March 31st - April 21st, 2001 Opening Reception: Friday, April 13th, 2001 Exhibition Studies Space 1926 N Halstead, Chicago, IL Catalog essay: The Zeitgeist and the Poltergeist

Featured Artists: Matthew Hanner Becca Mann E.C. Brown Helidon Gjergji Dmitry Strakovsky Sarah Attwood Kelly Kirshtner Trevor Paglen William Kirk Stephanie Rothenberg John Kannenberg Philip von Zweck Jim Schoenecker Jim Warchol Ethan Koehler Curators: Trevor Paglen Kelly Kirshtner Lyla Muncherjee A Haunted Landscape At 1926 Exhibition Studies space, 1926 N. Halstead February 17, 2001, Chicago, IL This spring, Chicago will be confronted with it's hidden histories, unseen entities, and noisy specters. For the Haunted Landscape show, curated by sound artist Trevor Paglen, local artists were asked to create site-specific sound installations dealing with the subject of 'haunting.' The results of this exercise will be heard from March 31st to April 21st at the 1926 Exhibition Studies Space at 1926 N. Halstead. In Stephanie Rothenberg's Pan-O-Matic, viewers stand in a marked location and find themselves in various oppressive 'waiting' environments - situations where the unfulfilled promises of consumerism are painfully reified. In Kelly Kirschner's recordings of antique appliances, the corpses of techno/nuclear utopias fill the air with a shadow-like hum. "Many of the spaces and institutions in our lives are possible as a result of some kind of repression, injustice, or exclusion. In a sense, we can describe space as being haunted by that which it excludes," says Paglen. "I wanted to create a situation whereby artists were provided the opportunity to deconstruct space through the use of sound." Artists featured in A Haunted Landscape include Matthew Hanner, Becca Mann, E.C. Brown, Helidon Gjergji, Trevor Paglen, Dmitry Strakovsky, Sarah Attwood, Kelly Kirtschner, Jim Schoenecker, Jim Warchol, Ethan Koehler, William Kirk, Stephanie Rothenberg, John Kannenberg, and Philip von Zweck. A Haunted Landscape will be shown from March 31st to April 21st. The opening reception for the show will be on Friday, April 13th from 7-10pm.