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Native Spaces

Imagine coming upon a colorful, round medallion on the sidewalk of your neighborhood park. The...
The artist performing in a blue men's suit, white shirt, red tie and midcentury glasses. Her right hand is raised.
My Electric Genealogy

Performance and live film exploring ancestral investments in extraction.
Coronaura

Short animated essay film exploring White complicity in violence, both fast and slow.
Wooden box in three sections with a green and yellow colored book, pink and blue cards, and a paper-cover barbed wire
Beyond Property

Suite of exercises exploring property as an Anthropocene technology.
Closeup of an antique map showing upper and lower Mystic Pond
Native Space: Headwaters and Homelands

Audio essay decolonizing the view from Mystic Lake.
Composite image showing forest inset in two overlapping rectangles inside a purple-tinted antique map
To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greetings

Short animated essay film exploring land relations beyond property.
Yellow pennant reading "Over the Levee Under the Ploy" in foreground with wooden table on grass beneath tent with children in background.
Anthropocene Drift

Research-creation platform sited in the Driftless area of Wisconsin and Western Illinois.
Composited image with text
Ecologies of Acknowledgment

Film, print, and tour exploring the responsibilities that come with living on occupied land.
Film still featuring a collage of a map of the Great Plains and the Denver Basin geological formation being peeled back to reveal grass
Grassland

Short animated essay film excavating the layers of a Colorado landscape.
A figure faces away from the camera wearing a white hazmat suit with the text TLC Service emblazoned on the back points to a green dome over a lush forest.
National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service

Performance and social practice platform addressing the domestic effects of the American nuclear state.
Black and white photo of sign reading: Welcome to Black Hawk Elementary School - Entrance Only with trees in the background
Re-Collecting Black Hawk

A book-length, image-text essay exploring the cultural and political landscapes of the Midwest.
Courtroom style sketch showing a giant ear of corn testifying in front of a human audience.
The Monsanto Hearings

Performative community hearings into the longstanding practices of the Monsanto Corporation.

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