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Black and white poster for the film "Around Crab Orchard"
Around Crab Orchard

Feature-length video essay on the power and perils of nature in a contaminated refuge.
Closeup of hands holding a booklet turned to a two-page color map.
America Ponds

Critical audio tour of Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge.
Closeup of map in black and grey showing Indigenous tribes, rivers, and numbered sites.
Native Resurgence

A counter-map and primer to sites of Native American resistance and ingenuity.
closeup of map with black, yellow, and white icons
Region from Below: Power Plants

A counter-map showing coal and corn carbon economies of the American Midwest.
Photograph of a print map with a in inset photograph showing Shawnee Correctional Center
Going Downstate

A counter-map of the Illinois state prison system.
Highly pixelated and noisy image of a female presenting figure walking throug an industrial landscape with a case and an antenna.
Don’t Mourn

Performances commemorating moments of violent conflict in Illinois labor history.
Two male-presenting people face away from the camera watching a video projected on the front windshield of a bus.
What the Market Bares

A site-specific video installation concerning labor migration and material culture.
Sign reading Sauganash sits in a traffic median below a dormant, leafless tree.
Chasing Billy Caldwell

Short video essay meditating on history, memory, identity, and landscape.
Satellite Image of landscape with buildings with wavering blue lines tracing roughly geometric shapes across the terrain.
ISP Bloomington

About ISP Bloomington was a site-specific transmission performance for the campus of Indiana University meditating...
UnStorming Sheridan

Performance commemorating the lives and afterlives of the Haymarket Martyrs.
Four microphones facing in various directions
Transmission Projects

Projects on DIY communications and public speech.

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