The Issue You Mentioned Earlier
@ Space P11
55 E Randolph St, Pedway Level, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Friday, February 8th, from 5PM - 7PM
On view through Tuesday, March 5th
Three non-human characters—a mycelium culture, a cloud, and a rock—ask themselves and their surroundings questions concerning time, the sacred, ecological collapse, and economy. Through poetic mutations of scientific language, The Issue You Mentioned Earlier proposes the use of concepts such as stability, thermodynamics, pressure, and circulation to draft an aesthetic of political and emotional adaptation in critical and catastrophic times. The work pushes beyond linguistic determinism to extend our means of understanding and engaging with the biological and the social.
Mycelium networks sustain the vegetable world and, therefore, the animal. The Issue You Mentioned Earlier asks what knowledge the fungi brain can offer us, an always inter-connected species dependent on invisible social networks. The cloud interrogates the meteorological implications of human emotions and, vice versa, the emotional aspects of meteorology, while the rock holds the unaccountable time beyond both worlds and the velocities and politics between them.
Rosemary Hall (United States, 1990) is an artist based in Chicago. She received her BFA in Fine Art and Environmental Horticulture at University of California Davis and is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hall’s installations, videos, objects, and compositions explore multiple connections between things, ideas, creatures, and timescales to ask how we can realign our imagination and grow with the world instead of on top of it.
Alberto Ortega (Mexico, 1989) is an architect and artist based in Chicago. He is an MFA Candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Jumex Foundation for Contemporary Art Grantee. Through video, texts, and artifacts, his work investigates narratives and mechanisms of discrimination and infrastructural violence. He was part of M.A.D.E. Collective, the team that officially proposed the creation of a new country called Otra Nation to the Department of Homeland Security of the US when the open call for border wall designs was launched.
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