By: Never The Same, Edited by Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach, with design by Josh MacPhee/Antumbradesign.com
Chicago: Never The Same, 2014
Pages: 120
Dimensions: 6 in x 9 in
Cover: two color
Binding: perfect bound
Process: offset
Color: two color
Edition Size: unknown
ISBN: none

Never The Same is an educational, curatorial and archive project focused on Chicago's rich history of socially and politically engaged art.

From Never The Same: "The goal of this project is to document Chicago’s rich art history and develop a language for discussing the impact of socially and politically engaged art practices that integrates consideration of external with internal transformation and effects.

The 120 page Unfurlings catalog designed in duotone by Josh MacPhee and edited by Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach that includes extensive interviews with Faheem Majeed, Abigail Satinsky, Liliana Angulo Cortes, Extinct Entities and a forward by Lisa Yun Lee."

This book by Never The Same documents one panel, one exhibition, two seminars, two symposia, two summits, and ten show-and-tell events. Anyone interested in socially-engaged, political, activist, or community-focused art in Chicago spanning the last 40 or so years, will surely find lots of value in the many practices discussed in this densely packed book. 

Contributors to this book include:

Miguel Aguilar, Brandon Alvendia, Liliana Angulo Cortés, Art In These Times, Sara Black, Rozalinda Borcilă, Illinois Association of Hair Braiders, Michael Brenson, Lesley Brown, Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Estelle Carol (Chicago Women’s Liberation Union), Dana Carter, Eunyoung Chae, Sara Chapman (Media Burn Archive), Sharmyn Cruz-Rivera, Billy Dee, Paul Durica (Pocket Guide to Hell), Extinct Entities (Erin Nixon, Anthony Romero, and Anthony Stepter), Alexandria Eregbu, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Justin Goh, Tempestt Hazel (Sixty Inches From Center), Skyla S. Hearn, Andres Hernandez, Jayne Hileman, Joshua Kent, David J. Levin, Lisa Yun Lee, La Keisha Leek, Lora Lode, Josh MacPhee (Interference Archive), Faheem Majeed, Nicole Marroquin, Haley Martin, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Ed Marszewski, Carla Mayer, Sarah Mendelsohn, Stephen Monkemeier, Dave Pabellon, Laurie Palmer, Mary Patten, Claire Pentecost, Audrey Petty, Chaitra Powell (Mayme A. Clayton Museum & Library), Matthias Regan, Mess Hall, The Rebuild Foundation, Tomeka Reid, Sarah Jane Rhee, Sarah Ross, William Anthony Ruggiero, Laura Sabransky, Emma Saperstein, Abigail Satinsky, Allison Schein (Experimental Sound Studio), Michael Schuh, Bob Sloane (Chicago Artists’ Archives), Cauleen Smith, Baraka de Soleil, Jillian Soto, Karen Stanworth (Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives), Jacqueline Stewart (South Side Home Movie Project), Sydney Stoudmire, Nell Taylor (Read/Write Library), Alda Akhsar Tchochiev, Victoria Leigh Thurmond, Samantha Topol (Spontaneous Interventions), Daniel Tucker, United African Organization, Washington Park Arts Incubator, Dan S. Wang, Sherry Williams (Bronzeville Historical Society), Nicholas Wylie, Rebecca Zorach, and more.