EXHIBITIONS | SYMPOSIA | EVENTS as Artistic Director | Curator
- 2024CICADALOLOGY ’24, STL
ROLE: Artistic Director of field school with interspecies linguistic Eco-philosopher musician David Rothenberg & poet Edwin Torres.
LOCATION: Day-1: OUTSIDE field school in Springfield, IL with small group of interspecies poets, filmmakers, musicians, landscape artists
Day-2: INSIDE live-performance @ CINLAND w/ BBC/Radio & Montreal eco-documentary filmmakers.
- 2023THOUGH THE EARTH SHOULD CHANGE
ROLE: Co-Director, Co-moderator, curator.
LOCATION: Kuehner Court Weil Hall, Wash U.
- 2022WHAT’S OUT THERE
ROLE: Lead Advisory council for city-wide public resource featuring significant landscapes in St Louis; included nominating & brokering summer landscape research interns (writing based on field research).
PARTNER: The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), Washington D.C.
- 2020PLAYSHOP: THE WHAT STICKS
ROLE: Design & co-direct afternoon computation & social engagement playshop with all Freshman Architecture undergraduate students and five faculty (~70 people total) ending as a 3-week outdoor campus intervention (80’x16’x16’ painted stick pavilion).
LOCATION: Wash U, Danforth Campus.
- 2019WHAT DO YOU SEE?
ROLE: Directed 2-day walkshop with landscape architect Günther Vogt, including managing student Design/build of a toolshed as indoor field station installed for 1-month toolshed intervention installed in Givens Hall bottom stairwell, Wash U.
LOCATION: Day 1: three walks across sacred & profane landscapes in the St Louis region. Day 2: curate field station with students in ½ day participant dialogue, followed by college-wide lecture in the college lecture series.
FUNDED by: ANOVA site furnishings.
BUDGET: $5,000US.
- 2018MORE THAN A SALAD
ROLE: Co-Artistic Director for the final public walk & social engagement.
LOCATION: Nicosia, Cyprus.
BUDGET: ~$35,000US
- 2018COMPETITION FOR DESIGN LABOR
ROLE: Framed, directed, managed a 48-hour landscape design $ award competition featuring all the Master of Landscape Architecture Students, coordinating between facilities, funder, local labor historians, faculty, staff, and students.
LOCATION: Wash U, Landscape Dept. Steinberg Gallery, Wash U, STL.
BUDGET: $5,000US.
- 2017SPACEBUSTER & PPP
ROLE: Roles included organizing and moderating public discussion, coordinating social engagement activity for 1-day architecture intervention with large inflatable & professional choreographer.
COLLABORATOR & inflatable author: RAUMLABOR.
LOCATION: Wash U, Lewis Center. PPP (Public Policy Perception) with Jesse Vogler.
- 2016RADICAL IMAGINATION COMMUNITY
ROLE: Artistic Director for half-day event, following 2-week school.
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Greece.
BUDGET: ~$35,000US.
- 2016DESIGN SHOW 2016
ROLE: Curator.
BUDGET: $100,000.
LOCATION: Chicago, IL, 108 North State Street, Block 37.
- 2015DARK MATTERS
ROLE: Artistic Director.
LOCATION: Reykjavik, Iceland; Haskolabio theater.
BUDGET: ~$40,000US.
- 2014WALK IN PROGRESS
ROLE: Co-Choreographed exhibition project & public walk with the Institute for Spatial Experiments and included 24-artist participants.
LOCATION: Guangzhou, China.
PARTNERS: VITAMIN CREATIVE SPACE & Institute for Spatial Experiments.
- 2013PERFORMANCE PRACTICES MARATHON
ROLE: Co-choreographed, co-moderated symposium, interventions, speakers, food experiments, walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-Day symposium (JUNE 12-14) with 31-participants.
BUDGET: ~$25,500US.
- 2013ACCIDENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
ROLE: Co-choreographed 3-Day exhibition (JUNE 12-14) with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
BUDGET: ~$25,000US.
- 2013HEARING VOICES
ROLE: Co-directed a 1-week movement & voice laboratory exploring the psychoacoustic phenomena of phantom words.Daily 8-hour seminar included 11-professional dancers & small production team; 1-night public performance.
LOCATION: Amsterdam, Netherlands: Frascati Theater. F
UNDER: Goethe-institute.
COLLABORATOR: Nicole Beutler Projects.
- 2013ARCHIVES WORKS MARATHON
ROLE: Co-choreographed, co-moderated symposium, interventions, speakers, food experiments, walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany. MODE: 3-Day symposium (NOV 9-11) with 51-participants.
BUDGET: ~$25,500US.
- 2012BIG FIELD – GROßES FELD – JAN MEDA
ROLE: Co-Choreographed exhibition & walks; with the Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Jan Meda, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
MODE: 3-day art festival/exhibition included spatial interventions by 31-artists based in Ethiopia, Berlin, and the USA.
PARTNER: Alle School of Fine Art and Design, Addis Ababa University.
- 2012ADDIS FOTO FEST
ROLE: Co-Choreographed exhibition, public walks, participant; with the Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. PARTNER & HOST: Alle School of Fine Art and Design, Addis Ababa University.
MODE: The 21-art works.
DIRECTOR: photographer Aida Muluneh &Desta for Africa (DFA).
- 2012TRANSLATION ACTS (THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR WORLDS FAIR)
ROLE: Co-Choreographed exhibition, walks, participant; with the Institute for Spatial Experiments. LOCATION: Templehof Feld, Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 1-month public art school with 78-artists & researchers, open from 1-month (May 31-June 24) 4-days per week, 6-8 hours per day of unique public programming.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: RAUMLABOR (Space Lab). Primary responsibilities: co-managing DESIGN/BUILD, the daily operations, larger curatorial relationships, public dissemination, and archiving.
- 2012Glass Eye (Glasauge)
ROLE: Co-choreographed interventions, food experiments, and participant; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Virchowstraße 6, 10249 Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-day exhibition & event with 38-artists in a public park and inside a WWII bunker.
- 2011SOUND MARATHON, Part 2
ROLE: Co-choreographed, co-moderated symposium, interventions, speakers, food experiments, walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-Day symposium (JAN 26-27) with 51-participants.
BUDGET: ~$17,500US.
- 2011DEAS ARE MOTION - The Poster as an Experiment in Travel, Part 3: Reykjavik
ROLE: Co-curated; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus; Reykjavik, Iceland. MODE: 3-month exhibition with 27-artists.
CURATOR: Markús Þór Andrésson, “Iceland Without Destination – TRAIL”.
- 2011SOUND MARATHON, Part 1
ROLE: Co-choreographed, co-moderated symposium, interventions, speakers, food experiments, walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-Day symposium (NOV 9-11) with 31-international participants including speakers and contributors. Day 1: walking outside school walks and talks in city with experts Day 2-3: inside school presentations and talks.
BUDGET: ~$17,500US.
- 2011IDEAS ARE MOTION - The Poster as an Experiment in Travel, Part 2: Japan
ROLE: Co-Choreographed exhibition & walks; with the Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Tokyo, Japan; MOT (MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, TOYKO).
MODE: Exhibition collaboration with 23-artists inside a larger exhibition “Berlin 2000-2011: Playing amongst the Ruins”.
- 2011DAY BEFORE LIFE-IS-SPACE MARATHON
ROLE: Co-choreographed 1-day of interventions, guests, food experiments, community partner walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments. LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 1-day walk with 15-international participants. CURATOR: Studio Olafur Eliasson & Institute for Spatial Experiments.
- 2010CURATORIAL APPROACH MARATHON
ROLE: Co-choreographed, co-moderated symposium, interventions, speakers, food experiments, walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-Day symposium (DEC 8-10) with 23-participants.
BUDGET: ~$25,000US.
- 2010SPACE ACTIVISM MARATHON
ROLE: Co-Choreographed exhibition & 1-day walk; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-Day symposium (JUNE 8-10) with 19-participants.
BUDGET: ~$25,000US.
- 2009ARTIST MARATHON
ROLE: Co-choreographed, co-moderated symposium, interventions, speakers, food experiments, walks; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-Day symposium (DEC 8-11) with 35-participants.
BUDGET: ~$25,000US.
- 2007-
2008ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
RROLE: Directed a 1.5-year Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts institutional grant inherited from displaced faculty. Primary responsibilities included organizing and moderating two lecture series, including 10-out of town architect speakers.
LOCATION: Chicago, IL; Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
BUDGET: $12,000.
- 2006-
2009TALK 20
ROLE: Instigated public student lecture series modeled after Pecha Kucha, set in architecture design schools, blending professional and student speakers. Included hosting and stating TALK 20 lecture series at architecture schools around the USA.
LOCATIONS: Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Columbus OH.
- 2005CROSS CATALYTIC ARCHITECTURES
ROLE: Co-organizer & transcriber.
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA; SLOUGHT FOUNDATION.
MODE: public conversation with scientists, architects & engineers about non-linear modeling.
- 2004-
2005NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS of ORGANIZATION (NLSO)
ROLE: Graduate Research Assistantship coordinating architecture & pathology faculty at the University of Pennsylvania to prepare for a 3-day national architecture. science, and mathematics symposium & exhibition.
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA; University of Pennsylvania.
EXHIBITIONS | BUILT WORKS | EVENTS | WORKSHOPS as Participant
- 2024PURPLE HOUSE
LOCATION: Griot Museum of Black History, St Louis, MO.
CURATOR: Lois Conley.
CONTRIBUTION: landscape art sculpture as interpretive center.
- 2024PARRET PAVILION
LOCATION: Triennial Kortrijk, Antwerp, Belgium.
LEAD ARTISTS: Nico Dockx & VOET architecture.
CONTRIBUTION: three original drawings enlarged & repainted on the pavilion ceiling.
- 2023PONG-PING FOREST
Instigated & directed the design & build of two steel regulation size pong-ping tables.
LOCATION: 407 N 6th St, St. Louis, 63102. Phase 1 of a public art-infrastructure plaza design. Phase 2: estimated summer 2026.
FUNDER: Spinnaker Reality.
- 2021WORLD EXHIBITION
LOCATION: Forum Stadtpark. Graz, Austria. Exhibition contribution (audio reading) from “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, Buckminster Fuller.
INVITATION: Claudia Gerhäusser.
- 2020FREE SPACE FESTIVAL
LOCATION online; Thessaloniki, Greece. Symposium.
CONTRIBUTION: 20-min video essay & discussion, and panel. Peer-reviewed & published
- 2020FUTURE NOW FESTIVAL III
*Postponed until Spring 2025 due to Covid-19. Art festival in Berlin, Germany.
- 2020ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA WALKSHOP
*Cancelled due to Covid-19. CONTRIBUTION: Walkshop designed for international librarian conference St Louis.
- 2019TOOLSHED & WALKSHOPS
LOCATION: Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), St Louis, MO. May 17 – Aug 18.
EXHIBITION: sole outdoor.
CONTRIBUTION: pavilion sculpture; ear-glasses, 3-Walkshops© (June 7, July 13, July 20).
CURATOR: Wassan Al-Khudhairi.
- 2019SOUND MAPPING WALKSHOP
LOCATION: The New School, NYC. Center for Transformative Media.
CONTRIBUTION: lecture & walkshop to co-construct a geospatial sound score.
INVITATION: Ed Keller.
- 20192019 RULERS
LOCATION: East St Louis, IL. Granite City Art and Design District (GCADD).
MODE: Landscape art exhibition.
CONTRIBUTION: site-specific installation in solo gallery space; poetry reading participant; public performance lecture – a landscape sermon.
CURATOR: Gavin Kroeber.
- 2018JELLING
LOCATION: Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland.
MODE: restaurant as sculpture; poetry.
CONTRIBUTIONS: 2-day workshop crystalizing as indoor | outdoor poetry performances on sea and on land.
COLLABORATOR: Sjon and the Iceland University of the Arts & Studio Olafur Eliasson kitchen.
CURATOR: Christina Werner.
- 2018DRUM CIRCLE
LOCATION: Kunstaelle, Berlin. MODE: art exhibition.
TITLE: The Quest for Meaning Bauru.
CONTRIBUTION: video; co-author Fabian Knecht.
CURATOR: Ellen Blumenstein.
- 2018THE EARTH IS BLUE LIKE AN ORANGE GREENWAY
LOCATION: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, MO.
MODE: Festival.
FESTIVAL TITLE: Dwell in other Futures.
CONTRIBUTION: Designed, directed, and trained 6-Future Park Ranger Ambassadors to conduct an inclusive social engagement park design performance involving sound tools for the future.
CURATORS: Tim Portlock, Rebecca Wanzo, Gavin Kroeber.
- 2017BIG LUCKY1a,b; GAREN OF HARMONIC DELIGHT2
LOCATION: The Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie; Berlin.
EXHIBITION: Festival of Future Nows.
CONTRIBUTIONS: sound sculpture1a & small press book 1b; public school workshop2 with harmonic overtone singer Mirislov Grosser.
CURATOR: Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Christina Werner.
- 2016ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND
LOCATION: Chicago Architecture Foundation, IL.
EXHIBITION: 50/50/50 (50 Designers, 50 Ideas, 50 Wards).
CONTRIBUTION: two-sided 4’x 3’ architecture board.
CURATOR: Urban Lab.
- 2015WATCH WORDS
LOCATION: Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany. MODE: Art exhibition (solo).
CONTRIBUTIONS: sense walks, videos, photography, sculptures, sound-environments.
CURATOR: Vlado Velkov.
- 2015RADICAL IMAGINATION COMMUNITY
LOCATION: Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL.
MODE: Landscape art exhibition.
TITLE: Outside Design.
CONTRIBUTIONS: CURATOR: Jonathan Solomon.
- 2015HEART AND SEOUL
LOCATION: Seoul, South Korea.
MODE: mobile public art exhibition.
TITLE: FROST Radio.
CONTRIBUTION: sound walk instructions.
CURATOR: Haeju Kim, Ari Benjamin Meyers.
- 2015TWISTED
LOCATION: The Changing Room; Kurfurstenstrasse 13; Berlin, Germany.
MODE: indoor | outdoor art exhibition.
TITLE: Homecoming 3.
CONTRIBUTIONS: public sound walk; map; poetry performance.
CURATORS: Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, Annabelle von Girsewald.
- 2015EXPERIENCE ECONOMIES
LOCATION: Mildred’s Lane; rural northeastern Pennsylvania - rural art complex overseen by artists J. Morgan Puett, Mark Dion.
CONTRIBUTION: sense-based table-top food experiments & field walks. CHOREOGRAPHED by: Rebecca Uchill, Gavin Kroeber.
- 2014MATE
LOCATION: Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery); Berlin, Germany.
MODE: contemporary art festival.
TITLE: Festival of Future Nows.
CONTRIBUTION: public school workshop with biologist and bird-caller Uwe Westphal.
CURATORS: Sven Beckstette, Natalie Keppler, Christina Werner.
- 2014A-B-A-B-A FROM HERE TO HEAR
LOCATION: Volksbuhne, Roter Salon (Peoples Theater, Red room); Berlin, Germany.
MODE: poetry-jazz performance; public sound actions.
- 2014SEW THE SWEATER WHILE THE WOOL GROWS ON THE SHEEP1| WALK-IN-PROGRESS2
LOCATION: Vitamin Creative Space; Guangshou, China.
MODE: 2-month art exhibition; 1-day public walk.
CONTRIBUTION: exhibition installation1 ; co-choreographed public walk with wet intervention2.
CURATORS: Hu Fang, Institute of Spatial Experiments.
- 2014QUASARS OF PROXIMITY AND LIKENESS
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-day walkshop, design-build, department lecture.
COLLABORATOR: Weißensee Art Academy Berlin.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Vlado Velkov.
- 2014ART & SCIENCE & CITIES WALKSHOPS
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
PARTNER | FUNDER: Akademie der Wissenschaften, (Academy of Sciences), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
ROLE: Consult the Academy core project team, and direct 1-week of public walkshops with the top two high-school students from every public high-school across Germany, with the aim of encountering cities through art & science & the humanities.
- 2014HALLWAY JAM
LOCATION: La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo; Ceutí, Spain.
MODE: exhibition video; co-author with Ed Keller.
CURATOR: Isabel Martínez Abascal.
- 2013TWISTED WALKS1; TWISTED TALKS2; A KENTUCKY SUTRA3; SWING CINEMA4
LOCATION: Project Space; Boxhanger Strasse 93/96; Berlin, Germany.
MODE: indoor | outdoor art exhibition.
TITLE: Homecoming 1.
CONTRIBUTIONS: public sound & food walks1; public performance talk2; video3; landscape art sculpture indoor installation4.
CURATORS: Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, Annabelle von Girsewald.
- 2013THE WURST ART PROJECT IN BERLIN1| DON’T WORRY IT WON’T REALLY HURT THE TREES2
LOCATION: Prinzessinnengarten (Princess Garden); Berlin.
MODE: 2-month outdoor landscape art exhibition.
TITLE: The Phylogenesis of Generosity – Berlin Triennale.
CONTRIBUTIONS: public sausage-walk with a twist1; twisted arches as rope & tree intervention.
COLLABORATORS: FHNW (Art Academy in Basel) & Melanie Franke; landscape artist Lynn Peemoeller.
TRIENNALE CURATOR: Warren Neidich.
- 2013MANUELS FOR TWISTED FUTURE URBAN PLANNERS
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany & Basel, Switzerland.
MODE: Part 1: class talk as recruiting session (in Basel, CH) that is transcribed into publication. Part 2: 3-day sense-based walking school in Berlin, Germany.
COLLABORATOR: Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW (Art Academy in Basel, CH).
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Melanie Franke.
- 2013SHHHHH, IT’S TWISTED
LOCATION: Quite Que; Berlin, Germany.
MODE: solo poetry performance.
CURATED by: Michael Renkel, Nicolas Wiese.
- 2013HEARING VOICES
LOCATION: Frascati Theater; Amsterdam, Netherlands.
MODE: Dance choreography sound shop & performance.
CONTRIBUTION: co choreographed 11-professional dancers in 1-week sound-movement lab, and theatrical performance.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Nicole Beutler Projects.
- 2012WE LIVE HERE (II)
LOCATION: Frascati Theater; Amsterdam University of the Arts, NL.
MODE: 3-day dance-choreography symposium.
CONTRIBUTIONS: public sense walk; twisted lecture-performance.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Nicole Beutler Projects.
- 2012SPACE POEM #5 - PHANTOM WORDS1| ERUPTION2
LOCATION: Bunker; Virchowstraße 6, 10249 Berlin, Germany.
MODE: art exhibition.
TITLE: Glasauge - Glass Eye.
CONTRIBUTIONS: public sound installation1; light poetry performance2.
- 20122012 COFFEE CEREMONY1; ISHE GET ‘UM, OK POETRY2; WHITE CUBE3
LOCATION: Jan Meda – Großes Feld (Big Field); Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
MODE: 3-day art festival.
CONTRIBUTIONS: performance-sculpture1; poetry performance2; outdoor pavilion3.
- 2011IDEAS ARE MOTION - The Poster as an Experiment in Travel, Part 3: Reykjavik
OCATION: Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus.
MODE: art exhibition & conference.
TITLE: Iceland Without Destination.
CONTRIBUTION: poster.
CURATOR by: MarkúsÞór Andrésson.
- 2011IDEAS ARE MOTION - The Poster as an Experiment in Travel, Part 2: Japan
LOCATION: MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan.
MODE: art exhibition collaboration with “Berlin 2000-2011: Playing amongst the Ruins”.
CONTRIBUTION: poster.
- 2011IDEAS ARE MOTION- The Poster as an Experiment in Travel, Part 1: Zagreb
LOCATION: Zagreb, Croatia. MODE: art exhibition.
TITLE: Disappearing in public space.
CONTRIBUTION: 100 meter poster poem plastered in public space.
CURATORS: Ivana Franke & the Institute for Spatial Experiments.
- 2011ABOVE | BELOW1; TWISTED TALK2; TWISTED MODELS3
LOCATION: Palais de Tokyo; Paris, France.
MODE: 2-month art exhibition.
TITLE: Reboot #4 - Nous voulons des maquettes (we want models).
CONTRIBUTION: video1; models2; performance lecture3.
CURATOR: Elie During.
- 2010TWISTED MODELS1; UR SONATA2
LOCATION: Uferhallen, ZNE; Berlin, Germany.
MODE: architecture & art exhibition.
TITLE: The Imaginarium.
CONTRIBUTION: models1; sound installation2.
CURATORS: Liam Young, Lukas Feireiss, Luis Berríos Negrón.
- 2009VERTICAL FARM
LOCATION: Exit Art Gallery; NYC, NY. MODE: architecture & urban planning exhibition. CONTRIBUTION: Vertical Farm models.
- 2009VERTICAL FARM
LOCATION: Design Exchange; Toronto, Ontario.
MODE: architecture exhibition.
TITLE: Carrot City.
CONTRIBUTION: Vertical Farm model.
- 2009ARCHITECTURE SERVICE ANIMALS
LOCATION: Extension Gallery & Archeworks (Dunn / Felsen); Chicago, IL.
MODE: sole architecture exhibition.
CURATOR: Paula Palombo.
FUNDER: Graham Foundation; SOM Chicago.
- 2009ARCHITECTURE SERVICE ANIMALS
LOCATION: Les Transculturelles des Abattoirs; Casablanca, Morocco. MODE: cultural biennial. TITLE: Abattoirs: From Meat to Culture. CURATORS: Aziza Chaouni, Takako Tajima.
- 2008VERTICAL FARM
LOCATION: Museum of Science and Industry; Chicago, IL.
MODE: design exhibition.
TITLE: Fast Forward; Dickson Despommier. C
ONTRIBUTION: Co-designer, Co-builder, Co-installer of interactive 22’ tall model with TJ McLeish. Model exhibited for 10-years.
BUDGET: ~$125,000.
- 2007FIGURES AND FILMS
LOCATION: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens; London, UK.
MODE: Experiment Architecture Marathon.
CONTRIBUTION: performance lecture.
ARTISTIC DIRECCTOR: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Olafur Eliasson.
