Svetlana Bailey
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Touched by occasions that are silently dissonant, that with a different context seem surreal, Svetlana Bailey builds installations and photographs what she terms in-camera collage. Born in St Petersburg, Svetlana has exhibited throughout Australia and the US and is represented by Artereal Gallery Sydney. She recently had solo exhibitions in the United States at Filter Space in Chicago and Blue Sky in Portland and was in a group show at ClampArt in NYC. Svetlana has participated in residencies such as the ISCP in NYC, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the NARS Foundation in NYC, the Mountain School in LA and will attend the Vermont Studio Centre on a Fellowship this summer. She has received numerous grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, the American-Australian Association and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. Her work is held in the Australian Government’s Artbank collection and the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, was recently featured in PDN magazine, and for the last two years running was awarded the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward prize. Svetlana lives and works in New York City, and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA from UNSW.
svetlanabailey.com
Ysanet Batista
Menu from a summer Plant-Based Cooking Class
Ysanet Batista is a queer Black-Dominican woman, born in Harlem, NY and raised in between the Dominican Republic and Hialeah, FL. Ysanet graduated from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI and spent a couple of years working in major hotel companies before transitioning to community based work. When she is not cooking or developing Woke Foods, Ysanet is helping other people start their own worker-cooperative businesses at Green Worker Cooperatives at their Coop Academy. Her passions include holistic cooking, farming, writing, and community organizing. She is inspired by the power and magic of Black and Brown people, the ocean, and the Now. She is currently a student at Farm School NYC earning a certificate in Urban Agriculture. Ysanet loves eating Platano Maduros and talking gut health!
Amanda Burr Xido
Amanda Burr Xido is a writer and film producer. A recent graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, she is at work on her novel The Dig and a collection of short stories. She is currently the creative producer and co-writer of "Sons of Detroit," a film mixing documentary, performance, and fiction, directed by Jeremy Xido. The two are also collaborating on a narrative film set in Detroit, currently in development. Other recent producing credits include the series FILMS BYKIDS for PBS, the documentaries "Death Metal Angola" and "Man Shot Dead," and the short doc/fiction hybrid "Solitary/Release." She was previously the creative director for the digital learning company Nomadic Learning, where she wrote, directed, and produced over 50 animated short films. She has also worked as an associate programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival, a consultant with the Screenwriters Colony, a programmer for the Chicago Humanities Festival, and as a theater director. She holds a BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She was born in Nashville, raised in Florida, New Jersey, and Texas, and has spent time in over twenty countries on five continents. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Grisha Coleman
image from performance of treadmilldreamtimerunninginplace at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2016
Grisha Coleman is a composer and choreographer in performance and experiential media, her work explores relationships among our physiological, technological and ecological systems. She works as an Associate Professor of Movement, Computation and Digital Media in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering [AME] and the School of Dance at Arizona State University. Her recent art and scholarly work echo::system is a springboard for re-imagining the environment, environmental change, and environmental justice. Coleman is a New York City native with an M.F.A. in Composition and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts, following which she was awarded a fellowship at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been recognized nationally and internationally including a 2012 National Endowment Arts in Media Grant [NEA], the 2014 Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford University, and grants from the Rockefeller Fund, and The Creative Capital Foundation.
http://echo-system.net
Charlotte Crowe
Charlotte Crowe holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in English from the University of Oxford, where she completed a dissertation on Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison, the first female classicist and archaeologist in the UK. A 2017 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she currently works at the Brooklyn Public Library and is writing her first novel.
Leslie Cuyjet
Leslie Cuyjet, A Salient Theme (2017), at La MaMa for LaMaMa Moves! Festival. Image by Scott Shaw. Originally premiered in 2016 at Center for Performance Research.
Leslie Cuyjet is a choreographer and performer based in New York. She has collaborated, contributed, co-directed, facilitated, designed, and danced with a range of artists since earning a BFA in dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Artists that include Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro/a canary torsi, Jane Comfort, David Gordon, Niall Noel Jones, Cynthia Oliver, Juliana F. May, Julian Barnett, Stephanie Acosta, Vanessa Walters, NARCISSISTER, Sean Donovan and Sebastián Calderón Bentin, Emily Wexler, David Thomson, Mark Dendy, The A.O. Movement Collective, and Will Rawls, among others. She has appeared in performances by Anohni, Meredith Monk, and Solange. Her independent work aims to unpack this personal archive that includes two decades of performing across postmodern and experimental forms through the lens of a black woman, using writing and choreography. Cuyjet has been presented in New York by La MaMa (La MaMa Moves! Festival/The Current Sessions), Gibney Dance (DoublePlus), Center for Performance Research (Fall Movement), Movement Research (Fall Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church), AUNTS (Realness, Populous), and Danspace Draftworks. Leslie has held the honor of being an artist-in-residence at Chez Bushwick (2016), Movement Research (2017-2018), and Center for Performance Research (2019), and Yaddo (2019)
lesliecuyjet.com
Michael Dwan Singh
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Michael Dwan Singh is an artist, producer, and stage actor based in Cambridge, MA. One of the very few sarangi players in the United States, he comes under the lineage of the legendary Sultan Khan via his teacher, Dr. Kashyap Dave. Singh is a seasoned stage performer who has brought the soulful haunt of his instrument and tonality to audiences across the US and India. As a producer, he founded Desi Standard Time Studio in 2008, transforming the second floor of a mechanic’s garage into a makeshift audio paradise. There, he remixes archetypes, cooks hooks and writes groove across decaying tape machines, obscure Indian instruments, and overdriven synths. His most recent work has been with his band, The Shadow Notes, and as Tapewallah- his solo project. Singh is also one of the main organizers for SubDrift Boston- a monthly open mic for the South Asian Diaspora.
www.ashram885.com
Geri Doran
My second collection of poems, Sanderlings (Tupelo Press, 2011).
Headshot, Geri Doran Photo credit, Jay Eads
Geri Doran is the author of three poetry collections—Resin, Sanderlings and the forthcoming Epistle, Osprey (Tupelo, 2019). Her work has been recognized with an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. She has also held residency fellowships at the James Merrill House, Maison Dora Maar in Provence, Lighthouse Works, Millay Colony and Vermont Studio Center. Individual poems have appeared recently in New England Review, Yale Review, Southwest Review and other journals. Her new book marks a shift toward a quieter poem in a more natural form. Contemplative and disquieted, the poems of Epistle, Osprey trace the mysteries of encounter, wanderlust, rootedness, the human relationship with nature, and our uncertain place in world and cosmos.
Lorna Dune
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Praised by VICE Magazine as the "mistress of new music" and named as one of their Artists to Watch by The Fader, Lorna Dune has been turning heads since her foray into the world of electronic music production. An experimental pianist, who played with the Philip Glass Ensemble, shared the stage with Steve Reich and Meredith Monk, and a long-time collaborator with Missy Mazzoli in the composer’s “all-star, all-female quintet” Victoire, has a new take on weightier beat-driven electronic music which is both fresh in its approach to the genre and also a unique arrival through her journey through sound. As a performer Dune was recently featured as a synth soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, toured her music nationally with Emily Wells, was commissioned to compose & perform a work to celebrate Terry Riley’s 80th birthday at the Ecstatic Music Festival, has seen a release of a remix of composer Max Richter on Deutsche Grammophon, remixed a Pulitzer prize winning work by Caroline Shaw and toured worldwide with the electro-feminist-punk icon JD Samson. “An experimental keyboardist who is happy to go wherever her heart and ears tell her, redefining genres along the way, Lorna Dune inhabits a world of her own, and it’s a glorious thing to behold.” – Red Bull Music Academy
http://lornadune.com
Ursula Endlicher
Ursula Endlicher INPUT FIELD FORM #2 Outdoor Installation with plants, earth, grass, and stones; Performance includes harvested food, table, umbrella April-November 2018 42 ft x 23 ft ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY A view onto INPUT FIELD FORM #2 at ChaNorth in Pine Plains, NY, during the monthly INPUT FIELD FORM #2 TOUR in July 2018. INPUT FIELD FORM #2 is an outdoor installation that uses the online application form that artists had to fill out to apply for the ChaNorth Artist Residency as layout for growing vegetables and herbs. In this photo Ursula is performing her guiding tour through the fields explaining each field’s plants and its relation to the original Web-based Input Field. "Edible HTML" is offered in the snack area located in the Submit Button of the field..
Ursula Endlicher turns digital code into physical form. A media artist who has worked since the mid ‘90s with the Internet, she is focusing on how digital culture imbues the material world. She has built Internet art works and performances, with real-time data and code determining their layout and choreographies. Combining her background in Fine Art, Theater Studies and Computer Art, she has transformed the hidden structures of the Inter-networked world into mixed-media installations using ceramics, video, agricultural fields and food, inviting her audience to partake in the celebration of these re-coded systems through tours and dinner events offering “edible HTML.” In her most recent installation "Input Field Form #2" she transformed the Artist Residency application form – the HTML form that gathers user information through Input Fields – into an agricultural field at ChaNorth in Upstate NY during the "Process Park" residency. Among her most well known Internet Art works is "html_butoh", a movement database for the HTML language, commissioned by one of the first leading website supporting Internet Art, Turbulence.org. Another work, "Light and Dark Networks", part of the Whitney Museum of American Art's permanent collection, populated the museum's website with different "data performances" driven by changes in New York City's weather and air quality. She has presented her work in national and international galleries and venues including Harvestworks, StreamingWorks, Air Circulation, transmediale Berlin, SIGGRAPH Asia, and ISEA, and was awarded a project residency at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. Ursula was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, and lives in New York since 1993.
http://www.ursenal.net
Leigh Gallagher
Playing & Reality, a limited-edition print set featuring hybrid-text by Leigh Gallagher and paintings by Paul Wackers. Inspired by D.W. Winnicott's book of the same name.
Leigh Gallagher is a writer and educator. A graduate of the Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, her stories have appeared in numerous journals and collections. Recent publications include fictional responses to other art forms in an artist's catalogue, in a record insert, and in two limited-edition print collaborations. She currently lives in Los Angles, where she's at work on a novel about storytelling and power.
www.helloleighgallagher.com
Melanie Greene
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I’m a movement-based artist taking on the world through a curious lens. I’m no stranger to swirling on the edge of impossible, swimming in the sea of the minority. A 2017 Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Performance with The Skeleton Architecture, I’ve presented work throughout New York City and abroad. I’ve received generous support from the Bogliasco Fellowship, Gibney Dance, New York Live Arts, Actors Fund Summer Push Grant, and Dancing While Black Fellowship. I’m a proud alumna of EmergeNYC for activist performance, and have performed with/for sheros Sydnie L. Mosley, Paloma McGregor, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Coco Karol, and Dancenoise. When not dancing, I enjoy writing about dance. I contribute written works to The Dance Enthusiast, Dance Magazine, and my personal blog. Currently, I am a co-host of The Dance Union podcast, a Movement Research Artist in Residence, and Spring Brooklyn Studios for Dance Artist in Residence. Stay tuned.
www.methodsofperception.com
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands. Her five award-winning books include Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough; and All the Agents & Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, VQR, The Believer, Orion, and the Oxford American, and she edited Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010. Other distinctions include a Henry Luce Scholarship to China, a Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Prize. Currently Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she has performed on five continents, in capacities ranging from a Moth storyteller to a literary ambassador for the U.S. State Department. One place she was thrilled to leave was Planet Cancer. She’s been in remission since December 2017. Visit her website at www.StephanieElizondoGriest.com.
www.StephanieElizondoGriest.com
Melanie Griffin
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Melanie Griffin is an L.A. based Black queer chronically ill artist and herbalist, who was born in Georgia in 1981. She is deeply invested in collective healing and creative paths that center Black and Brown people. They are able to do work that serves that passion as the Deputy Director of Health and Wellness at Dignity and Power Now, an organization that advocates for incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, their families and others targeted by state violence. Through textiles, multimedia works, writing, and performance/ritual/magic, Melanie explores issues around home, self-care/ self affirmation, sickness, healing, race, gender, sexuality, capitalism, liberation and our relationship to this planet. They have held workshops and shown work in different spaces including SOMArts, Human Resources, the Women’s Center for Creative Work, and LACE.
Hanne G
Group_textile_2018_H200cm_forTextileBiennalePoland SPLINTER GROUP is an installation of 5 hanging objects forming a “meeting/gathering”. SPLINTER GROUP generally means “a small organisation that has broken away from a larger one”. In this context I want the group to signify the possibilities of independency, freedom and new ways as well as an underlying expression of loneliness
Hanne G represents the innovative and experimental attitude in textile arts. She creates works whose expression is both rational and irrational, scientific, mystic and humorous. Hanne G transforms the textile medium to address tactility and the nature of perception. Hanne G (born 1963) has a Masters of Arts in Architecture from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and she has been working primarily as an artist for the last 12 years. She has participated in several international exhibitions. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
www.hanneg.dk
Brian Harnetty
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Brian Harnetty is an interdisciplinary artist who works closely with sound archives and communities connected to them. His work contends that the simple act of listening –– to people, place, and their pasts –– can transform our futures. His current projects –– supported by a 2018 A Blade of Grass Fellowship and the 2016 Creative Capital Performance Award –– are deeply involved with ecology, extraction, and economy in Appalachian Ohio, informed in part by his family's roots in the region. Harnetty received a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University, an M.Mus. in Music Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and a B.Mus. in Music Composition from The Ohio State University. Harnetty has released five internationally acclaimed albums. His 2013 release, The Star-Faced One: from the Sun Ra/El Saturn Archives was MOJO Magazine’s Underground Album of the Year. He has performed throughout the US and Europe, and has written in-depth articles on sound, extraction, and Appalachia. Past collaborators include Will Oldham, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Anna Roberts-Gevalt (Anna & Elizabeth), and Paul De Jong (The Books). Harnetty is currently an AmeriCorps Volunteer, telling the stories of people in Appalachian Ohio.
http://www.brianharnetty.com
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Prime: Poetry & Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community, a necessity as the historically well-indexed canon of white queer writers continues to grow with little diversity. Sparked into existence by a Best American Poetry blog from Jericho Brown in which he singled out some of the most exciting young, black, and gay men writing today, Prime features poems by and dialogue between poets Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson. Jericho Brown provides the introduction for this collection, which is proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is a recipient of a 2019 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry and fellowships or scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Cave Canem, CantoMundo, and other creative writing programs. His poetry has been awarded the C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International and his poetry was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, BOAAT Poetry Prize, Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, Brittingham & Pollak Poetry Prizes, Split this Rock! National Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry from Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, and others. His poetry has been published in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere in print and online.
www.darrelholnes.com
Spencer Huffman
Spencer Huffman is a playwright, actor, and director based in Chicago. His plays include: When We Were Little, Shine Down On Us, The Swamp Play, Like Some Deep Booming, and If Only We Were Ghosts. His plays have earned finalist and semi-finalist nominations from The National Playwrights Conference, American Stage’s 21st Century Voices New Play Festival, Landing Theatre Co. New American Voices Festival, and The New Colony. Spencer’s plays have received staged readings from Three Cat Productions (Chicago, IL) and Broken Bell Productions (Chicago, IL). He was a member of the Writers Room 7.0 at The New Colony in Chicago. His directing credits include Bug by Tracy Letts and Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth. Spencer earned a BA Kenyon College with majors in Theatre and English.
Fumihiro Kikuchi
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