
"Native Resurgence" is a map and primer to sites of Native American resistance and ingenuity in the upper Midwest since the 1970s. Our goals are threefold. First, we want to place Native stories firmly in the center of our ...
Native Resurgence
Creative Work

"Driving East" investigates how myths of American mobility developed during Manifest Destiny continue to operate today. We use the familiar form of the road trip to rethink how the present-day landscape was forged by the ...
Driving East
Creative Work

"Don’t Mourn" is a series of memorial transmission performances to moments of violent conflict in Illinois labor history from the 1870s to the 1990s. I traveled to twelve otherwise unmarked sites to broadcast a distorted ...
Don’t Mourn
Creative Work

"What the Market Bares" is a site-specific video installation concerning labor migration and material culture. Installed on a bus as part of an artist residency, "The Return of the Gastarbeiter" in Kucevo, ...
What the Market Bares
Creative Work

"Going Downstate" is a counter-map of the Illinois state prison system with photographs (by Lauren Shrensel-Zadikow) and information on tax structure, costs, per capital income, traveling distance and ...
Going Downstate
Creative Work

"ISP Bloomington" was a site-specific transmission performance for the campus of Indiana University meditating on the relationships between education, incarceration, and speech.
Exhibitions
Carbondale, IL - University ...
ISP Bloomington
Creative Work

Part biography of an obscure early Chicago settler, part meditation on history and memory, identity and loyalty, landscape and amnesia.
Select Screenings
Ann Arbor, MI - The Gallery Project
San Francisco, CA - San ...
Chasing Billy Caldwell
Creative Work

"UnStorming Sheridan" consists of two bicycle rides commemorating the lives and afterlives of the Haymarket Martyrs.
On November 12, the day after both Veteran's Day and the 117th anniversary of the Haymarket executions, ...
UnStorming Sheridan
Creative Work

While somewhat outside (but sometimes anticipating) my core interest in landscape and spatial politics, the projects documented here represent other facets of my work. In particular, these pieces demonstrate my longstanding ...