Max Guy is an artist currently based in Chicago, IL. Max writes, curates, and creates multi-media installations and collage, indulging indiscriminately and whole-heartedly in the creative, social and critical freedoms afforded to each practice. Much of his time is spent reading, researching and playing games. He is a Capricorn and amateur tarot reader. Max was was born in 1989 and grew up in New York City. Currently, he co-hosts the podcast Human Eye, with LA based artist Miranda Javid. For the Terrain Biennial, Max has taken the example that a Merriam-Webster dictionary provides as an exemplary use of the word “poem”, printed it verbatim in a vinyl banner format, and attached it to the fence along the site, located on a busy corner. This effectively appropriates both the house and the text.

Morganne Wakefield Morganne Wakefield (1986) is an artist living and working in Chicago, IL. While her work takes many formal different approaches, she is most interested in themes dealing with exile, freedom and fears. For the Biennial Kick-Off on October 1, Morganne is staging a performance intervention, between a fictionalized persona (from her film, I See Patagonia In Your Future) and the property lines of Oak Park residents. Blue (as the persona is called) will be present, during the opening, defending her terrain and the massive chunk of pyrite that she calls home. She will also make appearances, unannounced throughout the duration of the Biennial. Sculptural  clues to this durational performance will live at 700 Highland and may pop up around unexpected corners or vacant lots.

Anna Showers-Cruser is an interdisciplinary visual artist in Chicago, curating 700 and 708 Highland Ave for the Terrain Biennial 2017. ASC is interested in creating and facilitating works that both grapple with performative identity and evoke the corporeal through sculptural means. ASC is currently an artist-in-residence with HATCH Projects at Chicago Artists Coalition, a Lecturer in Sculpture with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and serves as Associate Director of Terrain Exhibitions and the 3rd Terrain Biennial.