CURRENT MISSION

exploration

ABOUT ME

I am an architect, writer, theater director and university professor. I traveled quite extensively in my 20s, all through the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Russia.... It was a major part of my life. Now I'm pretty involved in my life here in the US, though I end up traveling back and forth from New York to California quite a bit for my experimental performance company, Odyssey Works. We do crazy things! Weekend-long performances, months long performances, performances involving hundreds of people creating experiences for just one person! I rarely take a vacation, as it were, but when I do travel I am wont to explore the forward edges of what the artists are doing in any city or country.

I believe in art. I believe in the possibility of people putting their heads together and expanding what is possible in the world. Sometimes I give lectures about this at universities and museums. Here is one https://vimeo.com/66426996

PHILOSOPHY

Do no harm.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't travel as much as I used to, but I mostly surf, as I don't, as yet, have room to host. I will soon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couchsurfed a bit in the US and Canada. And it was always a wonderful experience. If this had been around fifteen years ago I'd have been the first to sign up.

Interests

Poetry, fiction, all literature, interactive performance, architecture, long conversations about ideas, short conversations about ideas, long ideas about conversations.

• arts
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• theater
• performing arts
• architecture
• traveling
• economics
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

This is a very long list and could be a very long conversation. I love The Sheltering Sky,Moby Dick, George Oppen, Wallace Stevens, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, DJ Shadow, The Mountain Goats, John Coltrane, the Books, The Thin Red Line, and Orson Welles' Othello, lots of hip hop, lots of sound field artists, atonal music, Synecdoche, NY,as well as bad TV and much more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I sailed the Amazon. I lived with a tribe of Shuar in the Amazon when I was in my mid-twenties. I trained as a whirling dervish. I interviewed Stevie Wonder....

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach writing, architecture, theater and performance. I would be happy to share all this at any time!

Do you know much about economics? I'd love to pick your brain.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States