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…
Hold the Landscape Culpable
The sidewalks of South Oakland have seen generations of guilt trespass their ardors. These mishmash houses, built by drunken Hawksmoors, have taken advantage of newcomers laying down mishmash roots defined in Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish, and have stolen from those…
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…
Chalkwell Oaze
Estuary mudflats, Chalkwell Oaze, Two-Tree Island: The geography of the East Essex coastline tends to choose onomatopoeia and literalism over floridity.
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…
BLUR at Sweet Briar, Va.
Monday night I taught a workshop on site-specific writing at BLUR: The Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. The landscape was amazing, the teachers welcoming, the young artists enthusiastic and, more often than not,…