Collective Communities:
Actions on Environmental Crises
A presentation of artist collaboratives, collectives, and cooperatives that are concerned primarily with ecologies in crisis; and while the participating groups possess overlapping interests, their projects and ways of self-organization and self-presentation are distinct. Whether natural, social, or representational, the ecologies that our contributors advocate for have been directly affected by climate and land abuses as well as other negligent policies and histories.
In collaboration with Earthjustice
Image: Sanya Hyland, Fight For My Future, 2019
Care Package
Download Graphic Art Care Package
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
This graphic art care package includes 36 graphics from 18 artists. For more information on using these downloadable graphics, please read the following statement on Justseeds.org.
Installation
Visit the gallery at 688 N Milwaukee Ave for a window installation as part of Collective Communities featuring artists from Deep Time Chicago and Justseeds Artists' Cooperative.
In the North Windows:
Jenny Kendler & Mara Eve Robbins
1000 Flags / 1000 Waters (aka Water Flags), 2018–ongoing
Michael Swierz
Refugium for a Post-Anthropocenic World (Social Phenology Study), 2021
localStyle (Marlena Novak & Jay Alan Yim)
Fourteen Slices of Time, 2020
Brian Holmes
Mapmaker, There is No Map, 2021
Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Sarah Lewison
Inheritance 2.0, 2021
In the South Windows:
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
Dylan A.T. Miner
No Pipelines in the Great Lakes, 2016
Chip Thomas
I Am The Change, 2011
Chip Thomas
In Beauty I Walk, 2011
Dylan A.T. Miner
No Mines Near Sacred Sites, 2016
Eric J. Garcia
No Line 3, 2020
Jess X Snow
L’eau Est La Vie, From Standing Rock To The Swamp, 2020
Public Programs
Speaker Series
Opening Event
Collective Communities
Feb 3, 5pm CT
Honoring the Earth
Preserving and Protecting Water
and a Way of Life
Feb 18, 5pm CT
Flooded and Forgotten
The Fight for Housing and
Environmental Justice in Centreville, IL
Mar 18, 5pm CT
Conversations from the Frontlines
Transitioning to a Regenerative Economy
Mar 25, 5pm CT
Performance Series
Poetry and Groceries
Feb 13, 4pm CT
Duration: 1 hr.
Seeds and Signals: between
Mar 6, 2pm CT
12 dreams for the past, 12 memories of the future
Mar 20, 12pm CT
Duration: 1 hr.
Impurities
Mar 27, 2pm CT
Duration: 1 hr.
Partner
We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization.
We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.
Participate
Michael Swierz of Deep Time Chicago invites you to take part in Refugium for a Post-Anthropocenic World (Social Phenology Study). To receive a piece of the refugium for the duration of Collective Communities, please contact the gallery.
Note from the Curator
There is no time like the present; and though it can sometimes seem as if there is no time in the present, one technique to defy this ever-narrowing envelope is to work together. It could be said that group work occurs at varying degrees in most forms of cultural production. Many artists work with their assistants to realize projects that a single-person could not make with their hands alone. Collective Communities recognizes those that have made their group work explicit and visible at the outset. One reasoning for their forthright appearance could be that the effect of collaboration, collectivization, and cooperation is a main exploration of their projects. Another could be that the scale of their subject necessarily requires multiple people – in multiple places – to more widely survey and more effectively communicate their findings.
– Nabiha Khan-Giordano
Contributors
Deep Time Chicago
2016–ongoing
Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Geissler/Sann, Amber Ginsburg, Ryan Griffis, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, localStyle (Marlena Novak & Jay Alan Yim), Claire Pentecost, Mara Eve Robbins, Michael Swierz, Joslyn Willauer
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
1998–ongoing
Jesus Barraza, Kevin Caplicki, Melanie Cervantes, Alec Dunn, William Estrada, Molly Fair, Sarah Farahat, Christeen Francis, Thea Gahr, Eric J. Garcia, Aaron Hughes, Sanya Hyland, Kill Joy, Paul Kjelland, Nicolas Lampert, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Josh MacPhee, Nicole Marroquin, Fernando Martí, Colin Matthes, Mazatl, Lesly Yobany Mendoza, Dylan A.T. Miner, Andrea Narno, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Pete Railand, Saiyare Refaei, Favianna Rodriguez, Erik Ruin, Jessica Sabogal, Shaun Slifer, Jess X Snow, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, Chip Thomas, Mary Tremonte, Monica Trinidad, Kristine Virsis, Bec Young, Zola
Karrabing Film Collective
2013–ongoing
Gavin Bianamu, Ricky Bianamu, Telish Bianamu, Trevor Bianamu, Danielle Bigfoot, Kelvin Bigfoot, Rex Edmunds, Claudette Gordon, David Gordon, Miles Gordon, Ryan Gordon, Melissa Jorrock, Patsy-Anne Jorrock, Peter Jorrock, Daryl Lane, Robyn Lane, Sharon Lane, Akadiya Lewis, Angelina Lewis, Cecilia Lewis, Katrina Lewis, Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Shakaina Lewis, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Amanda Sing, Kyle Sing, Linda Yarrowin
Lists of individuals represent contributors to Collective Communities and may not be exhaustive lists of all individuals affiliated with each artist group.
Resources
Organizations Participating in the Public Program
Bay Mills Indian Community
Centreville Citizens for Change
Equity Legal Services
Menominee Tribe Indians of Wisconsin
Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council
Just Transition NWI
NAACP 3061
Past Collaborators of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
350
Bridge the Gulf
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Global Climate Strike
No Back 40 Mine
No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes
Stop the Money Pipeline
Strike With Us
Tar Sands Blockade
The National Wildlife Federation
Organizations & Efforts Important to Deep Time Chicago
Anthropocene Curriculum
Carbondale Spring
Center for Humans and Nature
Extinction Rebellion
Midwest Compass
North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence
Prairie Rivers Network
Southeast Environmental Task Force
Youth Organizations
Earth Guardians
Earth Uprising
Fridays for Future
Future Coalition
Sunrise Movement
Unicef's Voices for Youth
United Nations ActNow Campaign
Youth v. Gov
Zero Hour
Organized by Weinberg/Newton Gallery
In collaboration with Earthjustice
Collective Communities:
Actions on Environmental Crises
A presentation of artist collaboratives, collectives, and cooperatives that are concerned primarily with ecologies in crisis; and while the participating groups possess overlapping interests, their projects and ways of self-organization and self-presentation are distinct. Whether natural, social, or representational, the ecologies that our contributors advocate for have been directly affected by climate and land abuses as well as other negligent policies and histories.
In collaboration with Earthjustice
Image: Sanya Hyland, Fight For My Future, 2019
Care Package
Download Graphic Art Care Package
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
This graphic art care package includes 36 graphics from 18 artists. For more information on using these downloadable graphics, please read the following statement on Justseeds.org.
Installation
Visit the gallery at 688 N Milwaukee Ave for a window installation as part of Collective Communities featuring artists from Deep Time Chicago and Justseeds Artists' Cooperative.
In the North Windows:
Jenny Kendler & Mara Eve Robbins
1000 Flags / 1000 Waters (aka Water Flags), 2018–ongoing
Michael Swierz
Refugium for a Post-Anthropocenic World (Social Phenology Study), 2021
localStyle (Marlena Novak & Jay Alan Yim)
Fourteen Slices of Time, 2020
Brian Holmes
Mapmaker, There is No Map, 2021
Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Sarah Lewison
Inheritance 2.0, 2021
In the South Windows:
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
Dylan A.T. Miner
No Pipelines in the Great Lakes, 2016
Chip Thomas
I Am The Change, 2011
Chip Thomas
In Beauty I Walk, 2011
Dylan A.T. Miner
No Mines Near Sacred Sites, 2016
Eric J. Garcia
No Line 3, 2020
Jess X Snow
L’eau Est La Vie, From Standing Rock To The Swamp, 2020
Public Programs
Speaker Series
Opening Event
Collective Communities
Feb 3, 5pm CT
Honoring the Earth
Preserving and Protecting Water
and a Way of Life
Feb 18, 5pm CT
Flooded and Forgotten
The Fight for Housing and
Environmental Justice in Centreville, IL
Mar 18, 5pm CT
Conversations from the Frontlines
Transitioning to a Regenerative Economy
Mar 25, 5pm CT
Performance Series
Poetry and Groceries
Feb 13, 4pm CT
Duration: 1 hr.
Seeds and Signals: between
Mar 6, 2pm CT
12 dreams for the past, 12 memories of the future
Mar 20, 12pm CT
Duration: 1 hr.
Impurities
Mar 27, 2pm CT
Duration: 1 hr.
Partner
We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization.
We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.
Participate
Michael Swierz of Deep Time Chicago invites you to take part in Refugium for a Post-Anthropocenic World (Social Phenology Study). To receive a piece of the refugium for the duration of Collective Communities, please contact the gallery.
Note from the Curator
There is no time like the present; and though it can sometimes seem as if there is no time in the present, one technique to defy this ever-narrowing envelope is to work together. It could be said that group work occurs at varying degrees in most forms of cultural production. Many artists work with their assistants to realize projects that a single-person could not make with their hands alone. Collective Communities recognizes those that have made their group work explicit and visible at the outset. One reasoning for their forthright appearance could be that the effect of collaboration, collectivization, and cooperation is a main exploration of their projects. Another could be that the scale of their subject necessarily requires multiple people – in multiple places – to more widely survey and more effectively communicate their findings.
– Nabiha Khan-Giordano
Contributors
Deep Time Chicago
2016–ongoing
Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Geissler/Sann, Amber Ginsburg, Ryan Griffis, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, localStyle (Marlena Novak & Jay Alan Yim), Claire Pentecost, Mara Eve Robbins, Michael Swierz, Joslyn Willauer
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
1998–ongoing
Jesus Barraza, Kevin Caplicki, Melanie Cervantes, Alec Dunn, William Estrada, Molly Fair, Sarah Farahat, Christeen Francis, Thea Gahr, Eric J. Garcia, Aaron Hughes, Sanya Hyland, Kill Joy, Paul Kjelland, Nicolas Lampert, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Josh MacPhee, Nicole Marroquin, Fernando Martí, Colin Matthes, Mazatl, Lesly Yobany Mendoza, Dylan A.T. Miner, Andrea Narno, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Pete Railand, Saiyare Refaei, Favianna Rodriguez, Erik Ruin, Jessica Sabogal, Shaun Slifer, Jess X Snow, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, Chip Thomas, Mary Tremonte, Monica Trinidad, Kristine Virsis, Bec Young, Zola
Karrabing Film Collective
2013–ongoing
Gavin Bianamu, Ricky Bianamu, Telish Bianamu, Trevor Bianamu, Danielle Bigfoot, Kelvin Bigfoot, Rex Edmunds, Claudette Gordon, David Gordon, Miles Gordon, Ryan Gordon, Melissa Jorrock, Patsy-Anne Jorrock, Peter Jorrock, Daryl Lane, Robyn Lane, Sharon Lane, Akadiya Lewis, Angelina Lewis, Cecilia Lewis, Katrina Lewis, Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Shakaina Lewis, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Amanda Sing, Kyle Sing, Linda Yarrowin
Lists of individuals represent contributors to Collective Communities and may not be exhaustive lists of all individuals affiliated with each artist group.
Resources
Organizations Participating in the Public Program
Bay Mills Indian Community
Centreville Citizens for Change
Equity Legal Services
Menominee Tribe Indians of Wisconsin
Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council
Just Transition NWI
NAACP 3061
Past Collaborators of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
350
Bridge the Gulf
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Global Climate Strike
No Back 40 Mine
No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes
Stop the Money Pipeline
Strike With Us
Tar Sands Blockade
The National Wildlife Federation
Organizations & Efforts Important to Deep Time Chicago
Anthropocene Curriculum
Carbondale Spring
Center for Humans and Nature
Extinction Rebellion
Midwest Compass
North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence
Prairie Rivers Network
Southeast Environmental Task Force
Youth Organizations
Earth Guardians
Earth Uprising
Fridays for Future
Future Coalition
Sunrise Movement
Unicef's Voices for Youth
United Nations ActNow Campaign
Youth v. Gov
Zero Hour
Organized by
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
In collaboration with
Earthjustice
