DEMOCRACIES AT PROMONTORY POINT: LECTURE BY KIM SOSS

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH 2018 CROWN HALL, 6PM

Kim Soss will deliver a lecture November 5th in Crown Hall on Promontory Point’s hidden histories. The Point and Burnham Park have served as a community center for diverse constituencies and for joyous celebrations; as a historical gathering place known as the “South Side’s Gay Rocks”; and as a space for performance and political expression. Rising from landfill generated by The World’s Columbian Exposition and completed through the graces of WPA funding, the Point models Caldwell’s ideas about Chicago and America. This talk employs research, new oral histories, and hidden collections to explore how civic agency occupies designed landscapes. 

This program has been supported by a generous grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, as part of the series, 'Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy: Archives and Events'.

'No Hands' photograph courtesy of Patric McCoy; 'Wooded Isle Festival' and 'Drumming at the Point' photographs courtesy of Gay Guard Chamberlin.