In describing and accounting for the lives
of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the
book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance
of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy
of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise
of what has been called the New Right out
of the ashes
of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged
cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election
of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was,
of all things, a Democrat; the rise
of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching
of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war
of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / READINGS (* solo or two - person) Apparatus for a Utopian Image 2.0, Center and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2018 CV, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2017 * Artist's Rendering (DISTRESSED, RELAXED), AXENÉO7, Quebec, 2017 * You can tell that i'm alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York, 2017 Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2016 Self - Titled (Materials for a 21st Century Room — or SWAMPED, EXHAUSTED, HESITATING), 8 - 11, Toronto, 2016 * Self - Titled (w / Aryen Hoesktra & Shane Krepakevich), Modern Fuel, Ontario, 2016 Local Tide (curated by PARALLELOGRAMS and Francesca Capone), S1, Portland OR, 2016 Double Visions, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2015 From Line to Constellation, Granoff Center, Providence, 2015 Maximum Sideline: Postscript, Proxy, Providence, 2015 Use
Values, SPRING / BREAK Art Show, New York, 2015 An Earthquake at the Race Tracks, Museo de la Cuidad, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, 2014 Classroom, NY Art
Book Fair, PS1, New York, 2014 Almost Everything, Eric Arthur Gallery, Toronto, 2014 Milieu, Skol Centre des Arts Actuel, Montreal, 2013 * More Than Two (Let It Make Itself)[w / Josh Thorpe], The Power Plant, Toronto, 2013
Cultural Fluency, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, 2013 Sediment, G Gallery, Toronto, 2012 Survive.Resist, CAFKA Biennial, Kitchener - Waterloo, Canada, 2011 On Printed Matter, [w / Josh Thorpe], Printed Matter, New York, 2011 * Around YYZ [w / Josh Thorpe], YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2010 - 11 * House Broken, Flux Factory, NY 2010 Reading the Garden [w / Josh Thorpe], Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, 2010 * Titles, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2009 On Convenience [w / Josh Thorpe], Convenience Gallery, Toronto, 2009 * Vehicle [organized by WayUpWayDown curatorial collective], Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008 ERI 3: Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2008 AT WORK, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, 2007 Rip Current, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2007 Tales from the Cyclop's Library, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, 2007 Unsurprising Geographies [w / Andrea Williamson], Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2006 Alectric 3, Alectric Audio [online exhibition] 2006 a / s / l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2006 * RESIDENCIES Interrupt 3, Brown University, Rhode Island 2015 SHIFT, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2014 - 15 Artist - in - Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council, 2013 - 14 Visiting Scholar, NYU Advanced Media Studio, 2013 - 14 The Decapitated Museum, The Banff Centre, 2012 Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, The Banff Centre, 2008 AWARDS Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation, 2018 - 19 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — The Decapitated Museum, 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009 University
of Toronto, Graduate Fellowship, 2007 - 09 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 08 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, 2008 University
of Toronto, David Buller Memorial Scholarship, 2007 NSCAD University, Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation Scholarship, 2006 New Brunswick Arts Board, Arts Scholarship, 2005 WRITING «Panorama
of Our,» Plot, Claudia Weber, ed., 2015 «Anodyne: or X
of Demarcation,» Rearviews II, Xenia Benivolski & Danielle St - Amour, eds., 2014 «On Printed Matter» Artefact:, C Magazine C122, 2014 «Lana Turner Has Collapsed!