{"id":26585,"date":"2020-07-27T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/?p=26585"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:10:17","slug":"sepake-angiama-curator-of-2019-chicago-architecture-biennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/2020\/07\/27\/fellow\/sepake-angiama-curator-of-2019-chicago-architecture-biennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepake Angiama Curator of 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAK 2017\/2018 Fellow Sepake Angiama co-curates the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org\/\">2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2019.chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org\/current\/statement\"><em>&#8230;And Other Such Stories<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 As part of the program, Fellow 2017\/2018 BAK Fellows Ola Hassanain&#8217;s work was part of the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>From the curators&#8217; statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Titled\u00a0<em><strong>\u2026and other such stories<\/strong><\/em>, the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial is rooted in close readings of the spatial realities of its host city. Sitting at the crossroads of the Great Plains and the Great Lakes, Chicago has been shaped by planetary forces: colonial expansion, mass migration, extraction economies, and rapid industrialization. Thus, Chicago\u2019s urbanism is inextricable from the flows of people, goods, and capital\u2014and the concurrent exploitation of bodies, labor, and nature\u2014that have contributed to its making. Today, despite the promise of economic development, Chicago, like many other established and emergent global metropolises, faces challenging urban conditions that require the reimagining of forms of exchange between human activity, technology, and the natural world. By extension, owing to its physical geography, Chicago is a singular context in which to address climate and ecological concerns shared by many postindustrial societies&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAK 2017\/2018 Fellow Sepake Angiama co-curates the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial\u00a0&#8230;And Other Such Stories.\u00a0 As part of the program, Fellow 2017\/2018 BAK Fellows Ola Hassanain&#8217;s work was part of the exhibition. From the curators&#8217; statement: &#8220;Titled\u00a0\u2026and other such stories, the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial is rooted in close readings of the spatial realities of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"fellowship":[55],"class_list":["post-26585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowship","fellowship-2017-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26596,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26585\/revisions\/26596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26585"},{"taxonomy":"fellowship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fellowship?post=26585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}