Department of Art History

Congratulations to Andrew Schachman, Lecturer in Urban Design in the Department of Art History, whose Chicago-based collective Floating Museum has been announced as the artistic team for the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB)'s CAB 5. CAB 5, the fifth edition of North America’s leading architecture and design exhibition, will open in September 2023.

Floating Museum is co-directed by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Faheem Majeed, Andrew Schachman, and avery r. young. Floating Museum is a collective of artists, designers, poets, and educators focused on building connections between art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Under Floating Museum’s artistic direction, the Biennial will continue to push its exhibition and program model to prioritize presenting innovative ideas that imagine and shape the future of architecture and design.

“Floating Museum is organized to work at the intersection of disciplines, where civic participation inspires and shapes our process. It’s both a thrill and challenge to collaborate with the CAB as the artistic team of the 2023 edition,” noted the Floating Museum. “We view this as a tremendous chance to coordinate exchanges between Chicago networks and practitioners around the world. We see this as a platform where work happening in Chicago can inform work happening elsewhere, and reciprocally, where work happening around the world can inspire work happening here.”

This is a Rehearsal–the title of CAB 5–considers cities as sites of perpetual transformation. It explores how contemporary environmental, political, and economic issues are shared across national boundaries but are addressed differently around the world through art, architecture, infrastructure, and civic participation. CAB 5 builds on and expands Floating Museum’s ongoing work, including site-responsive art and design projects and public programs, to explore divergent interpretations of infrastructure, history, and the role of aesthetics as a mode for expanding how we frame the relationship between our environments and ourselves.

Programs for CAB 5 launch in November 2022. Read the full press release here.