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Carmen’s Parking Lot

I was asked by Cue  to write a text for a catalog on the work of Carmen Papalia.   The Catalog can be viewed online and below is my text.   Essay for Carmen Papalia: Long Time No See Catalog Cue Foundation, NYC 2013 A year or so ago I was...

The Best Things in Museums Are the Windows

The Exploratorium San Francisco, CA 2013 As an Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence I created a project that involved traveling for four days with a group of participants from the end of the museum’s building across the Bay in a sail boat and then walking from...

The Other America

Project for The Past is Present Curated by Jens Hoffmann Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit Collaboration with Katherine Ball 2013 Katherine Ball and I collaborated on a project in Detroit, this is what she wrote about it: One of the reasons that Harrell and I chose...

What We Talk About

 How Do You Mean?: Culture in Translation Symposium Portland Institute for Contemporary Art 2013 In this special matinee performance of Niicugni, I intermittently “pressed pause” on performer Emily Johnson, adding thoughts and questions about the artist and her work...

What Do We Do On Monday?

Learning for Life  Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway Collaboration with Ella Aandal 2012 For this project which was commissioned by the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo for a show called Learning for Life, I asked that a local child or adolescent lead me on an...

An Unknown Number

Project for the 2012 Shanghai Biennial Shanghai, China 2012 Jens Hoffmann invited me to be a part of the 9th Annual Shanghai Biennial. During a site visit to Shanghai this summer I was given a tour of the building that was being remodeled into the museum for the...