Working across the realms of writing, exhibition, and public dialogue, Gestures of Resistance delineates and then proceeds to interrogate a species of action in which self-conscious crafting, contextual mischief-making, and cultural re-scripting play themselves out.

At the invitation of curator Namita Gupta Wiggers, we will present a re-envisioned version of the original Gestures of Resistance exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon from January to May of 2010. More ...

An anthology based on the panel and exhibition is currently in development. Entitled Gestures of Resistance: The Slow Assertions of Craft, the anthology is edited by Leemann and Stratton and features contributions from a wide range of disciplines. More ...

Gestures of Resistance: Craft, Performance and the Politics of Slowness was first presented as a panel at the 2008 College Art Association Conference in Dallas, TX. More ...

The panel was accompanied by an exhibition at Gray Matters, Dallas, TX also entitled Gestures of Resistance and by a series of public actions bringing the ideas of the panel and exhibition out on to the street. More ...