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Deke Weaver, “Jojo and Hero: The Elephants in The Unreliable Bestiary”

Gay Bradshaw March 4, 2026

Deke Weaver’s multidisciplinary work has been presented in venues such as PBS, Sundance Film Festival, Channel 4/U.K., New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, Chicago Humanities Festival, Berlin Video Festival, The Moth, 21c Museum Hotels, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, livestock pavilions, backyard sheds, forests, prairies, night clubs and living rooms. A Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Capital grantee, Weaver is currently a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the School of Art & Design, the Department of Theater, the Department of Dance, and faculty affiliation with the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. unreliablebestiary.org

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