VIDEO
I was invited by the University of Michigan’s Racism Lab to compose a piece that responded to the work of Claudia Rankine and her Racial Imaginary Project. The result is a video short — words and images — titled Playing the White Card. You can view it here at Rankine’s site.
PERFORMANCE
My interpretation of John Cage’s “How to Get Started” is a production of the artist’s only improvisational piece. The John Cage Foundation and the Slought Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. October 2016.
I collaborated with award-winning journalist Michele Norris on a staged reading of her Race Card Project. I cast a remarkably talented group from the University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff as the Race Card Ensemble. You can see the rehearsal here, and the final production here, at 24:50. April 2013.
NON-FICTION
“I Had a Dream About You Last Night — a Sexual Dream,” Chronicle of Higher of Education. April 1, 2018.
“Truth (My Truth) About Sex, Power and Unwelcome Encounters.” Medium. October 2017.
“Belle-Mere Means Mother-in-Law: Managing Loss and Love Across a Jagged Color Line.” Medium. May 2017.
“The Color of History.” in Marianetta Porter, Color Code: The Exhibition Catalog (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, 2016.)
“Who Here is a Negro?” Michigan Quarterly Review. 53, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 23-28.
EXHIBITIONS
These Girls Were Here, Too: The Johns Hopkins Hospital Colored Orphan Asylum (2023).
Stumbling Blocks (2017)
The Arabella Chapman Project (2015)
Proclaiming Emancipation (2013)
Reframing the Color Line: Race and the Visual Culture of the Atlantic World (2009)