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Bring Your Own Band-Aid
Group Exhibition


Feb 16 - Feb 28
Lower Level

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Opening Reception:
​Friday, Feb 16th, 7-9pm

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​With the growth of metropolitan cities worldwide, urgent issues in urban space nowadays not only include scarce urban resources and rapidly swelling populations, but also psychological vulnerability of individuals caused by shifting spatial structure and the complexity of interpersonal relationship. Combining the international and pioneering visions and missions, mainly collaborating with selected Chicago-based emerging artists, Bring Your Own Band-Aid demonstrates 3 issues related with post-industrial urban spaces: the complexity of spatial politics, the lack of intimate personal relationships, and the future dilemma of virtualized space.


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According to basic framework of urban space formed by various human activities, we have divided the exhibition into three categories - public space, intimate space and virtual space, to reissue the concern on the psychological insecurity of the urban life from different perspectives. Combining the international and pioneering visions and missions, mainly collaborating with selected Chicago-based emerging artists, Bring Your Own Band-Aid demonstrates 3 issues related with post-industrial urban spaces: the complexity of spatial politics, the lack of intimate personal relationships, and the future dilemma of virtualized space. Further, the exhibition aims to give audiences opportunities to recall their isolated feelings and reconsider belongingness to the urban space they live in.

​Artists: Beier Zong, Bill Song, Leah Ke, Peng Song and Te Bao, Siyang Li, Wen Liu, Wei Zhao, Xiaotang Sun, Xiaoqing Zhu, Xiaoyuan Huang, Xinyi Li, Yuan Tao, Yulu Ge, Yunyuan Shi, and Zhucen Wei.

Bring Your Own Band-Aid is co-organized by Yidan Pang, Zheyuan Zhang, Yan Chao, Jiwei Shang, and Xiaotang Sun. This project has been made possible in part by a major grant from SAIC Arts Administration Enrichment Fund.
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