March 2, 2023
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
In this lunchtime talk Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter will discuss the orbits around their ongoing work deposition (2018), a long-term collaboration between centers on the displacement and collective re-situating of a corn commodities trading pit salvaged from the now defunct grain room of the Chicago Board of Trade. The two primary elements of the work are: a property lease agreement – guided by the grammars of commodities trading pits – that is signed and executed by the artists and the exhibiting institution; and the 32 pieces of the former Chicago Board of Trade corn trading pit floor. Their collaborative work has been awarded individual grant support from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and has been exhibited at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, The Arts Club of Chicago, and The Renaissance Society.