http://ourliteralspeed.com/film daily 0.75 2018-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1468248991761-O0BUVS44SPG44A8CMAWD/image-asset.jpeg some films - EL NEOLIBERAL GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG First shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany within Theaster Gates's installation at the Huguenot House, 12 June 2012, a collaboration with the Jackson Pollock Bar. Performed by Abbey Shaine Dubin and John Spelman, a super-live theory installation, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1468248991761-O0BUVS44SPG44A8CMAWD/image-asset.jpeg some films - EL NEOLIBERAL GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG First shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany within Theaster Gates's installation at the Huguenot House, 12 June 2012, a collaboration with the Jackson Pollock Bar. Performed by Abbey Shaine Dubin and John Spelman, a super-live theory installation, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1481461222170-5L0MHM3LT113R1CDADL5/image-asset.jpeg some films - GOD'S HOTEL (2015) First presented at Performa, 24 April 2015, NYC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1510662422844-SSBVUNOPDOENS8RJTV98/536839674_780x439.jpg some films - EMERGENCIA black and white filmed performance, 2014, directed by Casey Smallwood, featuring Steve Juras, John Spelman, and Marilyn Volkman. Soundtrack by The Size Queens. First shown at Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 8 November 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1459695050101-QD0M4UMSEZ976RN273EY/marilyn_emergencia_still.jpg some films - EMERGENCIA (2014) First presented at the Clark Art Institute, 8 November 2014, Williamstown, Massachusetts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1510662503365-Y4G5KKTMAGM46XIET4IT/479323118_1280x720.jpg some films - NEVERMADE black and white filmed performance, 2014, directed by Casey Smallwood, featuring Abbey Shaine Dubin and Marilyn Volkman. Soundtrack by The Size Queens. First shown at Whitney Independent Study Studio Progam Exhibition, NYC, 30 May-14 June 2014 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/570003e8b654f934aed020a5/5923aefc9de4bb42e1e73e7e/1529844207798/ some films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1481414563902-4FLR8G1XA3YDKEOUWJAF/image-asset.jpeg some films - GOD'S HOTEL (2015) First presented at Performa, 24 April 2015, NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1459694246421-ZQQVDHUWJKVCSHMHUQYJ/abbey_nevermade_still.jpg some films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1481335731789-YKIBL5W9UXCQ3A4YBGBT/image-asset.jpeg some films - GOD'S HOTEL (2015) First presented at Performa, 24 April 2015, NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1470520712449-S7BV0ZR0W1VWUGY3YKQK/image-asset.jpeg some films - God's Hotel (2015) 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variable, materials: good will of Ms. Wimberly, public breaking law by consuming alcohol from open containers and illegally assembling without a permit, 10 August 2013, Selma, Alabama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1483243428884-EJWE397PI8I4A0EFW205/image-asset.gif about http://ourliteralspeed.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1483117253530-JMX44NRNB2FCJ4S0ZI7T/image-asset.png never tweeted http://ourliteralspeed.com/appearances daily 0.75 2025-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/01da68c8-d92c-4d03-9ce0-b0ff051af496/IMG_7210.jpeg texts & appearances - Make it stand out Our Literal Speed presents “Nevermade,” dimensions variable, materials: filmed performance and time, at Shanghai Seminary, Chicago, 8 November 2024-20 January 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1566733119598-6NHZ4B3BA8EYHIIKYK36/thumbnail_IMG_7806.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/acbda310-70d3-4f19-abe3-749d5bd0fcb7/Screen+Shot+2022-09-16+at+12.16.29+PM.png texts & appearances - Make it stand out 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/b002b811-b0df-4116-ace1-8377dcb315b4/OLS+image.jpg texts & appearances - Make it stand out O.L.S presents “dual continent maximum quality,” dimensions variable, materials: two-person presentation with sound, Harvard University, 15 October 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1512857481163-S3JYGBUW647FVOHNI424/OLS_PATG_ICI_ZeitzMOCAA.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1520782239143-8PRUFUFJQD3IK07XQAIC/Photo+on+3-11-18+at+11.24+AM+%232+2.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1483566012344-ON5U5HI56TG3ALKEZXV5/image-asset.jpeg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/00f5257a-be25-4258-a994-87b5f6035ab6/Screenshot+2025-03-22+at+10.26.25%E2%80%AFAM.png texts & appearances - Make it stand out Our Literal Speed presents “Wallace-LeMay Bumper Sticker,” distributed to the public, 21 September 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1531849162088-00OS2IXRNWE12GM8D35R/4.+PATG_CCA+LAGOS.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1512859424761-I7PVFIVDF4DXZURPT3FR/_mg_1413.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1484348361148-W0UJSUD9EUR7DSQ12TXV/Installation27.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1484347995344-7M7CZQCCPSK2O7800C3Z/image-asset.jpeg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1483566304425-MJSOV61UCU78ASQ4CF8I/image-asset.jpeg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1517254070767-L7J7Q1BTUIFRT0XTKEUW/jackson-pollock-bar400px1.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1544962171312-M1IK5FPWBD1PRVLXCQGO/36849802_626732831019045_8568056402256330752_n.jpg texts & appearances https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1517256494954-CAM4V693Y5X4ZJTH2XJO/51st_State_1.JPG texts & appearances O.L.S presents "Vision and Communism," dimensions variable, materials: Clear Channel billboards, Chicago, 1 September 2011-7 January 2012 (detail of installation at 51st Street and State Street, Chicago) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1494857034245-T9WV9JVWLSVQPPUW9D8K/image-asset.jpeg texts & appearances Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: communications, failure, 17 October 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1494857422890-TD7F3CMS7MFDVNYMCIVF/image-asset.jpeg texts & appearances 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1551482041455-ZWOT3P7QPWJQRU11N8RU/IMG_6316.jpg texts & appearances 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57000001f8baf310d577e4bf/1484347387065-TB8UB9I6SF5CHE1JP23R/image-asset.jpeg texts & appearances Our Literal Speed presents "Our Literal Speed," dimensions variable, materials: administrative gesamtkunstwerk, publicity, Chicago, 30 April-2 May 2009 (detail) 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