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Selection of writings available for reading:
> Experiments of Struggle: a text reflecting on the vulnerability of beginning something for the first time. The text was printed in "Hey We're All Beginngers Here!" and accompanied an exhibition curated by Mike Wolf 2010
> in a most dangerous manner: a text co-written with Steven Lam, accompaning an exhibition at SPACES GALLERY in Cleveland and published in the Ninth Letter journal Vol. 7 #1, 2010
> The Audacity of Desperation: a text co-written with Jessica Lawless, and political failures and desparate times; compliments the exhbition
> Living in Almost Places: a text looking at the visual culture of planned community entrances (2007) published in Journal for Northeast Issues in 2010.
> Territorial Imaginations: Text written as part of a magazine project focusing on planned communities and prisons (2007)
> Testing Resistance: Notes on public architecture and the body in Los Angeles, compliments the project of the same name (2005)
> The Shape of a Neighborhood: paper exploring urban design and exclusion (2005)
Selection of courses I've taught over the last few years:
> Body and Technology taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> Sculpture 1 taught at Illinois State University
> Making and Meaning taught at University of Illinois
> 3d Foundations taught at Illinois State University
The video below was made in the Making and Meaning class. Students created a prarade route through the University of Illinois campus, involving bike carts/stage, distributable items. They performed speeches on education and generosity and gave away many parts of the project along the way including the stage decoration, the quilt they sat on, ballons and food. A big thanks to Erica Leohner who is a grad at the U of I and helped the class make several parts, including the wonderful quilt piece that was dissembled into flags and given away on the parade route.
Give Get:Parading Generosity_short from Sarah Ross on Vimeo.