Speculative Magenta Hauntology

Featuring: Arts of Life Artist Christina Zion

RUSCHWOMAN’s inaugural exhibition brings together a group of artists both historical and contemporary, hailing from new and far in Speculative Magenta Hauntology.

Including works from Marcel Broodthaers, Judith Brotman, Chiara Fumai, Marcia Hafif, Mark Harris, Kelly Lloyd, André Marin, Eliza Myrie, Nat Pyper, Zachary Rawe, and Christina Zion. Excerpts from these artists’ rigorous and playful practices have been brought into dialogue in order to inquire into the means by which DISCOURSE is constituted, maintained, and supported. In the process of building this exhibition, DESIRE and LANGUAGE have been shown to be significant axes in the development of discursive meaning production. Strategies of quotation, citation, appropriation, divination, recycling, translation, political organizing, confession, and fragmentation carry with them references to pop lyrics, affect theorists, radical feminists, lesbian collectivity, critical race theory in the diaspora, and vaulted pieces of classic literature. Therein the potential for encouraging doubt as a means to proceed positivistically is explored. And with it, an interrogation into what role the historical construct of the ‘feminine’ may serve as it is dis/located within a condition of otherness and directed toward the as yet uncertain. As a discussion, as a total composition, Speculative Magenta Hauntology seeks to substantiate the implications of Karen Barad’s notion that the epistemological and the ontological are coextensive; an upset in the rigid assumptions of how identity and agency operate is inevitable.

Public opening:
Sunday, September 19
3 p.m.- 6 p.m. (CST)

RUSCHWOMAN is located at 2100 S Marshall Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60623. After the opening weekend, Speculative Magenta Hauntology will be viewable only by appointment. Those interested in visiting the exhibition may contact the gallery through her website ruschwoman.blue/info, where directions to the space whether by driving or public transit are also available.