OLS presents a super-live performance of “Middle Alabama Fire” in Wilson’s Hill, Alabama at the OLS New Year’s Eve Celebration, 31 December 2023
O.L.S presents “Vernacular Modernism All Over the Deep South” at Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, 23 September 2022
OLS presents “Notes on Tania Bruguera’s The Francis Effect,” in Tania Bruguera: The Francis Effect, ed. Noah Simblist (Dallas: Deep Vellum, 2022)
O.L.S presents “Our Literal Speed” at Stacion-Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo, 9 August 2021 - 9 August 2022
O.L.S presents “Vernacular Modernism All Over the Deep South” in The Present Prospects of Social Art History, eds. Anthony E. Grudin and Robert Slifkin (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)
O.L.S presents “2009a Tania Bruguera ‘Generic Capitalism’ at Our Literal Speed” in Art Since 1900
O.L.S presents “Our Literal Speed” at Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, 6 February 2020- 3 May 2020
O.L.S presents “Our Literal Speed” at Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 21 July 2019
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed" at Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, 14 June 2019 - 4 August 2019
Our Literal Speed presents “Vernacular Modernism All Over the Deep South” at The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 21 February 2019
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed" in the Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA, United States, 19 January 2019 - 29 March 2019
Our Literal Speed presents “Our Literal Speed” in “The Present of Early Modern Studies” in Sixteenth Century Journal (2019)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed" in The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, United States, 24 August 2018-9 December 2018
Review of Sebastian Zeidler's Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art, in Critical Inquiry (Summer 2018)
Our Literal Speed in Publishing Against the Grain at Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and Becky Nahom, 14 April 2018 - 15 May 2018
Our Literal Speed presents "Everythingism" at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, United States, 2 April 2018
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed" at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, 9 December 2017
Our Literal Speed in Publishing Against the Grain at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, Becky Nahom, 18 November 2017-28 January 2018
"Our Literal Speed" at DePaul University, Chicago, 8 November 2017
“Our Literal Speed,” in Comparativism in Art History, ed. Jas Elsner (London: Routledge, 2017)
"Our Literal Speed" at Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 5 December 2016. Screening of Emergencia and God's Hotel
Review of Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art, in Critical Inquiry, Spring 2016
“Emergencia,” in Art History and Emergency, eds. David Breslin and Darby English (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016)
“Our Literal Speed” at Expanded Art History for Plants, curated by Chris Reeves,University of Illinois at Chicago, 30 March 2016
Our Literal Speed presents at We Make The Road By Walking, curated by Eric Ellingsen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 8 March 2016
Our Literal Speed presents “Harrison Wade” at What History Could Have Been, curated by D. Graham Burnett and Dominic Pettman, The New School, New York, 26 February 2016
“Inaugural Lecture for the Institute for Southern Contemporary Art,” curated by Joao Enxuto and Erica Love, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 28 January 2016
Our Literal Speed presents “Everythingism 2113/2013/1913, Etc,” a theory installation, Princeton University, 10 November 2015
Our Literal Speed presents at Hotel Theory, curated by Sohrab Mohebi and Ruth Estevez, REDCAT, Los Angeles, 3 October 2015-20 December 2015
Review of Todd Cronan, Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism, Art Journal, Fall 2015
“Our Literal Speed” at ASAP (Association for the Arts of the Present), Greenville, SC, 26 September 2015
“Our Literal Speed” at Performa, New York, 24 April 2015. Screening of God’s Hotel
“I’d Rather Die in Chicago Than Live in Brooklyn,” in Theaster Gates: The Black Monastic (Porto: Serralves Museum, 2015)
Our Literal Speed presents “Regarde-Moi” at University of Illinois, Chicago, 11 February 2015. Screening of Emergencia
"Our Literal Speed" at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 8 November 2014. Screening of Emergencia
“Our Literal Speed” at Pluriversale, A Biennial, curated by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 19 October 2014. Performed by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff
“Our Literal Speed,” in Art and Public Life: A Roundtable on the Critical Inquiry website 3 October 2014
“Our Literal Speed,” in Monday Begins on Saturday: Bergen Assembly Triennial (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014)
“The Doorman,” Afterall (Autumn/Winter 2014)
“The Middlemen,” in Art & Language: Nobody Spoke (London: Lisson Gallery, 2014)
“Our Literal Speed” at University of Chicago, 4 June 2014. Screening of Nevermade
“Our Literal Speed” at Whitney Independent Study Program, {TEMP} Gallery, New York, 27 May-14 June 2014. Screening of Nevermade
“Our Literal Speed” at Institute of Fine Arts, New York, 28 February 2014
“Our Literal Speed” at Bergen Assembly Triennial: Monday Begins on Saturday, Bergen, Norway, 29 August 2013, opening night performance at Bergen Kunsthall
“7 March 1965,” a public event in Selma, Alabama, sponsored by The Graham Foundation,10 August 2013
“Our Literal Speed” at MACBA, Barcelona, 17 May 2013
“The Lesbians,” The Brooklyn Rail (3 June 2013)
“Our Literal Speed” at Yale University, 23 April 2013
“Our Literal Speed” at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 29 March 2013
“Our Literal Speed,” in Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present, eds. Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
“Our Literal Speed” at Harvard University, The Davis Center, 28 March 2013
“Our Literal Speed” at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 7-9 February 2013
“Our Literal Speed” at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 9 January 2013
“Our Literal Speed” at Northwestern University, Chicago, 3 November 2012
“El Neoliberal Götterdämmerung,” Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany, 12 June 2012. Produced by Jackson Pollock Bar and Our Literal Speed
“Our Literal Speed” at Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, 11 June 2012
“Über die Asthetische Erziehung des Menschen 2011,” a theory installation, Princeton University, 19 April 2012. Performed by Jackson Pollock Bar
“Our Literal Speed” an administrative gesamtkunstwerk, Princeton University, 19 April 2012
“Our Literal Speed,” Shifter Magazine 18 (2012)
“Our Literal Speed” at “Double Duty,” organized by Richard Meyer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 24 and 25 March 2012
“Our Literal Speed" at The Saint James Hotel, Selma, Alabama, 22 October 2011
“Our Literal Speed,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G On-Line, Issue #5, 25th Anniversary Issue, November 2011
“Our Literal Speed” at Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 and 21 May 2011
“Our Literal Speed” at Fabricca del Vapore, Milan, 3 November 2010
“Our Literal Speed” at Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 29 May 2010
Review of The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection. Oxford Art Journal, November 2010
“Our Literal Speed” at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 13 February 2010. Performed by Theaster Gates
“The Category of ‘Contemporary Art’ is Not New,” October 130 (Fall 2009): 120-124
“Our Literal Speed,” October 129 (Summer 2009): 143-147
“Our Literal Speed” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 4 August 2009
“Our Literal Speed” at Art Institute of Chicago, 2 May 2009
“Picasso/Braque 1989,” an installed theory installation, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1 May-4 July 2009, in collaboration with the Project for the New American Century. Performed by Jackson Pollock Bar
“Our Literal Speed,” an administrative gesamtkunstwerk at University of Chicago/The University of Illinois at Chicago/The Art Institute of Chicago/The Renaissance Society/The Smart Museum, Chicago, 30 April-2 May 2009
“Our Literal Speed” at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 19 February 2009
“Utopia Station 2003,” installed theory installation, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, 29 February-25 May 2008. Performed by Jackson Pollock Bar
“Our Literal Speed” at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany, 1 March 2008
“Our Literal Speed,” an administrative gesamtkunstwerk, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany, 29 February-2 March 2008
Our Literal Speed presents “Content and Contentment,” a theory installation at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 7 February 2007
“Institutional Critique as Institution,” a theory installation at Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Leeds, UK, 6 April 2006. Performed by Jackson Pollock Bar
O.L.S presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: black binder in form of a square thrown into the gallery, 18 November 2017, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa (detail)
O.L.S presents Our Literal Speed appearing inside Tony Cokes’s installation Before and After the Studio at The Shed, New York, 19 June-25 August 2019 (detail)
O.L.S presents "Vision and Communism," dimensions variable, materials: Clear Channel billboards, communist, anti-racist propaganda, Chicago, 1 September 2011-7 January 2012 (detail of installation at 51st Street and State Street, Chicago)
Our Literal Speed presents “Vernacular Modernism All Over the Deep South,” Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, 23 September 2022, dimensions variable, materials: three-person presentation with sound (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: all-female band playing the main riff from "Kashmir" again and again, male models, LGBTQ rights "propaganda" banner rendered in art world lingua franca, two-person lecture, 29 August 2013, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: administrative gesamtkunstwerk, publicity, Chicago, 30 April-2 May 2009 (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: black binder in form of a square appearing in workshop led by curator Iheanyi Onwuegbucha, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria, 5 July 2018 (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed: Der Performative Diskurs" dimensions variable, materials: administrative gesamtkunstwerk and art exhibition, Karlsruhe, Germany, 28 February 2008 (detail of the Jackson Pollock Bar's theory installation Utopia Station 2003)
Our Literal Speed presents “Vernacular Modernism All Over the Deep South,” The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 21 February 2019, dimensions variable, materials: three-person presentation with sound (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents ________________ (perhaps the first artwork in the history of art to appear as a text), dimensions variable, materials: a text sent to curator Sohrab Mohebbi on the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of the Black Square, self-expulsion from the Hotel Theory exhibition before it opened, REDCAT, Los Angeles, 19 December 2015 (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: two-person lecture, work of sculpture, milling crowd, Fabricca del Vapore, Milan, 8 November, 2010 (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: two-person lecture,publicity displayed continuously on video monitor installed in wall, Institute for Southern Contemporary Art, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 28 January 2016 (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: communications, failure, 17 October 2013
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: two curators, George Jones ballad, severe case of depression, video projection, 19 October 2014, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (detail)
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: unfortunate response to editor-in-chief, professional inhibition, premonition of academic distress, 29 November 2011
Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: two spokespeople, two video screens, question and answer session, film, 8 November 2014, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (detail)
Our Literal Speed in collaboration with Project for the New American Century and Jackson Pollock Bar presents "Picasso/Braque 1989," dimensions variable, materials: installed theory installation, Gallery 400, Chicago, 1 May 2009 (detail of theory installation)
