"The Black Factory" makes a stop at the HPAC!
William Pope.L.’s Black Factory, “a mobile social service experiment” made a stop at the Hyde Park Art Center for this past Sunday’s opening of the newest exhibit, Home of the Free. Their station, comprised of a blow-up Black Factory igloo, podium and truck, served as an excellent forum for the community to gather and converse.
Visitors behold The Black Factory’s mobile forum— a blow-up igloo, podium and truck.
Among scents of grilling hot dogs and burgers, the Factory members engaged visitors in pointed discussions about race in Hyde Park and beyond. Through their questions and prompts, visitors young and old voiced their thoughts on some of the harder realities which mark race and community relations in America, and provided suggestions for how we might go about changing those realities. The Black Factory played a strong role in bringing together the diverse array of visitors present at the BBQ by providing the opportunity for an open verbal discourse— the exchange of ideas, opinions and hopes— and paving the way to a greater general awareness of varied experiences that Chicago inhabitants, and world inhabitants, face. The Black Factory beckoned us to consider what our freedoms should be and what they really are, and how we can bring the hypothetical and the reality into a greater alignment.
Peering inside the “factory”…
The old and the young speak out.
Comments [3]
Jun.29.2006
By Nate Klug
What an excellently designed web page!
Jul. 7.2006
By A. Post
The author of this page truly captured the unique experience offered by The Black Factory. As someone who was present at the BBQ, I too thought that the Hyde Park Art Center hosted a wonderful forum for community dialogue.
Aug.21.2007
By Holly Sutter
One's first step in wisdom is to kuesteon everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.