PERSONAL GPS

I grew up in the desert, north of Los Angeles, then moved to Hawaii, Seattle, Seoul, and Prague. New York and Berlin are home.

Along the way, I earned a PhD in History from New York University; was an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn; received numerous writing and research fellowships and grants, from such institutions as the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Social Science Research Council at the Free University, Berlin, and The Stinging Fly; acquired German fluency and reasonably good French; and, not least of all, raised a son.

My art writing, research, and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Journal of Architecture, Berlin Art Link, e-flux Agenda, and in edited volumes from Routledge and Berghahn books.

I’ve been carrying on an art praxis, since before I thought to label it as such. I make and illustrate books, like Moss: A Love Story; create installations with the aim to explore and ultimately build sources of community, including an oversized wooden playhouse for adults on a mountainside in Bergen, Norway, and carry out performances to draw attention to invisible sources of exploitation, especially domestic labor.

Documentation of 4.5 Hours, a performance during which I swept a rug for exactly 4.5 hours—the average amount of time that women worldwide dedicate to housework each day—is now part of the “Mormon Feminist Art Collection” at Brigham Young University.