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DEAD SUN ISSUE 2 LAMA ALTAKRURI

Just in time for spring, Dead Sun Time presents its winter issue by artist Lama Altakruri. The newspaper box is located at the bus stop on Diversey Ave amidst the transformation of the once public housing development, the Julia C. Lathrop Homes. This newspaper box sits between the ruins of public housing’s divestment and it’s glossy private redevelopment fully equipped with a savvy outdoor coffee shop. Just one of two public housing developments on the North side of Chicago, the Lathrop Homes once offered 925 public housing units, and now offers only 400 (some of which are still under construction). The current Chicago Housing Authority waitlist for public housing is at approximately 40,000 people. 

In Dead Sun Time Issue 2, Lama Altakruri shows us a different future for housing and a different asymmetrical application of progress where amidst the small conviencances sits a lingering fear, alienation, guilt, and ghosts, as well as new companions and could be comrades. Lovingly packaged in reused brown paper shopping bags and printed on a variety of sun faded construction, drawing, and scrapbook paper, Dead Sun Time Issue 2 comes packed with additional vital superfluous ephemera all written in both English and Arabic. 

FIND DEAD SUN ISSUE 2 ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF DIVERSEY AVE AT THE BUS STOP BETWEEN DAMEN AVE AND THE RIVER.

Lama Altakruri, (b.Abu Dhabi 1982), is an artist based in Ramallah, Palestine. Lama was raised in Bahrain before moving to Palestine in 1994. She holds an MFA degree in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University, Chicago-2017, and a BA in Contemporary visual art from the International Art Academy, Palestine-2015. In 2018, Lama was an artist in residence at Alserkal Avenue Residency in Dubai-UAE, and in 2020 she was an artist in residence at the Gästeatelier Krone in Aarau-Switzerland. She has exhibited her work in various exhibitions and venues including: Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland; TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE; Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, USA. Currently, Lama teaches part-time at the Faculty of Art, Music, and Design at Birzeit University in Palestine.

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Issue 1 All Things Free

Now available at the Golden Corridor.

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Dead Sun Press releases back issues and other print media tangentially related to the mission of Dead Sun Time.

Golden Corridor Poster on what looks like some heavier scrap booking paper. Craig Neeson visited the Dead Sun flag ship newspaper box at the corridor and shot this excellent photo of the building, which inspired the making of the poster.

Ink Jet on 12x12 scrap book paper.

ATTN: DEAD MALL OWNER by Chris Smith. An essay that uses George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead to think through how to reuse dead malls sprinkled with photos from a dead mall I sneaked into and grabs from Dawn of the Dead.

Ink Jet prints on some nice speckled paper I found with a card stock cover.

Dead Sun Issue 1 All Things Free

13.5″x12″ inkjet on found scrapbook paper.

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Issue 1 ALL THINGS FREE Winter 2020 A.D.

First issue of Dead Sun was placed at California and Logan Blvd in box marked FREE O. In this "winter" issue, I introduce the project, talk about an obsolesced EPCOT exhibit, and get into libraries as cooperatively owned time machines.

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Dead Sun is a publication distributed in abandoned newspaper kiosks. It uses surplus print media to articulate visions of a future.

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