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datetime="2020-07-17T00:00:00-05:00">Jul 17, 2020</time> <time datetime="P142DT0H0M">–</time> <time datetime="2020-12-06T00:00:00-06:00">Dec 6, 2020</time> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="location"> <address> <a href="/about/locations/dr-paul-and-dorie-sternberg-family-gallery" rel="tag">Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery</a> </address> <address> <a href="/about/locations/ed-and-jackie-rabin-gallery" rel="tag">Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery</a> </address> </div> </header> <section id="featured-images" aria-label="Featured images" data-size="15" data-cwc="1"> <h2>Featured images</h2> <figure role="group"> <figure data-id="K4X9GCP5" style="--aspect-ratio:1.34" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCP5/original.jpg" alt="A serpent-like creature with horns, clawed feet, and a very long tail, bisected at its tip which wraps around the creature itself, stands on a black background." width="100" height="134" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Still from <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP; 60 min. Image courtesy of the artist.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="K4X9GBAY" style="--aspect-ratio:1.41" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBAY/original.jpg" alt="A close-up photograph shows the eyes and nose of a young light-skinned person looking off to the right." width="100" height="141" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Still from <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP; 60 min. Image courtesy of the artist.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="K4X9GCV4" style="--aspect-ratio:1.4" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCV4/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Still from <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP. 60 min.</p> <small>Image courtesy of the artist</small> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="K4X9GBN5" style="--aspect-ratio:1.4" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GBN5/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Still from <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP; 60 min. Image courtesy of the artist.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="K4X9GCPH" style="--aspect-ratio:1.33" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCPH/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="133" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Still from <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP. 60 min.</p> <small>Image courtesy of the artist</small> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="K4X9GCLX" style="--aspect-ratio:1.36" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/K4X9GCLX/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="136" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Still from <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, 2016. 16 mm film or DCP; 60 min. Image courtesy of the artist</p> </figcaption> </figure> </figure> </section> <section id="about-the-exhibition" aria-label="About the Exhibition" data-size="2331" data-cwc="4" class="essay"> <h2>About the Exhibition</h2> <p><cite>Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman</cite> is centered on the artist's celebrated film <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite>, which chronicles the history of the region through 11 chapters addressing such disastrous events as the genocide of the Cherokee people whose forced march—known as the Trail of Tears—passed through Illinois*, to the invention of the nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago, to the deadly police raid of Chicago's Black Panther headquarters. In the film, Stratman travels to the charged locations where these events occurred and discovers the ways that belief, force, technology, and government mark the land, and how the landscape in turn marks those who call it home.</p> <p>On the occasion of the exhibition, Stratman created an extension of the film—a twelfth chapter—in the form of a recreation of Studs Terkel’s WFMT radio booth and an accompanying audio program of the oral historian’s interviews.</p> <p>The exhibition is organized by Jack Schneider, Curatorial Assistant. It is presented in the Dr. Paul and Dorie Sternberg Family Gallery and Ed and Jackie Rabin Gallery on the museum’s third floor.</p> <p> <cite>A previous version of this text included inaccurate information and inadequate context. From 1838 to 1839, the United States government violently removed Cherokee people from their lands in the southeastern US forcing them to move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma along a route known as the Trail of Tears, leading to thousands of deaths. The Trail of Tears is one example of the systemic and genocidal dispossession of Indigenous peoples perpetuated by the United States government. Another example, which also occurred in 1838, is the Trail of Death wherein Potowatomi people were violently removed from their lands in present-day Indiana and forced to march westward through present-day Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, resulting in dozens of deaths.</cite> </p> <p> <em>Present-day Illinois is situated within the lands of many Native nations, including the Council of Three Fires (Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Odawa), Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Meskwaki, Sauk, Miami, Wea, Piankashaw, Kickapoo, Illinois Confederacy, Peoria, and Shawnee. Members of these nations and more continue to live and thrive throughout Illinois. We would like to thank the Indigenous community members who brought these issues to our attention.</em> </p> </section> <section id="installation-images" aria-describedby="AS3H2" data-size="19" data-cwc="1"> <h2 id="AS3H2">Installation Images</h2> <figure role="group"> <figure data-id="KD4OJ50L" style="--aspect-ratio:1.5" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/full.webp 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/full.jpg 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJ50L/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="150" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Installation view, Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman MCA Chicago</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="KD4OJCH1" style="--aspect-ratio:1.5" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/full.webp 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/full.jpg 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJCH1/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="150" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Installation view, <cite>Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman</cite>, MCA Chicago</p> <small>July 17–Dec 6, 2020 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago</small> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="KD4OJESE" style="--aspect-ratio:1.5" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/full.webp 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/full.jpg 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJESE/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="150" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Installation view, Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman MCA Chicago</p> </figcaption> </figure> <figure data-id="KD4OJHKI" style="--aspect-ratio:1.5" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/full.webp 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/full.jpg 2400w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4OJHKI/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="150" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Installation view, <cite>Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman</cite>, MCA Chicago</p> <small>July 17–Dec 6, 2020 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago</small> </figcaption> </figure> </figure> </section> <section id="additional-media" aria-describedby="AS4H2" data-size="414" data-cwc="1" class="lede multiple" style="--topic:4"> <h2 id="AS4H2">Additional Media</h2> <article id="transcript" aria-describedby="AS4AH3" data-size="10" data-cwc="1" class="excerpt ref"> <h3 id="AS4AH3"> <a href="/exhibitions/2020/chicago-works-deborah-stratman/transcript" title="Read more about Transcript">Transcript</a> </h3> </article> <article id="feeling-tone" aria-describedby="AS4A2H3" data-size="12" data-cwc="1" class="excerpt ref"> <h3 id="AS4A2H3"> <a href="/exhibitions/2020/chicago-works-deborah-stratman/feeling-tone" title="Read more about _Feeling Tone_"> <cite>Feeling Tone</cite> </a> </h3> <p>On the occasion of <a href="/exhibitions/2020/chicago-works-deborah-stratman" class="calendar"><cite>Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman</cite></a>, the artist created a twelfth chapter of <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite> in the form of the artwork <cite>Feeling Tone</cite>. This artwork consists of a recreation of Studs Terkel's WFMT radio booth and an accompanying audio program of the oral historians interviews. See below for the chronological list.</p> </article> <article id="vox-terra-on-deborah-stratmans-the-illinois-parables" aria-describedby="AS4A3H3" data-size="56" data-cwc="1" class="excerpt ref"> <h3 id="AS4A3H3"> <a href="/publications/websites/chicago-works/vox-terra-on-deborah-stratmans-the-illinois-parables-suite" title="Read more about Vox Terra: On Deborah Stratman's _The Illinois Parables_">Vox Terra: On Deborah Stratman’s <cite>The Illinois Parables</cite></a> </h3> <figure data-id="KD4P2IDR" style="--aspect-ratio:1.33" class="landscape"> <div> <picture> <source type="image/webp" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/display.webp 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/preview.webp 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/thumbnail.webp 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/low.webp 100w"/> <source type="image/jpeg" sizes="75vw" srcset="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/display.jpg 1200w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/preview.jpg 600w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/thumbnail.jpg 256w, https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/low.jpg 100w"/> <img src="https://media.mcachicago.org/image/KD4P2IDR/original.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="133" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <figcaption> <p>Deborah Stratman, Opening shot of <cite>The Illinois Parables,</cite> 2016. 16mm film or DCP; 60 min. Image courtesy of the artist.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <p>This digital brochure was published on the occasion of the exhibition <a href="/exhibitions/2020/chicago-works-deborah-stratman" class="calendar"><cite>Chicago Works: Deborah Stratman</cite></a>, organized by Jack Schneider, Curatorial Assistant. 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