some notes:

Habeas Corpus began as The Insistent Body, a manila folder I began sorting in 1987. Or maybe as a shelf of books about bodies. I received a Film in the Cites grant and thought I'd make a video called Such Stuff Studies. Sometime in the early 90's, some of my family members began telling me I could not use my name, Mark McCusker, when performing and presenting my work so I chose Habeas Corpus as a pseudonym.

I meet Darrell Taylor in 1997. We began collaborating, fell in love, and were married. Darrell Co-directed Habeas Corpus until spring 2007. Darrell directs UNI's gallery of art in Cedar Falls, Iowa.