2008

18 – 19 JAN – Embed with the 101st Brigade in the first iteration of “Fake Afghanistan” at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.

8 FEB – related performance as part of Possible Impossible Dimension, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

16 FEB – related performance as part of Sea In Space, Sea & Space Explorations

17 APR – perform January 19th at the &Now Conference, Chapman University

23 APR – Request Paperwork for Embed abroad

15 – 17 MAYThe Making of Americans in Interrupt! Intervene! Art as Social Practice Conference at the University of California – Santa Cruz

26 JUN – Submit Final Embed Paperwork and Sponsor Letter

19 JUL – perform January 19th in Fake Iraq Video Night, Sea & Space Explorations

15 SEP – Embed Request Approved

9 – 13 OCTThe Making of Americans in Freewaves 11th Festival
of Experimental Media Arts

2 – 24 OCTJanuary 19th in Just How Does a Patriot Act, The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

26 OCT – perform Knees and Votes at ExchangeRate2008 in partnership with The Audacity of Desperation exhibit, Sea & Space Explorations

4 NOV – US Presidential Elections

4 NOV – perform Knees and Votes in ExchangeRate2008, Remy’s on Temple

5 NOV – Leave Los Angeles to join Afghan Language and Culture class at the University of Nebraska – Omaha’s Center for Afghanistan Studies

13 NOV – 6 DECafghan, doormat, dry out in Ornament is a Crime, Gallery 1927

15 NOV – Leave Omaha for Kabul

18 NOV – Arrive in Kabul

19 NOV – Embed at FOB Eggers in Kabul

21 NOV 0100 local – Begin embed at Jalalabad Air Field

1 DEC – Leave JBAD, taxi back to Kabul from Bagram, embed complete

8 DEC – Eid holiday morning, Leave Kabul


2009

6 – 7 MARCoverlands at Workspace Gallery, part of The Ups and Downs exhibition series

1 APRA Tea To You mailing

20 AUG – Afghan Presidential Elections

28 AUG at 2000 – From JBAD, Lessons Learned (Les Figues Press), book launch and performance, The Velaslavasay Panorama

4 SEP – 8 SEP – travel to and visit with LT Lavorgna and others of the 201st, on base in Fort Hood, TX, Labor Day weekend

6 SEP – opening for Welcome to Fake Iraq group exhibit at Angels Gate Cultural Center

9 and 10 OCTFrom JBAD, Lessons Learned, screening of long-form video, Sea & Space Explorations

11 OCTThe Space Between Presidents, performance as part of the Washington Boulevard Concert, curated by Stephen Van Dyck, Los Angeles

1 NOV – Hamid Karzai wins Afghan presidency as election runoff is canceled.

5 NOV – Shooting at Fort Hood, the largest US military base in the world, killing 13 people.

1 DEC – President Obama speaks at Westpoint and lays out his plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

5 DECWe Are Mired In a Kind of Stalemate, performance as part of 1969, group show and performance night curated by Vincent Ramos, Dan Graham Gallery