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Co-Prosperity is an experimental cultural center located in the neighborhood of Bridgeport.

The space is used to showcase work by artists, performers and cultural workers of all stripes. Co-Pro hosts exhibitions, screenings, presentations, installations, festivals, meetings, and performance programs in its 5,000+ square foot gallery. The space hosts between 35-60 events and exhibitions a year serving over 20,000 individuals. Co-Prosperity is also the home office of Public Media Institute

(PMI). PMI is a non-profit 501(c) 3, community based, art & culture organization located in the neighborhood of Bridgeport in the city of Chicago. PMI's mission is to create, incubate and sustain innovative cultural programming through the production of socially engaged projects, festivals, spaces, exhibitions, and media. Public Media Institute is committed to the region’s cultural ecology and is evident through our series of programs, spaces and projects.

06/21/2024

The solo exhibition Of Love: A Labor with is opening today, 6 - 8 PM at Co-Prosperity! We will have a new exhibition up by Jen de los Reyes in the main space too, so come out to see both!

What are the textures and traces of care? How do labours of love materialize? Of Love: A Labor, a solo exhibition by the interdisciplinary artist Ruth K. Burke, attends to the tactile remnants of domestic interspecies relationships. This is not an exhibition about animals but of animals, and emerges in relation with animals. As is the habit of art history, non-human animals are all too often obscured by the powers of their own symbolism. Their transmutation into metaphor distracts us from their vibrant material lifeways that permeate earthly existence.

Burke’s practice, more broadly, interrogates how we might challenge these objectifying paradigms, and instead care-fully invite animals into artistic practice as active agents and co-producers. This is embedded within the context of agricultural animal husbandry in the American Midwest. The word husbandry derives from the Old Norse husbondi or ‘house dweller’, which evokes proximity and duration. For millennia, draft animals have lived and worked alongside humans, shaping the land, shaping bodies, shaping ethical questions of power, of labor, of kinship. Here in Illinois, the ancestral lands of native peoples including the Peoria, Illini, and Myaamia nations, draft animals also pull the heavy load of settler colonialism, as they were once instrumentalized as key tools of the colonial project. Burke is concerned with how draft animal power may be harnessed otherwise, and how oppressive human power might be shifted and softened in these domestic contexts. Through installation, performance, and large-scale earthworks created in collaboration (co-laboring) with animals and plant-life, Burke attends to how non-human agencies might partake in and sustain art-making practices for collective acts of multispecies worldbuilding.

Text by Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp

06/21/2024

🗣️ The opening reception for In Concert with is happening today, 6 - 8 PM at Co-Prosperity! We will have a new exhibition up by Ruth Burke in the window space too, so come out to see both!

In Concert is the first mid-career retrospective of influential social practice artist, organizer, and educator Jen de los Reyes. Canadian-born, Ithaca, NY-based Reyes has made a concerted effort to live and make work in accordance with her principles, including pragmatic organizing practices informed by her early years in punk music communities and recent anti-corporate and anti-racist direct action.

Key projects of Reyes’ include flagship social practice conference Open Engagement (2007—2019) which showcased and launched a generation of socially engaged art; community urban garden Garbage Hill Farms in Chicago’s Southwest Side; The Disappearing Birds of North America: 389 Birds on the Verge of Extinction, a multi-faceted project with 389 artists and designers; and presentations including “Matching Minorities//Doubtful Doubles” (2020), an online workshop which called out racist practices in museums and educational institutions.

This retrospective exhibition, organized by Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak and Nick Wylie, illuminates more than twenty years of artmaking, organizing, writing, and radical teaching by Jen de los Reyes. Through careful consideration of her life and career, patterns emerge that connect Reyes’s work to broader social contexts and art movements.

06/18/2024

and live at this Sunday! Get your tickets at the link in bio. Doors at 7, music at 8

Quintron and Miss Pussycat have been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for over twenty years. The majority of their 17 full-length albums have the psychedelic soul of traditional New Orleans party music, filtered through a Hammond organ, technicolor puppets, and a battalion of distorted, homemade instruments.

Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s sweaty musical blasts are paralleled in spirit and performance by Miss Pussycat’s dreamy puppet worlds – elaborate, and beautifully crafted for success in intimate venues of late-night drinking and dancing. She has also had several major solo museum exhibitions of ceramics, paintings and other visual work related to her puppetry.

This act somehow has equal relevance in sleazy nightclubs, pizza restaurants, and university lecture halls.

06/06/2024

Co-Prosperity is thrilled to present 𝑶𝒇 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆: 𝑨 𝑳𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓, a solo presentation of Ruth Burke’s () installation in our window space. Join us on Friday June 21 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m for the opening reception!

Of Love: A Labor, a solo exhibition by the interdisciplinary artist Ruth K. Burke, attends to the tactile remnants of domestic interspecies relationships. This is not an exhibition about animals but of animals, and emerges in relation with animals. As is the habit of art history, non-human animals are all too often obscured by the powers of their own symbolism. Their transmutation into metaphor distracts us from their vibrant material lifeways that permeate earthly existence.

Burke’s practice, more broadly, interrogates how we might challenge these objectifying paradigms, and instead care-fully invite animals into artistic practice as active agents and co-producers. This is embedded within the context of agricultural animal husbandry in the American Midwest. The word husbandry derives from the Old Norse husbondi or ‘house dweller’, which evokes proximity and duration. For millennia, draft animals have lived and worked alongside humans, shaping the land, shaping bodies, shaping ethical questions of power, of labor, of kinship. Here in Illinois, the ancestral lands of native peoples including the Peoria, Illini, and Myaamia nations, draft animals also pull the heavy load of settler colonialism, as they were once instrumentalized as key tools of the colonial project. Burke is concerned with how draft animal power may be harnessed otherwise, and how oppressive human power might be shifted and softened in these domestic contexts. Through installation, performance, and large-scale earthworks created in collaboration (co-laboring) with animals and plant-life, Burke attends to how non-human agencies might partake in and sustain art-making practices for collective acts of multispecies world-building.

Read the full text by Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp on our website.

06/05/2024

Want to learn more about Chicago’s independent art scene of the 80s and 90s? Join us for How to Make a Scene, an in-person and virtual conversation series running from June to October that celebrates the history of artist-run cultural ecosystems.

The series launches with moderators Anthony Stepter (June 20 on air, July 13 at Co-Prosperity) and Jen de los Reyes (July 27 at Co-Prosperity) concurrent with her exhibition, In Concert.

The project aims to connect veteran artist organizers with those working today through a combination of intimate events at Co-Prosperity, broadcasts on Lumpen Radio, and live streams on LumpenTV. The series will offer audiences trailheads for further exploration of Chicago’s storied history of alternative gallery spaces, independent publications, and socially engaged collectives.

Moderators will lead varying forms of discussions with groups of artists who have built experimental infrastructures of support for themselves and their peers. These gatherings serve as platforms for generational knowledge sharing, informal oral histories, and strategizing for the impact these artist ecosystems can have in the future.

Starting June 20th, tune in on the third Thursday of each month at 11am on Lumpen Radio and Lumpen TV. Learn more about our live events at Co-Prosperity by visiting lumpenradio.com.

The series continues through fall to include sessions moderated by Ben Foch, Mary Patten, and Greg Ruffing, with more names to come!

All of the panels will be archived on Mixcloud and Vimeo, and they will be posted (with short transcript outtakes) on the 2024 MdW Atlas, which will be printed as a book in 2026.

This series is a collaborative effort between the Public Media Institute and MdW, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of the city-wide initiative, Art + Design Chicago.

06/05/2024

Co-Prosperity is thrilled to announce our next exhibition 𝙄𝙉 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙍𝙏 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙅𝙀𝙉 𝘿𝙀 𝙇𝙊𝙎 𝙍𝙀𝙔𝙀𝙎. ()

The opening reception for the exhibition will take place on Friday June 21 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

The first mid-career retrospective of influential social practice artist, organizer, and educator Jen de los Reyes* Canadian-born, Ithaca, NY-based Reyes has made a concerted effort to live and make work in accordance with her principles, including pragmatic organizing practices informed by her early years in punk music communities and recent anti-corporate and anti-racist direct action.

Key projects of Reyes’ include flagship social practice conference Open Engagement (2007—2019) which showcased and launched a generation of socially engaged art; community urban garden Garbage Hill Farms in Chicago’s Southwest Side; The Disappearing Birds of North America: 389 Birds on the Verge of Extinction, a multi-faceted project with 389 artists and designers; and presentations including “Matching Minorities//Doubtful Doubles” (2020), an online workshop which called out racist practices in museums and educational institutions.

This retrospective exhibition, organized by Anthony Stepter (), Astria Suparak () and Nick Wylie (), illuminates more than twenty years of artmaking, organizing, writing, and radical teaching by Jen de los Reyes. Through careful consideration of her life and career, patterns emerge that connect Reyes’s work to broader social contexts and art movements.
On the occasion of this exhibition, Co-Prosperity has produced a three book risograph publication series contextualizing the artist’s career and impact. The publication includes essays by Sampada Aranke; René De Guzman; Tom Finkelpearl; Eliza Gregory, Mark Menjivar, and Lexa Walsh; Zoë Heyn-Jones; Lee Painter-Kim; Stephanie Parrish; and Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak, and Nick Wylie. Publication was
designed by Josh Cook and Oscar Solis.

05/23/2024

Have you seen our current exhibition in the gallery space yet? If you have not, now is the chance! 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙁𝙐𝙇, 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙄𝘽𝙇𝙀: 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝙁𝙀 𝙍𝙊𝙒 is a counter-narrative, a sustained act of resistance, an exhibition that reveals the intimate experiences, transformative ideas, and beautiful dreams of people facing the stark realities of life sentencing in Illinois. These sentences are commonly described as death by incarceration because they condemn people to confinement until their death. Nevertheless, as contributing artist, Reginald BoClair, states, “Though sentenced to die in prison, we are alive.”

The exhibition closes in about two weeks and we hope to see you here during our open hours. We are open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM. On Saturday, June 1, from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, please join Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project () for a reception to celebrate the closing of More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row. Attendees of all ages will be invited to write letters, make buttons, and screen print designs from the artists at Stateville Prison with William Estrada and Aaron Hughes.

This exhibition was co-curated by Alice Kim and Aaron Hughes.

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05/22/2024

💡OPEN CALL ANNOUNCEMENT💡

Co-Prosperity is delighted to announce that the application for a 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗢 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗪 𝗘𝗫𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 is now open! Apply by July 8 for a 6 week exhibition with a work stipend of $1000.00!

Launched in early 2020 the “Co-Prosperity Peers” solo exhibition series was designed to provide opportunities for emerging artists to have their first one-person shows in Chicago.

Applications will be reviewed by artists on the Co-Prosperity Programming Council in mid July and applicants will be notified in August. Please click the link in our bio to start your application.

Group exhibition applications will be open for 2025/26 in the fall of this year. This call is for solo exhibitions in the windows only.

Submissions will be accepted until July 8th, 2024 11:59 CST.

Co-Prosperity (Co-Pro) is an experimental cultural center located in Bridgeport, Chicago. Co-Pro hosts exhibitions, screenings, installations, gatherings, and performance programs.

05/21/2024

Co-Prosperity is happy to host Boston Typewriter Orchestra () with special guests Neal Markowski and Eliya Gwetta. Tickets are available on eventbrite and we hope to see you on June 20, from 7 PM - 11 PM!

The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is a collective percussive ensemble for typewriter and voice based in the Boston area. Creative. Eclectic. Nostalgic. The BTO entertains with collaborative rhythmic, comedic, and satiric performances. Beyond the show itself, the BTO seeks to educate and evangelize the archaic machines they use, allowing folks an opportunity to connect with history and industrial technology, sometimes for the first time.

What is an instrument? Can music be performed on objects of the business world? What is the intersection of industry and art? Where can we find beauty and purpose in the world’s relentless grind and repetition? For 15 years The Boston Typewriter Orchestra have posed these questions, challenging the very notion of music itself. Liberated from the rules of traditional music, the BTO continues to reinvent itself with every song. Yet through the din, listeners can hear elements of dub, metal, musique concrète, kraut, French house, and garage to name but a few genres they routinely explore.

Throughout, the BTO maintains office chic garb contemporaneous with the typewriters they play; a corporate land before time where The Boss is never-present but always just around the corner. The members themselves are portrayed as corporate drones, who, despite their own self-inflicted wounds, still represent and celebrate disrupting the corporate monoculture from within.

Founded in 2004, The Orchestra got its start appearing at house parties, art galleries, and street festivals. The group has since performed on local, national, and international radio and television and appeared in the documentary California Typewriter. BTO has released several singles and five albums, the most recent of which is a collection of remixes entitled Delegation.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-typewriter-orchestra-at-co-prosperity-tickets-891835523057?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

05/14/2024

Have you seen our window show yet? Moon Healing Escalation by Gericault De La Rose (.ubae) closes on June 7th. Come see the show!

“Adorning the window vitrines with lustrous satin, rhinestones, sequins, and glitters, Moon Healing Escalation, composed of both previous work and new creations, is a ritualistic triptych that unfolds as a passage that bridges the past and the present through magical and spiritual transcendence. The window exhibition invites the viewers into a celebration of love and friendship, a liminal space where beautiful metamorphosis is constantly being materialized. It is nonetheless also a deeply personal installation for De La Rose to look back at her life, ingest her past trauma as a trans woman surviving in this world, and trace the journey of her healing imbued with support and compassion from her community.” Nicky Ni ()

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05/01/2024

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row! Congratulations to exhibiting artists jina valentine and Jade Williams for receiving the 2024 Artist Fellowship Award today!

This Week’s Related Public Programs:

🗣️PAROLE ILLINOIS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS
🗓️ Thursday May 2nd, 6 - 8 PM

Join Parole Illinois for an insightful program that sheds light on the evolution of parole systems in Illinois. Through panel discussions, and fundraising efforts, attendees will be invited into meaningful conversations on parole reform and its impact on communities. Panelists include Jimmy Soto, Kevin Blumenberg (Swack), James Lenoir, Ben Austen, and Shaneva McReynolds moderated by Ashton Hoselton

👥CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
🗓️ Saturday May 4th

11am: Everyday Objects from the Public Housing to Prison Pipeline

Join Lisa Lee (Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum), Dorothy Burge (artist and educator) and Colette Payne (Director, Reclamation Project, Women’s Justice Institute) in conversation about the Everyday Objects from the Public Housing to Prison Pipeline. After the discussion Aaron Hughes, Exhibition Co-organizer and Co-curator, will lead the gallery walk.

1pm: Two Tales of (In)Justice: Fighting Death by Incarceration from the Inside Out

Join James Soto and Renaldo Hudson as they share their stories and pathways to freedom moderated by Alice Kim. Both men survived decades of long-term incarceration.

04/23/2024

Chip Thomas ‘s incredible wheat paste of Rodney Love from ‘s Think Tank at Stateville prison has been installed at PO Box Collective next to the Black Lives Matter Memorial.

This Saturday the 27th, come out to Co-Prosperity for the opening of exhibition More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row. Exhibition organizers and artists will share reflections and insight on the featured artworks. The program will conclude with a special performance by Anna Martine Whitehead responding to Lonnie Smith’s poem “Am I a Person.” RSVP link in bio!

More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row is a counter narrative, a sustained act of resistance, an exhibition that reveals the intimate experiences, transformative ideas, and beautiful dreams of people facing the stark realities of life and de facto life sentencing in Illinois. These sentences are commonly described as death by incarceration because they condemn people to confinement until their death. Nevertheless, as contributing artist, Reginald BoClair, states, “Though sentenced to die in prison, we are alive.”

Through personal narratives, artistic expressions, compelling installations, and poetic verse, this exhibition shines a light on the people who inhabit ‘life row.’

This exhibition is co-presented by , the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project, and Beyond Prisons at Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago

04/01/2024

More Beautiful, More Terrible: Humans of Life Row is a counter narrative, a sustained act of resistance, an exhibition that reveals the intimate experiences, transformative ideas, and beautiful dreams of people facing the stark realities of life and de facto life sentencing in Illinois. These sentences are commonly described as death by incarceration because they condemn people to confinement until their death. Nevertheless, as contributing artist, Reginald BoClair, states, “Though sentenced to die in prison, we are alive.”

Through personal narratives, artistic expressions, compelling installations, and poetic verse, this exhibition shines a light on the people who inhabit ‘life row.’

Please join our opening reception on April 27 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Exhibition organized by the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and Beyond Prisons, Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago.

Image caption: Michael Sullivan, Untitled, 2024. Graphite on paper. [Response to Stephanie Bonds writing Tell a story about where you live.]

03/29/2024

Co-Prosperity is thrilled to host Nicole Eisenman () and David Velasco in Conversation on April 6th at 3:00 PM. Please RSVP by joining the guest list as spots are limited. Link in bio! 🔗 This talk will be recorded.

Nicole Eisenman’s exhibition What Happened opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago () on April 6th and will be on view until September 22, 2024.

03/29/2024

🌖 Co-Prosperity is excited to announce the exhibition Moon Healing Escalation by Bay Area-based multimedia artist Gericault De La Rose. The exhibition will take place April 26 – June 7 at Co-Prosperity’s window vitrines. Opening reception is April 26th, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. This will be De La Rose’s first solo exhibition in Chicago.

🌔 Adorning the window vitrines with lustrous satin, rhinestones, sequins, and glitters, Moon Healing Escalation, composed of both previous work and new creations, is a ritualistic triptych that unfolds as a passage that bridges the past and the present through magical and spiritual transcendence. The window exhibition invites the viewers into a celebration of love and friendship, a liminal space where beautiful metamorphosis is constantly being materialized. It is nonetheless also a deeply personal installation for De La Rose to look back at her life, ingest her past trauma as a trans woman surviving in this world, and trace the journey of her healing imbued with support and compassion from her community.

🌒 Find out more on our website 🌘

03/28/2024

Co-Prosperity is thrilled to host Nicole Eisenman () and David Velasco () in Conversation on April 6th at 3:00 PM. Please RSVP using the link in our bio. Seats are limited. This talk will be recorded.

Nicole Eisenman’s exhibition What Happened opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago () on April 6th and will be on view until September 22, 2024.

03/14/2024

Public Media Institute’s staff has committed to The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel in support of the liberation of the Palestinian people.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. It advocates for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions for their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights that are stipulated in international law.

PACBI is a founding member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC).

The BNC, including PACBI, is committed to freedom of expression as stipulated in the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and as such rejects, on principle, boycotts of individuals based on their opinion or identity (such as citizenship, race, gender, or religion).

Click the link in our bio for a list of key PACBI guidelines and policy documents.

While this commitment conveys solidarity with those impacted by apartheid and genocide, we know it is not enough. We are and have been doing our best to use our platforms to support and welcome activists and artists working for ceasefire and liberation. Please be in touch if there’s a way we can help.

03/10/2024

Announcing a new FREE concert! 🎫
Co-Prosperity in collaboration with 062 () is thrilled to present TENGGER ()

Kikù Hibino (.hibino) will be opening the night and this concert is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please join us on March 20, 2024. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

TENGGER is a traveling musical family, made up of Pan-Asian couple ITTA (from South Korea) and MARQIDO (from Japan), who create their brand of psychedelic New-Age drone magic through the use of voice, Indian harmonium, and toy instruments (played by ITTA), and synths and electronics (played by MARQIDO). The duo originally started out with the moniker “10,” but since the birth of their son RAAI (who joins them on tour and playing voice, synth, toy instruments, and dance performance on stage) in 2012, have called themselves TENGGER (meaning ‘unlimited expanse of sky’ in Mongolian) to mark the expansion of the family. It also means ‘huge sea’ in Hungarian. Travel, as a spiritual experience in real environments, and the sound between the space and the audience have been central themes of their works. The family’s yearly pilgrimages inform every aspect of their art.

Sound artist Kikù Hibino has dedicated his career to exploring the complex interplay between nature’s inherent structures and the human imagination through electronic music. Inspired by the intricate beauty of human languages, natural patterns, optical illusions and moirés, Kikù crafts electronic compositions that challenge traditional rhythmic structures and melodies, inviting listeners into a world where linear and non-linear converge harmoniously.

#텐거 #시카고

03/07/2024

We are hosting and again next Friday for another roundtable. Doors at 6 PM. Program starts at 7:30 PM.

Join us for a conversation between Mohammed El-Kurd, award-winning poet and journalist from Jerusalem, and Chicago activist Ricardo Gamboa. Proceeds will go to the

Tickets are sliding scale, get yours at the link in bio!

There will be water, dates, snacks and a prayer area available for those observing and participating in this year’s Ramadan.

Please note that this is a masked event.

02/23/2024

March 5th: Join us at the MCA Store’s second-floor entrance for a book signing with Lumpen Times publisher Ed Marszewski and artist Cody Hudson, whose new books were both recently released by Hat & Beard Press.

The Lumpen Times: 30+ Years of Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future shares stories from a few dozen of the thousands of Lumpen collaborators over the years. It contains a visual survey of the printed matter they produced over the past three decades, illustrating the evolution of the xeroxed-and-stapled zine into an internationally recognized cultural periodical.

Read more about the book or purchase it at the link in bio

In Selected Universal Portals, Cody Hudson’s second book of art, he has assembled dozens of works completed between 2014 and 2023. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, and large-scale site-specific installations and murals informed as much by his interior reflections as by his external surroundings.

02/22/2024

This Saturday from 6 to 10 PM, Co-Prosperity will be hosting and + for their roundtable series. Join Chicago activists Bill Ayers and Ricardo Gamboa in discussion with Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.

This event is currently sold out, but join the waiting list at the link in bio to be informed if there is increased availability.

Proceeds from the event will benefit . Please note that this will be a masked event.

Featuring “The Art of War” by and drinks by

02/22/2024

Co-Prosperity is thrilled to announce our first show of the year.

𝑴𝑬𝑵 𝑰 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑴𝑬𝑻 opens on March 8th. Please join our opening reception from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Club Chow will be performing from 8:00 PM to 8:45 PM. Plus, live drawing session by Vincent Chong from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Followed by the opening reception of 𝑴𝑬𝑵 𝑰 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑴𝑬𝑻, Co-Prosperity Chicago is thrilled to present 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑮 𝑰𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫, hosted by Celeste. (.wrld) Please join Irregular Girl, Stephanie, Po’Chop, Dutchesz Gemini, Alex Jenny and Celeste on March 8th, 2024 from 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM at Co-Prosperity.

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Co-Prosperity is thrilled to present Men I Have Ever Met, a group exhibition anchored on 100+ written encounters revisiting Sungjae Lee ‘s q***r journey navigating interpersonal relationships.

Lee invited 5 q***r Asian artists, Club Chow , Eugene I-Peng Tang , Jay Carlon , Jinu Hong , and Vincent Chong who are based in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York to present creative responses to Lee’s stories. These works collectively are witnessed through Lee’s text installation. Please join the opening reception on Friday, March 8th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM (music by Club Chow from 8:00 to 8:45 PM).

Stick around after Lee’s opening event to see “DRAG IN THE ROUND”, a night of q***r performance curated and hosted by Celeste .wrld 🌹  Please join Irregular Girl, Stephanie, Po Chop, Dutchesz Gemini, Alex Jenny and Celeste on March 8th from 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM at Co-Prosperity. This event is free and open to the public!

Graphic designed by Jinu Hong

02/08/2024

🌼THIS SATURDAY, 4 - 7 PM🌼

Join artists Jade Williams and Cristabel Reynosa-Martinez of the Black Bloom Project for an interactive workshop where they’ll discuss curating safe spaces while creating beautiful flowers to add to the Bloomscape, which can be viewed in the Co-Prosperity Sphere windows until February 17th!

👥RSVP by this Friday the 9th by sending an email to [email protected]

The Black Bloom Project is a collective of creators, change-makers, cultivators and cultural innovators working to curate safe spaces for Black and Brown Womxn and Femmes. Through the creation of fiber based installations—known as BLOOMSCAPES—they advocate for radical self love, acceptance, and healing among our respective communities.

01/30/2024

This Saturday, Co-Prosperity is hosting Level Eater’s tabletop-games Demo Expo! FREE to attend!

Come by the gallery to play demos with local game designers and shop the wondrous wares of .mkt on February 3rd from noon to 4:30pm.

Try the beloved dueling game, TILL THE LAST GASP, from Darrington Press!

Face playful perils and powerful princesses — or steal an octopus from a wizard!

This event is a great place to learn tabletop RPGs and try new games.

We have great prizes to dole out, too! See you there!

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🎥 @jozhouxz plays with her interactive magnet piece featured in Typeforce 12, at Co-Prosperity until 3/27. Our open hours for Typeforce are Saturdays 12- 5 pm Bonus: Tomorrow (3/18) is a 3rd Friday in Bridgeport and we will be open from 6 to 9 pm. Stop by to check out Typeforce 12 and everything else happening in Bridgeport!

Typeforce is coming back to Co-Pro in person this year for it's 12th edition! Now live + open for submissions until February 4th. To Submit: typeforce.com Questions? Email [email protected]

It's Lumpen magazine's 30th birthday this year. It's also Public Media Institute's 20th anniversary, Co-Prosperity Sphere's 15th year of existence, and five years of live FM broadcasting for Lumpen Radio. Lots of milestones! These occasions led us to create an exhibition about 30 years of Lumpen and its related projects at the Chicago Cultural Center. Please stop by any time from October 16 through February 6, 2022… Show description below: . Successful Failures: Thirty Years of Lumpens, Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future . In Chicago, we can make and do anything we want, when we try. Through the certainty of chance, collective engagement, casual encounters, and accidental actions, an underground magazine called The Lumpen Times became the hub for a series of cultural platforms spawning hundreds of projects, spaces, happenings, exhibitions, and initiatives. . Collaborators from all walks of life experimented through interpersonal relationships and through myriad multi-media creative platforms, including cultural sites, publications, mutual aid networks, and entrepreneurial spaces. These projects were often improvisational, accidental, or short-lived, but as each receded, inevitably it fueled a new one in its wake. Our collective success through repeated failure is explored in this exhibition. . Here, Chicago Cultural Center galleries are transformed into a catalog of strategies, highlighting dozens of “case studies” demonstrating how artists, activists, educators, creative entrepreneurs, and just plain wild youth have built community and culture in our beloved city. Each study includes the reason it started, examples of its production, and the reasons it failed, mutated, or continues to this day. . .

Thanks to all who celebrated 🦋Recuerdos🦋 this weekend! Curated by Moises Salazar (@moises.salazar.tlatenchi), featuring works by Juan Arango Palacios (@juuuanitx), Lissette Bustamante (@bistekyy) and Moises Salazar. “Recuerdos” explores the complexities that are generated by the re-contextualization of a quinceañera’s cultural celebration within a queer identity. It includes various paintings and sculptures and serves as the performance space for the artists’ quinceañera celebration. The exhibition defies social assumptions about queerness, femme identity, masculine identity, and their cultural identity. It aims to speak on the duality of trauma and joy that the artists have experienced being queer within the Latinx community. It is by focusing on this relationship that Recuerdos explores themes of neglect, self-acceptance, and nostalgia. Miss the fun? Join us for a Quinceñera celebration Tuesday, September 21 at 7pm!🎉🪅 Until then, open hours for “Recuerdos” are ✨Wednesdays and Fridays 4-8 pm and Saturdays 2-6 pm.✨ Click the link to make an appointment: https://calendly.com/co-prosperity/exhibition-visit?month=2021-08 More info at CoProsperity.org. _ #Recuerdos # MoisesSalazar #JuanArangoPalacios #LissetteBustamante #MoisesSalazar #Quinceñera

TODAY 4pm CST on @lumpen.tv! Tune in to the cosmic sounds of Children of the Sky! Featuring Olivia Harris, Isaiah Collier, and Angel Bat Dawid! Elevate your vibration with some of Chicago's most sacred artists! ✨📺www.lumpen.tv📺✨ Artists: @colliersworld @angeltheoracle Olivia Harris - #music #soul #free #jazz #live #streaming #chicago #concert

Today! Lumpen.TV is teaming up with the Emmy-nominated non-profit and platform, OTV - Open Television to bring you a 6 hour marathon of LGBTQ+ series, pilots and video art from Chicago-based artists!📺✨ Tap into all of these glorious LGBTQ+ narratives TODAY (6/03) from 11-2pm CST and 7-10pm CST. Tune in! ❤️🧡💛www.Lumpen.TV💚💙💜 - #weareotv #4thequlture #lumpentv #queer #intersectional #live #pride #publicmediainstitute