Autonomous Territories of Chicago

October 14, 2001
At Del Prado building, HPAC, Chicago
AND
April 27, 28, 29, 2001
At Butcher Shop, 1319 W. Lake Chicago

The Autonomous Territories of Chicago (ATOC) was a project Temporary Services did.  The idea behind ATOC was simple, invite a number of different art, activist, and community groups doing exciting work around Chicago to come to a utopian carnival and fair and pretend they were Autonomous Territories, i.e., what would their practice look like if they were not under the heel of the city, state or capitalism. Unfortunately right before all of this was
to come together September 11th happened, and they felt they had to change their program.  All this aside, the SI contributed the 2 posters ('I dodge bullets and make little books about my existence' ) for the exhibit at HPAC and
the Butcher Shop weekend (which was earlier, SI did a project of a rooftop community cast with area residents and it was under Jim Duignan and General Subjects