Chicago Part Deuce

12/5

In the evening there was a performance event in the gallery space at the Roxaboxen. An atmosphere of a ritual nature was maintained throughout. It was pretty good overall and went off without a hitch. At one point a smoke detector went off but it sort of worked with what was going on for the most part. There was also a giant white pod filled with compost in the middle of the room which was the focus of one point of the performance. Additionally someone was sealed in a canvas bag, plastered to the wall, which they later exited with knife and walked out of room covered in paint/glue.


Candle Lighting
There was pollen cookies and honey drink served after this. The cookies were exquisite.


There was a droning noise portion. The guy was using something along the lines of a light reactive synth. The light source being a flickering electric candle and a flashlight.


Close to the end of the performance.


A golden diamond hotdog. Vegan I presume...

Later...
James as a Beetle


12/6

Today we took an outing and found the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
This involved taking the elevated train which, in my opinion, is way more fun to ride than the New York City subway due to the fact that you get to see ALOT more of the city.


Getting off the train.

We walked by Millenium Park and checked out the giant silver bean. It's huge and the underside is highly confusing to look at.








So we walked a little too far down the street and missed the MoCP. This was in part of the park.


A shadow of a building.

So eventually we made it to the MoCP. The focus of the works present had a strong Hispanic theme. It was mostly about people migrating from Mexico and attempting to cross the border, but also a comparison between the 80's and 2000's Hispanic culture of Chicago.


This was in the rear/left section of the gallery space. It was a video installation about canned laughter. The video was of laugh track voice actors. They all looked very uncomfortable.



By the time we finished there we were all starving and found some delicious pizza. This Chicago pizza was square, but not deep dish.

Then we checked out the Chicago Public Library. This place is HUGE. It has 9 or 10 floors, although only 6 seem to contain books and other materials. But whatever, its big. And full of escalators. And there are at least 8 elevators. And a fountain.
And several galleries.
Wow.


An escalator never breaks, it just turns into stairs.


This is the top floor. It is very quite and only two people were in here.

We abandoned the guidance of Kyle after the library and decided to go find Sultan's for one last falafel sammich before we left Chicago. Paired with a 4-pack of Brooklyn Chocolate Stout, things couldn't have gone better.