TIME AND PLACE – 2010

5 musical acts with video art accompaniment mad up the original TIME & PLACE with ROOK RICHARDSON SHOW.HERE are a few numbers from that evening and a few other preliminary experiments with shooting bands performing live   3fives @ Time & PLACE Dominic Johnson and Max Glascot – AKA DOJO…

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Picture Books – 2009

These were are the product of a very strange set of collaborations between me and two performance artists. One was a photographer who feature sarcastic-erotic-precarious self portraits. The other was a set and costume designer that built a crazy surrealistic funkshop in our gallery for a week called Salvador’s Wardrobe.

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Video Clothes – 2007

VIDEO CLOTHES Dressing Light – Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago For several years, I have collaborated on art and design projects with Belgium Fashion Designer and School of the Art Institute Fashion Instructor Anke Loh. She initially contacted me after seeing my video at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Flavors of Fashion…

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PORCELAIN PRIVACY – 2006

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…

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Street Studies – CAD – 2005

For the third collaborative learning exhibition by the Chicago Art Department we chose the theme Street Studies. Again we collaborated with SXU. Cad students took east west streets and SXU students took north south streets. The final project took place at both SXU and CAD

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STREET STUDIES CONCERT – SXU 2005

We took the best of my two creative worlds, Chicago Art Department and Saint Xavier University Department of Art & Design, and smashed them together. The topic was Chicago Streets – Every Artist chose a different street. Documentary made by a student in the class. Classroom Footage Concert Footage WESTERN…

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