JIMMY KUEHNLE

The pink and purple, hammer appendage sporting inflatable suit, You Wear What I Wear, took a stroll through Cincinnati.

Steven Rosen of the CityBeat in Cincinnati interviewed me about the upcoming performance there on Friday. I spoke with him on the phone the day after my performance in Chicago. Click on the image to see the full article or follow this link: http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-19514-adjusted-for-inflation.html

The windy city survived an inflatable invasion. After a little hold up in traffic I exited the East Monroe Parking Garage around 12:04 with my suit and battery pack in hand. Stephanie Anderson of Time Out Chicago met me at Grant Park with her camera. She followed along snapping pictures for most of the performanceContinue Reading

Santiago Esparza of The Detroit News came out to see the Detroit performance and followed along a bit down Woodward Avenue while Robin Buckson documented the event with her camera. Click the image to see a large image of the article and to read the text. The Detroit News link: http://www.detnews.com/article/20091128/METRO/911280331/1409/METRO/Pair-don-giant-inflated-suits-to-lighten-things-up-on-Woodward

After finding a parking space near Woodward and Warren Avenue, I unpacked two inflatable suits. In the morning Santiago Esparza of The Detroit News contacted me about coming to the performance with a photographer. I waited for him and Mary Beth Carolan to show up. Mary Beth saw some of the publicity for the DetroitContinue Reading

I spoke with Jason Carr of the FOX 2 Detroit Morning show at the FOX 2 studios. The interview went fine except for the fact that large inflatable suits do not fit well inside television studios. The suits banged into the lighting rigs a bit, but no damage was done. Getting the suits out andContinue Reading

William Mayer of Hope College in Holland, Michigan invited me to jury the student show there this fall. I accepted the invitation and traveled to Holland jury the work, give an artist talk, and of course to bounce around town in an inflatable suit. At 12:00 noon the doors of the gallery were locked andContinue Reading

The Office of Communications at Albion College contacted me in October about wanting to get a photo of one of my inflatable suits. We scheduled a photo shoot and You Wear What I Wear ended up on the back of Io Triumphe! the alumni magazine. It came with the caption “A 21st-Centruy Pied Piper.” DavidContinue Reading

After a successful series of inflatable suit performances in central Michigan, I am expanding the list of cities to include Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit and St. Louis. Since it is getting colder up here I am planning to confront the weather head on to find out what happens. These performances will occur in the end ofContinue Reading

I wrapped up the central Michigan performance tour in Kalamazoo. Hello. Bye. took strong winds in stride and attracted the attention of a couple reporters. As I walked by the Kalamazoo Gazette building during my performance, two journalists from the Business Review came out to see what was going on. Candace Beeke wrote a pieceContinue Reading