On four consecutive Saturdays in Chicago, residents filled the city with games, silliness, and enjoyable activities that cracked open the bid to hold the 2016 Olympic games in their hometown. They interrogated the implications of the bid with real sports, fake sports, and things that aren’t sports at all. In a word, they staged the Unlympics.
A project of Anne Elizabeth Moore and InCUBATE, the Unlympic Games included eleven different events between the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, all of which were:
open to all Chicago residents. These games are sponsored by organizations whose constituencies will be directly impacted by the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid, and will be preceded by concrete information—and not marketing—about the impact the Olympics may have on Chicago.
Get the play-by-play recap on the official Unlympics Games website.
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