Critical Art Ensemble
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2007
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Support for ongoing work.
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Naotaka Hiro & Sid M. Dueñas
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2014
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Support for ongoing work.
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Film & Video,
Installation,
Painting/Drawing,
Performance,
Photography,
Research,
Travel
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Postcommodity
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2012
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Support for The Repellent Fence, a site-specific installation and monument examining the Tohono O’odham border experience as a metaphor for the Western hemispheres larger Indigenous human rights crisis. Image: Courtesy of the artists.
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robbinschilds
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2010
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Support for travel to Iceland to film the artists moving in extreme landscapes for a new video/performance piece involving the feminist reworking of the “man alone” trope.
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Travel
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Visual AIDS
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2009
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Support for the Robert Blanchon Estate Project.
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Rheim
Alkadhi
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2010
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Support for travel to Syria and Jordan to conduct interviews with displaced Iraqis, including members of the artist’s extended family, towards a series of experimental videos.
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Travel
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Mark
Allen
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2014
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Research support for new models of artistic collaboration based on Allen’s work as director of Machine Project in Los Angeles.
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Research
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Kamrooz
Aram
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2014
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Support for Ancient Through Modern, an ongoing project that intervenes in museum collections of Islamic Art.
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Installation,
Painting/Drawing
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Sabrina
Artel
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2008
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Support for the project Trailer Talk: ON THE LINE. The artist will travel along the US-Mexico border from California to Texas, employing elements of live talk radio, travel documentary, and town meetings to examine the proposed border fence.
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Travel
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Seth
Augustine
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2008
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Support for travel and exchange with Chinese artist Shi Yong towards a new collaborative performance / installation.
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Travel
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Nicole
Awai
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2012
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Support for travel to La Brea Pitch Lake in Trinidad.
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Painting/Drawing,
Travel
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Radcliffe
Bailey
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2007
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Research toward 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.
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My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade)
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2008
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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.
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Yto
Barrada
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2010
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Support for MIA THE MECHANIC, a photo storybook for girls in Arabic, French and English created by the Morocco-based artist in collaboration with American filmmaker, writer and graphic designer Sean Gullette.
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Tamy
Ben-Tor
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2008
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Support for travel to Poland to shoot a video based on biblical stories.
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Travel
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Ouida Angelica Biddle / ORFICE
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2014
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Support for ongoing work.
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Film & Video,
Research,
Travel
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Sanford
Biggers
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2007
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Support for travel to the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival in Jakarta to work with local gamelan musicians toward the creation of a soundtrack for Shuffle, the first installment of Biggers’s three-part video suite titled The Carnival within: Shuffle, Shake, Shatter.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Janet
Biggs
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2010
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Support for travel to Spitsbergen in the Artic to create a new video exploring gender roles in polar exploration.
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Travel
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Wafaa
Bilal
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2014
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Support for I Really Want to be White, an installation at the intersection of Middle Eastern decorative arts and robotics.
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Installation,
Performance
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Mary Walling
Blackburn
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2011
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Support for a video project retracing the route taken by American hashish smugglers in 1974.
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Film & Video,
Performance,
Travel
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Mark
Blankenship
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2009
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Support to collaborate with artists from Iceland and Germany on video works for the artist’s web project The Critical Condition.
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Rozalinda
Borcilǎ
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2012
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Support for travel and research into extraterritorial zones in the US, with a focus on Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) and Immigrant Detention Centers.
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Travel
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Mathieu
Borysevicz
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2008
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Support for Changning District Orchestra, a video document of the migrant recycling population of the Changning District in Shanghai, China.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Andrea
Bowers
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2011
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Support for a video project documenting DREAM-activist youth in California fighting the deportation of undocumented students.
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Film & Video
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Daniel
Bozhkov
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2007
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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.
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Travel
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Garrett
Bradley
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2014
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Support for The Discovery of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929, a reimagining of 12 missing early films which may have had integrated casts and/or been directed by black filmmakers.
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Film & Video,
Installation,
Research
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Dave
Bryant
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2010
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Support for the artist’s trek through Annapurna Himal in central Nepal and the creation of a feature-length video travelogue.
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Travel
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Matthew
Buckingham
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2008
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Support for Subterranean Pass Way, a 16mm film projection/installation looking at the anti-slavery Underground Railroad movement in the US and Canada.
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Dave
Burns
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Jane
Callister
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2009
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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.
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Travel
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Jonathan
Calm
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Carolina
Caycedo
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2014
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Support for Be Dammed, an art/activism project about the effects of dam construction on the natural and social landscapes of the Americas.
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Film & Video,
Performance,
Research,
Travel
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Alejandro
Cesarco
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2009
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Support for travel to Montevideo, Uruguay to create a film portrait of the artist’s 94 year-old grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Juan William
Chávez
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2011
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Support for travel and research in Spain, England and France towards a photo/video project exploring the partnership between humans and bees.
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Travel
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Che
Chen
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2012
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Support for research in Mauritania into Haratine and Beydane contemporary music culture. Image: Che Chen, Island Cultures: Chott-El-Jerrid, Tunisia. Courtesy of the artist.
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Nicole
Cherubini
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2008
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Support for travel to Guadalajara, Mexico to research the production of traditional ceramic wares leading to an exhibition examining function and aesthetics.
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Travel
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Mel
Chin
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2007
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Support for the Fundred project in New Orleans.
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Travel
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Laura
Chipley
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2011
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Support for travel to Ecuador to document the ongoing effects of oil contamination perpetrated by Texaco in the Amazon from 1964-1990 towards the series of experimental videos Deep Black Sea.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Andrea
Chung
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2014
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Support for ongoing work.
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Installation,
Research
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Tiffany
Chung
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2010
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Support for a collaborative performance/video project by the Vietnam-based artist and Tokyo-based art collective Nibrol involving youth culture in Vietnam and Japan.
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Sonya
Clark
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2011
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Support for travel and research in Jamaica, Ghana and the UK towards the project Black Hair and Tilled Land: Combing through Canerows, exploring the history of sugarcane and Afro-Caribbean hairstyles named for the Triangle Trade cash crop.
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Travel
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Ben
Coonley
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2010
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Support for travel to Hong Kong for the creation of a video docu-drama involving an x-phi study that examined whether different cultures tend to be moral absolutists or moral relativists.
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Travel
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William
Cordova
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2009
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Support for travel to Peru, Uruguay, and 35 US states to document certain forgotten historical landmarks associated with radical community activist groups from the 1500s to the 1960s.
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Travel
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Tony
Cruz Pabón
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2011
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Support for travel to Panama and Spain to research religious festivities centered around two black mystical figures, as part of an ongoing project involving musicians Ismael “Maelo” Rivera and Pau Casals. Image: Tony Cruz, Sin Titulo #1. Courtesy of the artist.
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Travel
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Santiago
Cucullu
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2009
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Support for travel to Peru to research the architectural remnants of various Pre-Inca cultures in the areas of Trujillo, Chiclayo, Lima, and Cuzco, as well as the ruins of Machu Picchu. Image: Santiago Cucullu, Entre los Bifrontes. Courtesy of the artist.
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Travel
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Sandra
de la Loza
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2012
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Support for ongoing work. Image: Sandra de la Loza, The Art of Lockpicking, The Lockpicking of Art. Courtesy of the artist.
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Sergio
De La Torre
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2012
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Support for Noise, the third chapter of a video trilogy exploring Chinese immigration in Mexico.
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Dawn
DeDeaux
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2013
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Support for ongoing work.
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Joseph
DeLappe
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2013
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Support for the first phase of Mapping the American Empire, a multi-media project involving travel to the 150 countries where the US has troops stationed.
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Painting/Drawing,
Performance,
Travel
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Alejandro
Diaz
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2009
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Support to expand the artist’s “handmade sign” project to Mexico City and surrounding rural towns.
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Installation,
Painting/Drawing,
Performance
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Harry
Dodge
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2012
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Support for ongoing work.
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Sean
Donovan
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2014
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Support for ongoing work.
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Performance
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Craig
Drennen
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2014
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Support for ongoing work.
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Installation,
Painting/Drawing,
Performance
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Zackary
Drucker
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2009
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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.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Daniel
Duford
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2012
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Support for Ringing the Temple Bell, a three-day event involving performances, workshops, and the building of an earthen bread oven/kiln. Image: Daniel Duford, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Head. Courtesy of the artist.
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Rachel Naninaaq
Edwardson
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2010
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Support for travel to the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Greenland to film the Inuit communities’ public resolution of sovereignty and to collaborate with artists from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.
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Travel
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Hasan
Elahi
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2011
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Support for travel to Transdniestria, the self-declared republic between Moldova and Ukraine, to document daily activities in its major cities using software the artist has developed. Image: Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience: One on One. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Klein Arts, New York.
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Travel
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Angela
Ellsworth
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2014
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Support for Soundproofed, a solo performance in a Mormon Church-funded mall in Utah as part of the artist’s ongoing Plural Wife Project.
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Film & Video,
Performance,
Research,
Travel
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Elsewhere Collective
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2010
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Support for the development of a collaborative project in Spree Park, an abandoned amusement park in Berlin, Germany.
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Rafa
Esparza
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2014
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Support for Woven, a sculpture / performance venue, consisting of a 30-foot, sprung dance floor on the Los Angeles River.
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Installation,
Performance,
Research
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Nicolás Dumit
Estévez
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Andy
Fedak
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2013
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Support for research into new methods for image creation involving animation, sense data, and the resolving power of the human eye.
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Film & Video
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Lola
Flash
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2011
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Support for travel to England, Brazil, and South Africa to continue three different photographic portrait series involving the politics of pigmentocracy, gender, and age.
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Photography,
Travel
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Amy
Franceschini
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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LaToya Ruby
Frazier
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2010
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Support for travel to and research in Edinburgh, Scotland towards the development of a protest computer video game addressing environmental racism, health care corruption and gentrification, with characters based on her Scottish ancestral lineage.
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Travel
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Victoria
Fu
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2013
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Support for ongoing work.
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Film & Video,
Photography
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Victoria
Fu
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2008
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Support toward the creation of a new film for travel from China to Taiwan retracing the route taken in 1949 by the artist’s family to escape Communist China.
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Travel
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Paul
Galloway
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Chitra
Ganesh
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2010
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Support for travel to Tokyo and Kyoto to research graphic storytelling forms Kamishibai and Garo/Seijin.
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Travel
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Christy
Gast
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2014
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Support to develop a scent that facilitates interspecies communication between humans and beavers in Tierra del Fuego.
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Film & Video,
Research,
Travel
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William
Gaynor
|
2011
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Support for travel to India and Nepal to research everyday life in Mumbai, the architecture of Agra, the spiritual aspects of Varanasi, and the physical landscape of Barun Valley.
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Travel
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Robert
Gero
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2011
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Support for travel to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia for research and interviews with the Roma.
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Travel
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Andrea
Geyer
|
2007
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Development support for the Canadian section of Perplexities, a book project involving indigenous communities in the four countries that did not vote in support of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Involves travel to Iqaluit, the new capital of Nunavut, Inuit Territory and an interview with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. Image: Andrea Geyer, from the series Time Present (detail), 2008. Courtesy of the artist.
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Travel
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Mariam
Ghani
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2014
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Research support for What we left unfinished, a long-term project examining the history of the Afghan Left through five unfinished Afghan films from 1978-92.
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Film & Video,
Performance,
Photography,
Research,
Travel
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Jeffrey
Gibson
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2014
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Support for Like A Hammer, a new performance bringing together Native American powwow culture, drumming, and house music.
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Film & Video,
Painting/Drawing,
Performance
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Kate
Gilmore
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2012
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Support for ongoing work.
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Hope
Ginsburg
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2011
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Support for travel to the reef atolls off the coast of Belize to study the sea sponges that grow there as part of the artist’s ongoing social artwork project Sponge.
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Travel
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Ken
Gonzales-Day
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2008
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Support for a residency at Curtiduria (Oaxaca Arts Center) in Oaxaca, Mexico to expand the artists exploration of race and nation begun with his study of lynching photography in the American West.
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Photography
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Ignacio
González-Lang
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2007
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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.
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Performance
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Renée
Green
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2012
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Support for Returning Kaleidoscopic Migration Constellations, a film involving movements of people in the history of California, New York, Brazil, Vienna, and Berlin. Image: Renee Green, Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
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Wynne
Greenwood
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2012
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Support for new work inspired by the Serbian mythological creature Azdaja, to be presented at Drugstore, a queer cultural space in Belgrade.
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Jon
Haddock
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2009
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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.
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DeeDee
Halleck
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2010
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Support for the Waves of Change video series, a compendium of alternative/citizens/community media projects (radio, television, internet and more) from around the world.
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Michelle
Handelman
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2014
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Support for Hustlers + Empires, a multichannel video about aging, death, and chaos.
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Film & Video,
Installation,
Performance,
Photography,
Research,
Travel
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Trajal
Harrell
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2012
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Support for travel to Japan to research Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of Butoh dance, starting with the question, “how does one vogue Tatsumi Hijikata?”
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Travel
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Kira Lynn
Harris
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2010
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Support for travel to France and Spain to complete a series of large-scale drawings and photographs of the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and George Wyman’s Bradbury Building in LA.
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Travel
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David
Hartt
|
2014
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Travel to Chile for Apomorph, a film relating the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago to the Open City at the Catholic University of Valparaíso’s school of architecture.
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Film & Video,
Installation,
Photography
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Sharon
Hayes
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2007
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Support for the Paris and London 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.
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Performance
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Pablo
Helguera
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2012
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Support for ongoing work.
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Leslie
Hewitt
|
2008
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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.
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Travel
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Wayne
Hodge
|
2007
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Support for a new video project that reinterprets the story of the Czech fencer Balduin in collaboration with a fencing school in Berlin.
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Film & Video
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Donna
Huanca
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2010
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Support for the artist’s nomadic journey through Bolivia, creating ephemeral installations and photo-documentation in the style of Colonial Photography with collaborator Roy Minten.
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Photography,
Travel
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Laryssa
Husiak
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2012
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Support for ongoing work.
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Emily
Jacir
|
2007
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Travel and research in Italy and Jordan toward the development of a script for a narrative film about Wael Zuaiter, the first victim in a series of assassinations of Palestian artists, intellectuals, and diplomats committed by Israeli agents.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Bryan
Jackson
|
2007
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Support for travel to Tokyo to collaborate with composer Eiji Yoshizawa and to meet Akira the Hustler, Kazuyuki Takezaki, Eisin Sasaki, and other artists involved with the gay and lesbian AKTA Community Center toward the creation of a new video work. Image: Bryan Jackson, Juicy Menu | Akira the Hustler, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Steffani
Jemison
|
2013
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Support for ongoing work.
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Film & Video,
Photography
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Mary
Jeys
|
2012
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Support for ongoing work.
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Eirik
Johnson
|
2013
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Support for travel to Japan to develop a photography and sound based installation involving the economy of Matsutake mushrooms in Oregon and Japan.
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Photography,
Travel
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Jennie C.
Jones
|
2012
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Support for the artist’s Acoustic Painting series, which uses soundproofing materials from industrial settings to bridge two-dimensional works and audio pieces.
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Sara
Jordenö
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2013
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Support for GESTURE, a film project about the Kiki scene in NYC, with collaborator Twiggy Pucci Garçon and others.
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Film & Video,
Photography
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