With many other University of Iowa faculty, I'll be appearing on the February 10th WorldCanvass live broadcast. The topic of the conversation is the History of Sustainability.

I'm a participant in the February 23 offsite symposium on Tourism (and) Culture that is part of the College Art Association annual conference in Los Angeles.

I'm co-organizing a performative public hearing of harms perpetrated by the Monsanto corporation. The Iowa City hearing will take place April 21 in the Boyd Law Building. It is part of a series of hearings leading up to a people's trial initiated by my collaborative group Compass. The hearings are part of the AndAndAnd platform of Documenta 13.

 

New Work

• My essay on radio as public art, "Take it to the Air," is out in the current issues of Art Journal.
• I'm presenting a new paper, "Can Tourism Be Critical?," at the CAA offsite symposium "Tourism (and) Culture" at the University of Southern California on February 23.
• My collaborative group, Compass, has begun conducting a series of public hearings into the Monsanto corporation. You may see testimony from the first hearing, January 28, on our website.

About My Work

My written and visual work examines how physical and political landscapes are socially produced in order to create alternate, oppositional experiences of them. I typically begin by looking into the spatial practices—visible and invisible—that have produced a certain place over time and influence how politics are lived there. By alternately supplementing, shifting and undermining the visual dimension of space, I offer what W.J.T Mitchell calls an “account of landscape…[that traces] the process by which landscape effaces its own readability and naturalizes itself" in order to produce alternate ways of seeing and inhabiting those places.