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...is a multidisciplinary city wide project about humans
in transit.
Robert Morris College (RMC), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) have developed a two year partnership called 'live live!'.
The project has three major components:
1. Installation in the Station: Students of the MCA youth program and the RMC Design Institute will team up to produce a series of public installations. The MCA group in collaboration with RMC students will produce a series of panels or banners that employ a combination of text and images to address issues that reflect the urban experience, including the theme of travel as it relates to mass transit.
The CTA site is a place where many people from different parts of the city and different backgrounds enter everyday, but rarely do you see people who don't know each other having a friendly conversation...it could be fear that makes people keep to themselves. Could we address some of those issues at the CTA site? Elena Sniezek, MCA Education Assistant
2. Web Site: A web site created by the RMC students will be running parallel to the CTA station installation. This site will allow anyone to participate by posing a series of questions of public interest for consideration and discussion. Then, the material collected through responses on the web site will be incorporated into the station installation.
When we are in public we guard ourselves, we carry with us all our history, tragedy, prejudice and we rarely exchange experiences. How can we use public art to pry open our separate worlds? Can public art engage people into thinking about issues that affect each other, taking risks with each other, promoting more awareness of diversity and sameness? Georgina Valverde, MCA Outreach Director
3. Visiting ArtistsA number of Chicago area and international artists dealing with issues of humans in transit will be invited to lecture and produce collaborative performance and temporary installation in the station.
The project is about expressing art in a way that will show somebody a hidden meaning. It needs to be something everybody can relate to and understand, something controversial enough to make people think. Jason Chew, MCA youth program
Institute of Art and Design: 
The
Museum of Contemporary Art The Grillo Group 
The
Chicago Transit Authority
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