Michael Workman

Michael Workman is an artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, and as the Movement Matters symposia series host, Workman is also Director and Editor-in-Chief of Bridge, a Chicago-based 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization. His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions"...See more

Michael Workman is an artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, and as the Movement Matters symposia series host, Workman is also Director and Editor-in-Chief of Bridge, a Chicago-based 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization. His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2019, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing. Most recently, in 2023 he presented an Active Investigation combining restructured texts, place, literary history and phonemic poetics at the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago as part of A Festival of Holes. michaelworkmanstudio.com See less