmitter as a community radio initiative that enables the dissemination of stories, actions, and larger projects between peoples of the neighborhoods we work in. This initiative was built from LOCO COOL, an audio project in the Back of the Yards by Steve Ciampaglia and Kerry Richardson for the Stockyard Institute. LOCO COOL was a composite of audio works that explored the development of experimental narratives and formatting with youth through writing and by teaching participants the technical components of working in audio and radio production. Narratives were shared and broadcast via FREE RADIO from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday afternoons. It established an important relationship with the Experimental Sound Studio as well, Chicago's premiere multi-audio production facility. Radio and audio production has and continues to provide the singularly, most consistent, high quality content and in turn capitalizes on the youth's identification with radio and music while disseminating works to a host of outlets (radio stations, galleries, museums and public spaces).
Listen to a Loco Cool audio program
www.artic.edu/webspaaces/freeradio
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Purchased Garden Displacement
Date: October 2002
Location: Stockyard Institute 819 N. Leamington
A Public Project by Michael Piazza and in cooperation
with the Outer Ear Festival of Sound
Listen to interview of Michael Piazza on NPR:
http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/848_ranov02.asp
Listen to audio excerpts from Purchased Garden:
track 5
track6
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San Miguel Arts Project
June 5 - July 2, 1999
Gallery 400 School of Art and Design
College of Architecture and the Arts
400 S. Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
During the summer of 1997, when the realization of a permanent school building for San Miguel was secured, artists were invited to deliberate and propose ideas for influencing the architecture of the school. That year some 100-125 artists, musicians, and cultural workers met at the site to talk, propose, collaborate with students, donate work to the project and to assist in establishing a climate for creative, intelligent enterprise. The neighborhood was used as a laboratory where work could be produced that was intelligent and grounded in a philosophy that far exceeded the conditions for the arts within a school. In 1999, UIC hosted a solo exhibition at Gallery 400, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They invited us to highlight the entire body of work produced by youth and artists since 1995. The exhibition presented a range of work from pieces installed in the school to proposals for future collaborations and initiatives within the immediate community. The San Miguel Arts Project was an open invitation to artists and community members to come and propose a project for the site that would both temporarily and permanently house their efforts within the school facility. this was a big project and there are some pictures of pieces from the school and the gallery 400 exhibit. The SMAP lasted for about 2 years.
Contributing Artists:
Michael Accera & the San Miguel students
Leticia Aldama
John Arndt
Brett Bloom
Cindy Bojorquez
Carlos Cortez
Patrick Collier
Claire Blanche Dougal
Renee Dryg
Celeste Duignan
Experimental Sound Studio
Anthony Elms
Susan Peterson
Michael Piazza
Ulrich Schlotmann
Bob Tavani
Jacqueline Terrassa
Watie White
Curated by Karen Indeck and Jim Duignan
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Mathew Girson
Goss
Steve Harp
Arron Higgins
Jo Hormuth
Christine Kriegerowski
Brad Leslie
Steven Luecking
Tom McDonald
Jon Mindes
Louise Nelson
Marc Fischer
Janine Patten
Hector Sanchez
Michael Shea
Jane Stevens
Sarah Whipple
Barb Wiesen
Taxi Project: A Public Project by HaHa
Don't Mess With My Fro
May 17, 2003
Location: Hyde Park Art Center
'Don't Mess With My Fro' designed by youth Davion Mathews and Brain Radcliffe with the Stockyard Institute captured the language of the street with cinematic references about ones sense of their own space. Taxi had its debut performance in Chicago in 2003. With the assistance of location sensitive signage equipment mounted on the roof of a taxicab, the work presented flash-animated messages keyed to particular sites as the taxi moves throughout the city.
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The Autonomous Territories of Chicago
A Festival in Celebration of Radical Culture & Resistance
October 14, 2001
At Del Prado building, HPAC, Chicago
AND
April 27, 28, 29, 2001
At Butcher Shop, 1319 W. Lake Chicago
The Autonomous Territories of Chicago (ATOC) was a project Temporary Services did. The idea behind ATOC was simple, invite a number of different art, activist, and community groups doing exciting work around Chicago to come to a utopian carnival and fair and pretend they were Autonomous Territories, i.e., what would their practice look like if they were not under the heel of the city, state or capitalism. Unfortunately right before all of this was
to come together September 11th happened, and they felt they had to change their program. All this aside, the SI contributed the 2 posters ('I dodge bullets and make little books about my existence' ) for the exhibit at HPAC and
the Butcher Shop weekend (which was earlier, SI did a project of a rooftop community cast with area residents and it was under Jim Duignan and General Subjects
www.counterproductiveindustries.com
Images from the Hyde Park Art Center exhibit
www.temporaryservices.org/
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Urban Rural Wild
Survival Kits
September 9-October 22, 2005
I Space, Chicago
Curated by Sarah Kanouse & Nick Brown
Stockyard Institute brought together a collection of weapons (toy guns) as 'Survival Kits'. The project sought through dialogue with youth what the necessary tools and materials were deemed appropriate for the natural environment. Through exchanges about the nature of surplus items, camping and survivalist elements, the guns became a common denominator, marking a clear means to edit out only the specific or specific group of items for maneuvering in an environment, naturally uncomfortable. Davion Mathews, Rosie Presti & Jim Duignan.
www.readysubjects.org
http://www.walkinginplace.org/ispace
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Urbs in Horto
October 12, 2003
Location: Columbus Park, Chicago
A Public Project Initiated by Michael Piazza & Jim Duignan
A day long community collaboration to address the functions of Columbus Park. Community members worked with artists to explore the park's history, relation to the neighborhood, & how it could better serve the public. The project organized by Michael Piazza and Jim Duignan involved community collaborations, a 7 hour radio transmission, multi-use workstations, video screenings, installations, performances, and a live feed to London, England from the park.
Download the Urbs in Horto Flyer
Urbs in Horto Essay