about…
the work of DEB TODD WHEELER
My projects are largely co-created ventures with a diverse range of collaborators, generating intimate experiences through interactive installations, objects, and participatory happenings. As an interdisciplinary artist, I create conditions for provisional communities to bond through gathering, grief work, and holding commemorative space.
In a recent project, RADIO SILENCE, I designed a geo-located audio-walk in the partially remediated urban wilds of Lost Pond, and over the years have guided hundreds of participants, listening to original music, sounds, and live storytelling. You can experience this walk remotely via Book of Walks, a tender log book of my experience guiding these walks.
NO SLEEPING, my current collaborative project, is an exploration of site partnership and loss processing that I have been developing with artist Sue Murad. Taking place under the cover of darkness, with small audiences, this nomadic performance project is sited in historic house museums in the Greater Boston area.
Visit my current and past STUDIO work here, and various MUSIC collaborations here. Along with my studio practice, I am also a certified Deep Listening facilitator, an object maker, and an enthusiastically collaborative amateur songwriter and musician. I teach at Clark University in a low residency program for visual artists that splits its time between Clark campus and MASS MoCA, where I am a core member of the MFA Faculty.
photo: by Wendy Hubbard at Gropius House
photo: Sue Murad