Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art

Acknowledgments

| 173 The groundwork for this book was laid when I moved from London back to California and found myself in the midst of many exciting voices, practices, colleagues, and faculty in the performance studies department at the University of California, Berkeley. I am indebted to my advisors for guiding and supporting the breadth of my early ideas and for coaxing them toward this present formation. Shannon Jackson showed me that boundless thinking within and across disciplinary boundaries was possible. From Kaja Silverman I learned to care about, and to be careful with, asking the big questions that move us all. Whitney Davis, encouraging and inspiring me at every step, opened up a larger landscape from which my questions could become a book—indeed, a career. These days, I am fortunate to have found a new home in an unbelievably supportive art history department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. I thank Kenneth Bendiner, Jeffrey Hayes, Andrea Stone, Ying Wang, Derek Counts, Nancy Hubbard, Tanya Tiffany, Richard Leson, and Elena Gorfinkel for taking in this performance scholar in the guise of an art and architectural historian and Acknowledgments 174 | Acknowledgments for providing an intellectually free, personally rewarding, and friendly working environment. I’m grateful to Jill Baum, who day in and day out saves my life in all kinds of ways. I also thank the generous colleagues who welcomed me as affiliated faculty in the graduate program in media, cinema, and digital studies, especially my friends Patrice Petro, Andrew Martin, Gilberto Blasini, Tasha Oren, Peter Paik, Lane Hall, and Anne Frances Wysocki, and in the Ph.D. program in Buildings, Landscapes, Cultures across both University of Wisconsin campuses in Milwaukee and Madison, in particular my friend Arijit Sen. I am emboldened by my conversations with all of you and grateful for your advice on my work and so much more. For believing in this project from the beginning, thanks go to Pieter Martin and Richard Morrison at the University of Minnesota Press. Final revisions to my manuscript would not have been possible without a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee’s Center for Twenty-first Century Studies. I thank the other 2009–10 fellows (David Allen, Erica Bornstein, Bruce Charlesworth, Nan Kim, Jason Puskar, Manu Sobti, Deborah Wilk, Robert Wolensky) for engaging so provokingly with my writing, as well as the center’s interim director, Mary Wiesner-Hanks, and staff (John Blum, Kate Kramer, Maria Liesegang) for their assistance. During that year, I taught a passionate group of graduate students in the Masters in Liberal Studies program ; their thoughtful investments in issues of dwelling enlivened me, and this book, every week. I wish the best in future endeavors to Matthew Anderson, Andrea Avery, Judy Berdan, Katie Egan, Nick Gaddy, Kitty Gaenslen, Diane George, Mairin Hartt, Harry Kohal, Chris Kulhman, Karl Lerud, Ashley Morgan, Aisha Motlani, and Todd Rongstad. Finally, for those others who commented on this project at different moments along the way, for those who walk with me across all kinds of places, and for those who inspire me to leap ever onward while also granting me home, I am thankful: John, Loretta, Tessa, and Kimberly Johung, Francis Chan, Aiden Johung Chan, Paul and Lydia Chung, David Chung, Tom and Linda Espy, Jessica Guarino, Ashley Minihan, Richard Acknowledgments | 175 Wittman, Leslie Elwell, Meredith Hoy, Nathan Lefebvre, Kelly Rafferty, Alfie Turnshek-Goins, Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Morgan Schick, Tami Williams, Charles Springfield, Jessica Kaminski, Tina Poppy, Theaster Gates, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Nathaniel Stern, Elena Gorfinkel, Marcelino Stuhmer, Lisa Hecht, and Erica Levin (whose gift got me started). This page intentionally left blank ...