Category: N.A.M.E. Gallery

Speak Easy – Evening #4, Chicago (curatorial)

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Friday, December 13th, 1996 was the fourth evening of performances of Speak Easy, a text and language series at N.A.M.E. Gallery that I curated with Lorraine Moretti.  The line up featured a selection of Chicago artists who use text and language as a prominent part of their performance practice, including Anna Brown, Pamela Miller, and Maureen Seaton.

Speak Easy – Evening #3, Chicago (curatorial)

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1996-12-07-SE-Edit-invert-200dpi Speak Easy N.A.M.E. NAME 1996

Saturday December 7th, 1996 was the third evening of performances of Speak Easy, a text and language series at N.A.M.E. Gallery that I curated with Lorraine Moretti.  The line up featured a selection of Chicago artists who use text and language as a prominent part of their performance practice, including Doug Stapleton and Beth Tanner, Paul McComas, and the Aluminum Group

Speak Easy – Evening #2, Chicago (curatorial)

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Friday, December 6th, 1996 was the second evening of performances of Speak Easy, a text and language series at N.A.M.E. Gallery that I curated with Lorraine Moretti.  The line up featured a selection of Chicago artists who use text and language as a prominent part of their performance practice, including Iris Moore, Matthew Goulish, Byron Stewart, Elizabeth Salvia, and Robert Wynkoop, PhD.

Speak Easy – Evening #1, Chicago (curatorial)

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1996-11-22-SE-Hori-banner-300dpi Speak Easy, Open Word Slip of the Tongue

On November 22nd, 1996, I organized OpenWord: Slip of the Tongue, as part of Speak Easy, a text and language performance series at N.A.M.E. Gallery in Chicago, curated with Lorraine Moretti. The series included four evenings of performances and a workshop located in the Time Arts Space which was transformed into an  Independent Comic Book and Zine Reading Room curated by Suz Szucs, which included murals by Jessica Able, Carol Jackson, and Lisa Ormerod. Speak Easy corresponded with the opening of word up! in the Exhibition Space at N.A.M.E. Gallery. Speak Easy ran from November 22nd – through December 31, 1996

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Inner Monster – N.A.M.E. Chicago (film installation / exhibitioni)

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Inner Monster, 1994
Inner Monster, 1994

On April 7, 1996, I exhibited Inner Monster for Fresh, a day-long exhibition at N.A.M.E. Gallery. Inner Monster was a stop-motion self portrait with animated mud mask and hair created on a super-8 camera and displayed as a repeating single channel video installation

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Sound Mind / Sound Body, Chicago (performance)

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1996-03-31-SM-Body1-16x9-150dpi Sound Mind Sound Body N.A.M.E. Gallery 199

March 31st, 1996, I performed in Sound Mind – Sound Body, a sound performance that explored the technology of the body, the machine and the spaces in between at N.A.M.E. Gallery with support from the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.

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