At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Artists Run Free

Our installation, “Making A Garden of Strange Fruit,” in collaboration with Samuel Levi Jones and Sam Van Aken was featured in a recent article by senior critic Christopher Hawthorne for the New York Times. “Other installations use the rehearsal framework to test out future monuments honoring an expanding, more diverse group of Americans. Not far from “Theater for One” is a preview of a planned memorial, by the artists Samuel Levi Jones and Sam Van Aken and the architecture firm LAA Office, to the victims of a 1930 lynching in Marion, Ind., a stomach-turning photograph of which inspired Abel Meeropol’s poem “Bitter Fruit,” later recorded by Billie Holiday as “Strange Fruit.” Check out the full article here.