My Echo is a Brick

My Echo is a Brick, video installation and live durational performance
by Elizabeth Czekner and Clover Morell © 2007
commissioned by The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
for Site Unseen: Live Art and Media Festival at Chicago Cultural Center

We built an archive including photographs, videos, sounds and objects from a series of performances throughout Chicago over the course of one summer. The piece culminated in a video installation and performance at The Chicago Cultural Center on one evening in November.

Locations of performance (all in Chicago, IL):

1. Pratt Beach
2. Loyola Beach
3. Pratt Rail tracks
4. Pratt Alley
5. Underpass (Location unknown)
6. Augusta & Grand
7. Spaulding Underpass
8. 35th Avenue Beach
9. 33rd Street
10. 103rd & Stony Island - Train Tracks
11. Calumet City
12. Calumet - Old Port w Factories
13. Logan Square
14. Fullerton
15. Columbus & Jackson
16. Foster & Kimball
17. Argyle & Glenwood
18. Paulina & Augusta

Objects Collected:

1. Two small jars of rainwater
2. 32 diary keys
3. Two pieces of canvas covered in an assemblage with a young girl's handwriting on the back, signed "Amanda."
4. Toy gun with stars on it
5. Photograph of a bloody fingernail
6. Letter from the past
7. Sewing Machine Table
8. Baby shoe
9. Five vinyl letters B-R-O-K-E-N
10. Boy flipping a dime
11. Old B+W photo of mother with child
12. Skeleton Key
13. Love letter on handmade paper
14. Handcarved carpenter's pencil
15. One dragonfly wing
16. Piggly-Wiggly grocery bag
17. Shoe form, size 8.5
18. Broken yellow bubble wand