Berger Park Cultural Center
6205 N Sheridan Road, Chicago IL
On the Edge Speaker Series Thursday, September 26 at 6:30 PM
Join artist JeeYeun Lee to hear about the ongoing Shore Land project, and to experience Lee’s narrative walking guide for Berger Park. To best experience this work, bring headphones and an internet-connected device to stream the audio. Transcripts will be provided, and we will have a few additional headsets to share.
The event will begin at 6:30 PM in the Berger Park Cultural Center. Visitors will be encouraged to move through the park while listening and/or reading the 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 M.F.A. in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and B.A. in Linguistics from Stanford University. For additional information, please visit jeeyeunlee.com.
This event is being co-hosted with the Berger Park Advisory Council, as a part of their ongoing series On the Edge. This program is supported by Hyde Park Art Center’s Artists Run Chicago Fund in partnership with Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
Roman Susan programming at Berger Park Cultural Center is part of Movement Studies – programming investigating social and environmental transitions. Shore Land is a part of Navigations, artist projects in and about public space. This work has been supported by the Awesome Foundation (Chicago Chapter), the Puffin Foundation, and the Individual Artist Program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.