UPCOMING

3/15/24 "Chris Reeves & Lauren Sudbrink: Unlearning Exercises," Roots & Culture, Chicago IL

11/11/23 "A Space Oddity: 10th Annual Sandwich Summit" Hammy Whammy, Chicago IL

10/28/23 "Dick Higgins' Constellations for a Dome Shaped Room or a Non-Domed Shape Room" SLSA, Tempe, AZ

10/20/23 "Big Fluxus Show (Name TBD)" with Alberto Aguilar, Dorothy Carlos, Jesse Malmed, Josh Rios, Lauren Sudbrink, Suspended Culture Collective, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL

09/23/23 "Green Noise," G-CADD, Granite City, IL

06/08/23 Artist talk with Angela Baldus on Twitch

06/03/23 Nancy & The Voids for Madeline Vaccaro's "Good Morning Moon" exhibition at Co-Prosperity, Chicago, IL

04/08/23 "Dance to Anything: Lake Eden," Black Mountain College, NC

11/12/22 "Soft Noise" curated with Aaron Walker at The Plan, Chicago

10/5-8/22 "Reading Owen's Mind: Owen F Smith Reading Fluxus and Minding Intermedia" at SLSA Conference 2022, Perdue, Indiana

10/2/22 "How to Play the Piano" at Comfort Station, Chicago

9/24/22 "The Second Annual Meeting of the Rhythm/Rythmn Society: Dancing to Anything" at Drama Club, Chicago

9/9-11/22 Flatland at MdW Fair Mana Contemporary, Chicago

7/26-29/22 "Art, Music, & Listening" Workshop at Ox-Bow w Britni Bicknaver

6/22/22 Talking about Suzanne Ciani and Pinball for VGA Reader #4 Release on Fireside (online)

4/2/22 Flatland Final Show: "An Atlas" Book Release at Co-Prosperity

3/26/22 "(Nothing But) Flowers" at FEIERTAG Billboard, Kassel, Germany

3/5/22 Dick Higgins' "Spring Game" Opera performance with Hannah B Higgins, Simon Anderson, Lauren Sudbrink, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago

2/27/22 "Three Lamp Events" in "I Feel Like a Bootlegger's Wife. Look!" at Apparatus Projects, Chicago

2/19/22 "Musical Freedom in 1970s London: Sun Ra and the Scratch Orchestra" Global London in the 1970s panel, CAA 2022, Chicago

11/13/21 "The Limits Grant Permission to Stray: Cage through Eastman, Moorman, and Branca" at ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, Asheville

10/9/21 "Jet Lag Sandwich" video/performance lecture at 9th Annual Sandwich Summit: No Limits, Only Fans! Twitch

10/2/21 "Pilot Project: Landmass Translocation: Chicago to Ann Arbor" at Fluxian Futures SLSA, Ann Arbor

8/7/21 "A Little, Very Abridged, History of Storefront Window Events" as part of Lauren Sudbrink's exhibition "Full of Subtlety, If You Believe Me" at Co-Prosperity, Chicago

7/11/21 "First Annual Meeting of Rhythm/Rythmn Society" Hoffner Lodge with Ben Sloan, Jesse Malmed, Carl Truman, Dreams of Surfing, and Fruit LoOops as part of Breanne Trammell's exhibition "Slow Burn" at Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

7/10/21 "Rhythmn/Rythmn Society" as part of Breanne Trammell's exhibition "Slow Burn" at Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

6/1-6/4"Music for Non-Musicians" workshop with Britni Bicknaver at Ox-Bow "Art on the Meadow," Saugatuck, MI

4/24/21 LazerQuest (Loraine Wible & Chris Reeves) at Pique Peformathon 2021 (Zoom, again)

02/26/21 "Quarantine Inside the White Cube" at CAA 2021, NYC

02/24/21 Flatland at New York Art Book Fair

01/16/21 "The Old Future's Almanac" publication release & Telethon via Flatland

Past Events

10/27/20 "Life in a Tin Can" at the Nightingale

10/10/20 "How to Rhythm" at Public Storage, Fayetteville, AK

08/10/20 ESP USA" group exhibition at Flatland and online: http://espusa.fyi

08/08/20 Discussion with Tosh Berman on "The World's Worst" via Artbook and Hauser & Wirth LA, on Crowdcast

07/28/20 "What is the Probability that the Sun will Rise Tomorrow?" Cassette Tape exhibition with Nina Canal, Esther Espino, Leif Fairfield, Allison Ransom

05/26/20 "The World's Worst Book Release" on Lumpen Radio Twitch (twitch.tv/lumpenradio)

05/11/20 "The World's Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia," ed. with Aaron Walker on Soberscove Press, available everywhere

04/19/20 "On Organizing the World's Worst Orchestra," Sounding Contemporary Art, Midwest Art History Society, Houston, TX

02/02/20 "The Last Goodbye" at Selected Works, Chicago, IL

02/02/20 "Setting a Good Corner" at Flatland

01/10/20 "The Portsmouth Sinfonia and the Terrible Sound of Effort." Panel: 'Bad Art' at MLA 2020 Seattle, WA

11/29/19 "How to Play the Violin" in "The Sloppy Show" Art Academy Cincinnati, Cincinnati

11/15-17/19 Flatland at Chicago Artist Book Fair

11/8/19 "Best Worst Orchestras" at SLSA 19, Irvine, CA

11/4/19 "You Walk Into" at Rainbo Club

10/27/19 "Jenn Smith:Soup Kite Laser Church" at Flatland

8/16/19 "The Hole Black Hole Catalog" (Egresswasm Vol. 4) at Flatland, Chicago

6/22/19 "A Crude Nine Foot Mountain Performing Kurt Schwitters' 'Class Struggle'" Solo exhibition at Adler and Floyd, Chicago

6/8/19 "The Uncanny Valley," group exhibition Wave Pool, Cincinnati

5/26/19 Andre Alves & Kristen Abhalter Smith @ Flatland

4/14/19 "By Way of Today" at Flatland

4/6/19 "Institutional Amateurism, etc." Elmhurst Museum

2/14/19 "Deskilling in the Age of Donald Trump" Session Chair at CAA 19, NYC w/ Kelsey Brod, Mark Harris, Nicoletta Rousseva, Maria Seda-Reeder

12/7/18 "More Thoughts on a New Destruction in Art Symposium" w/ Loraine Wible @ 4th Annual Symposium Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium

12/2/18 Curator: "Operose Music" with Jane Carver, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Lauren Sudbrink, more TBA @ Flatland, Chicago, IL

11/30/18 "On Failur" with Nicoletta Rousseva, UIC Art History Colloquium Series

11/15/18 "Fluxus: In the Style of Fluxus" for the "Fluxed Body" panel @ SLSA 18, University of Waterloo, Toronoto, ON

11/11/18 "Memoir-ees" or "Ms. Ghost-Right" Live Teleplay by Nellie Kluz and Jesse Malmed, Flatland inaugural show!

11/8/18 "How to Listen to a Record" Book and LP release w/Sampada Aranke, Eddy Kwon, and Josh Rios @UIC Open House, 400 S. Peoria St.

10/13/18 "Bail or No 2" The Nightingale Chicago

10/4/18 "Some Ideas for a New 'Destruction in Art Symposium'" @ MACAA 2018, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

7/21/18 "Egresswasm 3", Cincinnati, OH

7/20/18 Curator: "The Madeline Stowe Show(e)" Pique Gallery, Covington, KY

7/18 Bail or No: The Impossible Tricks Show 2" G-Cadd, Granite City, IL

7/18 Luminary Resident, St. Louis

5/2/18 Egresswasm at Rendr Pop Up, Merchandise Mart, Chicago

3/18-21/18 editor, contributor for catalogue accompanying Lauren Sudbrink's exhibition "Escape Orchestra" at Roman Susan Gallery, Rogers Park

Fall/Winter 17/18 "Something Else Press and the Production of Fluxus" Counter Signals, Vol. 2; "Hobie, Hubris, Highwaymen: Impossible Tricks" Incite Journal #7

9/8/17 "Reunions, or: Our Beloved Ghosts of the Past, how have they created the illusion that the masses are in control?" w/Lauren Sudbrink, screening at Hilston/Asmus Contemporary, Chicago, IL

7/1/17 "Egresswasm" at Chase Public,
Cincinnati, OH

5/13/17 "The Dangerous Professors" Triumph Gallery, Chicago, IL

2/5/17 "A Song an Hour" @ Mana Contemporary (Part of 2nd Floor Rear) w/ Alejandro Acierto, Jesse Malmed, Jimmy Schaus, Liz McCarthy

10/27/16 "How is Art History Like a Studio" @ MACAA 2016, University of Cincinnati

7/3/16 Egresswasm @ Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH

5/11/16"Expanded Art History for Plants #4: The Sound of Utopia" w/Alejandro Acierto, Deborah Stratman, Lauren Sudbrink, Mark Harris

5/10/16Leading a performance of Alison Knowles' Shoes of Your Choice at The Block Museum, Evanston, IL 3:15 - 4:00PM

4/29/16 "Late Night Avant-Garde" paper presentation at Northwestern University's "A Feast of Astonishments" symposium

2/24/16 "Expanded Art History for Plants #1: Inert but Sentient Love" @ the UIC Greenhouse w/ Deanna Ledezma, Liz Cambron, & Steve Kemple

3/4/16 "Benjamin Patterson's Aesthetic Indigestion" paper presentation at Indiana University's "Digesting Discourses" conference

3/30/16
""Expanded Art History for Plants #2: How Does an Archive Think?" w/ Kelly Lloyd, Jen Delos Reyes, & Matthew Jesse Jackson

3/31/16 Short film screening as part of Begin Anywhere: John Cage in Contemporary Film @ the Carnegie, Covington, KY

4/9/16 Up in the Air exhibition with Lauren Sudbrink @ Skylab, Columbus, OH

4/27/16
"Expanded Art History for Plants #3: How Am I Not Myself?" w/ Hannah Higgins, Kelly Lloyd, & Nellie Kluz