Join artist, poet, and translator Jadine Pluecker for an exhibition walkthrough and collective discussion about the most recent iteration of her multi-year project The Unsettlements: Moms. The installation includes sewn and gathered materials, drawings, and archives referencing the sites and genealogies of the artist’s biological mother Claire Pluecker and her adoptive “dyke mom” Linda Anderson. Weaving intergenerational histories of white settlement and queer family, Pluecker’s work speculates over the role of the artist, and what can be shared, known, and withheld.
Pluecker initiated The Unsettlements in 2018 as a method and ongoing series to interrogate multiple generations of her family’s settlement in the state known as Texas. Previous iterations of The Unsettlements: Moms have been installed at Artpace in San Antonio, the Texas State Galleries in San Marcos, and the Art Gallery of Guelph (Ontario). In 2019, Lawndale Art Center, Houston supported the publication of the artist book, The Unsettlements: Dad. (15 participants)
Registration opens January 1, 2027.
Presented in conjunction with Degrees of Archive: contemporary art and the shape of history on view at Krannert Art Museum (February 4–July 3, 2027).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jadine (JD) Pluecker’s undisciplinary work inhabits the intersections of writing, history, translation, art, interpreting, bookmaking, queer/trans aesthetics, non-normative poetics, language justice, and cross-border cultural production. They have translated numerous books from the Spanish, including Antígona González (Les Figues Press, 2016), Trash by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (Deep Vellum Press, 2023) and In Defense of Common Life: The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar (Common Notions, 2024). JD has published three books of poetry: The Every Wild (Mouthfeel Press, 2024), Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas (Editorial Ultramarina, 2024), and Ford Over (Noemi Press, 2016). From 2010-2020, she worked as part of the transdisciplinary collaborative Antena Aire and from 2015-2020 with the local social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. JD edits chapbooks with Ugly Duckling Presse’s Señal series, is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant, and has exhibited work at Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Project Row Houses, and more.
This event is supported by the Frances P. Rohlen Fund, the School of Art & Design Visitor Series, and Campus Arts Research in the Office for Arts Integration. Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
