“An ephemera exposition dialoguing Water’s relationship with Chicago. Over seven days, communication-artist Nick Adam will remove and install one mural a day that anthropomorphizes our relationship with water. He’d like to personally invite you to literally watch all these works wash away.”
Johalla Projects, July 30th thru August 6th. 1561 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Sunday’s install is 7pm-9pm during Wicker Park Fest. Watch from the North-Stage were Baroness and Torche will be performing live.
The water, it’s ours. Yours and mine, the birds and bees, all the plants and all the trees. Life is a relationship between being and water.
First installation "You and I need to talk" @ Johalla projects. Created July 30th, removed July 31st.
All of what water exist today was here from day-one on Earth. Every drink, shower, and flush has been used before. Water has a past… a story. The correspondence is of our relationship, the details are based on usage and treatment.
“Chicago is the nation’s only major city that doesn’t disinfect its wastewater before pumping it back into the environment.”
Obama, U.S. EPA push for cleaner Chicago River; June 01, 2010 Michael Hawthorne, Tribune reporter
Day two: "We could be forever" @ Johalla Projects Created July 31th, to be replaced tonight 7pm-ish.
What was once a naturally renewing cycle, Chicago transformed both literally and linearly into a drain via reversing the Chicago River. Every sink, shower, bath, pool, hose, toilet and water source in Chicago are spouts of Lake Michigan. Every drain, flush and sewer does not get disinfected and flows out to the Chicago River, downstate, to the Mississippi and out to the Gulf. Along the way all humans and nature taste and learn our story… our (ab)use… our (mis) treatment. As one of the greenest cities in America Chicago is capable and willing of so much more.
Day two @ Johalla Projects. During Cap'n Jazz @ Wicker Park Fest.
The water is ours,
Nick
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