A diagram by Iker has been included in the Myth of the Organic City exhibition that opened on Sunday, September 22, at 6018North.

Iker’s contribution is an updated version of a diagram that Iker prepared for the exhibition Urban China: Informal Cities that was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2010–2011.

Myth of the Organic City draws from Chicago’s seal which proclaims “Urbs In Horto" or “City in a Garden” as a projection of environmental custodianship. However, Chicago has been designed and constructed in often inequitable and unsustainable ways, with cycles of dispossession and dislocation of nature and people. The exhibition pairs a broad historical overview with contemporary artworks that reimagine our complicated relationship with the City and nature.

The exhibition includes work by  Alexandra Antoine, Rebecca Beachy with Nina Barnett and Christine Wallers, Deborah Boardman, Jennifer Buyck, Carbon Register, Julie Carpenter with Jane Norling, Eugenia Cheng, Carl Fudner and Shane DuBay, Jane Georges, Iker Gil, Brian Holmes and Jeremy Bolen, Candace Hunter, Matthew Kaplan, Jenny Kendler and Giovanni Aloi, Nance Klehm, Haerim Lee, JeeYeun Lee, Jin Lee, Nathan Lewis, Norman W. Long, Luftwerk, Bmejwen Kyle Malott, Jenny McBride, Meida Teresa McNeal, Sherwin Ovid, Viet Phan, Melissa Potter, Emilio Rojas, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Tria Smith and Katrin Schnabl, Deborah Stratman, Stephen Lowell Swanberg, Jan Tichy, Aleksandra Walaszek, Rhonda Wheatley, Amanda Williams, JI Yang, Sangwoo Yoo, and others.

Thank you to Tricia Van Eck for the invitation.