A film version of the auto-transcription of a fall 2015 talk called The Queer Crip Narrative delivered at Gallery 400 in Chicago on illness, disability, and storytelling. The original talk argued that technology often deepens divisions between the physically abled and the physically disabled; the film’s eroding coherence proves it. Watch it here.
Read more "The Quick Prep Narrative (2015)"Trunk Show, a mobile exhibition space usually located in Chicago, features monthly solo shows for which artists are commissioned to design a limited-edition bumper sticker. The sticker lives, rides along with, and helps propel a medium beat-up 1999 forest green Ford Taurus owned by Raven Falquez Munsell and Jesse Malmed. In addition to the month-long […]
Read more "Let’s Stop Pretending It’s Not All Racist! (2015)"How Could You? (2015) is a short film exploration of one of mankind’s most enduring questions, told through Finnish noise music and candy. Watch it for free on Vimeo here.
Read more "How Could You? (2015)"165 years after the creation of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions—a document written in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, Elizabeth W. McClintock, and Jane Hunt and adopted by a committee of slightly over 100 men and women at the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY—hundreds of […]
Read more "Sentimental (2014)"(After Emma Goldman’s “Woman Suffrage”) “We boast today of the age of advancement, of science, and progress. Is it not strange, then, that we still believe in fetish worship?” These words—mostly original—open Emma Goldman’s 1917 essay, “Woman Suffrage.” The essay was based on a speech she delivered across the nation in advance of the passage […]
Read more "Toward a Repeal of the 19th Amendment (2012)"Over the course of two days in April 2011, 800 women laborers at two apparel factories in Cambodia lost consciousness. Over the next year, around 2200 more, in large groups, at different factories all around the country, followed. Government, reporters—even the big-name brands that buy the clothes, particularly H&M, the world’s second largest clothing manufacturer—investigated. […]
Read more "Feint (2012)"Founded in 2007 in response to rapid, cheap neighborhood development and pro-tourism campaigns, The Lady Dissident Chicago Travel Auxiliary aimed to meet the needs of all Chicago residents by providing a handy bicycle guide to secluded, comfortable locations within which to enjoy the splendors of our fine and prosperous, but occasionally troubled, city. The LDCTA […]
Read more "Lady Dissident Chicago Travel Auxiliary (2011)"Garment Work, recently on exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Artisterium at the State Silk Museum in Tbilisi Georgia, was originally conducted in residence at the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, formerly one of the largest and longest-running textile mills in the world. A site for early radical socialist organizing and a haven of […]
Read more "Garment Work (2010)"From January to February, the Winter 2009 Unlympic Games were a series of competitive events that engaged Chicago residents in active dialogue about the 2016 Olympic bid. The Unlympics looked at highly organized, internationally recognized, massively marketed, thoroughly branded, and extremely expensive sporting events not from a pro or con standpoint, but from a questioning […]
Read more "The Winter 2009 Unlympic Games"A media experiment intended to spark hope for social change. Designed, edited, art-directed, and developed legal and distribution strategy for paper prior to release in collaboration with Steve Lambert, Andy Bichlbaum, and writers and illustrators across the country. Released November 12, 2008 in an edition of 80,000. See the video on Vimeo.
Read more "The New York Times—Special Edition (2008)"