A former instructor in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joey Orr's teaching at Emory centres on visual culture and visual scholarship. His curatorial work has focused almost exclusively on installation and public intervention, from alternative, grassroots venues to museum, commercial and municipal exhibition spaces. He has lectured on contemporary art, affect and visibility, and past projects have been reviewed by Art Papers, Art in America, ARTnews, Contemporary (UK), Public Art Review and Sculpture magazine, among others. He is also part of the Atlanta-based idea collective, John Q, whose projects explore public intervention, queer memory and archival practices.

Current work
www.AlwaysMyLove.wordpress.com
www.JoeyOrr.com
www.JohnQ.org

Selected editorial work
2006-2011. Art Papers, Editorial Advisory Board, Atlanta.
2010. The Josh, Guest Editor, John Q Collective Project, New York: Arts & Sciences Projects.
2006. Serial City, Video Producer, Atlanta: Atlanta Celebrates Photography & Tube, October.
2006. Pride, Atlanta Editor, New York: Health Spring, 2006.

Selected writing
Forthcoming. Feeling the Archives, Emotion, Space & Society, Journal of the Society for Study of Emotion, Affect, and Space.
2010. Discursive Memorials, Southern Spaces, 26 February, [Online]. Available at: http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces [Accessed 1 September 2011].
2009. Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, a book and a performance. Arts Critic Atlanta blog, 29 September, [Online]. Available at: http://www.artscriticatl.com/2009/09/sweet-tea-black-gay-men-of-the-south-a-book-and-a-performance/ [Accessed 1 September 2010].
2009. Queer Pictures, The Josh, texts/issues 2, [Online]. Available at: http://www.thejoshmag.com/texts/ [Accessed 1 September 2011]
2007-2008. Genesis Traveller, In: 2007/2008 Working Artist Projects, exhibition catalogue, Atlanta: MOCA GA. [Online]. Available at: http://www.mocaga.org/DanielleRoney.asp [Accesesd 1 September 2011]
2007. Art Memo: Mary Coble's Body. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 14 (5), p. 36.

Selected curatorial projects
2006. Serial City, public Art Project with artist Matt Haffner, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta.
2005. Origins: Andrew Ross Installations, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta.
2005. The Last Taboo, exhibition director and essayist, MOCA GA, Atlanta.
2004-2005. The Unspoken Past: Atlanta Lesbian and Gay History, 1940-1970, Curator of Oral Histories, Atlanta History Centre, Atlanta..
2004. The Georgia 7: Seven Emerging Artists from the State of Georgia, Co-curator and essayist, MOCA GA, Atlanta.
2003-2004. ShedSpace, East Atlanta neighborhood installation and intervention, Atlanta, .
2002 and 2003. Triple Point, ArtSpot, Atlanta.
2002. The Project Room, six bi-monthly installations, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta.

Selected exhibitions, residencies, collections
October 2010-January 2011. Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, John Q, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, .
Remember Me, Forget Me. The Josh, Issue 3, Fall 2010, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
July 2010. Southern Art?, group exhibition, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA,.
May - June 2010. MondoPotato, John Q project, MondoHomo Dirty South City Stories group exhibition, Eyedrum Art&Music Gallery .
April 2010. Memory Flash, public intervention series with collective John Q, Flux Projects, Atlanta GA,
March 2010. Breakfast for WDW, John Q Project, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta GA,
May - June 2008. Discipline Problems, group exhibit curated by Joseph Grigely, Alogon Gallery, Chicago IL
2001. Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences.

The project of description, historicization, and critique of dominant modes of establishing knowledge might be furthered by making use of less traditional academic practices—practices that have more productive links to the modes of knowledge under investigation. (Feeling the Archives, forthcoming).