A significant part of my practice has involved speaking in informal educational centers, bookstores, conferences and galleries.
Public Lectures (2002-Present):
- Presenter on “Never The Same” at Chicago Social Club for the Sullivan Galleries at SAIC [Chicago, IL]
- Visiting Artist – ACRE Residency [Steuben, WI]
- And And And space at Documenta13 – “Learn In” about Chicago art and politics [Kassel, Germany]
- Presenter/Guest Curator of “Youtube Assembly” at Homeroom Chicago on theme of POWER with Deborah Stratman [Chicago, IL] (See videos here)
- Presenter on “Never The Same” Art Matters Foundation Chicago board retreat luncheon held at ThreeWalls [Chicago, IL]
- “Creative Ecologies” presenter at Headlands Center for the Arts [Sausalito, CA]
- Live Interview with John Kinsman of Family Farm Defenders at Jane Addams Hull House Museum [Chicago, IL]
- Presentation on Visions for Chicago at Mayoral Tutorial Re-Launch event hosted by Heartland Cafe [Chicago, IL]
- “Farm Together Now” tour [at Town Hall in Seattle WA, Red & Black Cafe in Portland OR, Mission Pie in San Francisco CA, Orca Books in Olympia WA, Rainbow Books in Madison WI, Busboys & Poets in Washington DC, 2640 in Baltimore MD, Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia PA, Merritt Books in Millbrook NY, Stone Barns Center in Pocantico Hills NY, Melville House Books in Brooklyn NY, Boxcar Books in Bloomington IN, Carmichaels Books in Louisville KY, Common Ground Food Co-Op in Urbana IL] and Chicago Lectures Throughout the Year at Logan Square Kitchen with Slow Food Chicago; Op Shop Spotlight on Urban Agriculture; Rethinking Soup event series at Jane Addams Hull House Museum; Field Museum staff lunchtime lecture series.
- Lecture “Farm Together Now” book release party at Chicago’s Downtown Farmstand [Chicago, IL]
- Lecture for Llano Del Rio Speakers Bureau [Los Angeles, CA]
- NASCO Institute - Keynote lecture on mapping social movements [Ann Arbor, MI] (See video here and here)
- Lecture “Farm Together Now” as part of Mess Hall’s Sunday permaculture skillshares [Chicago, IL]
- Lecturer “3 Documentaries” at Bluestockings Books [New York City]
- Guest Lecturer “Experimental Geography” ds4si.org and Groundswell [Boston, MA]
- Guest Teacher “Critical Culture in Chicago 2000-2010″ Co-Prosperity School [Chicago, IL]
- Guest Lecturer “Art Against Social Control” at Dominican University [Forest Park, IL]
- Presenter “Chicago 101″ at City From Below conference [Baltimore, MD] (see video here)
- Speaker “We Are Here: Maps Archive” to release Experimental Geography book at Get Lost Travel Books [San Francisco, CA]
- Presenter “AREA: Notes for a People’s Atlas of Chicago” Booksa Bookshop [Zagreb, Croatia]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City” Onepot Dinner Discussions at Western Bridge [Seattle, WA]
- Presenter “AREA Chicago: Inheriting the Grid” This Is Forever Dinner Discussions [NYC]
- Presenter “Counter Productive Industries” Artivistic Festival [Montreal, Canada]
- Presenter “Resistant Practices: Countering the Neoliberal City through Local Initiatives” with the Journal of Ordinary Thought and AREA Chicago Art/Education/Activism and Reading Chicago at The Planners Network Conference, University of Illinois Chicago [Chicago, IL]
- Presenter “Trashing the Neoliberal City : Autonomous Cultural Responses to Chicago 2000-2005″ YNKB/Outer Nørrebro Culture Bureau [Copenhagen, Denmark]
- Presenter Cellspace [San Francisco, CA]
- Presenter Akpress [Oakland, CA]
- Presenter C-level [Los Angeles, CA]
- Presenter “Slide Circle Seminars” Apt.1R Gallery [Chicago, IL]
