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.
ROLE: Co-Director, Co-moderator, curator.
LOCATION: Kuehner Court Weil Hall, Wash U.
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.
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.
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.
LOCATION: Kunstaelle, Berlin.
MODE: art exhibition.
TITLE: The Quest for Meaning Bauru.
CONTRIBUTION: video; co-author Fabian Knecht.
CURATOR: Ellen Blumenstein.
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.
ROLE: Co-Artistic Director for the final public walk & social engagement.
LOCATION: Nicosia, Cyprus.
BUDGET: ~$35,000US
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.
ROLE: Curator.
BUDGET: $100,000.
LOCATION: Chicago, IL, 108 North State Street, Block 37.
ROLE: Artistic Director for half-day event, following 2-week school.
LOCATION: Thessaloniki, Greece.
BUDGET: ~$35,000US.
ROLE: Artistic Director.
LOCATION: Reykjavik, Iceland; Haskolabio theater.
BUDGET: ~$40,000US.
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.
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.
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.
FUNDER: Goethe-institute.
COLLABORATOR: Nicole Beutler Projects.
ROLE: Co-choreographed 3-Day exhibition (JUNE 12-14) with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
BUDGET: ~$25,000US.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ROLE: 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.
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.
ROLE: Co-organizer & transcriber.LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA; SLOUGHT FOUNDATION.
MODE: public conversation with scientists, architects & engineers about non-linear modeling.
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.
LOCATION: Triennial Kortrijk, Antwerp, Belgium.
LEAD ARTISTS: Nico Dockx & VOET architecture.
CONTRIBUTION: three original drawings enlarged & repainted on the pavilion ceiling.
LOCATION: Griot Museum of Black History, St Louis, MO.
CURATOR: Lois Conley.
CONTRIBUTION: landscape art sculpture as interpretive center.
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.
LOCATION: Forum Stadtpark. Graz, Austria. Exhibition contribution (audio reading) from “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, Buckminster Fuller.
INVITATION: Claudia Gerhäusser.
*Cancelled due to Covid-19. CONTRIBUTION: Walkshop designed for international librarian conference St Louis.
*Postponed until Spring 2025 due to Covid-19. Art festival in Berlin, Germany.
LOCATION online; Thessaloniki, Greece. Symposium.
CONTRIBUTION: 20-min video essay & discussion, and panel. Peer-reviewed & published
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.
LOCATION: The New School, NYC. Center for Transformative Media.
CONTRIBUTION: lecture & walkshop to co-construct a geospatial sound score.
INVITATION: Ed Keller.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LOCATION: Seoul, South Korea.
MODE: mobile public art exhibition.
TITLE: FROST Radio.
CONTRIBUTION: sound walk instructions.
CURATOR: Haeju Kim, Ari Benjamin Meyers.
LOCATION: Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL.
MODE: Landscape art exhibition.
TITLE: Outside Design.
CURATOR: Jonathan Solomon.
LOCATION: Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany.
MODE: Art exhibition (solo).
CONTRIBUTIONS: sense walks, videos, photography, sculptures, sound-environments.
CURATOR: Vlado Velkov.
LOCATION: La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo; Ceutí, Spain.
MODE: exhibition video; co-author with Ed Keller.
CURATOR: Isabel Martínez Abascal.
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.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.
MODE: 3-day walkshop, design-build, department lecture.
COLLABORATOR: Weißensee Art Academy Berlin.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Vlado Velkov.
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.
LOCATION: Volksbuhne, Roter Salon (Peoples Theater, Red room); Berlin, Germany.
MODE: poetry-jazz performance; public sound actions.
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.
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.
LOCATION: Quite Que; Berlin, Germany.
MODE: solo poetry performance.
CURATED by: Michael Renkel, Nicolas Wiese.
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.
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.
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.
LOCATION: Jan Meda – Großes Feld (Big Field); Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; with Institute for Spatial Experiments.
MODE: 3-day art festival.
CONTRIBUTIONS: performance-sculpture; poetry performance; outdoor pavilion.
LOCATION: Bunker; Virchowstraße 6, 10249 Berlin, Germany.
MODE: art exhibition.
TITLE: Glasauge - Glass Eye.
CONTRIBUTIONS: public sound installation; light poetry performance.
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.
LOCATION: Palais de Tokyo; Paris, France.
MODE: 2-month art exhibition.
TITLE: Reboot #4 - Nous voulons des maquettes (we want models).
CONTRIBUTION: video; models; performance lecture.
CURATOR: Elie During.
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.
LOCATION: MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan.
MODE: art exhibition collaboration with “Berlin 2000-2011: Playing amongst the Ruins”.
CONTRIBUTION: poster.
LOCATION: Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus.
MODE: art exhibition & conference.
TITLE: Iceland Without Destination.
CONTRIBUTION: poster.
CURATOR by: MarkúsÞór Andrésson.
LOCATION: Uferhallen, ZNE; Berlin, Germany.
MODE: architecture & art exhibition.
TITLE: The Imaginarium.
CONTRIBUTION: models; sound installation.
CURATORS: Liam Young, Lukas Feireiss, Luis Berríos Negrón.
LOCATION: Les Transculturelles des Abattoirs; Casablanca, Morocco.
MODE: cultural biennial.
TITLE: Abattoirs: From Meat to Culture.
CURATORS: Aziza Chaouni, Takako Tajima.
LOCATION: Extension Gallery & Archeworks (Dunn / Felsen); Chicago, IL.
MODE: sole architecture exhibition.
CURATOR: Paula Palombo.
FUNDER: Graham Foundation; SOM Chicago.
LOCATION: Design Exchange; Toronto, Ontario.
MODE: architecture exhibition.
TITLE: Carrot City.
CONTRIBUTION: Vertical Farm model.
LOCATION: Exit Art Gallery; NYC, NY.
MODE: architecture & urban planning exhibition.
CONTRIBUTION: Vertical Farm models.
LOCATION: Museum of Science and Industry; Chicago, IL.
MODE: design exhibition.
TITLE: Fast Forward; Dickson Despommier.
CONTRIBUTION: Co-designer, Co-builder, Co-installer of interactive 22’ tall model with TJ McLeish. Model exhibited for 10-years.
BUDGET: ~$125,000.
LOCATION: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens; London, UK.
MODE: Experiment Architecture Marathon.
CONTRIBUTION: performance lecture.
ARTISTIC DIRECCTOR: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Olafur Eliasson.
