Current Conversations
are juicy public exchanges between artists, academics, and activists
2016-2020
In order to link festival artists with university faculty across disciplines but along parallel lines of inquiry, I developed a format for non-boring panels among people who “don’t have anything in common” except that they really do.
Even the Yes Men said it was one of the best conversations they’ve ever been a part of!
Catch me curating, hosting, and moderating these moments for the CounterCurrent Festival each year.
2019
Sensing at the Edge of Detection
Ellen Fullman The Watch, Reprise
Dr. Andrew Renshaw Dark Matter Particles and Experimental Neutrino Physics
Dr. Thamar Solorio Applied Machine Learning Language Analysis
Okwui Okpokwasili Sitting on a Man’s Head
Dual Growth for Speculative Futures
Jennif(f)er Tamayo (JT) La Queeradora
Dr. Becky Zufall Dual Genomic Architecture and Increased Evolvability
Dr. Arturo E. Hernandez Neural Bases of Bilingualism
Ganzeer Pepetu-War
Water Mirrors and Expanded Lenses
Tia-Simone Gardner Salt Water Sweet Water
Dr. John H. Lienhard Engines of Our Ingenuity
Yudith Nieto Another Gulf Is Possible
Dr. Wei-Chuan Shih Smartphone Microscope Lens for Citizen Science
Radical Kinships for Fierce Embodiment
Roxy House of Kenzo Pressure Points
Awilda Rodríguez Lora SUSTENTO
Dr. Jess Waggoner Crip Activisms and Rebirth Garments
Leticia Contreras Yea girl... I'm on my way!,
2018
Attention Flip: Crossing over into the ignored
Dr. Margaret Lehman Blake Therapies for Unilateral Neglect
Mike Bonanno The Yes Men
Laura Gutierrez Center Aisle Blues
Dr. Hanadi S. Rifai Hurricane Resilience
Ground Shift: Calling the backdrop to task
Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin Assistive Device Art
Harrison Guy Color
Dr. Gerald Horne The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Selina Thompson Race Cards
Role Switch: Slipping the given hierarchy
Elia Arce Patronas y Conductas
Andy Bichlbaum The Yes Men
Tony Frankino Biological Morphology in Hyperadapations
Jake Margolin Excavating Queer Histories
Time Lapse: Uncarcerating the imagination
Regina Agu Emancipation Park
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky Kinswoman
Dr. Shreerekha Subramanian Carceral Imaginaries
Mateo Tannatt Horse Dream Horse
2017
Infrastructure for Impossible Movement: How to support a new possible
Kevin Beasley Movement V: Ballroom
Dr. Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal Neuroprosthetics
Alan Lucien Øyen of Winter Guests Simulacrum
Dr. Cunjiang Yu Cephalopod Camouflage
Representing the Unadmitted: How to platform the buried
Dictaphone Group Stories of Refuge
Ghana ThinkTank Mobile Mosque
Josephine Sorgwe Immigration Law Clinic
Chris Valdez Design for United We Dream
Designing for Extremes: How to find light in hostile environments
Dr. Olga Bannova Outer Space Architecture
Harry Gamboa Illusions of an Urbanscape
Susan Rogers Community Hacked Houston
Dictaphone Group Camp Pause
Retelling the Taken For Granted: How to turn a story inside out
Suzanne Bocanegra Farmhouse Whorehouse
The Catastrophic Theatre Donald Barthelme’s Snow White
Dr. Erica Fletcher Participatory Community-based Health
Dr. Assata Richards Sankofa Community Driven Development
2016
Disaster Relief: Work of Wounds and Resolution
Anthony Hawley Fault Diagnosis
Zoukak Theatre Company Innocent Violence
Taraneh Fazeli Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time
Dr. Richard Mizelle The 1927 Mississippi River Flood and the African American Imagination
Body Management: Human Motion and Constraint
Rimini Protokol Remote Houston
Dr. Samantha Kwan Embodied Resistance
Dr. Shishir Shah Quantitative Imaging of Crowd Movement
Tongue Splint: Scaffolding Speech and Space
Rachel Afi Quinn Ya Somos Americanizadas
Ghana Think Tank What is Your Houston Diversity Problem?
Zoukak Theatre Company Innocent Violence
Home Improvement: Recreational Resistance
Mary Magsamen Suburban Fluxus,
Jason Moran Meet Me at MacGregor
Susan Rogers Community Driven Design
Sehba Sarwar Living Room Art