2008 Grantees
Sabrina Artel
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Performance
Support for the project Trailer Talk: ON THE LINE .The artist will travel along the US-Mexico border between California and Texas, employing elements of live talk radio, travel documentary, and town meetings to examine the proposed border fence.
Seth Augustine
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Performance
Support for travel and exchange with Chinese artist Shi Yong towards a new collaborative performance/installation.
Tamy Ben-Tor
Grant Award: $7,500
Genre: Film/Video
Support for travel to Horzi, Poland, the site of Nazi killing programs in 1940-41, to shoot a new video involving ideas of "neighbors" and "fear" as part of a series based on biblical stories.
Dave Burns
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for the Los Angeles collective Fallen Fruit to lead "public fruit" activities and dialogue in Sister City Auckland, New Zealand including A Public Fruit Jam.
Jonathan Calm
Grant Award: $7,000
Genre: Photography
Support for travel to France to investigate and document social housing complexes in the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles, the epicenter of the Fall 2005 race riots. Part of a body of work that examines the idealism and reality of public housing,
Nicolás Dumit Estévez
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Performance
Support for Borderless-- a project involving travel to the artist's birthplace, Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in order to trace his genealogical roots to neighboring Haiti. The project challenges the tradition of Dominicans foregrounding their roots to Spain and distancing themselves from their neighbors.
Paul Galloway
Grant Award: $7,000
Genre: Painting
Support to travel to Egypt to study the tradition of portraiture in Coptic Christianity in order to expand his own form of self-portraiture and further investigation of his own white, straight, male, American, Christian identity.
Leslie Hewitt
Amount Requested: $5,000
Genre: Photography
Support for travel to the Netherlands to research Dutch still-life paintings created during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Rijksmuseum in Holland.
Fawn Krieger
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for continuing research and interviews with former Trümmerfraun, "Rubble Women" in Berlin, recruited to clean up their demolished city with the fall of Nazi Germany.
Rodney McMillan
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Installation
Support for a collaboration with London-based poet and performance artist Caroline Bergvall towards creation of a new performance work.
Ivan Monforte
Grant Award: $7,500
Genre: Performance
Support for video and performance project in which the artist interviews Fa'afafines in Western and American Samoa and receives the Lima tattoo.
My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade)
Grant Award: $7,000
Genre: Performance
Support for Nile-ism, a site-specific performance project in Cairo, Egypt in two parts— "The Shocking History of the Eleven Human Senses", a musical play hosted by the Townhouse in Cairo, and a procession enacted on the Nile River.
Trevor Paglen
Amount Requested: $5,000
Genre: Photography
Research and travel support towards the creation of a new body of work entitled Hasenfus, involving a 1986 CIA plane crash in Nicaragua, which led to the exposure of the "Iran-Contra Scandal".
Ernesto Pujol
Amount Requested: $7,500
Genre: Installation
Support for INGRAINED---working with the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico to develop a new site-specific installation that examines undocumented histories of people and land in Puerto Rico.
Ishmael Randall Weeks
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Installation
Support for Proyecto Nomade II, which uses hybrid man-powered vehicles to examine ideas of the individual within the local and global marketplace. In collaboration with Oaxaca-based artist Demian Flores.
Andrea Ray
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Installation
Support for travel and research in Freetown Christiania in Denmark, the Whiteway Colony in the UK, and utopian communities in Ireland towards an installation examining notions of utopia.
Luis Sánchez Ramírez
Grant Award: $7,000
Genre: Film/Video
Support for a new site-specific installation and single channel video recreating the artist's experience during his process of immigration in Baja California. To be presented in Tijuana and Chicago.
Jeannie Simms
Amount Requested: $3,000
Genre: Performance
Support for Readymaids, a performance video and photo project involving "maid agencies" in Java, Indonesia.
Tavares Strachan
Amount Requested $5,000
Genre: Installation
Support for travel to Star City, Russia, site of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. The artist will conduct research towards the project The Orthostatic Tolerance, involving the creation of an Ocean and Aerospace Exploration Agency for the Bahamas, his home country.
Tam Van Tran
Grant Award: $7,000
Painting
Support for travel to Vietnam to collaborate with artists at Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts Institute to create ceramic sculptures that integrate busts of famous dictators with those of Buddha's and Bodhisattvas, as well as organizing group shows and open studios with artist Dinh Q Le.
Anne Walsh
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Film/Video
Support for an adapted film version of Leonora Carrington's comic novel The Hearing Trumpet, set and shot in present-day Mexico.
2007 Grantees
Radcliffe Bailey
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Painting
Research towards recreating the journey northward that Bailey’s predecessors would have taken on the Underground Railroad to Canada, culminating in a new work to be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Sanford Biggers
Grant Award: $7,500
Genre: Film and Video
Support for travel to the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival in Jakarta to work with local gamelan musicians towards the creation of a soundtrack for Shuffle, the third and final installment of Biggers’ video suite entitled Koan.
Daniel Bozhkov
Grant Award: $10,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for the Sofia, Bulgaria pilot launch of So MoMA, a traveling museum of contemporary art examining the role that a museum can play in post-conflict areas, with temporary exhibitions that use local resources and exhibit the work of local artists.
Mel Chin
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Film and Video
Support for travel and research for a new animated short film following the trade route of diamonds from Africa through Belgium used to sponsor the 911 attacks on New York and Washington DC. Continued collaboration with Plano Visual, an animation team in Santiago, Chile.
Critical Art Ensemble
Grant Award: $4,000
Genre: Other
Support for ongoing work.
Andrea Geyer
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Installation
Development support for the Canadian section of Perplexities—a book project involving the integration of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in indigenous communities in the four countries that did not vote in support the declaration. Involves travel to Iqualit, the new capital of Nunavut, Inuit territory and an interview with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the InuitCircumpolarConference.
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Performance
Support for Night Hawk, a conceptual project in which a performer will cross the Arizona-Mexico border wearing an authentic Black Robe from the KKK embroidered by local Mexicali artists.
Sharon Hayes
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Performance
Support for the Paris and London performance iterations of the project In the Near Future, in which Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an investigation into the figure of the protester, and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.
Wayne Hodge
Grant Award: $9,000
Genre: Film and Video
Support for a new video project that reinterprets the story of the Czech fencer Balduin, in collaboration with a fencing school in Berlin.
Emily Jacir
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Film and Video
Travel and research in Rome and Jordon towards the development of a script for a narrative film about Wael Zuaiter—the first victim in a series of assassinations committed by Israeli agents on Palestian artists, intellectuals and diplomats.
Bryan Jackson
Grant Award: $10,000
Genre: Film and Video
Support for travel to Tokyo to collaborate with composer Eiji Yoshizawa and meet artists involved with the gay and lesbian Community Center AKTA including Akira the Hustler, Kazuyuki Takezaki and Eisin Sasaki towards the creation of a new video work.
Adria Julia
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Installation
Support for travel and research towards The Masotta Project – examining Oscar Masotta’s body of writings and the collision of Peronista politics, European avant-garde art and Lacanian psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires.
Shaun El C. Leonardo
Grant Award: $7,500
Genre: Performance
Support for the Oaxaca performance of El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man, a reoccurring wrestling event in which Leonardo portrays a Mexican wrestling luchador who fights his own “invisibility”, both literal and metaphoric.
Pavol Liska
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Performance
Planning support for Liska, playwright/director Kelly Copper, and three Amsterdam based performers towards the creation of a new work based on the ideas of translation and misunderstanding.
Katt Lissard
Grant Award: $9,000
Genre: Performance
Support towards work at the newly launched Winter/Summer Performance Institute in Lesotho, Southern Africa with collaborators from South Africa, Lesotho, and the U.K.
Steve Locke
Grant Award: $7,500
Genre: Painting
Support for travel to Istanbul to visit the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia with specific interest in exploring themes in his work such as patterning, decoration, calligraphy and wall painting.
Charles McGill
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Performance
The public performance and documentation of Arthur Negro, founding member of The Former Black Militant Golf and Country Club, in various locations in Harlem and Hanoi, Vietnam.
Carlos Motta
Grant Award: $6,500
Genre: Installation
Support for travel to La Paz, Bolivia and Caracas, Venezuela to conduct interviews for The Good Life--a multi channel video installation, a newsprint publication, and an internet archive exploring US interventions in Latin America.
Kori Newkirk
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Installation
Support for travel to Dakar, Senegal towards the creation of a new video work exploring the artist’s ancestry and themes of human trafficking, and globalism.
Karyn Olivier
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Travel to her native country of Trinidad (her first time working there) during Carnival to learn the stilt-walking traditions of Moko Jumbies at the Keylemanjahro School of Arts, and to create an installation for the project space of local architect Sean Leonard.
Clifford Owens
Grant Award: $9,500
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for Owens’ first international travel to Ecuador to explore multiple cities and research aspects of local culture and politics.
Dawit Lejam Petros
Grant Award: $9,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for a return to his native country of Eritrea to retrace the route that his family followed when fleeing the war in the 1970’s, constructing temporary traditional housing structures along the way and staging a 27 mile walk to the sea. The artist also will research professional mourners from the Bilen and Tigrinya tribes for two upcoming exhibitions.
Deirdre Portnoy
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Photography
Support to create programs of PhotoStory, a participatory photography project thus far conducted in six different countries, now taking place in South Africa and Mali.
Jackie Salloum
Grant Award: $10,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for the creation of concert video projections created in collaboration with DAM and PR, Palestinian hip hop groups, and Waleed Zaiter, an Arab-American graphic animator. These will accompany the release of Salloum’s feature length documentary, Slingshot Hip-Hop: The Palestinian Lyrical Front.
David Schweitzer
Grant Award: $9,000
Genre: Performance
Support for the travel to Cusco, Peru to work with collaborators on QORICANCHA (AND THE SACRED SONGS OF CUSCO) -- a new multimedia opera theater addressing the forced application of modern cultures onto the remnants of ancient ones in Peru, with “lost” Peruvian songs sung in Quechua by Sonia Ccahuana.
Peggy Shaw (Split Britches Company)
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Performance
Support for Shaw and Lois Weaver to bring their performance piece Long Table to the Hemispheric Institute’s 2007 Encuentro in Argentina.
Joe Silovsky
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Performance
Support for the continued development of the performance work The Jester of Tonga based on the true story of Jesse Bogdonoff, a Californian accountant who was officially declared the Jester of the island of Tonga by the country’s king. He earned millions in interest for the country originating from a scheme selling Tongan passports to Hong Kong citizens. Involves travel to California and Tonga for further research.
Cauleen Smith
Grant Award: $9,900
Genre: Film and Video
Support for the research and development of Rebecca (working title), a multi-pronged collaboration with Nigerian filmmaker Ekenna Igwe which encompasses a narrative film and a non-linear video installation based on Daphne du Maurier's popular 1938 novel, Rebecca.
The Speculative Archive (David Thorne and Julia Meltzer)
Grant Award: $10,000
Genre: Film and Video
Support for the creation of a video with Syrian filmmaker and actor Rami Farah investigating land, identity memory, and contesting visions of the future in the Golan Heights.
Mary Ellen Strom
Grant Award: $8,000
Genre: Film and Video
Support for a collaboration with performance artist Ann Carlson and artist Bently Spang of the Northern Cheyenne nation towards the creation of a section of “Future Memory”, a video installation that imagines probable and desirable alternative futures.
Temporary Services
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Installation
Research support for members of Temporary Services and Ljubljana-based artists Polonca Lovsin and Stefan Doepner and curator Urska Jurman to investigate public inventions in Ljubljana that people create to meet their everyday needs.
Hank Willis Thomas
Grant Award: $3,000
Genre: Photography
Support to expand a previous project The Truth is I Am You to five different continents, asking people from diverse cultural and language backgrounds to share their understanding of the truth, towards a video and sound installation in collaboration with artist Ryan Alexiev.
Allison Wiese
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for travel and exchange with artist Edgar Orlaineta (Mexico City) towards the creation of new site-specific work and possible publication.
Jenifer Wofford
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Site Specific Work
Galleon Trade is an exhibition in Manila, Philippines of artists with ties to the Philippines, Mexico, and California seeking to create new routes of cultural exchange along the old historic Acapulco-Manila route of commerce and trade.
Saya Woolfalk
Grant Award: $5,000
Genre: Installation
Support for travel to Japan to participate in the Takayama Festival at the Hida Folk Village in Gifu, to research folkloric performance practices and practitioners for a performance.
