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Current Projects
Driving East Through Indian Country (with Nick Brown, performance,
soundwork, installation, zine)
a performative de-enactment of westward expansion,
told via a mobile radio road trip, video, and photography
2007
What the Market Bares (with Dara Greenwald; documentation video, 5.6 mb/mov and original video, 5.9 mb/mov)
a site-specific video installation for bus concerning labor migration and material culture
Driving East Through Indian Country: Blackhawk Chapter (with Nick Brown, video, photo, zine)the first chapter of the larger project, focusing on the Black Hawk Trail in Illinois and Wisconsin
Don't Mourn
a non-linear Flash essay documenting my microradio memorial performances; published in Liminalities Vol. 3 Issue 3
Solar Micropower Transmitter Network (images and zine, pdf, 90k)
a proposal for distributed network of home-made microradio transmitters running on solar power. Each unit can be made for less than $50
Massacres and Mine Wars (photo essay published in Failure! Experiment in Aesthetic and Social Practices)
uses the culture of memorializing around southern Illinois
labor history to examine the complex and tragic ‘failure’ of the
labor movement and what it means to have political history and public memory
caught between radicalism and reform, hope and fear, solidarity and exclusion
2006
Temporary Centers (5m hd video; 11 mb/mov)
the first iteration of video essay teasing out questions of connection and disconnection among war, our lives, and our landscapes.
ISP Bloomington
(photo and video documentation, 2
mb/mp4 or 5.1 mb/mov)
a transmission performance that meditates on the multiple
doublings of freedom and mobility in locative media/surveillance and
education/incarceration.
Mobius Landscape (video installation; 20
mb flash video excerpt)
a video installation and streaming video web project interlacing
the physical, ecological, and political landscapes in one corner of rural
America
Jeep/Cherokee/Indian (17'00" hd
video, 17
mb/mp4, 37
mb/mov; website)
an experimental documentary premised on a search for (Jeep)
Cherokees along the Trail of Tears in Illinois on the occasion of the 167th
anniversary of the forced relocation
Chasing
Billy Caldwell (7'44" hd video, 6
mb/mp4, 17
mb/mov )
part biography of an obscure early Chicago
settler, part meditation on history and memory, identity and loyalty, landscape
and amnesia
2005
Urban, Rural, Wild (curatorial project)
an exhibition of 6 artists looking at circulations of waste, resources, histories, and power between urban and rural, Chicago and downstate Illinois
Don't Mourn (digital video, 4.5 mb .mov)
the beginning of an ongoing series of ephemeral transmission memorials to instances of labor strife and class war
Chasing Billy Caldwell (website, public event)
early explorations of the history and landmarks of Billy
Caldwell/Sauganash; website created for ausgang.com and walk for Free Walking
UnStorming: May Day (website, public event)
a group bicycle ride to commemorate Haymarket and its connections, past and present; created for version 2005
2004
UnStorming
Sheridan (performance, website: flash / html)
documentation of transmitting memorial performance connecting the familiar site of Haymarket with the not-so-familiar site of Fort Sheridan, by bike
Seven
Walks in the Neighborhood (digital video; 3.8 mb, .mp4)
video exploring the layers and politics of 'belonging' surrounding my move to the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago in 2004
Manifest Destiny (digital video; 1 mb, .mp4)
lightening-fast slideshow of land for sale, set to a remix of "This Land is Your Land"
Homecoming Parade (digital video; 1.2 mb, .mp4)
another rapid slideshow, this time of houses for sale, set to a remix of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
The Public Square (installation, events,
website, soundwork; requires flash plugin)
three-week experiment in constructing a hybrid public sphere in institutional, online, electromagnetic, and outdoor public spaces; created in partial fulfillment of the MFA degree at the University of Illinois
2003
War Diary (installation, video documentation; 1.2 mb, .mp4)
an installation/intervention into militarism/consumerism, located in a mall for the 6-month anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
Painting No. 1 (digital video; 2.9 mb, .mp4)
video exploring dynamics of patriotistic consumption, aka wrapping our food in the flag
Quality/Security (digital video; 2.2 mb, .mp4)
durational video exploring the world of boredom, labor and consumption in the new security state
2002
America Dreams (digital video series; each ~800 kb)
series of videos each exploring a different aspect of normative patriotism in the post 9-11 era
OverHeard (soundwork; each ~470 kb, .mp4)
series of sound collages resulting from interviews at the Champaign Country Freedom Celebration 2002
Good Citizenship (digital video; 1.5 mb, .mp4)
short video manifesting the inscription of normative citizenship on the subject's body
