Songs of Returning, Both Silent and Aloud
(The Domestic Struggle Part Threee)
Late Winter to Eary Fall, 2008. The struggle to imagine a satisfactory way of life under the hostile conditions of global imperialist capitalism continues...
How do we touch the land and how does it touch us? There is a long, vibrant history of so-called "back to the land movements." But in fact we have never left the land. We have always been dependent on the land--and the people who work closely with it--for our survival. This serries of travels is best differentiated from earlier forays by the fact that is not solitary, but in the company of others. It culminates with an exhibition in Minneapolis, coinciding with the Republican National Convention in St. paul. |
The Domestic Struggle Part Two: eking out grassy Midwestern social fabrics
and prairie land continuities
Spring through Fall, 2007, The Domestic Struggle Part Two, is series of travels, social events and an exhibition intended to draw links with, and speculate about, remote enclaves, marginal and alternative domesticities, caravans, refugia, retreats, marginal travel infrastructures, rural cultural networks, rarefied spaces, and hopeful place making. |
 The Domestic Struggle Part One
February, 2007 a project at a VONZWECK, an appartment gallery in my friend Philip Von Zweck's Living Room, in Chicago's Humboldt Park Neighborhood. page under construction... |
 The Crystal Ship
Early Summer 2006 I walked through Southern Minnesota, the lands where the generation preceding me found themselves upon entry into this world. Quite frankly, this pilgrimage was an effort to apprehend some of that which I am made of. Some keyterms: genealogy, heritage, family farm, prairie, islands, prairie island... |
Virgin Migrations
Here we have a sprawling text about the history of me and the history of Chicago. I made the text into a booklet for a group exhibition curated by Annie Morse called "State and Lake" that was at the Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago. In addition to distributing the booklets at the gallery I left several of them out in public for people to find. I also have a few left, email me if you want me to send you one. Click to see more about the gallery installation. But more importantly, you might like to read the text. |
Heros and Friends
the belfry - roots and culture - dreamtime village - xexoxial endarchy - bonfire bitumin - arp - green lantern - optional events - subRosa - refugia - let's re-make! - temporary services - cake and polka parade - red76 - in the field - ausgang - dan gleason - dogmatic gallery - three walls - critical art ensemble - c.cred - gift-economy.com - autonomedia - national philistine - democracy now! - journal of aesthetics and protest - feel tank - jam - sharp tongued shrew - spaces.org- grist - nature - claire pentecost - chicago wilderness magazine - captain beefheart - dickshovel - pocha - basekamp - area - experimental station |
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 Friends and Heros
gay utopia - ready subjects - take down the fort - walking in place - brian holmes - dan s. wang - hollohulo - ivaw - aaron hughes - art of this - Henry's Farm - salvation jane - gandhiserve - dhamma pakasa - tamms year ten - dakota commemorative march - antigravity surprise - daniel tucker |
 Flash Crystallization
Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune, orLet's Remake, invited people to design posters for a show at YNKB in Denmark, the Radiantly Optimistic Poster Show. I was depressed at that time and this poster was as close as I could come to optimism. |
 67 of Brian Taylor's Snapshots
I enjoy looking at my friend Brian's snapshots. I asked him to give me some of his favorites to make a digital slide show for the 2004 NFO EXPO, a networking fair for radical culture. |
 Avian Invaders
In collaboration with POST Chicago, the NCA designed and distributed a poster about the avian life of Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, where I lived from 2000 to 2007. |
NCAAV
The network of casual art's audiovisual dept. is a small pool of A.V. equipment reserved for the free use by indpendent cultural workers, activists, artists, groups, and initiatives. |
 Bloody Tool Grant
Divesting Privilege. In Summers past the NCA gave a pittance to support the efforts of independent cultural workers. The Bloody Tool Grant is currently dormant. |
Self portarait as museum gaurd.
circa 2000 Contact:
mike wolf
email: mistywoof(at)gmail.com
phone: 773-368-5875 |
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