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 MAY – The 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 OCT – The Making of Americans in Freewaves 11th Festival
of Experimental Media Arts
2 – 24 OCT – January 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 DEC – afghan, 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 MAR – Coverlands at Workspace Gallery, part of The Ups and Downs exhibition series
1 APR – A 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 OCT – From JBAD, Lessons Learned, screening of long-form video, Sea & Space Explorations
11 OCT – The 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 DEC – We Are Mired In a Kind of Stalemate, performance as part of 1969, group show and performance night curated by Vincent Ramos, Dan Graham Gallery