Selected work
Writing, film, image, performance, paper, and public form.
This is a working portfolio and archive: selected objects, films, publications, exhibitions, teaching experiments, and digital traces from a practice that moves between scholarship and making.
Material & moving-image work
Objects and images that think alongside the writing.
Book arts and handmade forms
Paper, binding, image, text, archival fragments, journals, zines, and handmade books recur as both research method and artistic practice.
Emergence & Pandora’s Dress
Works addressing gender, embodiment, trauma, dress, looking, and identity. Emergence screened in feminist and independent film contexts, and a still from the film appeared on the cover of Sensoria: A Journal of Mind, Brain and Culture, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015). Pandora’s Dress was presented in film and performance contexts. The films received cinematographic, audience-impact, narrative-film, and feminist achievement awards.
Narcolepsy
An image work from the 2014 portfolio.
House and Home / The Work We Do While Doing Our Work
Collaborative exhibitions in Urbana combining curation, hosting, installation, performance, and site as part of the work.
Coming Home
A public exhibition and poetry reading exploring housing, home, welcome, exclusion, bodies, buildings, families, and belonging.
Connected archives
The older sites remain part of the work.
Meadow Ex Machina
An experimental studio, archive, and machine room for writing, teaching archives, social-practice documentation, workshop materials, and mediated thinking.
Writing with Video archives
Course sites documenting long-running experiments in authorship, video, narrative, visual culture, and pedagogy.
The Gaze and related teaching archives
Digital remnants of courses and projects on feminist art, activism, surveillance, looking, and visual culture.
The Teaching Botanist
An older pedagogical archive that preserves another strand of the teaching practice rather than being erased by the current professional narrative.
Selected publications
Scholarship and creative writing.
Selected poetry
In We’ve Been Put Through Fire & Come Out Divine: Stories of Hope & Survival, AWA Press.
Paper as Praxis
With Steven Kostell, in The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking, Routledge.
Archiving the Trauma Diaspora
Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education.
Anterior Discectomy / Ninth Letter art features
Creative writing and visual work across anthology and literary-magazine contexts.
The Ableist Gaze / To Write What You Know
Writing on disability, malingering, embodiment, authorship, and empathy.