In August 2013 I conducted a residency at the Roberts Street Social Center, a collection of projects dedicated to providing free or affordable access to independent and alternative media, art, and education in Halifax, CA. Below are some images from my time and collaboration with Center community members:
Month: January 2013
QueerLab
QueerLab is a youth-led media program exploring LGBTQ experience in North Carolina. Each QueerLab session brings together an editorial team of queer identifying youth to publish I Don’t Do Boxes, and organize workshops focused on creative media production and digital storytelling.
Everyday Obsolescence
Everyday Obsolescence is a video work created during SoundLab, a youth-led media project exploring the role of technology and the everyday. The project challenged a group of high school students in Greensboro, NC to create sculptures from discarded media equipment and video self-portraits to compose an experimental score of music and sounds. The project was […]
Teashed
A teahouse and site for ritual exchange located in an old shed collapsed by a tree in Greensboro, NC.
Queer Explorers Club
The Queer Explorers Club is a civil service technical guild. A place to explore the androgynous unknown, and the in-between space of gender one adventure at a time.
School of the Future
School of the Future is an experiment in what school can be. It was the child of the Teaching Artist Union and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics. In 2010 it grew into an outdoor intergenerational free school in Brooklyn. Since then it has become an archive of lessons learned and a network of radical educators […]
Strataspore
StrataSpore is a platform for collective knowledge about mushrooms. Initiated by Kate Cahill, Christopher Kennedy, Athena Kokoronis, Caroline Woolard, and mycologist Gary Lincoff, Strataspore uses mushrooms as material and metaphor for latent potential and unseen infrastructure. Right now, mushrooms are eating oil spills, connecting old members of Fluxus, feeding communities, and growing as alternative packaging […]
Urban Epiphyte
A small native plant set inside a discarded hardware pouch; an epiphyte for human architecture. Collaborators wore an epiphyte on their bodies while navigating NYC as both biological indicator and platform for urban play.
Collective Despacho
A site-specific ritual created for the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art’s Peekskill Project in 2009.
ArtWork
Art Work is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property.
Crisis Folklore
Crisis Folklore is a journal put together by the Groundswell Collective (Cambridge, MA: 2010) to imagine future stories that describe our current time period can give us an alternative glimpse of the cultures we are shaping in the here-and-now.
Corporeal Medicine Wheel
An experiment in shamanic healing at Lumenhouse, Brooklyn in the fall of 2008. A re-imagined ritual referencing the concept of the medicine wheel as a gestural performance.
This is the Sky
A site-specific sculpture exploring viewing portals, vantage ways, and access points to cloud and sky gazing.