P005 → Side Projects
2024
How To Make a Scene at Art Design Chicago/Terra Foundation"How to Make a Scene," presented by the Public Media Institute and MdW in collaboration with the Terra Foundation for American Art for Art + Design Chicago, explores Chicago's artist-run cultural ecosystems of the 1980s and 1990s. Featuring live conversations at Co-Prosperity and broadcasts on Lumpen Radio/TV, the series fosters generational knowledge sharing and strategizing for the future impact of these communities. Kicked off by moderators Anthony Stepter and Jen de los Reyes, with sessions also led by Ben Foch, Mary Patten, and Greg Ruffing.
2020
The Love Bug (Fwd : LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU) at Tufts University Art GalleryLive internet performance series for public intimacies, curated by Abigail Satinsky, Tufts University Art Galleries (SMFA at Tufts), Boston.
2020
Saturday Editor and Livestream Producer at The Quarantine TimesSaturday editor, online publication and participatory livestream. Highlights include OFFICE PARTY 2: Post-Conference Online Mixer, Networking Event, and Zoom Happening featuring dozens of artists projects, panel discussions, and other pandemic community support. Project was exhibited as part of "The Long Dream" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
2014
No Brakes at TRUNK SHOWA traveling 5-act tragicomedy based on the founding of Futurism by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1908. TRUNK SHOW, a itinerant exhibition space, had artists design limited edition bumper stickers for Raven Falquez Munsell and Jesse Malmed's beat-up Ford Taurus.
2014
Chambre d'Amis at Institute for American ArtChambres d'Amis was a three-act process-oriented experimental drama set in Portland, ME that slowly unfolded over the course of one summer.
Written and Directed by Brandon Alvendia and
Produced by the Institute for American Art.
2013
Theater of Revolt at Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of ChicagoThis research-focused mixed-media installation reinterpreted "Theater of Revolt," the third act of "Be Black, Baby" by National Intellectual Television within Brian DePalma's film Hi, Mom. The project intricately blurred lines between reality and fiction, destabilizing dichotomies of audience/actors, activism/entertainment, and white/black.
Project was curated by Extinct Entities (Nixon/Romero/Stepter) and organized by Daniel Tucker at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago.
2009
How to Disappear in America (for $500 or less) at subvision. kunst. festival. off. Hamburgsubvision. kunst. festival. off. was a contemporary art festival taking place in Hamburg in summer 2009. 31 artists’ groups, off-spaces, and research projects from 19 countries that developed outside established institutions and commercial viability created an exciting presentation forum with exhibitions, artist’s talks, performances, concerts, readings, and video screenings in a container park in the contested port area of Hafen City.
The experimental documentary How to Disappear in America (for $500 or less) was exhibited with i-cabin, UK for the duration of the festival. Filmed in Chesterhill, Ohio as part of the Harold Arts Residency.