Simon Dance Design has designed in collaboration with the conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll (MEC, design studios) a modular chair and table system for Open Outcry which will form part of Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.
The Smart Museum of Art commissioned Mary Ellen Carroll’s Open Outcry, as part of Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art exhibition. This is the latest iteration of a long running project in which the conceptual artist creates site-specific conversations around
Open OutcryOpen OutcryFeast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art meals under the title "Itinerant Gastronomy". Open Outcry was presented at the Financial Gallery at CME Group in the Chicago Board of Trade Building, and featured a unique sculptural seating arrangement that was designed in collaboration with the artist.