Good News Everyone The "Bodies In Urban Space" Art Exhibit Is Coming To The Loop In June So If You Ever Wanted An "Artist" To Block Your Walk To Work Now Is Your Chance

(SOURCE) THE LOOP — Look, up in the sky — it’s not a bird, or a plane: It’s a dancer, maintaining an uncomfortable pose in an impossible place in Chicago’s Loop. Spectacles featuring Chicago artists contorting themselves into the urban landscape will abound in the Loop June 21 and 22 when Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner brings his touring show “Bodies in Urban Spaces” Downtown. Local dancers will perform Dorner’s choreography at three free shows that weekend, at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday and one at 11 a.m. on Sunday. The shows are presented as a tour through the Loop, starting at Daley Plaza and winding along a 1-mile walk, concluding at an unnamed location Downtown.

“We walk past so many spaces every day, spaces we don’t think about, like benches, walkways doorways, totally basic spaces,” said Shoshona Currier, director of performing arts at Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, who has been working for the last year to bring the show to Chicago. “This piece really helps you think about them in a different way,” she said. “Then, the next time you walk by them, and there’s no dancer jammed in there, you sort of revisit your memory of it, which is a great way to reshape space.”

See that trash can? Have you ever thought about that trash can? I’m talking really THOUGHT about it. No? K, well now an artist is going to sit upside down on it and make you appreciate the space more. Whoa.

Hey artists, here’s a quick little tip for you. There are 2 types of people in the loop on a given day. 1) Is a tourist who is there for the sole purpose of experiencing the space, they don’t need your help because they’re already taking pictures of everything they see. The second is a person who has to work in the loop and just wants to get from point to point b without having some artist lay in the middle of the sidewalk to teach people about their surroundings.  Now I’m not one of those guys that hates on all art just to hate on it. Some art is good. But the minute you start clogging doorways and walkways because you want people to understand and appreciate their space is the minute you become a presumptuous asshole. Go sit on the bean or something and don’t get in the way of real world people who hate their job.

Honestly though, how do these people not stop and think what they’re doing  is absolutely ridiculous.

h/t ng