Towards
Art Installation
Open Daily | Polk Bros Park
August 20-September 15 | FREE
TOWARDS tells the story of individuals moving toward each other and their vision of a world they want to inhabit. The installation consists of 5 LED walls and uses video, light, music and place to curate an immersive experience.
The project captures videos of people from across the country who are working to help create a world where everyone thrives. From neighborhood impact to national influence, these individuals work every day to make a difference in their communities and country. The work features site-specific, multi-genre music and interweaves the voices of these everyday people into a composition of instrumentation and spoken word. Residents of Chicago form the basis of the installation, with additional filming in communities from New York, NY to New Orleans, LA from Bears Ears, UT to Detroit, MI to Phoenix, AZ.
Towards is supported by The Hearthland Foundation, and part of Next Stop Chicago.
About the Artist: Samuel Stubblefield
Samuel Stubblefield is an artist, composer, architectural designer, and technologist whose studio relentlessly pursues intuitive curiosities. Stubblefield sees his studio’s work as an extension of nature, a bridge to understanding and feeling, and a facilitator of deeper communal connections. Stubblefield’s works, spanning visual, sonic, performative, interactive, and immersive mediums, have been showcased alongside Marina Abramović, Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Michael Murphy, Yoko
Ono, Keith Sonnier, Hank Willis Thomas, Richard Tuttle, and Lawrence Weiner. His music and compositions have included collaborations with Grammy-Award-winning musical artists, symphonies, and choruses, including vocalists from The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, The New York Metropolitan Opera, and numerous musicians, DJs, and bands.
The studio has multiple awards for its collaborations in the field of architecture and design across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
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