Upcoming Exhibitions and Events
I’m extremely fortunate to be involved in a few upcoming exhibitions and events with a slew of artists, curators, themes, concepts, everythang, of which I am very much a fan. Upside: Lots to tell! Downside: No time to tell it!…
Passenger Films event & more
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in the next installment of London’s Passengerfilms series, held 13 May at the Roxy Bar & Screen; an event on “Sounding Place, Placing Sound.”
Public Record downloads
The original Public Record: Pittsburgh audio tracks, map, brochure, etc., are now available for full and high-quality download via Bandcamp! The downloads are available for free (for as long as Bandcamp will allow), or you can pay what you choose…
Guilty Landscapes
Garden By night we stole: Tomatoes, roses, thyme, Pulled from roots We could neither borrow nor earn. The Ley Line’s guilty coordinates act as a rope handrail, an unsteady guideline meant for one tracing finger rather than the unsure grip…
Ley Line opens June 1
Artists explore new Pittsburgh mythologies in Ley Line June 1-June 30 at Assemble, 5125 Penn Ave. in Garfield. Pittsburgh, PA … A team of Pittsburgh artists creates a new way of seeing our city in Ley Line, on show at…
The Louse
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s radio series “The Gilded Vectors of Disease” is drawing to a close with next week’s final episode. But if you’ve missed these excellent programs – a combination of interviews with authoritative scientists…
Public Record: Southend-on-Sea
It’s a somewhat unlikely leap, I suppose – from heart of the American industrial revolution and a central location for late-19th-century immigration (Pittsburgh), to the pleasure pier and seaside stroll of Victorian Essex – a few dozen miles and a…
The Gilded Vectors of Disease
April 4 will see the launch of The Gilded Vectors of Disease, one of the more weird-and-wonderful radio programs you’re likely to hear, and something I’m incredibly pleased to be a part of. Created by The Mustard Club – a…
Dislocations: Time recap & video
Sunday saw the third and final installment of the Dislocations series, this one being A Conversation About Time. I was joined by guests Matt Lamanna (paleontologist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History), Don Wentworth (poet and publisher of Lilliput Press),…
Dislocations #3 Sun., Feb. 12
[Not in Pittsburgh? No problem! Watch it live on www.waffleshop.org!] Join Matt Lamanna, Don Wentworth, Hallie Brook, and Justin Hopper in a conversation about our ever-shifting negotiation with ideas of time. How are we changed by the understanding of “deep time”…
Merry Christmas from Public Record
A three-piece suite from Public Record celebrating the season with shoplifters, runaways, and an empty train dragging across the landscape of Pittsburgh’s tumultuous late-19th-century.
Dislocations #2: LOVE
On Sunday, Nov. 27, I had the pleasure of hosting the second DISLOCATIONS event, A CONVERSATION ABOUT LOVE, at the Waffle Shop in Pittsburgh. This event is part of my semi-nebulous series of projects about dislocation, modern cultural fragmentation, and…
Ranting for Great Lakes Urban Exchange
My rant/rave about Pittsburgh, art, Haniel Long, and the need for new mythology is up on the GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange) website — a missive directed to those attending the group’s conference here in the Larimer neighborhood of Pittsburgh…