David Michalek is an American visual artist and director whose work is closely tied to an interest in the contemporary person, which he explores through the use of live performance, filmmaking, photography, drawing, installation, relational aesthetics and public projects. His work often concentrates on carefully-staged marginal moments that develop density with minimal action through interplays of image, sound, and decelerated time. Exploring notions of durational and rhythmic time, his works engage and generate intimate yet open-ended narratives. His recent work considers various forms of slowness alongside contemporary modes of public attention. Much of his practice plays with creating forms of “Social Sculpture” – works with an aesthetic that can provoke situations that are uniquely social and collectively unique.  He is particularly drawn to projects that bring artists and ideas into effective pairings, in settings ranging from museum galleries, theaters and public spaces, to houses of worship, community organizations and centers of learning. His solo and collaborative work has been shown nationally and internationally. He is on the visiting faculty of Yale Divinity School and Harvard University’s Theater, Dance and Media Program, where he lectures on Art and Social Action.