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.

Of particular interest is the development of a rich and useful language capable of traversing the domains of academic and maker, prankster and gallerist—in other words, capable of itself making mischief.

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 ...

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 ...

We are grateful to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Catwalk Residency for providing us with time and space to work on the anthology.