Terrain Biennial 2021 Exhibition: Andrew Schachman at Landing Projects

Written By Michael Workman
Cloudless Sky 1 color test sample. Installation to be constructed from Baltic birch structure, flexible plywood, epoxy resin, fluorescent and blue pigment powder, suspension system.

Cloudless Sky 1 color test sample. Installation to be constructed from Baltic birch structure, flexible plywood, epoxy resin, fluorescent and blue pigment powder, suspension system.

“CLOUDLESS SKY NO. 1”
LANDING PROJECTS
2858 W. Belle Plaine Ave.,
Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60618
Oct. 2 - Nov. 15, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: FRI OCT. 8, 6-9PM
Hours otherwise by appointment by emailing us here.

For this year’s Terrain Biennial, Andrew Schachman: Cloudless Sky No. 1 will premier at Bridge experimental project space, Landing Projects. Hosted on the back landing of a private residence, the space provides a low-fi environment for artists to play and test-balloon new ideas.

Project Statement
Cloudless Sky, No.1 explores the dual emotions of cheerfulness and horror.

A clear blue sky is conventionally associated with optimism. When something occurs 'out of the blue' it is an unexpected disruption of an otherwise dependable state of affairs. Meanwhile, computer simulations of climate change suggest that as the Earth's troposphere warms, the clouds may begin to thin, triggering a feedback loop of accelerated warming and destabilization until a new equilibrium forms.

Cloudless Sky, No.1 consists of a concave intense blue canvas, suspended horizontally at the top landing of a stair. Baltic birch structure, flexible plywood, epoxy resin, fluorescent and blue pigment powder, suspension system.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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