2009 Grantees
Mark Blankenship
Support to collaborate with artists from Iceland and Germany on video works for the artist’s web project The Critical Condition.
www.thecriticalcondition.com
Jane Callister
Support for travel to the Isle of Man to collaborate with Manx historian, documentary filmmaker and sound engineer Charles Guard on the installation Found in Translation.
Alejandro Cesarco
Support for travel to Montevideo, Uruguay to create a film portrait of the artist’s 94 year-old grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
www.cesarco.info
William Cordova
Support for travel to Peru, Uruguay and 35 US states to document certain forgotten historic landmarks associated with radical community activist groups from the 1500’s to the 1960’s.
www.arnt-partner.com
Santiago Cucullu
Support for travel to Peru to research the architectural remnants of various Pre-Incan cultures in the areas of Trujillo, Chiclayo, Lima, and Cuzco, as well as the ruins of Machu Picchu.
Alejandro Diaz
Support to expand the artist’s "handmade sign" project to Mexico City and surrounding rural towns.
Zachary Drucker
Support for travel to Berlin to collaborate with performance artist and drag queen Vaginal Davis on a photo and video project exploring contemporary trans culture of the city.
www.zacharydrucker.com
Jon Haddock
Support for a digital drawing project involving personal reflections of residents of the former Soviet Union on key events foreshadowing the dissolution of the USSR, in collaboration with CECArtsLink.
www.whitelead.com
Franklin Joyce
Support for a collaboration between US media artist Franklin Joyce, Indonesian counter-culture icon/brand designer Dendy Darman and artist Veroland, for a project involving Becak (Bicycle taxis) and the celebration of Independence in Bandung, Java, Indonesia.
Arnold Kemp
Support for a three-week residency in France to work with painter Pierre Soulages as part of the larger project BLACK ART INDEX.
www.workarnoldjkemp.com
Osman Khan
Support for the creation of a site-specific installation in Lahore, Pakistan in which the Taj Mahal can be viewed through a live video feed.
www.osmankhan.com
Simone Leigh
Support for travel to Durban, South Africa, to research contemporary material culture in Zululand.
Dave McKenzie
Support for travel and research in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Cape Town, South Africa, for a film project based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City and Invisible Cities.
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere
Support for travel to Castelfidardo, Italy to attend the 34th annual Festival Internazionale Fisarmonica and tour the Borsini factory as part of an investigation into the accordion as a popular music instrument and social activator.
www.nevareztevere.info
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Support for a project in Ho Chi Minh City examining communist propaganda and capitalist marketing, in which the artist rents an “advertisement” billboard to show a rotating selection of local artists’ work.
Brooke O’Harra (Dyke Division of Theater of the Two-Headed Calf)
Support for the travel to Istanbul for the development of the live soap opera Room for Cream Istanbul in collaboration with Lambda Istanbul and local queer performers and artists.
www.twoheadedcalf.org
Robert Pruitt
Support for travel to Mali to research the intersection of Hip Hop and traditional Dogon culture in Bamako and the annual festival on the Niger in Segou.
Duke Riley
Support for artist’s return to the island Bequia in the south Caribbean Sea to create tattoo designs combining the residents contemporary whaling tales and personal histories with the artist’s 19th century New England scrimshaw motifs.
www.dukeriley.info
Marc Andre Robinson
Support for travel to South Africa to investigate his Afrikaners roots, creating an event on the land that was once a family farm to be documented by Google Earth.
Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Support for a research trip to Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, inspired by Ulrike Ottinger’s film Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, to examine strategies for nomadic living, shared labor and non-mechanized textile production.
www.brookstakahashi.com
Visual Aids
Support for the Robert Blanchon Estate Project.
www.visualaids.org
Hong-Kai Wang
Support for the project Watching Dust, in which excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera Dust are performed for “comfort women” survivors at the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation in Taiwan.
www.w-h-k.net
2008 Grantees
Sabrina Artel
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
Genre: Performance
Support for travel and exchange with Chinese artist Shi Yong towards a new collaborative performance/installation.
Tamy Ben-Tor
Genre: Film/Video
Support for travel to Poland to shoot a video based on biblical stories.
Mathieu Borysevicz
Genre: Film/Video
Support for Channing District Orchestra, a video document of the migrant recycling population of the Channing District in Shanghai, China.
www.mabz.net
Matthew Buckingham
Genre: Film/Video
Support for Subterranean Pass Way, a 16mm film projection/installation looking at the anti-slavery Underground Railroad movement in the US and Canada.
www.matthewbuckingham.net
Dave Burns
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.
www.fallenfruit.org
Jonathan Calm
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.
www.jonathancalm.com
Nicole Cherubini
Genre: Installation
Support for travel to Guadalajara, Mexico to research the production of traditional ceramic wares leading to an exhibition examining function and aesthetics.
www.nicolecherubini.net
Felipe Dulzaides
Genre: Installation
Support for Utopia Posible—a project involving the unfinished Drama School in Havana, Cuba (part of the Cuban National Schools of Arts) and its architect Roberto Gottardi.
Nicolás Dumit Estévez
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.
http://www.longwoodarts.org/Artists/nicolas/
Amy Franceschini
Genre: Site Specific Work
Support for travel to Cali, Colombia to collaborate with local artist Wilson Díaz on a new body of work, Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant.
Victoria Fu
Genre: Film/Video
Support for travel from China to Taiwan retracing the route taken in 1949 by the artist’s family to escape Communist China, towards the creation of a new film.
www.victoriafu.com
Paul Galloway
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.
http://paulgalloway.net
Ken Gonzales-Day
Genre: Photography
Support for a residency at Curtiduria (Oaxaca Arts Center) in Oaxaca, Mexico to expand the artist’s exploration of race and nation begun with his study of lynching photography in the American West.
www.kengonzalesday.com
Leslie Hewitt
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
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.
www.fawnkrieger.com/
Dinh Q. Le
Genre: Installation
Support for Saigon: Diary of a Fat City, a project documenting the daily life of twelve recycling women in Saigon, Vietnam through video and installation.
Kalup Linzy
Genre: Film/Video
Support for the European tour of a new album/project with original music, spoken word and performance.
www.kaluplinzy.net
James Longley
Genre: Film/Video
Support for Sons of Iran, a feature length documentary film that will follow the lives of students and their teachers at a Khomeni boarding school in Tehran, Iran.
www.daylightfactory.com
Rodney McMillian
Genre: Installation
Support for a collaboration with London-based poet and performance artist Caroline Bergvall towards creation of a new performance work.
Ivan Monforte
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)
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
Genre: Photography
Research and travel support towards the creation of a new body of work entitled Hasenfus, involving a1986 CIA plane crash in Nicaragua, which led to the exposure of the “Iran-Contra Scandal”.
www.paglen.com
Ernesto Pujol
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.
www.ernestopujol.org
Michael Queenland
Genre: Installation
Support for travel and documentation of the artist’s first trip back to Jamaica in 25 years with his father to visit family land in Three Hills, Ocho Rios and to conduct research in Spanish Town and Kingston.
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Genre: Installation
Support for Desahogo, a project involving the hiring of street vendors to document oral histories of passersby in Cali, California; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Quito, Ecuador; Tijuana, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina.
www.automat.com
Ishmael Randall Weeks
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
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.
http://web.mac.com/rayandrea
Randy Regier
Genre: Installation
Support for a toy-making and vending project involving El Rastro flea market in Madrid, Spain.
www.flickr.com/photos/regierart/
Emily Roysdon
Genre: Photography
Support for a project in Berlin in collaboration with Swedish artist Klara Liden as part of a series using choreography as political practice and form of social organizing.
www.emilyroysdon.com
Luis Sánchez Ramírez
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.
www.luissanchezramirez.com
Xaviera Simmons
Genre: Photography
Travel to the Northeast coast of Australia to research ideas of Dreamtime and landscape in aboriginal communities, and to set up a free outdoor photography studio in collaboration with Australian sculptor and painter Daniel Templeton.
www.johnconnellypresents.com
Jeannie Simms
Genre: Performance
Support for Readymaids, a performance video and photo project involving “maid agencies” in Java, Indonesia.
www.jeanniesimms.com
Jeff Sonhouse
Genre: Painting
Support for travel to Brazil, Columbia, Panama and the Caribbean to engage in conversations with artists of African descent for a video documentary.
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
Genre: 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.
www.annewalshjunior.org
2007 Grantees
Radcliffe Bailey
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
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
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
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
Genre: Other
Support for ongoing work.
Andrea Geyer
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.
www.andreageyer.info
Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
www.elcleonardo.com
Pavol Liska
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.
www.oktheater.org
Katt Lissard
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
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
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.
http://web.mac.com/charlesmcgill40
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
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.
www.meltzerthorne.com
Carlos Motta
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.
www.carlosmotta.com
Kori Newkirk
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
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
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
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
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.
www.photostoryproject.org
Jackie Salloum
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
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)
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
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
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.
Mary Ellen Strom
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
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
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.
www.hankwillisthomas.com
Allison Wiese
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
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
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.
