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Previous article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePeter Ablinger (b. 1959. Schwanenstadt, Austria) studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati in Graz and Vienna. Since 1982 he has lived in Berlin, where he is a freelance musician and has initiated and conducted numerous festivals and concerts. In 1988 he founded the Ensemble Zwischentöne. He has been guest conductor of Klangforum Wien, United Berlin, and the Insel Musik Ensemble. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Music in Graz (1993), the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England (2013–17), and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and Leiden University (2019).Kyle Beachy is the author of the novel The Slide (2009) and a forthcoming book of nonfiction, The Most Fun Thing: Marriage, Skateboarding, and Other Bafflements (Grand Central, 2021). He lives in Chicago and is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Roosevelt University.Elizabeth Chodos is Director of the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that she served as Executive & Creative Director of the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. Chodos received a dual Master’s Degree from the departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism, and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Bachelor’s of Arts in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a Co-Founder of Common Field and was formerly Executive Director at Threewalls in Chicago.Sarah Curran is the Consulting Curator for the Experimental Performance Initiative at the University of Chicago. Sarah’s curatorial practice includes fostering interdisciplinary work and socially responsive programming. Until 2019, Sarah was the Director of the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, and also the Managing Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan, a Master’s degree program offering curatorial training in performance. Prior to her time at Wesleyan, Sarah spent nine years at Stanford University, serving as the Director of Programming and Partnerships for Stanford Arts, and then Associate Director of the Stanford Arts Institute.David Finkelstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College and a serious amateur magician. He received his AB in philosophy and psychology from Harvard and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. He regularly teaches a course in the College called “Wonder, Magic, and Skepticism” in which he argues that magic—in contrast to other performance arts—and philosophy both bear internal relations to a very specific and particular sort of experience: a kind of wonder that may be described as a seeming confrontation with the impossible.Pamela Hieronymi is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her AB from Princeton University in 1992 and earned her PhD from Harvard University in 2000. An expert in moral psychology, Hieronymi has written widely on issues about responsibility and agency, as well as on reasons, trust, forgiveness, and the voluntariness of belief. Hieronymi also served as an advisor on moral philosophy and ethics for the popular NBC sitcom The Good Place, and subsequently became a “consulting philosopher” for the show. Hieronymi guided the show to feature the work of her dissertation advisor, Harvard emeritus professor T.M. Scanlon, and also advised the writers on existentialism and the famous thought experiment known as the Trolley Problem, among other topics.Joshua Jay is an internationally recognized magician and author. He is the bestselling author of MAGIC: The Complete Course and several other titles. Joshua has performed and lectured in over 100 countries, and helped design illusions for Game of Thrones. He has headlined at the Magic Castle in Hollywood and recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Late Show with James Corden. Joshua fooled Penn & Teller on their hit show, Fool Us. Last year Joshua consulted with the US Postal Service on the magic postage stamps series released in the summer of 2018. He is currently starring in his own immersive, off- Broadway magic show called Six Impossible Things, which is now in its fourth sold-out extension. Joshua was recently named the 2020 Magician of the Year by the Society of American Magicians Parent Assembly.Sarah Jessica Johnson is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, where she will begin as Assistant Professor in Fall 2020. Her book project, Forms of Escape: Maroons and Marronage in Fiction and the Archive, reads eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. American and Caribbean texts written in response to maroons who escaped enslavement but remained within the slave state. She is also obsessed with gendered performances and reenactments of historical slavery in the contemporary moment.Julia Kuo* is a Taiwanese-American illustrator who has worked with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Google. She has taught illustration courses at Columbia College Chicago and at her alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Julia was the visual arm of Chicago’s 2017 March for Science and has had the honor of being an artist-in-residence at Banff Centre for the Arts in 2014 and in 2017. Her latest book is Heroism Begins with Her: Inspiring Stories of Bold, Brave, and Gutsy Women in the U.S. Military (HarperCollins, 2019).David J. Levin is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies and Chair of the Committee on Theater & Performance Studies at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Senior Advisor to the Provost for Arts. From 2011 to 2016 he served as the founding Director of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, which fosters experimental collaborations between artists and scholars. From 2005 to 2015, he served as executive editor of the Opera Quarterly, published by Oxford University Press. He is the editor of Opera Through Other Eyes (Stanford, 1994) and the author of Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal (Princeton, 1998) and Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky (Chicago, 2007). In addition to his academic work, Professor Levin has worked as a dramaturg and collaborator for various opera houses in Germany and the United States as well for the choreographers William Forsythe and Saar Magal.Antoni Miralda* (b. Barcelona) began working with food in Paris in 1967. He moved to New York in 1971 where he created public art, banquets, and parades involving large groups and community participation. Representative works and exhibitions include Diner en quatre couleurs with Dorothée Selz, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris (1970); Soldats Soldés, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (1971); Movable Feast, Ninth-Avenue Festival, New York (1974); Feast für Leda, Documenta 6, Kassel (1977); Breadline, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1977); Wheat and Steak, Kansas City (1981); Honeymoon, Spanish Pavilion, 44 Venice Biennale (1990); Santa Comida, Museo del Barrio, New York, and Magiciens de la Terre, Paris; El Internacional Tapas Bar & Restaurant with Montse Guillen, New York (1984–86). Miralda and Montse Guillen started the FoodCultura—archives, collections, and global projects—in Miami and Barcelona.Stephan Palmié* is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He received his D.Phil from the University of Munich in 1989. He is the author of Das Exil der Götter: Geschichte und Vorstellungswelt einer afrokubanischen Religion (1991), Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002), and The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (2013), as well as the editor of several volumes on Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic anthropology and history.Monica Peek* is an African American physician scientist at the University of Chicago. She is a practicing clinician whose research focuses on the impact of race on the health of African Americans, particularly those with chronic diseases. She is the Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research and the Director of Research for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as Time and Essence magazines, CNN, the Melissa Harris Perry Show, and The Huffington Post. Dr. Peek received her MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University and her MSc from the University of Chicago.Mike Schuh is an artist and art organizer. In addition to his work project managing for the Gray Center, he is co-founder of Regards, a contemporary art gallery in Chicago, and has worked in exhibition planning and archiving at Susanne Veilmetter Los Angeles Projects and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. While in St. Louis he was also a co-founder of the exhibition and performance venue fort gondo.compound for the arts. As an artist he has participated in exhibitions across the country.Puerto Rican born, Edra Soto is an interdisciplinary artist, and co-director of the outdoor project space THE FRANKLIN. Recent exhibitions include Albright-Knox Northland, Buffalo, and Morgan Lehman, NY. She attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Beta-Local; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Headlands Center for the Arts; Project Row Houses; and Art Omi. Recent awards include the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize and a commission from the Millennium Park Foundation. She recently completed three MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund exchanges and exhibitions in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Catherine Sullivan* is an artist and Associate Professor of visual arts at the University of Chicago. She works in a variety of media including film and theater. Her work is concerned with the psychic dilemmas of the performer and the historical and stylistic regimes that mediate our reception of performance. She has produced several performances, theater works, and films wherein the performers are often coping with written texts, stylistic economies, re-enactments of historic performances, gestural and choreographic regimes, and conceptual orthodoxies.Elizabeth Tung* is a junior faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She is a practicing physician and the Principal Investigator of research studies funded by AHRQ and NIH to examine the health consequences of violence and trauma. Her research broadly focuses on intersections between race, place, and poverty in generating poor health outcomes. She is a faculty mentor at the Hyde Park Institute’s Scholars in Ethics and Medicine Program, a program for students to cultivate humanism in the ethical practice of medicine. Her work has been featured on PRI’s The World, WBEZ’s Morning Shift, and NPR’s All Things Considered.Andrea Zittel was born in 1965 in Escondido, California. She received her BFA (1988) in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University and MFA (1990) in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 1990s, she first established her practice in New York. One of her most visible projects in NY was A-Z East, a small row house in Brooklyn turned into a showroom or testing grounds for her prototypes for living. In 1998 she moved back to the west coast, eventually settling in the High Desert region next to Joshua Tree National Park, where she founded A-Z West in 2000. A-Z West is the current site of her studio practice, as well as other living experiments including the Wagon Station Encampment and the Institute of Investigative Living. In 2002, Zittel cofounded High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the High Desert, that supports works by both emerging and established artists.* Indicates recipient of the Andrew Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Portable Gray Volume 3, Number 1Spring 2020 Published for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/709724 Views: 187Total views on this site © 2020 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.