The circus comes to town and it sprouts up from the ground. It is both and but never except. It is from afar and of the place. Always the same but never the same way. Only in one place and always in any place. It is self-memorializing. Space is an index of memory. Its multitudinous stimuli vibrate with knowledge. Tendrils trapping echoes in their grasp. Spatial erasure threatens memoricide. And so, we withdraw. To shelter. To find refuge within this familiar edifice. But its might fled prior first pangs at the door. Urgency now. Remember, remember, remember to not forget. Observe and document each case in detail and each detail in case. But like a plant shapes a seed, so we send the circus.

Benjamin Luebkemann’s art and architecture practice is situated in the space between nostalgia and anticipation. His work engages historical, apocryphal, and imagined narratives of a place. Discover more at benluebkemann.com.

During this installation, concurrent projects will occur at 1224 W Loyola: 

if a tree falls by Tallulah Cartalucca
Wednesday, August 20 at 6 PM

City in Heat 2 by Carlos Ferguson, Kate In, Johanna Kasimow
Friday, August 22 at 8:30 PM

Untitled 'The Storm' by kee mabin
Saturday, August 23 at 7:30 PM