Join me for Dear Human, a multisensory walk through Chicago’s West Ridge Nature Park, presented through the Roman Susan Arts Foundation as a partner project with the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Using your smartphone, this walk activates messages from non-human residents: a deer tick, a tree, and others. Bring your own headphones for an immersive experience merging narration with the existing soundscape through site-specific prompts to listen, touch, and find your place within the local ecology. Risograph printed booklets of my map/drawing and narration will be distributed during the opening event, and will be available as a downloadable PDF to be accessible whenever the park is open.
This work is a part of Navigations, a series of artist projects shared and realized in public/common space through Roman Susan.
West Ridge Nature Park is located at 5801 N. Western Avenue
Update: this project is now permanently installed at West Ridge in the form of six wooden trail markers with QR code activation. Grab your headphones and seek them out! You can activate the sound walk during regular park hours from 6 AM – 8 PM daily.