I approach my interests creatively through artist collective John Q with Andy Ditzler and Joey Orr.
From October 2, 2010 to January 8, 2011, Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, our first exhibition, was on view in the Education/Resource Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
Programming included the following:
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 2, 6:30-8:30pm
Artist Talk: Wesley Chenault, “The Place of Archives in Theory and Practice,” October 20
Artist Talk: Joey Orr, “Art in Research, Research in Art,” November 4
Artist Talk: Andy Ditzler, “Memory, Sound, Performance,” December 9
The exhibition was based on our temporary public art project, Memory Flash, presented by Flux Projects. It was reviewed in the 2010 Fall/Winter issue of Public Art Review.
review, Memory Flash, "Public Art Review," issue 43, Fall/Winter 2010
An online essay about the project, “Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta’s Public Spaces,” was published in Emory University’s Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, multimedia journal. Jim Burress of WABE (90.1 FM) highlighted Memory Flash in his radio feature “The Changing Face of Atlanta: Disappearing Gay Spaces.”
The collective received a 2011 award from Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue and an honorable mention for the 2012 Allan Bérubé Prize from the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association.
