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Book Cover of "Toxic Immanence" showing 4-way mirrored and fragmented image of a figure with a white lab coat pointing into the center
The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service: a Final Report

Performative book chapter closing my ten-year interim co-directorship of the National TLC Service

Cropped image of Atlas homepage featuring paths arranged along a transit-like graphic line over black and white image of hands holding plutonium put emitting bright light
A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

Digital public humanities project on the relational geographies of nuclear materials in Colorado.

A large group gathers under a shade tent for a discussion.The tent has a banner reading "Indigenous"
An Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Anthropocene for Compromised Times

Short essay arguing for an anti-racist and anti-colonial practices of inquiry in the Anthropocene.

Cover of the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Culture, and Climate Change in the grass
Staying with the Troubling, Performing in the Impasse

Book chapter considering performance as space to address a world de-familiarized by climate change.

A beige yurt, campfire and a truck in a wooded clearing
Common Tensions, an essay for New Infrastructures

Essay on Common/Place, a self-organized, off-the-grid platform for ecological resilience, cultural inquiry, and land-based pedagogy.

A picnic shelter frames a view of a bench looking out on a river. Two tan and green cloth banners hang from the shelter reading "Meet you here" and "Upon our lands"
Blackhawk Park is Indigenous Land (Beyond Acknowledgment)

Introductory text to experimental seminar "Over the Levee, Under the Plow."

Book cover for Critical Landscapes
Critical Daytrips: Tourism and Land-Based Practice

Book chapter exploring how touristic forms might be deployed in an oppositional, self-reflexive way.

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.

Detail of handmade pennant flags on scrap material with silkscreened text reading "Toot and Thorn"
Notes on Affective Practice: An Exchange

Essay reflecting on the methods and structure of a creative research collaborative.

Super-saturated image showing a bicycle with a cargo crate leaning on a monument with a flag-holding solider on horseback.
Transmissions Between Memory and Amnesia

Essay on using ephemeral low-power radio as a memorial medium.

People lay on their backs in a large lobby space.
Take It to the Air: Radio as Public Art

Essay on artistic use of the FM radio spectrum.

Cover of A Call to Farms
A Call to Farms

Pamphlet reflecting on the first summer drift of what would soon be called Compass

Blurred image of journal layout showing a photograph of a red semi-figurative monument with printed text beneath it.
Performing Haymarket

Essay contrasting performative and official memorials to the Haymarket Massacre.

Angled image of article layout with a blurry image of a spare exhibition on gray walls over blurred text.
Touring the Archive, Archiving the Tour

Essay on the Center for Land Use Interpretation.

Issue 4 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, with a semi-abstract, green and brown design on the cover.
Cooing Over the Golden Phallus

About A increasing number of popular documentary films are employing prankster tactics for political effect. ...

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Additional Publications

Reviews, published reflections on my own creative work, commissioned texts, etc.

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