Annie MingHao Wang

Artist Statement

I am a dancer and choreographer. My dance training started with ballet and expanded to include Graham, taijichuan, wuxu, and postmodern forms. Across disciplines I find my movement practice always returns to a deep relationship with the ground and awareness of the spine. In my choreography I build from physical articulation and experimentation over time guided by an internal vision of the piece. As an immigrant and third culture kid my aesthetic comes from the feeling of belonging nowhere while experiencing American and Chinese culture both intimately and at a remove. My choreographic landscape is further informed by my other practices in textiles, watercolor painting, and spatial mathematics. Trusting in the body’s innate pluralism, I strive to make dance rooted in many different soils that allows imagined spaces to become, however momentarily, glimpsed and inhabited.

Photo Credit: Iki Nakagawa title: had my mouth created: 2023-2024 photo is from May 15, 2023 work-in-progress showing for Movement Research @Judson Monday series Full show premiered at Abrons Art Center Playhouse Theater January 18, 2024 Dancers: Annie MingHao Wang and Ching-I Chang Reader (on stage): Catherine Chen

Annie MingHao Wang (dancer/choreographer) is a freelancer living and working in New York, on Lenni Lenape land. She is a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and has also been Artist-In-Residence at Leimay Foundation, BRIC, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Marble House Project. Annie has been presented by Pioneers Go East, Movement Research@Judson Church, Leimay OUTSIGHT, Five Myles, Brooklyn's Center for Performance Research, the Exponential Festival, and BRIC. She is an active company member of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and also dances with Suiso Movement, Sugar Vendil, and Same As Sister.

Stephen Grossman

Artist Statement

The art I make is concerned with the human body’s experience of constructed environments. I explore how we use the primary senses and more pointedly the subconscious in reaction to conditions such as enclosure, proximity, and precipice. I focus on constructed spaces because they represent a prior human endeavor; its intent, culture and philosophy. When a person moves through or occupies a built environment they partake in a form of dialog with history, which introduces a cerebral layer to the otherwise visceral experience. Each individual processes an environment through their own unique filters – physiology, psychology, memory and personal history. The individual is alone, even isolated in their consciousness while bound to history, to society through the commonality of these lived experiences. I think this duality in human consciousness is at the root of our existential dilemma – we are solitary and social beings.

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Bio

Stephen Grossman is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture, drawing and painting in New Haven, CT. He was trained as an architect and received his BArch from The Cooper Union. His work focuses on the movement of the human body in relationship to architectural space. He has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Aldrich Museum, Real Art Ways, Artspace New Haven, New York Studio School Dumbo Sculpture Studio, Weir Farm Trust Gallery, Schweinfurth Art Center, Mt Ida College, Giampietro Gallery, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Garage Gallery, Ejecta Projects and other venues. In 2023 he was an artist in residence as a fellow at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. In 2020 he was an artist in residence at Streamways in Rockingham, VT. In 2006 he was a visiting artist at the Weir Farm Historic Trust. In 2002 he received an NEA grant for his public art project “Fencing”. He has taught visual arts at UNH and SCSU. In addition, he has curated exhibitions at the (untitled)Space gallery in New Haven including a Sol LeWitt wall drawing installation in 2001. He served on the board of Artspace New Haven from 2002 to 2009, (as president from 2004 to 2007).

Cecilia Corrigan

Artist Statement

I'm a writer and performer, primarily working in film and theater. My work has led me through many branches of the culture industry—as a poet, tv writer, academic, drag-performer, and comedian. Code-switching between fields has shaped my voice and fueled my desire to engage contextual expectations, which now expresses itself as a commitment to both escapist entertainment and critique. I’m currently working on a horror film that retells the Bluebeard fairytale as a parable about internalized homophobia and anti-aging technology, while exploring the ways the coercive tactics of late capitalism can infect intimacy. I like deploying broad genres such as comedy and horror to play with the tension, irritation, and alienation that animates the queer anxiety at the heart of my work.

Carma with a C, short film poster

Bio

Cecilia Corrigan is an NYC based writer and performer. Her upcoming projects include a contemporary queer adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, for which she was commissioned by Bedlam to write and perform. The play is Corrigan’s first major off-Broadway production, having previously performed and exhibited her theatrical work primarily in the context of the art and literary world. As Issue Project Room’s 2016 Artist in Residence, she created and developed Motherland, a play and video series, featured in Bomb magazine, which went on to run at The Brick in 2017. Corrigan is also the writer of several tv and film projects which are currently under option or in development. As a poet, she was awarded the Madeline P. Plonsker Prize for her first volume of poetry, Titanic, released on Northwestern University Press in 2014. She is also the author of the chapbooks Cream (Capricious, 2016) and True Beige (Trafficker, 2013). As an academic, she studied Comparative Literature in NYU’s PhD program. She’s written, produced, directed and acted in a number of short films, such as Carma With A C (2022), Le Balm (2017) and Crush, (2016).

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Frank Oudeman

Artist Statement

My work as a photographer is driven by the question of how to capture meaningful thought and experience in a single, still image. I push against photography’s stillness, fixedness and instantaneity, testing the medium’s conventionally defined boundaries. My recent images are explorations in tilting, tripping and arresting vision – as my camera sees it - to let it float freely again. Slicing up the given one moment and singular point-of-view of photography, I propose a fractured discontinuity of many moments and many points-of-view. These are lens-based images shot in a landscape, made with and in the camera through a process of multiple exposure. As a means to fragment light, surface and space, I use multiple exposure to visualize a scattered succession of moments and to suggest the element of time as a unity disassembled.

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Bio

Frank Oudeman is a Dutch visual artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His current work challenges photography’s conventional boundaries, testing and resisting the medium’s stillness, fixedness and instantaneity. Conceiving and constructing an array of disruptive devices around the lens of his camera, Oudeman seeks to complicate and elongate the singularities of time and point-of-view inherent to photography itself. Recent images explore the tilting, tripping and slicing of vision as the camera sees it. arresting vision to let it float freely again. Oudeman earned his MFA from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.  His video work was included in the 2016 Venice Biennale for Architecture and his photographs feature regularly in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, A+U and Frame among numerous national and international publications. He is the recipient of awards from the European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten’s Emerging Artist Prize, The Netherlands and The Netherland-America Foundation Fellowship. Recent residencies include MacDowell, BMAC Turks & Caicos residency and The Liljestrand House-Foundation, O’ahu.

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Cecile Chong

Bio

Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners was installed in the five boroughs of New York City (2017-2022). Fellowships and residencies include Surf Point Foundation Residency, Dieu Donné Workspace, BAC - Brooklyn Arts Fund, Asian Women Giving Circle, NYSCA, LMCC Creative Engagement, Urban Field Station, The Hispanic Society’s Vilcek Artist Research Fellowship, Block Gallery/Bronx Museum, BRIC Media Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Five Myles, BRIC House, Emerson Gallery Berlin, and Honey Ramka. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo, Museum of Chinese in America, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Citibank Art Advisory, and private collections internationally. She received an MFA from Parsons, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.

other Nature - Cicadian Rhythm, 2021 Sugar Hill Children's Museum Mixed Media on steel fence 34 x 18 x 14 ft Soundscape by Michael Paul Britto

Bio

Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners was installed in the five boroughs of New York City (2017-2022). Fellowships and residencies include Surf Point Foundation Residency, Dieu Donné Workspace, BAC - Brooklyn Arts Fund, Asian Women Giving Circle, NYSCA, LMCC Creative Engagement, Urban Field Station, The Hispanic Society’s Vilcek Artist Research Fellowship, Block Gallery/Bronx Museum, BRIC Media Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Five Myles, BRIC House, Emerson Gallery Berlin, and Honey Ramka. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo, Museum of Chinese in America, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Citibank Art Advisory, and private collections internationally. She received an MFA from Parsons, an MA in education from Hunter College, and a BA in Studio Art from Queens College.

https://www.cecilechong.com/

Casey Carter

Artist Statement

My practice explores psychological and emotional experience within overarching legal, administrative, and technological structures of governance and representation. Weaving together intimate portraits, real and imagined spaces and landscapes, and evidentiary documents and media, my work confronts diverse but intersecting spheres of cultural and political identity. Informed by an interdisciplinary background in photography, physics, and architecture, I draw on both aesthetic and didactic intuitions to address concrete narratives without interpretive mandates. My approach seeks to expand non-fiction media beyond the expository, observational, and poetic modes, exploring themes of governmentality, geography, environmentalism, and the personal dimensions of our technopolitical age.

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Bio

Casey Carter is a documentary-based artist and interdisciplinary designer whose work engages nonfiction storytelling in film, photography, data visualization, and cartography. He was a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Film/Video Artist Fellow, a 2019 Points North Fellow, and a 2017-2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow. He holds a BS in Physics and BS in Photography from Middle Tennessee State University, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. He is the project director for the What Is Missing? Foundation - Maya Lin’s multimedia memorial to 6th extinction.

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Nicholas Brooke

Artist Statement

In my work, vocalists and actors are trained to mimic collages of sound effects, pop songs, and musical ephemera, blurring the line between recording and live performance. Productions start as a collage of recordings, which my ensemble learns to imitate, creating a gestural vocabulary in lock-step with the samples. The work complicates musical culture through often multi-lingual and international musical sources, using a style developed in shows at Lincoln Center Festival, HERE, and Mass MoCA, in what has been called “the most exciting and innovative music theater I’ve seen in years” (Meredith Monk).

Ten Transcendental Etudes will be premiered at Mass MoCA and HERE Arts Center (NYC) just before and after Nick's Marble House residency. Photo Credit: Sue Rees

Bio

Nick Brooke works at the intersection of sound design, physical theater, instrument building, and music composition. Commissions include the People’s Commissioning Fund for the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, Talujon, Speculum Musicae, and Orchestra 2001, and have been performed at the Ecstatic Music Festival, Present Music, Lincoln Center Festival, the Spoleto Festival, and the MATA Series, and have been awarded Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Bogliasco fellowships.

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