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Performance/Social Practice

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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