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Previous article FreeContributorsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreZuleikha Chaudhari is a theater director and lighting designer. Her current research uses archival documents to develop theatrical performances as a way of thinking about the relationship between the production of memory and the role of the archive and how this pertains to the retrieval and reliving of an event. Within this context, she has been exploring the framework of law as performance, the role of performance in law and the performativity of legal truth-production. Her works have been shown at theater festivals, galleries, and exhibitions in Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, South Africa, South Korea, China, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and India. She is currently developing the theater archive at the Alkazi Foundation of the Arts, New Delhi.Romi Crawford* (PhD) is a Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research and writing explore areas of race and ethnicity as these relate to American visual culture (including art, film, and photography). She is co-author of The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017). Additional publications include “Do For Self: The AACM and the Chicago Style” in Support Networks (University of Chicago Press, 2014); “Ebony and Jet on Our Mind” in Speaking of People (The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2014); and Theaster Gates Black Archive (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2017).Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches in the department of Creative Writing. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019) and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He is currently working on a book about divination and migration.Theaster Gates* is a Chicago-based artist. Drawing on his interest and training in urban planning and preservation, Gates redeems spaces that have been left behind. Known for his recirculation of artworld capital, Gates creates work that focuses on the possibility of the “life within things.” He smartly upturns art values, land values, and human values. His work has been exhibited in major venues around the world including the Whitney Biennial, New York; documenta 13, Kassel, Germany; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; the Palais de Tokyo, White Chapel Gallery, London; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; among many others. Gates was the winner of the Artes Mundi 6 prize and a recipient of the Légion d’Honneur in 2017. He was awarded the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2018, as well as the Urban Land Institute, J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. Gates is a Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College. Gates is Director of Artists Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art and the 2018/2019 Artist-in-Residence at the Getty Research Institute.Wills Glasspiegel is a filmmaker, artist, and scholar and PhD candidate in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale. His dissertation deals with the cultural history of the dance phenomenon known as Chicago footwork. Glasspiegel has produced public radio segments for All Things Considered and Morning Edition and was a co-recipient of a Peabody Award in 2014 for his contributions to the program Afropop Worldwide. Wills’s dance films and documentaries have screened at leading art institutions and in various community settings across Chicago. In 2018, alongside The Era Footwork Crew, Wills co-founded the arts and racial justice nonprofit Open the Circle, otcprojects.org.Judy Hoffman has worked in film and video since the 1970s. She was active in the Alternative Television Movement experimenting in the use of small format video equipment. During the 1973 International Visual Anthropology Conference, she assisted French ethnographer and filmmaker Jean Rouch, and became deeply influenced by cinéma vérité. Hoffman played a major role in the formation of the independent documentary group Kartemquin Films. The first woman film Camera Assistant in Chicago, Hoffman was a member of IATSE, and worked on feature films, but ultimately chose documentary. A major focus of her work has been with the ‘Namgis First Nation of British Columbia, producing films and videotapes about the reclaiming of Native culture. She directed a video training program for ten years so that they could tell their own stories. Currently over 200 videotapes are being archived and she was formally adopted in a potlatch. Her eclectic approach to documentary film led her to direct a behind the scenes documentary on Britney Spears, called Stages: Three Days in Mexico, that was shot by Albert Maysles. She, in turn, was a cinematographer on Maysles’s The Gates, a documentary on Jeanne Claude and Christo’s Central Park installation, which aired on HBO. She was awarded the 2004 Nelson Algren Committee Award for “community activists making a significant contribution to Chicago life.” She currently holds an appointment at the University of Chicago as Professor of Practice in The Arts in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.Omar Khouri* was born in London, but spent his childhood in Lebanon. He graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in illustration in 2002. In 2006, Omar co-founded the multi-award winning Samandal Comics collective. His sociopolitical satire Utopia won Best Arabic Comic Book at the 2010 Algerian International Comic Book Festival (FIBDA). Omar is the concept artist and robot designer as well as a cowriter and actor in the 2017 multiaward winning Lebanese Science Fiction film The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow directed by Fadi “the fdz” Baki. Omar’s work spans many art forms including painting, comics, film, music, animation, and theater. He currently lives and works in north Lebanon.Lisa Yun Lee is a cultural activist, writer, and a scholar of museum and exhibition studies, art history, and gender studies, whose research focuses on museums and diversity, cultural and environmental sustainability, and spaces that foster radically democratic practices. She currently serves as Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago and Associate Professor of Public Culture and Museum Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Carla Nappi is a historical pataphysicist and Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published widely in the history of bodies, medicine, and translation in early modern China, and works in nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, and podcasting. Her books include The Monkey and the Inkpot (Harvard, 2009) and Metagestures (co-authored with Dominic Pettman; Punctum, 2019).Canice Prendergast is the W. Allen Wallis Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the economics of organizations. In recent years, he has designed and implemented a way of more efficiently distributing food to food banks across the United States. He also runs an art collection at the Booth School.Mike Schuh is an artist and art organizer. In addition to his work project managing for the Gray Center, he is co-founder of Regards, a contemporary art gallery in Chicago, and has worked in exhibition planning and archiving at Susanne Veilmetter Los Angeles Projects and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. While in St. Louis he was also a co-founder of the exhibition and performance venue fort gondo.compound for the arts. As an artist he has participated in exhibitions across the country.David Schutter is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. The drawings he has contributed to this issue were originally exhibited at the Neue Galerie in Kassel, Germany, as part of documenta 14. The drawings are rendered after each of the Max Liebermann drawings, thirty-six in all, that were discovered in the Schwabinger Kunstfund, or Gurlitt Art Trove, inside the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012. Schutter received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2018, and was the recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 2015–16. A book of his drawings based on Charles Le Brun’s 17th-century academic manual for depicting facial expressions is forthcoming from The University of Chicago Press.Jacqueline Stewart is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching explore African American film cultures from the origins of the medium to the present, as well as the archiving and preservation of moving images, and “orphan” media histories, including non-theatrical, amateur, and activist film and video. She directs the South Side Home Movie Project and is co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion Preservation Project at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Stewart is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005). She earned her AM and PhD in English from the University of Chicago and an AB in English with interdisciplinary emphasis from Stanford University.Studio R-A was established by Ted Brown and Bill Brown in 2017. Through the Gray Center they taught “Studio R-A” in the spring of 2018 (with the help of Ann Hamilton, Zachary Cahill, Gabe Moreno, and Brandon Truett); this was a theory/history – design/ build studio sustained by the reassembly of student teams who worked on reassembling materials to make books, projections, and installations. Their essay on the assemblage paradigm, “Siting Re-Assemblage: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park,” was published by the Journal of Landscape Architecture in 2018. Ted Brown is an architect practicing with Munly Brown Studio, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Professor in the School of Architecture, Syracuse University. Bill Brown, editor of Things (2001) and author of Other Things (2015), is the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture at the University of Chicago.Adam Szymczyk was Artistic Director of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017. In 1997 he co-founded the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw. He was Director at Kunsthalle Basel from 2004 to 2014. In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, When Things Cast No Shadow. He is a Member of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and Member of the Advisory Committee of Kontakt. Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation in Vienna. He is guest lecturer at Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna as well as at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany. In 2011 he received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement at the Menil Foundation in Houston.Abigail Winograd* will be the MacArthur Fellows Program 40th Anniversary Exhibition Curator at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. In addition to her independent curatorial work for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and SESC Piñherios, São Paulo, she has been the Transhistorical Curatorial Fellow at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands. She was a Curatorial Fellow at the MCA Chicago, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Abigail earned a Masters and PhD in art history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her scholarly research has focused on the emergence of aberrant abstractions in post-war South America as well as museological approaches to expanding canonical narratives.Jamila Woods is a Chicago poet, singer-songwriter, and educator. A Pushcart Prize winner and recipient of the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, her poetry has been published by the Poetry Foundation, Haymarket Books, and Third World Press. She currently works as Associate Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors, where she teaches poetry to Chicago youth and helps organize Louder Than A Bomb, the largest youth poetry festival in the world. As a singer-songwriter, she has collaborated with Chance The Rapper and Macklemore and toured supporting Corinne Bailey Rae. She also served as music consultant for the Emmy nominated web series Brown Girls. Her critically acclaimed debut album HEAVN was re-released via JagJaguwar Records and Closed Sessions in 2017.* Indicates recipient of the Andrew Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Portable Gray Volume 2, Number 2Fall 2019 Published for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/707161 Views: 70 © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.