Heath Schultz is a multi-disciplinary artist and recent graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and currently resides in Chicago. Heath is interested in revisiting and rethinking history. Utilizing various methods of investigation and research, Heath’s work aims to heighten criticality and consciousness of our surroundings, as well as examine how history has been recorded and conveyed.

A Brief and Incomplete History of Resistance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Toronto: an exchange project

“A Brief and Incomplete History of Resistance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign” is a zine created and distributed in the spring of 2007. I assembled as many “acts of resistance” as possible to make up the content of the zine in hopes of distributing the information and informing the campus of various moments of protest and resistance.

For the Infinite Exchange Gallery I will distribute the zine again, this time in Toronto. I will ask that the receivers of the zine, Toronto residents, e-mail me information about acts of resistance that have occurred in Toronto. Specifically, participants will be asked to exchange information, stories, photographs, and the sources of their information in order to compile a better archive of information regarding the local histories of protest in Toronto. Finally, with the information given to me by participants, I will compile another zine. When completed, the Toronto zine will be sent back to the Kensington Market, the host of the Infinite Exchange Gallery, to be distributed in Toronto. Likewise, I will distribute Toronto zines at UIUC.

I am interested in the exchange of local histories of protest in order to attempt a better and more complete understanding of these activities. What are the larger differences / similarities in these histories? When is resistance successful or unsuccessful? Most importantly, what can we learn from one another by exchanging these often under-represented narratives?