Queer Paranormal (an exhibition concerning Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House)
Queer Paranormal (an exhibition concerning Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House), a project I co-curated with the curatorial collective Two Chairs and Anne Thompson, Director of the Usdan Gallery at Bennington opens October 31st!
Photo: Peggy Ahwesh, still image from “Nocturne” (1998)
Queer Paranormal (an exhibition concerning Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House)
Curated by Jillian Brodie, Cindy Smith and Rachel Stevens of Two Chairs; and Anne Thompson, director of Usdan Gallery, with special thanks to Two Chairs collective members Yinan Cheng, E.H. Dalton, Tony Do and George Wichelns
October 29-December 7, 2019
Halloween Opening Party | October 31, 6:00 pm
Screening of The Haunting | October 31, 8:00 pm
Lecture by Patricia White | November 5, 7:00 pm
Artist Talk and Screening | November 19, 7:00 pm
Participating Artists
Peggy Ahwesh, APRIORI (techno-botanical coven), Anna Campbell, Tony Do, Lana Lin, Susan MacWilliam, Senem Pirler, Macon Reed, Zoe Walsh, and Sasha Wortzel.
Queer Paranormal (an exhibition concerning Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House) presents a range of artistic practices “haunted” by historical, political, and sexual difference. Taking Jackson’s gothic horror classic and its 1963 film version as jumping-off points, the exhibition identifies queerness in themes including witchcraft, the uncanny, the stranger, and the haunted house as undiscovered country and object of desire. Site-specifically located in North Bennington, where Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House, Queer Paranormal installs artworks in locations across the Bennington campus, including the Jennings music building—a former mansion believed to be haunted and said to have partly influenced Jackson’s portrait of Hill House. Works in mediums including painting, sculpture, film, video, and sound are spectral in their subject matter and occasionally positioned to otherworldly effect, such as pieces by Senem Pirler and Sasha Wortzel that perform sonic hauntings of everyday spaces.
…more info on the Queer Paranormal PRESS RELEASE
