Deke Weaver

March 14, 1 p.m. Belushi Performance Hall

Deke Weaver’s multidisciplinary work has been presented by 21c Museum Hotels, PBS, Sundance Film Festival, Channel 4/U.K., New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, Chicago Humanities Festival, Berlin Video Festival, The Moth, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and many others including livestock pavilions, backyard sheds, forests, prairies, night clubs and living rooms. A Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital grantee, and Illinois Arts Council Fellow, he is currently a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the School of Art & Design, the Department of Theater, the Department of Dance, and faculty affiliation with the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies.  unreliablebestiary.org