Chris Reeves (he/him) is an art historian, artist, and creative researcher who received his PhD in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021. His work is largely around experimental, utopian, subterranean, and queer modes of artistic production and his first book, The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia was released on Soberscove Press in 2020. Recent curated and two person exhibitions include Recognize Your Name is Already on Every Place You Place Your Feet: Ten Responses to Remy Charlip and Unlearning Exercises both in Chicago. He is currently working on two books, "Three Rhythms for Nancy Arlen" and a revision of his doctoral dissertation, "Playing Music Badly in Public: Brian Eno and the Limits of the Non-Musician." Chris is a lecturer in Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Articles on Amodern by Christopher Reeves
CURATING NOISE
The Queerness of Sound in Action
This essay is a theoretical investigation and mediation on the queerness of noise and its potential as a workable medium in curatorial endeavors. Through museological case studies and smaller scale conceptual curatorial endeavors, I seek to provoke further questions about the way sound and noise can be used to expand upon already existing modes of exhibiting unwieldy art materials. .