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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeannie Simms
Genre: Performance
Support for Readymaids, a performance video and photo project involving “maid agencies” in Java, Indonesia.
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.