Pennant Place
Pennant Place is an outdoor, site-responsive exhibition platform in Gainesville, Florida, presenting temporary, rotating public art. It functions as both a curatorial method and a venue, supporting artists whose work engages social, political, and speculative futures outside traditional gallery constraints.
I have worked with students and have curated 13 group and solo exhibitions here from 2023 to the present, including:
Elizabeth Allen-Cannon: Sun Shade (forthcoming)
Meredith Starr / Sarah Kain Gutowski: Beautiful Regenerative Fires
Selina Doroshenko: No No No No Limits
Alex Robinson: A.M.E.R.I.C.A.N.A.
Eva Gabriella Flynn: Volver
Thriving, Abundant, Joyful Presents and Futures
Elham Shafaei: Open Books
Paul Shortt: Signs from the Future
Pomidor Art Team: Speech(Less): In Defiance of War
Vox Vexillum: Future Flags
Aya Rodriguez-Izumi: Noboru
Andy Li: Make Time in Your Day to Watch the Sun as it Slowly Dances Its Way Across the Horizon Line
Mia Cinelli: Penance
On this night, for the first time, something will happen…
Jean Paul Najar Foundation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai and American University in Dubai; February 2018
Commissioned performance projects by: Areej Kaoud, Sarra’a Abdulaziz, and Noush Anand
This curatorial project uses performance to explore repetition, sound, and participation as ways of responding to the world. The works examine anxiety, care, and the tension between collective action and individual refusal through simple gestures and shared experiences.
The Future is…Ordinary?
Screening at Shangyuan Art Museum; September 24, 2019; Curated by Flounder Lee; Additional Selection Committee: Frankie Chow and 席拿 (Lee Yun)
This screening explores futures between utopia and dystopia, focusing on everyday lived experience rather than technological fantasy or apocalyptic collapse. The selected videos imagine ordinary life across diverse cultural perspectives and aesthetics, using approaches ranging from animation and glitch to non-linear narrative to consider how people might live, work, and create in the future.
Participating artists were Mariah Blue, Johannes C. Gerard, Toban Nichols, Łukasz Horbów, Juan and Ivan Negroni, Zhong Lu, Irena Paskali, Patrick Jenkins, Milad Forouzandeh, Wang Di, Alex Mari and Myani Guetta, Sid and Geri, Austin Sley Julian
SpaceCamp MicroGallery
2010-2013
SpaceCamp was a small-scale, idea-driven gallery in Indianapolis dedicated to national and international contemporary art. Founded in 2010, I presented group and solo exhibitions by artists from over ten countries until its final show in May 2013, operating with minimal resources while fostering ambitious curatorial experimentation.
I worked with two former students, then a colleague, to run the space as well as numerous student interns over the years.
Shows included but weren’t limited to:
Eco-Logic: Artists’ Take on Environmental Changes (2013)
Zanne Andrea (UK): Solo Show (2013)
Simon Frillici (Italy): July 30th, 1945 (2013)
Out of Line: Jean Alexander Frater (2012)
Anna T – Balloons (co-curated) (2012)
Four by Six Equals Twenty-Four (co-curated) (2012)
Mapable (2011–2012)
peeled: Letitia Quesenberry (2011)
TPS Reports: Performance Documents (2011)
RetroFuturism (co-curated) (2010)
Presented as part of the wrong biennale, the Mundane Futures Pavilion brought together artists who challenge dominant, technocratic visions of the future shaped by narrow cultural perspectives. Rather than speculative spectacle, the works focus on everyday practices, present-day conditions, and plural ways of imagining more just, sustainable, and socially balanced futures. Including: Saks Afridi, Racelar Ho, Leeroy New, Saba Qizilbash, Finbarr Fallon, Jason J. Ferguson, McLean Fahnestock, Marianna Dixon Williams, Pak Khawateen Painting Club, Kevin Matthew Kaunualiʻi Kiesel
As co-director and co-editor, I lead an online symposium, More Just, More Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth that brought together PhD researchers to explore artistic practice-research through multiple ecologies, diverse ontologies, and more just, sustainable futures. The project culminated in a peer-contributed e-book published in July 2022, featuring panels, conversations, and visual essays on multispecies relations, art and activism, multiple ways of knowing, and more-than-human ecologies.
