Chronology

1941–1949

1941

Born in Manhattan, New York, NY on December 11, 1941 to Caroline and Irving Blum.

1946

1946–52 Attended P.S. 165 in Manhattan (West 109th Street)

1950–1959

1952

Accepted at Hunter High School, New York, NY.

1953

Moved to Teaneck, New Jersey.

1958

Graduated from Teaneck High School, National Honor Society.

1959

1959–60 Syracuse University, NY.

1960–1969

1960

1960–63 Parsons School of Design, NYC. (Painting/graphics) BFA

1965–69 Promotion Director – Arkin Organization, NY.
Duties: Art direction: graphic design, photo styling and copywriting for all visual promotional material and ads; Public relations: writing press packets and showing lines to fashion magazine editors; Produce fashion shows: book models, accessorize, write text copy, stage manage.

1969–74 APPLE, NYC. Associate Director.

1970–1979

1970

1970–76 Fashion designer: Kelita, Aileen, Villager, Pant Her/Collegetown of Boston, Habitat, Jones New York, Davidow, etc. Designed sportswear, knitwear, dresses, coats; also designed exclusive fabrics (prints and wovens) for Pant-Her & Habitat. Freelance designer: Calvin Klein scarves and sheets.

1971

Transfer – Conceptual/performance. With Pamela Kraft. Apple, NYC.

1972

Activity Exchanges – Conceptual/performance. Apple, NYC / Rutgers University.
Alterations and Interactions – Conceptual/performance. With Jerry Vis. Apple, NYC.

1973

Positions – Conceptual art installation. Apple, NYC.
Transcolor II: Yellow.
Transformance: Claudia – Conceptual/performance piece. Collaboration with Martha Wilson. Plaza Hotel, NYC. Soho galleries.
1973–74 Conceptual works. *Circa 7500*, curated by Lucy Lippard. Traveling show. (catalog)

1974

Transformance: Claudia – Photo/text documentation. Nova Scotia College of Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.

1975

Digging – Installation. Martha Jackson Gallery, NYC. Barrington Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
Trunk Pieces – Installation. 112 Greene Street Gallery, NYC.
Transformance: Claudia – Photo/text/audio documentation. Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland, NZ.

1975–76 Fashion, Lulu's Room, Duet, Erin Martin Dance Co.

1976

Partitions – Installation with sound.

Landscape/Mindscape – Performance art. Fine Arts Building Gallery, NYC.

Partitions – Franklin Furnace, NYC.

1976–77 Filtering, Solos – Satoru Shimazaki & Co., NYC.

1977

Black Holes / Blue Sky Dreams – Installation with sound. C Space Gallery, NYC.

Black Holes / Blue Sky Dreams – Performance art. Shea Gordon Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

Tracings – Performance/reading. Franklin Furnace, NYC. Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY.

Tracings, a novel-in-progress – In collaboration with Martine Aballea. Readings and photo exhibitions at Franklin Furnace, NYC.

"Trunk Pieces".

1977–80 Franklin Furnace, NYC – Curator of Exhibitions and Performances.
Responsibilities: Reviewed artists' work (slides, studio visits); organized and selected 3-week, two-person exhibitions; initiated window works series; selected guest curators for cabinet shows; curated and organized traveling exhibitions of one-of-a-kind artist books; curated and ran performance programs; wrote press materials; supervised administrative assistant.

1978

Bedtime Stories, Lullabies, and Other Lies – Installation with sound. 112 Greene St., NYC.

Trunk Pieces – Artist book. *American Narrative/Story Art* (catalog), Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX.

Heart of Palms I – With Garrett List & Rudy Perez ensemble. PS.1, NYC.

Heart of Palms II – Writer/performer/director/producer. Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

Black Holes / Blue Sky Dreams – *Airwaves*, 110 Records, NY. LP.

ZBS Foundation.

Excerpts published in *Tracks* magazine.

Trunk Pieces – Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. Softcover and signed/numbered hardcover edition. Writer/designer/photographer.

Lyricist collaborator – With composer Garrett List, A-1 Art Band. *Standard Existence* performed at The Kitchen, NYC.

1978–79 Trunk Pieces – Artist book. *Artists Books: USA*, curated by Independent Curators Inc.

1978–79 Traveling exhibitions with catalogs – *Artists Books and Performance Tapes*, exhibited in 11 major museums and galleries in Australia and New Zealand.

1979

Visual and Sculptural Bookworks – Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ and Seibu Museum, Tokyo.

Artists Books: From Object to Information – Kansas City Art Institute Gallery.

The Mexican Tapes – Writer/director/producer. Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles. Langton St. Arts, San Francisco, CA.

1979–80 The Mexican Tapes – Film showings at: Franklin Furnace (NYC), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Cinema Parallèle (Montreal), A Space & Mercer Union Gallery (Toronto), University of Ottawa (Ottawa), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), And/Or (Seattle), University of California (San Diego).

Visual Studies Workshop – Rochester, NY. Visiting artist residency. Performance art/video/audio workshops.

NEA Visual Arts Fellowship.

1980–1989

1980

Free Fire Zone.

The Mexican Tapes, LP, 112 Records, New York.

Concordia University, Montreal – Visiting artist residency. Studio workshops in performance art, video, and audio production.

NEA Museum Program project grant.

Artists Bookworks: Alterations and Transformations – Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

Artists Books – Virginia Commonwealth University Gallery.

Womens Bookworks – Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Canada.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC – Guest curator for Window Works: 4 installations in bank building windows at Chase Manhattan Plaza.

1980–81 New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC – Guest Curator. Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969–1975. (Catalog published in 1981)

1981

53 Seconds/No Shelter – Ocean Park Church, Santa Monica, CA.

The Jap Commandos – Post-wave band. Songwriter/producer.

Adaptation of The Mexican Tapes – For Martell, Michael Kasper & Co., NYC.

Free Fire Zone – Film/video shown at Providence Playhouse (NYC), Elise Meyer Gallery (NYC), Rice Media Center (Houston), University of Texas (Austin), LACE (Los Angeles).

New York State Council on the Arts – CAPS Multimedia grant.

NEA Visual Arts Fellowship.

Writer of the "Introduction" and editor for Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969–1975 – The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC.

Book as Subject/Object Bookworks – South Hill Park Arts Center, Bracknell, England.

1981–82 Trunk Pieces – Drawing Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings, curated by Shelley Rice. Elise Meyer Gallery, NYC. (catalog)

Trunk Pieces (Artists book) – Re:Pages. Contemporary American Bookworks. Organized by Hera Foundation and New England Foundation for the Arts. (Catalog)

1982

1982–95 KPFK-FM, Los Angeles – Producer/host of Soundings, a weekly one-hour show featuring sound art, radio art, audio art, performance art, experimental music from around the world. Included live interviews.

Audio installation – Sydney Biennale, Australia.

The Garden Planet Revisited Scores – On the Wall/On the Air, Hayden Corridor Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.

The Garden Planet Revisited II – Site-specific installation drawings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Rimini, Italy.

The Garden Planet Revisited – Writer/performer/designer-photographer/director/producer. EspaceDBD (Los Angeles), Washington Project for the Arts (Washington DC).

1982–86 Chair – Non-Static Arts Programming Committee, LACE, Los Angeles.

1983

Charlie’s Soliloquy, Cabrillo Beach Museum, Los Angeles.

Mexican Tapes Epilogue, SPARC, Venice, CA.

Projections for Spy by Mary Jane Eisenberg & Shale, Wadsworth Theater, Los Angeles.

“Idaho” (Free Fire Zone) – High Performance #23, Astro Artz, Los Angeles. (LP)

The Garden Planet Revisited (excerpts) – Live to Air, Audio Arts, London.

California State University, Long Beach – Guest at Dance Department. Class on dance and art history.

1983–88 L.A. Weekly – Contributing writer: feature articles, previews, interviews, “Good Times.” Focus on performance art, dance, experimental theater, and media arts. Selected features: Rudy Perez: Smart Moves (1983), Melinda Jason: Making It As An Agent, Terminal Dance Ritual (1984), Being and Dancingness, The Good, The Bad, and The Grotesque, Love and Sex, Pall in the Family, Rock of Ages: Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, Kedric's Story, Gilberte's Passion (1985), Take Notes, Darryl Hannah: Performance Artist, Where the Sidewalk Begins, Joe Frank's Midnight Ramble, Sons and Lovers, Hear Them Roar: Sandra Bernhard, Ballet Highs: Mark Morris’s Esteemed Guests and Laura Dean’s Force Field (1986), Airwave Rave, Mental Breakdown, Dance Fervor, Will Fame Spoil The Dark Bob (1987), Altered Egos: The Many Lives of Eleanor Antin, Golden Boy, Okay, What NAOO?, Box Populi (1988).

1983–90 Media Arts – Contributing writer. Interdisciplinary arts and media. Selected features: The Making of Cambodia: Spalding Gray and The Killing Fields, A Bright Tomorrow?, Suzanne Lacy's 'Whisper, The Wind, The Waves', Commentary Audio: The New Avant-Garde, Commentary Intermedia.

1983–90 Artweek Magazine – Contributing editor/writer. Monthly reviews and features on performance, installation, and video. Selected articles: The Return Of The Whale And Other Calls From The Deep, Performance in the 90s: Art at the Barricades, Sex and Technology: The Politics of Intimacy, Short Takes, Hot Flashes, Dreaming of a Ballerina, Paik's Peak: The Last Great Modernist, The Esthetics of the Perverse, The Romance of Automobiles: Parts 1 & 2, American Dreams/American Nightmares.

1983–95 High Performance Magazine – Contributing editor/writer; Media Arts editor. Regular column and major features including: Performance in the 80s: The TV Generation, Commerce on the Edge, Slouching Towards the Next Millennium, Andy Warhol: The Opera, Voyage to Prague, Tao, Mao, and Now, The Sound of History Dreaming the Future, Radio Art: The Coming Sonic Boom, Listening to the Universe, The Aural Stage, Screamers, The Artist as Fundamentalist, Beauty and the (Art) Beast, Messages From The Digital Future, Performance Art is Dead. Long Live Performance Art.

1983–98 Additional articles in Images & Issues, Art & Auction, Theater LA, California Magazine, Cal Arts Journal, EAR Magazine, Art Scene, New Women's Times, Journal of the Women's Caucus for Art, The Drama Review, Performing Arts Journal, FORECAST: Public Art Review, P-Form Magazine.

1983–2016 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena – Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Courses: Intro to Modernism (Interdisciplinary Cultural History), The 60s: A Cultural/Social History, Live Art (Performance Workshop), The Ecology of Fashion. Member of Faculty Advisory Committee (1993); Dept. Representative to Faculty Council (2000–2006). Director of Faculty Affairs (2011–13). HDS Co-Director: Histories. Professor Emerita.

1984

Urban Suite – Collaboration with composer Tom Recchion, for Rudy Perez Ensemble.

NEA Inter-Arts Program grant.

The Art of Spectacle – Catalog for LACE/UCLA, Los Angeles.

Jackson Pollock – Commissioned film treatment.

1984–85 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles – Taught classes in modern art history.

1985

The Amazon, The Mekong, The Missouri and The Nile – With Bruce Fowler & Mary Jane Eisenberg. Writer/co-producer/co-director. Presented at LAADA Dancepark Festival, John Anson Ford Theater, Hollywood, CA; and Japan America Theater, Los Angeles.

1986

29 Palms – Spec film script (1986–88).

Employed on a project basis by feature film writer/director Zalman King (1986–91):

• Co-writer: treatment and first draft of Wild Orchid.
• Co-writer: first draft of Two Moon Junction.
• Writer: first draft of A Man and Two Women.
• Rewriting various projects.

1987

The Mexican Tapes Drawings, ConText, Robert Berman Gallery, Venice, CA.

Sofa Tape (1984, with Lin Hixson & John White), part of “Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists 1945–1987,” Fresno Art Museum, CA.

Palisade, commissioned by the Santa Monica Arts Commission, SMARTS Festival.

Executive Producer, Soundings LIVE – Six-part series of live performance works by Terry Allen, Rinde Eckert, Rachel Rosenthal, Noreen Hennesy, David Antin, and Mike Kelley. Pacifica Radio. Distributed on cassette by High Performance. National broadcast: Pacifica Visions series, New American Radio.

The Amazon, First Annual International Festival of Radio & Audio Art, NYC.

National/State/County Partnership project grant (Cactus Foundation).

Santa Monica Arts Commission.

Southern California writer/producer for U.S. EAR, a new music and performance series distributed by National Public Radio (1987–88).

1988

Swan Lake, commissioned by New American Radio, New York. Broadcast in the USA, Canada, Sender Freies Berlin, and The Listening Room, ABC, Sydney, Australia.

Palisade, national satellite broadcast on the New American Radio series.

Palisade performance video. CityTV Channel 16, Santa Monica; Pepsico Summerfare Festival, Purchase, NY.

Voices in the Dark, Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA.

Voices in the Dark (solo), Hot & Sticky, Wallenboyd Theater, Los Angeles.

Swan Lake, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Panelist: Interdisciplinary Art, Critics, and Radio Arts Panels, NAMAC Conference, Atlanta.

1989

Fluctuations of the Field, commissioned by the Santa Monica Arts Commission, SMARTS Festival.

Fluctuations of the Field performance video, CityTV Channel 16, Santa Monica.

Fluctuations of the Field national satellite broadcast, New American Radio series.

Frenzy In The Night, director/producer/sound designer. Written and performed by Keith Antar Mason, commissioned by New American Radio, NYC.

Santa Monica Arts Commission.

Shadow of Doubt, commissioned feature film script.

1990

Audio works presented at:

• AMARC 4 Conference, Dublin.
• Art To Air: The Listening Room, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
• Touch That Dial, SAW Contemporary Arts Centre, Ottawa.
• Audio Lunch, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, NYC.

Voices in the Dark (solo), Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, NYC.

AMARC 4 World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Dublin, Ireland.

Moderator, “New Directions in Radio” panel, NAMAC Conference, Boston.

Moderator, “Censorship” panel, Women's Caucus for Art Conference, UCLA.

Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept., Media Arts.

VESTA Award, Media Arts.

Doing It Right In L.A.: Self-Producing for the Performing Artist, CARS/Astro Artz, Los Angeles.

Contributing writer, Visions Magazine (1990–94). Features on installation, video, and performance, including: Current Events: Politics, Art, and the L.A. Festival, Pacific Overtures, Telenvisioned Spaces, Telinversions and Televerses, Altered Egos.

Teaching performance art, UC Irvine (1990–96).

Selected Guest Lectures (1990–2021): Otis Parsons; UCLA; Cal State LA; NYU; MOCA LA (Nancy Spero exh.); Bard College; Cal State Fullerton; Scripps College; Chapman College; Santa Monica College; USC; Guest Artist, FLUX Bus Tour (FLUXUS exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Sept–Oct 1994); CalArts; Cal State Long Beach Museum (2008); UC Irvine; Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston; Osaka Academy of Entertainment Design (2015).

1991

Redefining Democracy in America: Episodes in Black & White (Parts 1–3), Highways, Santa Monica, CA; Estherspace, Long Beach, CA.

Voices in the Dark, New American Radio series.

The Culture of Disappearance, New American Radio series.

Redefining Democracy in America – Six-part series commissioned by New American Radio, NYC:

• Episodes in Black & White (Parts 1–3), with Linda Albertano, Keith Antar Mason, Akilah Nayo Oliver.
• The Voices of America 1992 (Parts 4–5), collaboration with KPFK, LA.
• A Leap of Faith (Part 6), with Keith Antar Mason.

Otis Parsons, Los Angeles – Teaching modern art history.

Rhode Island School of Design – Graduate Photo Department.

The Life and Times of Lin Hixson: The L.A. Years, TDR/The Drama Review, Winter.

NEA Inter-Arts Grant (1991–92).

1992

The Garden Planet Revisited, remix for New American Radio.

Redefining Democracy in America, Part 6: Another Leap of Faith – Video, Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Episodes in Black & White, Part 1 (excerpt), included in SiteLess Sound, Tellus #25, Harvestworks, NY (CD).

Panelist, “Artists Who Write,” USC.

1993

The Culture of Disappearance #1 – Installation with sound, Side Street Projects, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA (May–July).

The Culture of Disappearance #2 – Audio installation, SAFE audio/video exhibition, MediaGalleria, Turku, Finland.

Going Between\One Word at a Time\Docs*** – Aural/oral duet performance with Helen Thorington, On The Air international media arts symposium, Transit Art / ORF Television, Innsbruck, Austria.

Redefining Democracy in America: A Leap of Faith (Part 6), with Keith Antar Mason, Afro-American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

One Word at a Time (solo), Word/Sound Festival, South Florida Composers Association, Miami Beach, Florida.

Another Leap of Faith – Video screening of the audio work A Leap of Faith, Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Voices in the Dark, featured on Radius #2, Nonsequitur, Albuquerque, NM (CD).

Panels & Moderation:

• “Cultural Survival,” Women's Voices writers series, L.A. Festival.
• “Dialogue of the Decades: Performance Art – Then and Now,” 18th St. Arts Complex (Moderator).
• “Electro-acoustic music, radio art and new media,” On The Air symposium, ORF, Innsbruck, Austria.
• “Digital Photography and Visual Truth,” California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside.

Teaching & Workshops:

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Interdisciplinary Arts).
• Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago – Audio arts & private performance art workshops.

Publications:

• “Commerce on the Edge,” in Theories on Contemporary Art, 2nd ed., ed. Richard Hertz, Prentiss Hall.
• “Extinction Journal (in The Culture of Disappearance).”

1994

The Culture of Disappearance #3 – Installation with sound, Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (Feb–May). Curated by Robyn Brentano & Olivia Georgia. Catalog.

Audio works featured at:

• SOUNDWATCH '94 Festival, Auckland, New Zealand.
• A.A.R.T. International Festival, Dublin, Ireland (+CD).
• A.A.R.T. Audio Arts Transmission, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

One Word at a Time (remix), New American Radio series.

The Culture of Disappearance – Live radio performance, Cleveland Performance Art Festival / KUSC, Los Angeles.

Panels & Presentations:

• Moderator, “Performance and the Object,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
• Moderator, “Dance and the Environment,” American Dance Guild Conference, Santa Barbara.
• Panelist, “Blurring Boundaries,” Jumpstart, San Antonio, TX.
• Audio presenter, Digi Daze, Freewaves Conference, AFI, Los Angeles.
• Panelist, “Out of Frame Performance: The Place of Performance Art in Education,” ATHE Conference, San Francisco.

Teaching & Publications:

• Scripps College, Claremont, CA – Performance art.
• Going Between\One Word At A Time\Docs***, featured in “On The Air” catalog, Transit Art, Innsbruck, Austria.
• “Cultural Autobiography and the Politics of Identity,” in Artists Projects 1987–92, Santa Monica Museum of Art.
• “Treading on Hallowed Ground,” catalog essay for exhibition, Chapman College Gallery.

1995

The Culture of Disappearance (#3) – Installation with sound, Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC (Feb–Aug).

The Culture of Disappearance #4: Aviary of the Lost – Installation with sound:

• Kellogg Gallery, Cal State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Feb–Mar).
• Confronting Nature: Silenced Voices, Main Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA (Sept 9 – Oct). Curated by Maggi Owens and Jeannie Denholm. Catalog.

ghost.dances\on the event horizon – Photo installation, A Vital Matrix, curated by Jane Hart, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles (Aug 5 – Sept 15). Catalog.

One Word at a Time (excerpt: “We Are All Dwarfed by the System”) – Hot & Sticky 3, LACE, Los Angeles.

Recordings:

• Thank You For Flying American: Stories and Songs 1980–1992 (retrospective CD), Cactus/Chronic Interactive, Los Angeles.
• ghost.dances\on the event horizon – CD, Cactus/Chronic Interactive, Los Angeles.

Panels & Education:

• Panelist, “Interdisciplinary Action: The Place of Performance in Education,” CAA Conference, San Antonio, TX.
• L.A. Opera Education Dept., Music Center, L.A. – Performance art workshops for primary and secondary school teachers.

Publications:

• One Word At A Time, featured in Errant Bodies, Winter 1995 / Spring 1996.

Teaching:

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (1995–1999) – Visual Arts Dept.:

• Graduate seminars and undergraduate studio classes in performance & installation.
• Art History lecture courses: “History of Performance Art” and “Vis Arts 2 – Time-Based Art.”
• Literature Dept.: Feature film screenwriting workshops.

1996

ghost.dances\on the event horizon #2 – Photo installation, Maps, Charts, and Routes, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (Jan–Mar). Curated by Dori Rawlins.

Transcolor: Yellow (1973) – Photo/text documentation, Love Gasoline: Works from 1968–74, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto (May–June). Curated by Barbara Fisher.

Sanctuary – Site-specific installation, Without Alarm: Public and Private Security, former L.A. City Jail, organized by Arroyo Arts Collective, Los Angeles (Apr–May).

Stairway To (my blue) Heaven – Photo installation, Half A Dozen Rose Gallery, Venice, CA (July–August).

Zeitghosts: Angels in the Architecture – Site-specific photo projection installation, New Windows on Old Pasadena, organized by New Town Pasadena Foundation.

Garden – Site-specific installation, New Windows on Old Pasadena, organized by New Town Pasadena Foundation.

The 1996 Performance Art Olympics – Highways, Santa Monica, CA.

Symposiums & Conferences:

• Featured presenter, “Performance Sites and Contexts: From Bio Space to Techno Space and Back,” Performance Art, Culture and Pedagogy Symposium, Penn State University, University Park, PA (Nov 13–16). Organized by Charles Garoian.
• Featured speaker, “Performance, Culture, and Pedagogy,” Penn State University, State Park, PA.

Publications & Recognitions:

• A Leap of Faith (excerpt), Voice Tears, The Drama Review, NYC.
• California Arts Council Artist Fellowship – New Genres.
• Essay: “The Artist and Her Spirit Guide,” in Tatti Wattles, A Love Story by Rachel Rosenthal.

1997

Voices in the Dark – Installation with sound, Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space, curated by Tyler Stallings, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA.

One Word at a Time – Drawing/score, Ear as Eye exhibition, LACE, Los Angeles.

Zeitghosts: Angels in the Architecture / Spirit Dancer – Photo projection/performance with sound, Point Blank, Fall Ahead performance series, Cal State University LA. Produced by Deborah Oliver.

Projections for The Unexpurgated Virgin, Rachel Rosenthal Co., Luckman Theater, Cal State LA.

You Don’t Need A Weatherman – New American Radio, NYC.

Panels & Public Art:

• Panelist, “The Vocation of the Artist,” College Art Association Conference, New York City.
• Public Arts Commission, L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Parks & Recreation Dept., Aliso-Pico Community and Recreation Center.

Publications:

• Feature article: “Resurrecting The Disappeared,” Art Journal, Winter 1997, Vol. 56 No. 4.

1998

Hidden Desires – Site-specific installation, New Windows@One Colorado, sponsored by NewTown Pasadena Foundation, Pasadena, CA (Oct–Nov).

Weather to Be – Collaborative performance, XX: The Happening, LACE at Hollywood Athletic Club.

Five Red Cats: “Woof Woof, Meow” – Highways, Santa Monica.

Selected works featured in Resonance Audio/Radio Art Festival, London, England.

Recordings:

• L.A. Noir, eco.geographies, Star Tripping, and Redefining Democracy in America (1–6) – Limited edition CDs.
• You Don’t Need A Weatherman (excerpt), RAS 3, Centro de Creación Experimental Taller de Sonido, Cuenca, Spain.

1999

Retrospective Survey of Radio & Audio Works 1979–1997 – Featured in SoundCulture ‘99 Festival, Auckland, New Zealand.

Unnecessary Struggles (Director, Art Center Performance Ensemble) – Hot & Sticky, Highways, Santa Monica.

Panels & Lectures:

• Sessions Chair: “Crossing Boundaries,” College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles.
• Guest Lecturer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Public Art Projects:

• L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Public Arts Commissions – Projects at Venice Oakwood Community Center and Martin Luther King Rehabilitation Center.

2000-2009

2000

A Stone’s Throw... (with Julie Adler) – Hot & Sticky, Highways, Santa Monica; Side Street LIVE, LA.

A Stone’s Throw...#2 (with Julie Adler) – LA Performance All-Stars, Arcadia Club, Santa Monica.

Earjam at the Bank Ball – Side Street Projects Benefit event, LA.

Producer/Curator: EARJAM – 3-day music/performance festival, Side Street LIVE, LA.

The Culture of Disappearance – Futura 2000: La Totale Acousmatique, Crest, Drôme, France.

Guest speaker, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.

Public Art:

• L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Public Arts Commissions – Queen Anne Community Center.

Publications:

• Some Speculations on the Future of the Body and the Soul, M/C Journal of Media & Culture (online): www.uq.aus.edu/mc.

Committee Work:

• Performance and Media Programming Committee, Side Street LIVE, LA (2000–2001).

2001

A Stone’s Throw...The Last Witnesses – Site-specific installation, Trail Markers, Lower Arroyo Park, South Pasadena. NewTown Pasadena Foundation.

Co-Producer/Curator: (with Julie Adler) – EARJAM 2, two-evening music/performance festival, Side Street LIVE, LA.

Grants:

• Art Center College of Design Faculty Enrichment Grant – Research project in Japan.
• American Composers Forum – Live recording of EARJAM festival.

Public Art:

• L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Public Arts Commissions – Little Tokyo Branch Library, Library Dept.

2002

A Stone’s Throw #2: Another Sitting – One-day site-specific installation commissioned by South Pasadena Natural Resources Commission for Earth Day Walk, Arroyo Seco Park.

Claudia: Transformance (with Martha Wilson, 1973) – Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s, White Columns, NYC. Traveling exhibition to Rhode Island School of Design (2003).

Co-Producer/Curator: (with Julie Adler) – EARJAM 3, two-evening music festival, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA.

Kokoro No Mai – Highways, Santa Monica, CA.

Noah’s Folly (from You Don’t Need A Weatherman) – Vocal Lounge, Salvation Theater, LA, with Bruce Fowler.

Noah’s Folly #2 – With Art Center Performance Ensemble, LA Performance All-Stars, 5th Annual Art Crawl, Echo Park. Sponsored by Barnsdall Municipal Gallery.

Publications & Festivals:

• Radio Culture – Festival catalog, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto, Canada. Included in Radio Art Companion.

2003

Kimono Garden and Constructed Ruin – Environmental installations. The GardenLab Project, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.

Transfer (1971) – Photo/text documentation from performance with Pamela Kraft. Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University 1958–1972, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Performance: Dancing in Space: Where the Bird Flies – Live spoken text for SHIFTS – Rudy Perez Ensemble: Old, New, and In-Between, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena.

Selected works – AETHER FEST 1: Festival of International Radio Art, KUNM.

Guest Faculty – Alternative Radio Workshop, Institute of Teledramatics and Technology, California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA.

Durfee Foundation – GardenLab Project.

2004

Aviary of the Lost #3 – Installation. Birdspace exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, New Orleans, LA. Curated by David Rubin. Catalog. Traveling show: Norton Museum, W. Palm Beach, FL; Hudson River Museum, NY.

Desolation Row – Photographic work in exhibition Shakespeare As Muse, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon. Curated by Josine Ianco-Starrels.

The Culture of Disappearance #8: After The Fall... a prophesy – Highways, Santa Monica.

Narration for Rudy Perez Retrospective event – Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena.

Co-Producer/Curator: (with Julie Adler) – EARJAM 4, two-evening music festival, REDCAT, Disney Hall, LA.

CAA Panelist: Collaborative Teaching of Collaboration: Teaching Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Performance, moderated by Jeff McMahon, Arizona State University. College Art Association Conference, Seattle, WA.

ghost.dances\on the event horizon – Photobook prototype with text.

2005

Dancing in Space: Where The Bird Flies – Produced with Bruce Fowler. Featured online at www.somewhere.org (New American Radio website).

A Different World: A Personal History of Franklin Furnace – The Drama Review, Vol. 49 #1.

Committee Work:

• College Art Association: Member, Education Committee (2005–2008).

2007

Desolation Row – Queen Bees: eco-actions and collective organizing, Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography, University of La Verne, CA.

Trunk Murders and The Pursuit of Memory – Photoworks: Women Artists of Southern California: Then and Now, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

CAA Session Chair: Rethinking Pedagogy in the Arts: New Models for a Changing World, College Art Association Conference, NYC.

Panelist: You Wouldn’t Believe It Unless You Were There: The Challenges of the Feminist Experience 1969–1975, Los Angeles Art Association.

Durfee Foundation – Trunk Murders, and The Pursuit of Memory.

Art Center College of Design – Faculty Enrichment Grant for web archive project.

2008

Library of the Disappeared – Hugely Tiny Festival, Newtown Arts, Pasadena.

The Library of the Disappeared – 7-book series of miniatures.

Contributing Writer: THE Magazine L.A. (2008–09). Reviews: Anna Homler: Pharmacia Poetica; Cloud Eye Control and Poor Dog Group; The Cougar Trilogy; Meredith Monk & Ann Hamilton: Songs of Ascension; Elizabeth Higgins O’Conner: No Names; Caden Manson: Big Art Group; Sue-C and Laetitia Sonami: Sheepwoman.

X-TRA, Vol. 10, #3 Spring 2008 – Shoji Ueda, 1 Image 1 Minute Column.

2009

In the Gully: Meditations on Water (collaboration with Paul Soady) – Site-specific installation, On the Trail exhibition, Newtown Arts.

In the Gully: Meditations on Water (collaboration with Paul Soady) – Artist book installation, Art Center College of Design Library.

CAA Panelist: Public Art and Narrative in Los Angeles, CAA Conference, Los Angeles.

Discussant: Feminist Curatorial Intervention Now, CAA Conference, Los Angeles.

In the Gully: Meditations on Water – 7-book series. Collaboration with Paul Soady (2009–10).

Committee Work: College Art Association – Nominating Committee (2009–11).

Contributing Writer: Fabrik Magazine (2009–16). Features:

• 2010: Millinery Confections; REDCAT; Newtown Arts; Performance & Media Summer Festivals: NOW & Dance Camera West.
• Brewsie And Willie: Travis Preston / The Poor Dog Group.
• Life, Art & Death In Multimedia Experimental Theater – The Wooster Group: Vieux Carré, Ralph Lemon/Cross Performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere, Wunderbaum: Looking for Paul, Gatz – Elevator Repair Service.
• Sonic Alchemy – California Ear Unit: Silver Apples of the Moon / A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur.
• Laurie Anderson – Dirtday!; Michael Sakamoto – Fulfillment In The Empty Room.
• Meredith Monk – On Behalf Of Nature.
• Fall 2013: Visual Theater in L.A. – Basil Twist & Yumiko Tanaka: Dogugaeshi, Janie Geiser & Erik Ehn: Clouded Sulphur / Death is a Knot Undone, Wunderbaum, John Malpede’s Los Angeles Poverty Department: Hospital, Cynthia Hopkins: This Clement World.
• Performance 2014: Cry, Trojans! – Wooster Group’s Faux Pas, Miwa Matreyek: Self-Made World, LACDC: Prite Oef Stringh, Lionel Popkin: Ruth Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Bonnie Oda Homsey (film): Michio Ito, Gustavo Godoy & Victor Quijada: Restructure.
• Performance 2015: Yvonne Rainer – Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money? (2013), The Concept of Dust (2014), Hyo Jin Kim & Hyung Su Kim: Madame Freedom.
• Summer 2015: Mint Park & Hee-Eun Jeong: BIT, Robert Cucuzza: Circle Jerk.
• Japan/L.A: A conversation with Kio Griffith exploring cultural history, memory, materiality, impermanence, and performance in contemporary Japanese art.
• Journeys To Heaven And Hell – John Fleck: Blacktop Highway; Sankai Juku: Umusuna: Memories Before History.
• Fall Commentary: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker – Vortex Temporum, Tohubohu! Extreme Theater Ensemble.
• 2016: 1984 in 2016: Big Brother is Watching – Headlong Theater’s 1984.
• Performance 2016: Mining the Past to Change the Future – Four Larks: Temptation of St. Antony, Christian Rizzo: après une histoire vraie, Takao Kawaguchi: About Kazuo Ohno, Robert Wilson/Mikhail Baryshnikov: Letter to a Man, Danielle Birrittella: Sonnets to Orpheus.

2010 and after

2010

1970s Artists Space Documentation, Apple/Videos: Alternatives in Retrospect 1981. “Alternative Histories” exhibition. Exit Art, NYC.

Homeless. Photo Work. “What Matters Most” exhibition, EcoArtSpace, NYC.

CAA Sessions Chair: Resurrecting the Disappeared: The Problem of Re-Presentation and Exhibition of Time-based 20th Century Art in the 21st Century. CAA Conference, Chicago.

In the Gully: Meditations on Water. “Deep Listening Anthology II”, Deep Listening Publications, Kingston, NY.

itch #11 – You Are Here, Fall 2010. On Rudy Perez.

Robert McGinley, Topography, Light and Magic – catalog.

2011

Thank You For Flying American: Stories and Songs 1979–1991 (1994), ghost.dances / on the event horizon (1995). Audio works on CD in Breaking the Sound Barrier: Sonic Art 1860–2010, GOCA 121 Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

The Garden Planet Revisited (Performance opera, 1982). Costumes, projected images and performance ephemera. “Recollecting Performance” curated by Ellina Kervorkian for LOS ANGELES GOES LIVE: Performance Art in Southern California 1970–1983, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), PST.

Audio scores from Last Rites After Angkor Wat (Radio play, 1984). “The Experimental Impulse”, REDCAT, Los Angeles. PST.

Transfer (1971). Photo/text documentation from performance work. Exhibition: Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, NY. Curated by Catherine Morris (Sackler Center) with guest co-curator Vincent Bonin.

Audio works and visual sound scores. Breaking the Sound Barrier: Sonic Art 1960–2011, GOCA 120, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Curated by Valerie Brodar.

2012

Audio works and visual sound scores. Headphones: Listen Up!, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and An Ear for Sound, SPACES: The Vault, Cleveland, OH.

CAA Sessions Co-Chair: Art in the Public Realm Symposia (3 panels – “Activism & Interventions”, “The Global Environment”, and “Open Forum / Creating New Paradigms for the Future”). ARTspace / CAA Conference, Los Angeles.

CAA Panelist: Los Angeles Writes Itself: LA Art Journals from the 1960s to the Present, CAA Conference, Los Angeles.

Panelist: Room to be (Ms)Understood. Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston.

CAA Distinguished Teaching of Art Award.

Alternatives Reconsidered. Feature essay in Alternative Histories (Exit Art), MIT Press.

College Art Association: Member, Services to Artists Committee. (2012–2014)

2013

In the Gully: Arroyo #2 (2009), In The Gully: Meditations on Water #6 (2010). Fifth International Artists Book Exhibition, Szent István Király Múzeum (King St. Stephen Museum), Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

CAA Sessions Chair: Design as Intermedia Practice, CAA Conference, NYC.

College Art Association: Leadership Commendation.

From the Margin to the Frontier. Essay in Room to be (Ms)Understood, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston.

Distinguished Teaching of Art Award Jury (2013–15). Chair, 2015.

2014

Two one-of-a-kind artist books – Vol. 3 Aviary of the Lost and Vol. 4 Lost Languages from The Library of the Disappeared. Exhibition curated by Kio Griffith in Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan.

Palisade Redux – Epilogue. “LIFE IN THE FAST LANE: Performance Art in the Big ‘80s”, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA.

Faculty Enrichment Grant: Art Center College of Design, for The Tower book project.

Book Project Grant: The Cactus Foundation.

2015

Distinguished Teaching of Art Award Jury Chair.

The Tower, a collaboration with Helen Thorington. Limited edition of 70 signed and numbered copies.

2016

Artists Book Exhibition, FABRIK Expo, Los Angeles.

2017

Yoshio Ikezaki: Elements – 25 Years. Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design. (2015–17)

In the Gully: Gulch #1, Channel #4; The Tower. Included in Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

ursonatae/URSONATE. 16-min art documentary on Jack Ox visualization. http://intermediaprojects.org/pages/UrFilm.html

Yoshio Ikezaki: Elements. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.

2018

You Don’t Need A Weatherman. Grande Dames & Divas, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA.

Peripheral Visions: Perspectives on Performance, Media and Culture. Online column in Fabrik magazine (2018–2019).

Intro / Bearing Witness & Being Present: Jessica Emmanuel, Witnessing Her; Faustin Linyekula’s Journey from Darkness to Light; Sur Le Traces de Dinozord (In Search of Dinozord), Studio Kabako. Staging Politics: Allegory vs. Satire – State of Siege Redux: The Power of Propaganda, Théâtre de la Ville–Paris. Truth, Lies and Videotape: Deconstructing a Philosophical Conundrum, Guillermo Calderón: Mateluna. Time Lost/Time Found – William Kentridge, Refuse the Hour; Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener: Tesseract. 1969 Speaks for Itself – Alarm Will Sound, 1969. My Lai Revisited: One Man’s Journey – Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert and Vân-Ánh Võ, Jonathan Berger & Harriet Scott Chessman: My Lai. Entangled Waters – Robin Bisio & Ethan Turpin. Requiem for the Twentieth Century – The Wooster Group: The Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique). Looking, Seeing, Listening in the Blind Spots – Vijay Iyer & Teju Cole: Blind Spot. Lessons Not Learned: A Memorial for the Present – Hotel Modern: KAMP. Love Lost and the Enchantment of Objects – Marsian De Lellis: Object of Her Affection. Performing Language: From Stage to Page – Jeff McMahon: Six Monologues 1990–2007. Sisyphus Ascending or How to Reach the Top of a Mountain – Kaneza Schaal: Jack &.

2019

In the Here and Now: Site-Specific Performance – Home LA: Passages; Four Larks: Katabasis.

Performance / Media / Art / Culture: Selected Essays 1983–2018. Intellect Books, Bristol, UK.

2020

Redefining Democracy in America: Part 6 – Leap of Faith (excerpt). Breathe ezine, December issue.

A Meditation on the State of the Union (1992). Breathe ezine, November issue.

Performance in the Face of Climate Crisis: Poetics Versus Polemics. PAJ 124 (Performing Arts Journal), January 2020.

The State of Performance Art 2019. PAJ 125 (Performing Arts Journal), May 2020.

2021

Redefining Democracy in America: Episodes in Black and White, Part 1. PAJ 127 (Performing Arts Journal), January 2021.

RADIO ART (Special Feature Guest Editor).

• American Radio Art 1985–1995 by Jacki Apple.
• The Making of American Radio Art by Helen Thorington.

PAJ 127 (Performing Arts Journal), January 2021.

2022

American Narratives: Cultural Autobiography, Speech as Culture, and Media Strategies. In Listen Up! Radio Art in the USA. Center for Artists’ Publications, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany.