Results of the First Open Call for Artist Residencies at The Performing Garage
In June 2013, five artists and artist groups were selected to develop and perform their work as part of the the Wooster Group’s visiting artists program, The Performing Garage Presents. These artists, whose residencies will take place between August 2013 and summer 2014, were chosen from 217 applications received in response to an open call announced in April.
Here are the artists and how they describe their work:
MALLORY CATLETT / RESTLESS NYC
THIS WAS THE END
Project Development Residency
Mallory Catlett is a director of performance across disciplines whose company Restless NYC excavates classical texts as a source of contemporary performance, engaging the past in a dialogue about its life in the present. Working at the Garage with video designer Keith Skretch and sound artist G. Lucas Crane, she will develop This Was The End, a theater piece that uses Uncle Vanya and four actors in their sixties to explore the function of memory in the formation of the future.
DEVILLE COHEN
LUNA PARK
Performance Residency
Deville Cohen’s performance-based photographs and videos use black-and-white Xerox images as integral elements in their mise-en-scène. Sets, characters, and props become entangled in psychic dramas saturated with humor, desire, and anxiety. During his residency at The Performing Garage, he will develop Luna Park, an installation of an amusement park and its rides that combines video with elements of theater and sculpture.
CHRISTOPHER KNOWLES
THE SUNDANCE KID IS BEAUTIFUL
Performance Residency
Christopher Knowles’ diverse art practice employs writing, dance, painting, and sculpture to explore themes surrounding communication and sign systems. The Sundance Kid is a performance set in a landscape defined by newspapers and sculptures created by Knowles. Silhouetted and magnified within this environment, Knowles becomes a larger-than-life character inside a three-dimensional evocation of his text and visual logic.
HALF STRADDLE / TINA SATTER
GHOST RINGS
Project Development Residency
Half Straddle is a New York City-based company that makes plays, performances, videos and music written and directed by Tina Satter. Ghost Rings will be a fully-sung piece with original music by Chris Giarmo in collaboration with Erin Markey and concept, lyrics and text by Satter. It will feature performers Erin Markey and Kristen Sieh, who play strange sisters interacting in existential communion with their spirit animals.
LAWRENCE GRAHAM-BROWN
OMNIA VANITAS
Performance Residency
Lawrence Graham-Brown works in sculpture, painting, performance and other media. His work deals with Black male sex/sexuality, notions of beauty, desire, consumerism and larger themes surrounding the Black male body in the public domain. Omnia Vanitas is a pantomimic ritual that draws attention to vanity, obesity, health and well-being as a commentary on 21st century living.
The Performing Garage Presents is The Wooster Group’s forum for new art and artists. It is supported by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded through Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts; and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Residency applications will be invited on a periodic basis throughout the year. Please check this site in fall 2013 for details on the application process and our next deadline.