Speaking and listening is one of the mediums I use to make my work and grow my creative practice.  I give public talks, presentations, and workshops that are themselves artworks and that comment on the artwork that I create.  Performance art theory and practice, collectives and working collaboratively, the relevance of bitterness in everyday (and creative) life, public art, and art’s social, emotional, and political impact — each come in to this speaking and listening practice.

Ask me to speak, or come speak with me. I would love to hear what we have to say together. 

 

PRESENTATIONS & LECTURESHIPS

2011

Artist talk: Environmental Art: The National Bitter Melon Council, invite-only workshop for art educators at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, Oct. 5

Panelist: Alternative Arts for Environmental Change at A Better World By Design conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, Oct. 1

Keynote Panel: Stories from the Field at Connected and Consequential conference, Artists in Context, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Jun. 10

Artist Talk:  The National Bitter Melon Council, Springboard for the Arts, St. Paul, MN, Feb. 25

2010

Visiting Critic, Art, Culture, and Technology program, MIT, Dec. 5

Panelist: Local First!, part of the Bring your Own speakers series at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 19

2009

Artist Talk: The National Bitter Melon Council, MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 7

Artist Talk: Performance Art as Social Research, Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA  Apr. 7

2008

Guest artist: Sunday Soup as part of Democracy in America, Park Avenue Armory, NY, NY, Sept. 22nd

Visiting artist: The National Bitter Melon Council & solo work, Contemporary Art Practice Seminar, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mar. 28 & Apr. 2

Visiting artist: Art & Activism, Women’s Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Apr. 8

Artist talk: The Ideology of Collaboration, as part of Aftershock, a discussion series at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 3

Artist talk:  The National Bitter Melon Council, Professional Practices Seminar, Art Institute of Boston, Feb. 28

2007

Performance talk: Walking Squash, Talking Belonging, at RISK: Race, Class, Geography, and Art, Platform2 discussion series, Boston, MA, Sept. 21

Panelist: CrossPollenNation: Social performance and community engagement, as part of Marginal Travels lecture series at Experimental Station, Chicago, IL, Jun. 24

Artist talk: CrossPollenNation: Social performance and community engagement, as part of Marginal Travels lecture series at Mess Hall, Chicago, IL, Jun. 22

Artist talk: The National Bitter Melon Council, “Global Women’s Activism”, undergraduate seminar at MIT, Mar. 7

Panel Moderator: Critical Focus on the Media: Gender, Sexuality, and the Media, Televised panel discussion, Somerville Community Access Television, Feb. 15

2006

Artist Talk: Performance Intervention on the Net, “Live Art: Interactions with Video and the Virtual” performance seminar at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nov. 13

Artist Talk: The National Bitter Melon Council, “Feminism and Methodology”, undergraduate honors seminar in the English Department at Tufts University, Oct. 16, 2006; Co-presentation with Hiroko Kikuchi

Artist Talk: Art as Feminist Media Activism, visiting lecturer for the undergrad seminar ‘Women and Global Activism in Art, Media and Politics’ at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 15

2005

Panelist: Artist Practice as Community Organizing, ‘Art and Civic Engagement: Partnerships in the Creative

Economy’ at the Career Issues in Art and Design conference at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Jun. 15

Visiting Critic: New Media Program, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI: Dec. 15

Visiting Critic: New Media Program, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI: Oct. 17 – 18