Meandering Art Situated in the Street
contact: mas_street@hotmail.com
773.227.2138 (Mike Wolf)
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MAS Street is an unjuried, uncurated exhibition of roving artwork. Anyone with mobile artwork may join in wandering around the given locations, sharing that art with a coincident audience. All objects must be mobile to prevent laws from being broken.
exhibition locations and times:

Humboldt Park Saturday, September 1 near Division and California 1-4 p.m.
West Loop Gate Friday, September 7 near Peoria and Washington 6-9 p.m.
Hyde Park Saturday, September 15 near 57th and Lakeshore 1-4 p.m.
Lincoln Park Saturday, September 22 near Lincoln and Webster 1-4 p.m.

closing reception/picnic with liesurely lawn sports:

Grant Park Saturday, September 29 near Jackson and Columbus 1-4 p.m.


MAS Street is a collective endeavor of three emerging, Chicago artists and their shell organizations* with a desire to present art in public spaces to broad, though not necessarily large audiences. MAS street foregoes the exclusionary bureaucracy and relentless commercial complacency of state sanctioned public art projects (Cows on Parade or Suite Home Chicago). At the same time, while affirming its cultural importance (indeed, not wanting to be in a world without it), MAS Street also foregoes the aggression and militarism of public activist art. The art of MAS Street does not want to occupy or intervene in the public sphere so much as it wants to dwell and wander in it, maybe picturing broader manners of dwelling and novel gaits for the wanderer.

Participating artists, please submit materials (photos, statements, project descriptions) to be posted on the website. Send email or call to arrange other means of exchange.

*The Northside Artists Association and Social Club (NAASC),stopGOstop.com, Two Foot Square, The Network of Casual Art (NCA) and Artstars Anonymous (AA)

What's the situation?
Pictures from the exhibition:
Brain/Cell Brain/Cell, 2001
Marc LeBlanc
<---Brain/Cell (a performative sculpture) is Marc LeBlanc's contribution to Mas Street and Two Foot Square's first group show. Call the following numbers during the Mas Street exhibiton hours to contribute to Marc's risk of brain cancer. Right ear: 312-307-8286 Left ear: 312-259-9643
Title?, 2001
James Barry
Jim tries to zip his backpack up as he tends to his gallery, Two Foot Square. --->
Two Foot Square
Urban Zookeeper Urban Zookeeper, 2001
Brian Taylor
<---Brian keeps some gulls satisfied and healthy with his satchel of goods.
A ladybug apperantly enjoys sustanace provided by Brian.---> Donald Bugg
Personal Radio Station Personal Radio Sation, 2001
John Wanzel
<---John is micro-broadcasting his audiowork from a suitcase; borrow his radio to listen or tune your own to the right frequencey.
Meeting, 2000
misterwolf
The screening venue for this video piece is an American Tourister overnight case with a battery powered LCD screen.--->
Meeting