Collaborations between me and Deb Vogt are called Boy Deb. Boy Deb came from our very first collaboration using an old 4 track recorder. I uploaded the cassette recordings to my computer one track at a time. I found a section of Deb’s voice and put a gender bender filter…
This has been a poem, a song, a film and required reading for hundreds of High School juniors. I wrote the poem at Mount Mercy College in 1997. The song was first performed in 2003 and was later recorded for the Rook Rumors album. The film premiered at DePaul University…
This was the first Chicago Art Department Exhibit The exhibit followed 15 weeks of collaborative learning and discussions. A merger of the three instructors favorite students and favorite artists from the community. All of the artworks were designed to communicate the theme “Love it or Leave it”
LOVER LEAVER Location: Transamoeba – South Loop – Chicago Year: 2003 All of the members of the rock band Hive of Fives, including myself, took part in the Chicago Art Department (see below). The topic chosen for the first CAD exhibit was “Love It or Leave It’. For the CAD…
In the spring of 2004, Laura Chiarmonte and Marvin Marzocco of the modern dance company Creative Arts Melting Pot, contacted Deb Vogt and I, to see if we were interested in contributing a multimedia performance for their upcoming show about fears. IMAGERY After a brief conversation about our fears and…