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. 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.Ĭollaborators 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() Successful Failures: Thirty Years of Lumpens, Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future opens at the Chicago Cultural Center October 16, 2021.
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