WORKS
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PRESS
- KLUB WRKR in Conversation
- lumpen radio interview: RAISIN
- Sixty Inches from Center: Review of RAISIN at 6018North
- WBEZ Chicago: ‘Raisin’ Exhibit Brings Seminal Chicago Play To Live
- e-flux Education: Portable Gray issue 6: Another Idea Exhibition Catalog
- Humanity in Action: Landecker Fellow Asha Iman Veal Announces Participating Artists for Upcoming ‘Raisin’ Exhibition
- In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog: Whoa de Whoa: The Gray Center’s “Another Idea” Comes To A Close
- In Practice: UChicago Arts Blog: Lunar Snails and Galactic Cocktails: Throwing a House Party on the Moon
- Mousse Magazine: “Another Idea: an actual conceptual art exhibition” at Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
- Newcity Art: One Recommendation: July 2020
- Art Monthly, No. 434, March 2020: Letter from Chicago: Sweet Water by Agnieszka Gratza
- Sixty Inches From Center: New Political Imaginaries at the table: Interview with Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Bad at Sports, Episode 671: table projects with Gregory Bae and Kyle Bellucci Johanson
- Art Institute Chicago: Perspectives: Tagging Along with a TEAM of Kids
- Imaginaries of the Future Symposium at CSUN and the MAIN Museum
- e-flux Education: Quantum Unlearning
- Hyperallergic: Inventive Responses to Labor and Immigration Issues at Human Resources
- Temporary Art Review: Making Plans at Human Resources
- Minneapolis Star Tribune: Bits and pieces of the zeitgeist in a new SooVAC show
- Minneaplis Public Radio News: Art Hounds: David Rathman, Steffani Jemison, and a glimpse into a schizophrenic mind
PUBLICATIONS
- No Necessary Correspondence exhibition catalog
- Portable Gray, Vol 4, No. 1, Spring 2021: Another Idea exhibition catalog
- Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Juniorprofessur und dann noch Habilitation: sinnvoll oder absurd?
- Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Formatwechsel. Zur Methodendebatte
- Writing for Sweaty Scales by Liang Luscombe
- Making Plans exhibition catalog essay
before, brother, before:
peripheral visions of an invisible libretto
2016
This performance/exhibition embodies theoretical peripheries or liminal spaces surrounding representation, language, and time. before, brother, before is rooted in the traumatic event of my brother’s death, and feels through theories relating to opacity, intersubjectivity, absence, dematerialization, and quantum mechanics.
The work’s central touchstone is a saddle-stitched libretto drawing composed of ink drawings of journal entries from Aaron and Kyle Johanson, surrounded by margins of words by Karen Barad, Jaques Derrida, Avery Gordon, Jean-Francoise Lyotard, Catherine Malabou, Fred Moten, Stephano Harvey, and Edward Said. The performance architecture includes a birch writing table, task lamp, carpet, a membrane enclosure, gravitational wave sounds (produced when two black holes absorb one another), Paul-stretched “naïve melody” by talking heads and “wake up!” by rage against the machine.
The libretto was improvisationally performed behind the enclosure by 5 vocalists (Joe Con-Ui, Von Curtiss, Kyle Johanson, Andre Keichian, Elizabeth Webb) and 4 instrumentalists (Ben Finley on upright bass, Tim Tsang on piano, Sarah Reid on trumpet, and Ryan Gaston on sound manipulation).
before, brother, before is a hauntological call and response, conjuring the indeterminate, the speculative, the entangled, and their potential energies for revolutionary becoming.
Bibliography:
Quantum Entanglements and Hauntological Relations of Inheritance: Dis/continuities, SpaceTime Enfoldings, and Justice-to-Come, Karen Barad
Duration and Simultaneity: Bergson and the Einsteinian Universe, Henri Bergson
Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International, Jaques Derrida
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, Avery Gordon
Libidinal Economy, Jean-Francoise Lyotard
The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage, Kathryn Malabou
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, Fred Moten and Stephano Harvey
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition, Fred Moten
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Edward Said
Tosca, Giacomo Puccini
