Contact: jlaffin8@gmail.com
Selected Performances and Exhibitions-Solo & Group Shows
05/21 Going Green, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Rhizome Gallery, Washington, D.C.
02/20 Underbelly, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
04/19 Toxic Tango, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
10/18 &Now Festival, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.
01/18 Hostage at Home, Lecture Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
02/16 The Remote Everyday, Lecture Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
11/17 CSPA Quarterly | Q18: dis/sustain/ability. Published journal piece-performative collaborative work with Jennifer Natalya Fink.
10/14 Along the Selvedges, Voice of the City, Chicago, IL. Installation.
05/14 Artemisia After 40, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL.
06/13 Warp and Weft: Deviations Away from the Woven Image, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Susie Brandt, Patty Carroll, Mel Theobold, Susan Sensemann, Michelle Grabner, Carole Harmel, Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Laiala Kuchma, Frank Connet, Kathleen Waterloo, and Julie Laffin.
12/12 Cloud 9, Blink Contemporary, Michigan City, Indiana.
09/12 Industry of the Ordinary Portrait Project, The Chicago Cultural Center
05/12 Material Possessions: Patty Carroll & Julie Laffin. Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL. Curated by Anni Holm.
03/12 Paying Attention: Choreographing Image, Action and Task. The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Video screening. Curated by Mark Jeffery.
02/12 Spouting Off: The Lecture Performance. Video screening of: Where is Julie Laffin? The School of the Art Institute, Chicago.
01/12 Over, live performance/installation, the Maximum City-Survive or Escape? exhibition. The Jakarta Biennale #14, Jakarta Indonesia.
11/11 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive. Arhuskunst Bygning Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.
11/11 Brain Change, Performance with live massage. “Dealing with New Demands”, curated by Jennifer Mills. The Comfort Station, Chicago. In conjunction with the Chicago-wide Happiness Project by Tricia Van Eck.
10/11 Instructions for Living in Your Car, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago. Special thanks to Clover Morell, Joseph Ravens, Borderbend Arts Collective and Walkabout Theatre.
07/11 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive. PhotoIreland Festival 2011, Dublin.
05/11 Skinscapes Exhibition with video installation and skyped performance. Collaboration with Stephen J. Bottoms. The Anatomy Museum, Kings College, London, UK.
02/11 The Aquatic Chronicles. The Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, Chicago. Video collaboration with Judith Harding.
06/10 Exposure, the Vulnerability Conference: Outerspace, Chicago. Video presentation.
05/10 The Chronic Illness Conference: DePaul University, Chicago. Video presentation via Skype.
11/09 Site Unseen 2009: the Disabling Conditions show. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
10/09 Once Upon a Time and Now. Curated by Susan Sensemann and Barbara Blades. The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.
10/09 Snowflake, Arizona. Line of Sight series, The Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK. With Stephen J. Bottoms.
9/09 Shield, The Dutch Theatre Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Performance/installation: Julie Laffin & Clover Morell.
11/08 Site Unseen 2008: the Occupation show. Co-curated with Dolores Wilber. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
11/07 Thinking the Multiple, Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video Hampshire College Amherst, Massachusetts. Curated by Jean-Marie Casbarian.
11/07 Site Unseen 2007. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
10/07 One Nite Stand, Group show featuring the work of seven McHenry County, IL women artists. Starline Gallery, Harvard, IL.
6/07 Shield, Part of the Franklin Furnace Five Alive! performance series. The Prague Quadrennial 2007. Performance: Julie Laffin & Clover Morell with special thanks to Elizabeth Czekner. Prague, Czech Republic.
6/07 Size Matters: Scale in Contemporary Art. Installation and photos. Curated by Suzanne Cohen-Lange. The Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana.
11/06 Site Unseen 2006. Curator, Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
9/06 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England.
5/06 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. neon>fdv, Milan, Italy.
1/06 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Santiago Chile.
11/05 Site Unseen 2005. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
9/05 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. Baltic Art Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.
4/04 Incoming Wounded, Performance/installation PAC/Edge Festival, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago.
11/04 Monument: Bodies on Foreign Soil, Performance/installation with Dolores Wilber. Site Unseen 2004, Chicago Cultural Center.
11/04 Site Unseen 2004. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
8/03 Over, The Field 3-City Exchange WAX, Performance/installation, Brooklyn, NY.
11/03 In Situ, Performance/installation. Rhinoceros Theatre Festival. Chicago Cultural Center.
6/03 Alterations, Group Exhibition with Jan Estep, Julie Laffin, Nina Levy, Natasha Spencer. Curated by John Brunetti. The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.
6/03 Over, The Field 3-City Exchange, Links Hall, Chicago and Freehold Theatre Seattle, WA.
5/03 Confessions of the Avant-Garde, Video installation of Redress from the Cleveland Performance Art Archives and live performance. Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
3/03 Long For, Performance w/video. Group show curated by Susan Sensemann. Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL.
5/02 Long For, Performance w/video. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
12/01 More Words, performance, the Stray Show. Sponsored by Thomas Blackman Associates-Chicago.
7/01 Shut Up, Group Performance/installation. Curated by Louise McKissick. Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Ontario.
5/00 Libidinal, Performance/installation piece, Straight Up. Curated by Susan Sensemann. Thomas Blackman Associates Exhibition Space, Chicago.
1/00 Armed and Dangerous, Performance/installation. Group show: Karen Reimer, Darrell Morris and Julie Laffin. Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL.
11/99 The History of the Future: The World's a Stage. Franklin Furnace web cast of performances by Fiona Templeton, Yvette Helin, Julie Laffin and Andre Stitt.
10/99 Census Dress, Performance/installation with Clare Thornton. To Be Continued: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Spaces exhibition. Curated by Deborah Smith and Kate Fowle. The New Art Gallery and Metropolitan Borough Council of Walsall, England.
10/99 Junior, with Stephen J. Bottoms. Live performance at the Sauchiehall Street Mall, Glasgow, Scotland.
4/99 You are the Salt of My Earth, Performance/installation. It's the Touch exhibition. Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL.
3/99 Undoing, solo live performance. The Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio.
10/98 Site Unseen, performance for the Streetworks Festival of Live Art. Glasgow, Scotland. Performance/installation. Including Exhibition at Street Level Gallery. Glasgow, Scotland.
9/98 About Her(e), Performance and solo exhibition with photographs and sculptural objects.
The Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL.
8/98 Eleven/Eleven, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
12/97 Small Sacrifice, Performance and solo exhibition. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
9/97 Fixing Ephemera, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago. Objects and photographic installation of performance works in collaboration with Christine DiThomas.
8/97 Supine, First Fridays: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Performance.
11/96 Time Arts Chicago, installation. Curated by Domonic Molon. Group exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
8/96 Over, Solo performance. The Cleveland Performance Art Festival. Cleveland, Ohio.
6/96 The Red Gown Perpendicular, Performance with Dolores Wilber. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
6/96 The Red Gown 2, Performance with Dolores Wilber. N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago.
1/96 What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Performance/installation. Curated by Karen Reimer and Laura Letinsky. Performance of Kiss Piece. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
10/95 Various States of D(u)ress, Solo Performance. The Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
5/95 Various States of D(u)ress, Solo Performance. The Women's Theatre Festival, The Arts Bank Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4/94 Various States of D(u)ress, Solo performance. Franklin Furnace Archive, New York.
Grants and Prizes
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 2006
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 2000
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 1998
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 1994
Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC. "Artists in Exile" grant, 1994
The Brian Lathrop Traveling Time Arts Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute thesis competition, 1990
Education
1990 M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute, Chicago
1986 B.F.A. The University of Illinois, Chicago
Selected Reviews and Articles (titles below in blue/green indicate links to articles created for blogs or accessible online).
November 3, 2019 by Eleanor J. Bader, Toxic Tango: Site-Specific Art for Environmental Crisis. Lilith blog.
2017 CSPA Quarterly, Q18 2017 dis/sustain/ability issue. Text & Photos by Jennifer Natalya Fink and Julie Laffin.
March 29, 2012 Spouting Off: SAIC Performance Symposium by Amelia Love and Lee Colon, Fnews Magazine.
January 8, 2012. "Gaun Merah Panjang di Monumen Ancol", by Wita Lestari, Jurnal Nasional, Jakarta.
September 12, 2011. "House/Home/Van", by Stephen J. Bottoms. Site, Performance and Environmental Change.
June 2, 2011. "Oily Anatomies and Toxic Landscapes", by Stephen J. Bottoms. Site, Performance and Environmental Change.
January 15, 2010. “Artist Still Roams Freely”, by Alejandra Cancino, The Chicago Tribune.
November 11, 2009. Chicago Art Magazine. "Site Unseen (2009): (Dis)abling Conditions at the Cultural Center-Four Perspectives.
November 4, 2009. “Second Site”, by John Beer, Time Out Chicago.
October 29, 2009. “Site Unseen at the Cultural Center”, by Kerry Reid, Performink online.
June 18, 2009. "Almost too Interesting: Performing the American Landscape from Illinois to Arizona", paper by Stephen J. Bottoms detailing our collabortive history and process. Presented at the Living Landscapes Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales.
July 24, 2005. "History of Disappearance Until December 4; Baltic, Gateshead". Catriona Black, Sunday Herald. Art and Philosophy.
March, 2004. "Trans-Global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries", Ed. Caridad Svich. Manchester University Press. Julie Laffin interviewed by Stephen J. Bottoms.
July 18, 2003. Interview by Kristin Brooke Schleifer, Mouth to Mouth Magazine.
March 2003, "To Be Continued: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Spaces", Eds. Deborah Smith and Kate Fowle, Batsford Press.
August 19, 2001. The Chicago Sun-Times. "Art of dressing up", Lisa Lenoir.
May 18, 2000. The Chicago Sun-Times. "Reviews: Libidinal", Margaret Hawkins.
Fall 1998. Performance Research. "Subsoil on the Sidewalk: Julie Laffin and the Chicago Underground", Stephen J. Bottoms.
August 1997. Muse Magazine. "Artfully Dressed", Laura Tillotson.
July 4, 1997. The Chicago Tribune. "Art Museum is Taking Laffin's Garb Lying Down", Chris Jones.
August 1, 1997. The Chicago Reader. "In Performance: Julie Laffin's Heavy Threads", Carol Burbank.
April 13, 1997. The Chicago Tribune. "Look, Yes, But Don't Touch", by Anne Taubeneck. Special to the Tribune.
August 22, 1996. The Chicago Reader. "The Frayed Fringe", Jack Helbig.
May 16, 1995. The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Festival at the Arts Bank", Deni Kasrel.
March 8, 1995. The Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Chicago Artist Performs Under D(u)ress", Sheila Simmons.
March 1, 1995. Cleveland Free Times. "Julie Laffin's dress: A Car-Stopping Show", Frank Green.
August 25, 1994. The Chicago Reader. "Julie Laffin, Amy Ludwig and Rennie Sparks", by Jack Helbig.
December 1, 1994. The Chicago Reader. "Standing on the Fingernails that are Gripping the Edge", by Carmela Rago.
June 10, 1993. The Chicago Reader. "Burning Desires," by Camela Rago.
October 22, 1992. The Chicago Reader. "Sleepless and Without Nurture", by Carmela Rago.
Other
Radio 2/96 This American Life
Radio 1/96 WBEZ-Chicago. Julie Laffin interviewed by Aaron Freeman
Selected Performances and Exhibitions-Solo & Group Shows
05/21 Going Green, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Rhizome Gallery, Washington, D.C.
02/20 Underbelly, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
04/19 Toxic Tango, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
10/18 &Now Festival, Installation/performance with Jennifer Natalya Fink. Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana.
01/18 Hostage at Home, Lecture Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
02/16 The Remote Everyday, Lecture Disability Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
11/17 CSPA Quarterly | Q18: dis/sustain/ability. Published journal piece-performative collaborative work with Jennifer Natalya Fink.
10/14 Along the Selvedges, Voice of the City, Chicago, IL. Installation.
05/14 Artemisia After 40, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL.
06/13 Warp and Weft: Deviations Away from the Woven Image, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Susie Brandt, Patty Carroll, Mel Theobold, Susan Sensemann, Michelle Grabner, Carole Harmel, Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Laiala Kuchma, Frank Connet, Kathleen Waterloo, and Julie Laffin.
12/12 Cloud 9, Blink Contemporary, Michigan City, Indiana.
09/12 Industry of the Ordinary Portrait Project, The Chicago Cultural Center
05/12 Material Possessions: Patty Carroll & Julie Laffin. Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL. Curated by Anni Holm.
03/12 Paying Attention: Choreographing Image, Action and Task. The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Video screening. Curated by Mark Jeffery.
02/12 Spouting Off: The Lecture Performance. Video screening of: Where is Julie Laffin? The School of the Art Institute, Chicago.
01/12 Over, live performance/installation, the Maximum City-Survive or Escape? exhibition. The Jakarta Biennale #14, Jakarta Indonesia.
11/11 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive. Arhuskunst Bygning Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.
11/11 Brain Change, Performance with live massage. “Dealing with New Demands”, curated by Jennifer Mills. The Comfort Station, Chicago. In conjunction with the Chicago-wide Happiness Project by Tricia Van Eck.
10/11 Instructions for Living in Your Car, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago. Special thanks to Clover Morell, Joseph Ravens, Borderbend Arts Collective and Walkabout Theatre.
07/11 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive. PhotoIreland Festival 2011, Dublin.
05/11 Skinscapes Exhibition with video installation and skyped performance. Collaboration with Stephen J. Bottoms. The Anatomy Museum, Kings College, London, UK.
02/11 The Aquatic Chronicles. The Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, Chicago. Video collaboration with Judith Harding.
06/10 Exposure, the Vulnerability Conference: Outerspace, Chicago. Video presentation.
05/10 The Chronic Illness Conference: DePaul University, Chicago. Video presentation via Skype.
11/09 Site Unseen 2009: the Disabling Conditions show. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
10/09 Once Upon a Time and Now. Curated by Susan Sensemann and Barbara Blades. The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.
10/09 Snowflake, Arizona. Line of Sight series, The Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK. With Stephen J. Bottoms.
9/09 Shield, The Dutch Theatre Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Performance/installation: Julie Laffin & Clover Morell.
11/08 Site Unseen 2008: the Occupation show. Co-curated with Dolores Wilber. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
11/07 Thinking the Multiple, Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video Hampshire College Amherst, Massachusetts. Curated by Jean-Marie Casbarian.
11/07 Site Unseen 2007. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
10/07 One Nite Stand, Group show featuring the work of seven McHenry County, IL women artists. Starline Gallery, Harvard, IL.
6/07 Shield, Part of the Franklin Furnace Five Alive! performance series. The Prague Quadrennial 2007. Performance: Julie Laffin & Clover Morell with special thanks to Elizabeth Czekner. Prague, Czech Republic.
6/07 Size Matters: Scale in Contemporary Art. Installation and photos. Curated by Suzanne Cohen-Lange. The Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana.
11/06 Site Unseen 2006. Curator, Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
9/06 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, England.
5/06 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. neon>fdv, Milan, Italy.
1/06 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Santiago Chile.
11/05 Site Unseen 2005. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
9/05 History of Disappearance, performance video of “Various States of D(u)ress”, curated by Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY. Baltic Art Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.
4/04 Incoming Wounded, Performance/installation PAC/Edge Festival, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago.
11/04 Monument: Bodies on Foreign Soil, Performance/installation with Dolores Wilber. Site Unseen 2004, Chicago Cultural Center.
11/04 Site Unseen 2004. Curator. Exhibition of Live and Media Art, Chicago Cultural Center.
8/03 Over, The Field 3-City Exchange WAX, Performance/installation, Brooklyn, NY.
11/03 In Situ, Performance/installation. Rhinoceros Theatre Festival. Chicago Cultural Center.
6/03 Alterations, Group Exhibition with Jan Estep, Julie Laffin, Nina Levy, Natasha Spencer. Curated by John Brunetti. The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL.
6/03 Over, The Field 3-City Exchange, Links Hall, Chicago and Freehold Theatre Seattle, WA.
5/03 Confessions of the Avant-Garde, Video installation of Redress from the Cleveland Performance Art Archives and live performance. Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
3/03 Long For, Performance w/video. Group show curated by Susan Sensemann. Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL.
5/02 Long For, Performance w/video. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
12/01 More Words, performance, the Stray Show. Sponsored by Thomas Blackman Associates-Chicago.
7/01 Shut Up, Group Performance/installation. Curated by Louise McKissick. Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Ontario.
5/00 Libidinal, Performance/installation piece, Straight Up. Curated by Susan Sensemann. Thomas Blackman Associates Exhibition Space, Chicago.
1/00 Armed and Dangerous, Performance/installation. Group show: Karen Reimer, Darrell Morris and Julie Laffin. Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL.
11/99 The History of the Future: The World's a Stage. Franklin Furnace web cast of performances by Fiona Templeton, Yvette Helin, Julie Laffin and Andre Stitt.
10/99 Census Dress, Performance/installation with Clare Thornton. To Be Continued: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Spaces exhibition. Curated by Deborah Smith and Kate Fowle. The New Art Gallery and Metropolitan Borough Council of Walsall, England.
10/99 Junior, with Stephen J. Bottoms. Live performance at the Sauchiehall Street Mall, Glasgow, Scotland.
4/99 You are the Salt of My Earth, Performance/installation. It's the Touch exhibition. Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL.
3/99 Undoing, solo live performance. The Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, Ohio.
10/98 Site Unseen, performance for the Streetworks Festival of Live Art. Glasgow, Scotland. Performance/installation. Including Exhibition at Street Level Gallery. Glasgow, Scotland.
9/98 About Her(e), Performance and solo exhibition with photographs and sculptural objects.
The Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL.
8/98 Eleven/Eleven, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
12/97 Small Sacrifice, Performance and solo exhibition. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
9/97 Fixing Ephemera, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago. Objects and photographic installation of performance works in collaboration with Christine DiThomas.
8/97 Supine, First Fridays: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Performance.
11/96 Time Arts Chicago, installation. Curated by Domonic Molon. Group exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
8/96 Over, Solo performance. The Cleveland Performance Art Festival. Cleveland, Ohio.
6/96 The Red Gown Perpendicular, Performance with Dolores Wilber. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
6/96 The Red Gown 2, Performance with Dolores Wilber. N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago.
1/96 What’s Love Got to Do with It?, Performance/installation. Curated by Karen Reimer and Laura Letinsky. Performance of Kiss Piece. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
10/95 Various States of D(u)ress, Solo Performance. The Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
5/95 Various States of D(u)ress, Solo Performance. The Women's Theatre Festival, The Arts Bank Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4/94 Various States of D(u)ress, Solo performance. Franklin Furnace Archive, New York.
Grants and Prizes
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 2006
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 2000
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 1998
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for 1994
Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC. "Artists in Exile" grant, 1994
The Brian Lathrop Traveling Time Arts Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute thesis competition, 1990
Education
1990 M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute, Chicago
1986 B.F.A. The University of Illinois, Chicago
Selected Reviews and Articles (titles below in blue/green indicate links to articles created for blogs or accessible online).
November 3, 2019 by Eleanor J. Bader, Toxic Tango: Site-Specific Art for Environmental Crisis. Lilith blog.
2017 CSPA Quarterly, Q18 2017 dis/sustain/ability issue. Text & Photos by Jennifer Natalya Fink and Julie Laffin.
March 29, 2012 Spouting Off: SAIC Performance Symposium by Amelia Love and Lee Colon, Fnews Magazine.
January 8, 2012. "Gaun Merah Panjang di Monumen Ancol", by Wita Lestari, Jurnal Nasional, Jakarta.
September 12, 2011. "House/Home/Van", by Stephen J. Bottoms. Site, Performance and Environmental Change.
June 2, 2011. "Oily Anatomies and Toxic Landscapes", by Stephen J. Bottoms. Site, Performance and Environmental Change.
January 15, 2010. “Artist Still Roams Freely”, by Alejandra Cancino, The Chicago Tribune.
November 11, 2009. Chicago Art Magazine. "Site Unseen (2009): (Dis)abling Conditions at the Cultural Center-Four Perspectives.
November 4, 2009. “Second Site”, by John Beer, Time Out Chicago.
October 29, 2009. “Site Unseen at the Cultural Center”, by Kerry Reid, Performink online.
June 18, 2009. "Almost too Interesting: Performing the American Landscape from Illinois to Arizona", paper by Stephen J. Bottoms detailing our collabortive history and process. Presented at the Living Landscapes Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales.
July 24, 2005. "History of Disappearance Until December 4; Baltic, Gateshead". Catriona Black, Sunday Herald. Art and Philosophy.
March, 2004. "Trans-Global Readings: Crossing Theatrical Boundaries", Ed. Caridad Svich. Manchester University Press. Julie Laffin interviewed by Stephen J. Bottoms.
July 18, 2003. Interview by Kristin Brooke Schleifer, Mouth to Mouth Magazine.
March 2003, "To Be Continued: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Spaces", Eds. Deborah Smith and Kate Fowle, Batsford Press.
August 19, 2001. The Chicago Sun-Times. "Art of dressing up", Lisa Lenoir.
May 18, 2000. The Chicago Sun-Times. "Reviews: Libidinal", Margaret Hawkins.
Fall 1998. Performance Research. "Subsoil on the Sidewalk: Julie Laffin and the Chicago Underground", Stephen J. Bottoms.
August 1997. Muse Magazine. "Artfully Dressed", Laura Tillotson.
July 4, 1997. The Chicago Tribune. "Art Museum is Taking Laffin's Garb Lying Down", Chris Jones.
August 1, 1997. The Chicago Reader. "In Performance: Julie Laffin's Heavy Threads", Carol Burbank.
April 13, 1997. The Chicago Tribune. "Look, Yes, But Don't Touch", by Anne Taubeneck. Special to the Tribune.
August 22, 1996. The Chicago Reader. "The Frayed Fringe", Jack Helbig.
May 16, 1995. The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Festival at the Arts Bank", Deni Kasrel.
March 8, 1995. The Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Chicago Artist Performs Under D(u)ress", Sheila Simmons.
March 1, 1995. Cleveland Free Times. "Julie Laffin's dress: A Car-Stopping Show", Frank Green.
August 25, 1994. The Chicago Reader. "Julie Laffin, Amy Ludwig and Rennie Sparks", by Jack Helbig.
December 1, 1994. The Chicago Reader. "Standing on the Fingernails that are Gripping the Edge", by Carmela Rago.
June 10, 1993. The Chicago Reader. "Burning Desires," by Camela Rago.
October 22, 1992. The Chicago Reader. "Sleepless and Without Nurture", by Carmela Rago.
Other
Radio 2/96 This American Life
Radio 1/96 WBEZ-Chicago. Julie Laffin interviewed by Aaron Freeman