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SIX x ATE is a free dinner and lecture series promoting local artists, a stronger arts network and a more interdisciplinary conversation in Pittsburgh. For each event, six artists are asked to present or perform work based on a theme while one cuisinier creates a meal based on the same theme. The dinner guests are a mixture of professionals who are connected to the arts and the theme of the night. The artists present for 5 minutes throughout the night, allowing for dinner time to be spent socializing, sharing resources and brainstorming collaborations.

COME TO OUR PARTY, DRESS IN WHITE is an ongoing performative/collaborative effort between myself and Christine Choi. Through performances of text, we draw attention to the physical act of human communication—voice, gesture—in wake of a rampantly digitizing culture where we are richly assaulted with information. We are interested in exploring/hybridizing new ways to engage with public audiences, and to celebrate the temporary communities that such live messaging creates. FIND MORE AT COMETOOURPARTY.COM

The Ghost Room installation was a collaboration with Derya Hanife Altan in June 2009. The room includes two sitting areas and five framed ghost portraits. Stories collected from Elsewhere staff informed the portrait characters, created from the museum's collection of clothing. The frames surrounding each portrait were cut out of the wallpaper, along with a design around the sitting area. As the deterioration of the wallpaper continues the "aura" of the chairs will appear more clearly, blurring the line between building as maker and artist as maker.

Derya Hanife Altan, Amber Phelps Bonderoff, and I collaborated on a performative grief counseling service in June 2009 for my Artist Conversation at Elsewhere Artists Collaborative. Using an innovative approach to art therapy we provided comfort for those mourning the loss of beloved animal companions AND favorite deceased celebrities. Clients would talk about their deceased pets, including information about favorite activities, who their dead celebrity watcher might be and other general questions. A collage was then created of their furry (or scaly/feathered) friend in "Heaven" which clients could turn to as a visual means of comfort.

Clothing designer, Diondega's stylish jumpsuits became the inspiration and base for 3 connecting outfits. I created hooded tops and armwarmers that sipped together, and added zippers to the legs of the garment. Rebecca Grady and I wore these during our Intimate Apparel Workshop for Version Fest 2007 in Chicago. The workshop enabled participants to create costumes that encouraged intimacy and discouraged everyday functionality. Examples of group garments, based on my previous projects, that zippered, buttoned, and tied into each other were provided for anyone to try on. A temporary workshop space equipped with sewing materials, fabric, and clothing was set up for participants to make their own ideas of intimate apparel become reality.

In 2006, two Chicagoans transplanted in the booming metropolises of Pennsylvania charted the downtown centers. Both started from "the fountain" and simultaneously began heading east. When one hit a dead end, each would turn, left and then right and so on, constantly following the city streets. Their analogous paths led them throughout Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, at moments both stumbling upon the same drugstore, the symphonies, or, of course, a certain Seattle coffee shop. This mapping collaboration with Rebecca Grady, culminated in an audio installation. One tin can plays the Pittsburgh walk while the other plays the Philadelphia walk.

Tour of Chicago's northside neighborhood as New Orleans As part of Mess Hall's Mapping II show in April 2004, I worked with Rebecca Grady to create a 30 minute tour through Roger's Park. Sites were chosen (residences, churches, a cemetary and public buildings) based on their similiarities to historical or notorious sites in New Orleans. Tours were given in a 1986 Mercury station wagon, visitors to the gallery were able to sign up for tours several times a day. As they made their way through the neighborhood, the guide revealed the history and legends of these sites as if the tour were in New Orleans. This tour was made possible by the help of local actors and artists.