{"id":2543,"date":"2023-10-06T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2023-11-21T01:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:46:04","slug":"upcoming-fall-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/upcoming-fall-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Performances and Exhibitions &#8211; Fall 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the calendar says October, the thermometer in Boston reads 81 degrees. I\u2019ve yet to see a red leaf in Boston\u2019s Franklin Park (though I found a maitake last week). I\u2019m not sure the weather counts as small talk anymore as we navigate seasonal changes inside broader climatic disruption. Here\u2019s to cultivating spaces for refuge, reflection, and action in a season and era of flux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-3 wp-block-gallery-2 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_FallTour.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"2547\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_FallTour.png?resize=1000%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The artist in a white dress shirt and red tie in a crouching position. The words &quot;My Electric Genealogy&quot; and &quot;Fall 2023 Shows&quot; are superimposed on the image.\" class=\"wp-image-2547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_FallTour.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_FallTour.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_FallTour.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_FallTour.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic, let\u2019s connect at one of the final four performances of \u201cMy Electric Genealogy.\u201d I\u2019m beyond grateful for the generous hosts and thoughtful audiences who have engaged with a project that is both personal and collective reckoning. The next shows are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 2, 4:30 PM<br><\/strong>Fisher Recital Hall<br>University of Massachusetts, Lowell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 10, 6:00 PM<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cadvc.umbc.edu\/sarah-kanouse-my-electric-genealogy\/\">Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture<\/a>&nbsp;(CADVC)<br>University of Maryland, Baltimore County<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 11, 6:00 PM<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therotunda.org\/\">The Rotunda<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Pennsylvania<br>Sponsored by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ecosocialseries.wordpress.com\/\">Eco-Social Salon Series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 16, 6:00 PM<br><\/strong>ACT Cube<br>Wiesner Building<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I expect to conclude live performances with this final mini-tour, I hope to continue to share \u201cMy Electric Genealogy\u201d in various ways. In August, I shared&nbsp;excerpt of the project presented as an installation at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mimesisfestival.org\/2023-program#64bf67deb602793d34b0a8b6\">Mimesis Documentary Festival<\/a>,&nbsp;and I am developing a publication based on the script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_568d4b-aa\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-5 wp-block-gallery-4 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3120b254-abe8-c05b-a7ba-8c257d7fb290.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-id=\"2125\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3120b254-abe8-c05b-a7ba-8c257d7fb290.jpeg?resize=1000%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A line of pastel-colored booklets with the words &quot;Over the Levee Under the Plow: an experiential curriculum&quot; superimposed\" class=\"wp-image-2125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3120b254-abe8-c05b-a7ba-8c257d7fb290.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3120b254-abe8-c05b-a7ba-8c257d7fb290.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3120b254-abe8-c05b-a7ba-8c257d7fb290.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My &#8220;Beyond Property&#8221;&nbsp;book and cards, along with the experiential curriculum I co-coordinated with Ryan Griffis, continues to travel: this time to St. Paul, Minnesota, where it is on view in the group exhibition&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/\">Insurgent Ecologies: Hotter Than July<\/a>&nbsp;at the Law Warshaw Gallery at Macalester College. Curator Tia-Simone Gardner builds on an April\/May New Orleans exhibition organized by Imani Jacqueline Brown and Shana Griffin to challenge and repair systems rooted in enslavement, conquest, displacement that operate across the upper and lower Mississippi River. The exhibition runs through December 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_9277fd-e1\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>In Brief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The third edition of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/82b253cb33e4\/indigenous-boston-harbor-1021-1024\">Indigenous Boston Harbor Boat Tour<\/a>&nbsp;runs October 21 and 24, led by members of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. Sponsored by the University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston, this annual program is an outgrowth of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/portfolio\/ecologies-of-acknowledgment\/\">Ecologies of Acknowledgment<\/a>&nbsp;project developed with Nicholas Brown in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tbilisidialogue\">Tbilisi: Design for Justice and Democracy<\/a>, the summer study program I co-led with Nicholas Brown, made an article in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.northeastern.edu\/2023\/09\/07\/magazine\/architecture-tbilisi-georgia\/\">Northeastern Global News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Society and Space<\/em>&nbsp;ran a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.societyandspace.org\/book-review-forums\/on-telling-nuclear-stories\">book review forum<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<em>A People\u2019s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_193fb5-50 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_193fb5-50 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_193fb5-50\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The Long Read<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn is a season for reflection, and I\u2019ve found myself contemplating both the happy accidents that punctuate and enduring threads that unify my life and work. Although I only came to the term recently, Eyal Weizman\u2019s notion of \u201ccritical proximity\u201d (rather than the more familiar concept of \u201ccritical distance\u201d) captures something of my orientation and aspiration for my practice: grounding urgent critique of large-scale systems from a position targeted by, implicated in, or entangled with these structures. \u201cMy Electric Genealogy\u201d may be my most explicitly autobiographical project, but my work has long arisen from the places I have lived or have kinship connections as an embodied process of situated knowledge-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Los Angeles, I am shallow, if densely, rooted settler. As a rare fifth-generation white Angeleno, I have colonizing ancestors going back to the Winthrop Fleet (at least on my father\u2019s side). My great grandparents were California Socialists of the Upton Sinclair generation\u2014a convenient genealogical factoid that my politically progressive parents emphasized over other aspects of our position within structures of white supremacy and settler colonialism. In retrospect, I began grappling with this positionality early but haltingly: the Rodney King beating and subsequent LA Uprising prompted a 30-year effort to understand how injustice is built into the landscape. While still a student at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lachsa.net\/\">Los Angeles County High School for the Arts,<\/a>&nbsp;I devoured Mike Davis books (thanks to a Christmas gift from my late Uncle Kent), cleaned up debris from the rebellion, attended poetry readings in Leimert Park (with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glynnisreed.com\/\">Glynnis Reed<\/a>), and phone banked for CALPIRG in a scattershot effort to reconcile my comfortable, middle-class life with the outpouring of pain and rage that shut down the city for five days. A year after the rebellion, I saw Anna Deavere Smith share work-in-progress from&nbsp;<em>Twilight: Los Angeles<\/em>. Based on over 300 interviews with people whose lives were caught up in the verdict and its aftermath. The now classic work of \u201cdocumentary theater\u201d opened my eyes to the capacity of art to use relational research to speak with nuance and beauty to the most pressing issues of the day. Though I had no way to know it at the time, that work-in-progress performance would become a direct ancestor of&nbsp;<em>My Electric Genealogy<\/em>\u2014and almost certainly a grand-aunt to almost everything I have done since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-7 wp-block-gallery-6 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LACHSA_SeniorPhoto.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"917\" height=\"1215\" data-id=\"2545\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LACHSA_SeniorPhoto.jpg?resize=917%2C1215&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A collage of snapshots of high school students\" class=\"wp-image-2545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LACHSA_SeniorPhoto.jpg?w=917&amp;ssl=1 917w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LACHSA_SeniorPhoto.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LACHSA_SeniorPhoto.jpg?resize=773%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 773w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/LACHSA_SeniorPhoto.jpg?resize=768%2C1018&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The LACHSA graduating class of 1994<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went on to major in art in college, supplementing the medium-specific undergraduate curriculum with coursework on critical theory, gender studies, and environmental studies. Some of these courses allowed me to develop creative projects instead of writing term papers, and I lit up at the chance to process new knowledge about the world through artistic forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from college in 1997, I got more involved in activism, ultimately joining the \u201calter-globalization\u201d movement around the turn of the millennium. I learned political street theater, helped to plan carnivalesque protests, and developed my first media production skills in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucimc.org\/\">Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center<\/a>&nbsp;that I\u2019d helped get off the ground. By the time I completed graduate school in 2004, I had found a tentative balance between my activist orientation, theoretical inclination, and commitment to creative expression as knowledge work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-container-9 wp-block-gallery-8 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1140\" data-id=\"2546\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?resize=1140%2C1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Five people dressed in black clothing with hand-painted labels describing positions in a university stand in a circle during a street theater performance.\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?w=1244&amp;ssl=1 1244w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/readysubjects.org\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SDaS_Skit.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A street theater skit performed in solidarity with striking workers, University of Illinois quad, ca. 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Time, job demands, parenthood, and proximity to collaborators has changed and challenged that balance over the years. Sometimes, it\u2019s more aspirational than realized. Universities can be mentally, emotionally, and politically compromising places to work, after all, and the mobility of academic life can frustrate growing deep roots even if you manage to resist a reward structure that prioritizes the distant over the proximate. Leaving the Midwest in 2015 after 17 years and four cities prompted me to approach site-based work more relationally as a co-constitution of places and people that both changes and endures across space and time. The eight years I have spent in Boston represent the longest stretch I have lived in any one city as an adult. This newfound stability has grounded an even closer examination of my own relation to the places I have lived or to which I\u2019m connected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entangled relationships show up everywhere once you start to look. They are sometimes particular and ancestral (I\u2019ve got a bunch of colonizing ancestors buried in the 17<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century cemetery across the street from my favorite Latin market) and sometimes collective and infrastructural: my sewage, like everyone else\u2019s in Boston, is treated by a wastewater treatment plant built on the site of the first Native internment camp in North America. I\u2019m a product of centuries of white supremacy and settler capitalism; I can\u2019t escape proximity and implication. Instead, I hope through my work to engage, rework, and repair these already existing connections\u2014and eventually, in concert with countless others, to transform them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the calendar says October, the thermometer in Boston reads 81 degrees. 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