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Overtone Hive<\/h1>\n

34 channel sound sculpture
\nin abandoned\u00a0\u00a0Overton Elementary<\/em>\u00a0School<\/h6>\n
Commissioned and produced by
\nChicago Architecture Biennial 2019<\/h6>\n
in collaboration with Jasmine Guffond
\nand Lional Freeman<\/h6>\n
recorded with Mariah Echevarria, Kamiya Arianna Talison, Jeremiah Davis, Getara Mayo,
\nLataria<\/span>\u00a0Williams<\/span>, Jasmine W., Ashia Hughes, Denzel Sanders, Marchaun Holmon, Jeremiah Collier, Zavon Reynolds, Caleb Boyd and Karla Soriano<\/h6>\n
supported by: Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts, 21st Century Community Learning Centers<\/h6>\n
photo ctredit; Cory Devald<\/h6>\n
text by\u00a0curator Sepake Angiama<\/h6>\n

 
\n 
\nIn summer 2019 Wollny made recordings at the former Anthony Overton Elementary School, one of fifty Chicago public schools that were controversially closed in 2013 in the wake of budget deficits. The work centers on both the physical memory of the building and the collective memory of the community surrounding it. Presented in a classroom at the decommissioned school, the sound installation takes the shape of a large wasp nest made of tangled speakers and cables. Other speakers integrated into the building\u2019s architecture emit sounds of footsteps and children talking, shouting, and making noise, evoking the school\u2019s former vibrancy.<\/p>\n

 
\nOverton Elementary School on the city\u2019s South Side, a\u00a0stunning 1962 modernist design from architects Perkins + Will whose ghostly halls were filled with the eerie bumps and clangs of Zorka Wollny\u2019s sound work \u2018Overtone Hive\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ian Volner, Beyond buildings: the expanded vision of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 
\nBut it\u2019s what a\u00a0visitor hears while walking the hallways and stairwells that conveys the impact the school closings had on students. Speakers are conspicuously positioned with thick, black cords extending from them, playing sounds of footsteps and children talking. The installation called Overtone Hive is the work of artist Zorka Wollny.<\/em><\/p>\n

In one classroom, visitors can hear audio of students\u2019 voices expressing how the closing of Overton made them feel pushed aside and ignored.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201eWhy is our education less important than yours?\u201d one child asks.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201eWe are people as well as you are. Look at yourself. You have flesh. So do\u00a0I,\u201d another voice pleads.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carrie Shepherd, Chicago Architecture Biennial Reaches Into Closed School<\/strong><\/a>
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Overtone Hive<\/h1>\n
34 kana\u0142owa rze\u017cba d\u017awi\u0119kowa
\nw opuszczonej szkole podstawowej Overton<\/h6>\n
Na zam\u00f3wienie
\nBiennale Architektury w Chicago 2019<\/h6>\n
wsp\u00f3\u0142praca: Jasmine Guffond
\ni Lional Freeman<\/h6>\n
nagrane z udzia\u0142em; Mariah Echevarria, Kamiya Arianna Talison, Jeremiah Davis, Getara Mayo, Lataria Williams, Jasmine W., Ashia Hughes, Denzel Sanders, Marchaun Holmon, Jeremiah Collier, Zavon Reynolds, Caleb Boyd i Karla Soriano
\nprzy wsparciu Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts, 21st Century Community Learning Centers<\/h6>\n
fotografie; Cory Devald<\/h6>\n
tekst kuratorski; Sepake Angiama<\/h6>\n

 
\n 
\nLatem 2019 roku Wollny, wraz z grup\u0105 uczni\u00f3w i nauczycieli, zrealizowa\u0142a nagrania w by\u0142ej szkole podstawowej Anthony’ego Overtona, jednej z pi\u0119\u0107dziesi\u0119ciu szk\u00f3\u0142 publicznych w Chicago, kt\u00f3re zosta\u0142y zamkni\u0119te w 2013 roku z powodu deficytu bud\u017cetowego. Praca koncentruje si\u0119 zar\u00f3wno na fizycznej pami\u0119ci budynku, jak i zbiorowej pami\u0119ci otaczaj\u0105cej go spo\u0142eczno\u015bci. Instalacja d\u017awi\u0119kowa, zaprezentowana w zamkni\u0119tej szkole, przyj\u0119\u0142a kszta\u0142t du\u017cego i wielu ma\u0142ych gniazd ze spl\u0105tanych g\u0142o\u015bnik\u00f3w i kabli. G\u0142o\u015bniki te, zintegrowane z architektur\u0105 budynku, emituj\u0105 odg\u0142osy krok\u00f3w, rozm\u00f3w, okrzyk\u00f3w i og\u00f3lnego ha\u0142asu, przywo\u0142uj\u0105c dawny klimat szko\u0142y.<\/p>\n

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