Critical Art Ensemble
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2007
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Support for ongoing work.
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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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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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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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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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Andrea
Geyer
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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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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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Suheir
Hammad
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2007
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Support for travel and research for Translate a Nation, a performance about language and identity in the cities of Ramallah and Lod, including interviews in Ramallah with local artists and the AM Qattan Foundation and in Lod with DAM, a Palestinian rap group.
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Travel
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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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Wayne
Hodge
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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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Emily
Jacir
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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
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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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Adrià
Julià
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2007
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Support for travel and research for The Masotta Project, which will examine Oscar Masotta’s body of writings and the collision of Peronista politics, European avant-garde art, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires.
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Travel
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Shaun El C.
Leonardo
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2007
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Support for the Oaxaca performance of El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man, a recurring wrestling event in which Leonardo portrays a Mexican wrestling luchador who fights his own “invisibility,” both literally and metaphorically.
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Performance,
Travel
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Pavol
Liska
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2007
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Planning support for Liska, playwright/director Kelly Copper, and three Amsterdam-based performers toward the creation of a new work based on ideas of translation and misunderstanding.
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Katt
Lissard
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2007
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Support toward work at the newly launched Winter/Summer Performance Institute in Lesotho, Southern Africa with collaborators from South Africa, Lesotho, and the U.K.
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Performance
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Steve
Locke
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2007
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Support for travel to Istanbul to visit the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia with a specific interest in exploring themes such as patterning, decoration, calligraphy, and wall painting.
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Painting/Drawing,
Travel
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Charles
McGill
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2007
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Public performance and documentation about Arthur Negro, a founding member of the Former Black Militant Golf and Country Club to take place in various locations in Harlem and Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Performance,
Travel
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The Speculative Archive
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2007
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Support for the creation of a video with Syrian filmmaker and actor Rami Farah investigating land, identity, memory, and contested visions for the future in the Golan Heights. Image: Courtesy of the artists.
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Film & Video
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Carlos
Motta
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2007
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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.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Kori
Newkirk
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2007
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Support for travel to Dakar, Senegal toward the creation of a new video work exploring the artist’s ancestry and themes of human trafficking and globalism.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Karyn
Olivier
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2007
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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 support to create an installation at the project space of local architect Sean Leonard.
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Travel
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Clifford
Owens
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2007
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Support for Owens’s first international travel to Ecuador to explore multiple cities and research aspects of local culture and politics.
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Travel
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Dawit Lejam
Petros
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2007
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Support for a return to his native country of Eritrea to retrace the route that his family followed when fleeing the war in the 1970s, constructing temporary traditional housing structures along the way and staging a 27 mile walk to the sea. The artist will also research professional mourners from the Bilen and Tigrinya tribes for two upcoming exhibitions.
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Travel
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Deirdre
Portnoy
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2007
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Support to create programs for PhotoStory, a participatory photography project thus far conducted in six countries, now taking place in South Africa and Mali.
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Photography
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Jackie
Salloum
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2007
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Support for the creation of concert video projections in collaboration with DAM and PR, Palestinian hip hop groups, and Waleed Zaiter, an Arab-American graphic animator. These projections will accompany the release of Salloum’s feature-length documentary, Slingshot Hip-Hop: The Palestinian Lyrical Front.
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Film & Video
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David
Schweitzer
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2007
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Support for the travel to Cusco, Peru to work with collaborators on QORICANCHA (AND THE SACRED SONGS OF CUSCO), a new multimedia opera 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.
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Travel
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Peggy Shaw (Split Britches Company)
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2007
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Support for Shaw and Lois Weaver to bring their performance piece Long Table to the Hemispheric Institute’s 2007 Encuentro in Argentina.
Image: Courtesy of the artist.
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Performance,
Travel
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Joe
Silovsky
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2007
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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 from a scheme of selling Tongan passports to Hong Kong citizens. Involves travel to California and Tonga for further research.
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Performance,
Travel
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Cauleen
Smith
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2007
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Support for research and development for Rebecca (working title), a multi-pronged collaboration with Nigerian filmmaker Ekenna Igwe, which includes a narrative film and a non-linear video installation based on Daphne du Maurier’s popular 1938 novel Rebecca.
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Film & Video
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Mary Ellen
Strom
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2007
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Support for a collaboration with artists Ann Carlson and Bently Spang of the Northern Cheyenne nation toward the creation of a section of Future Memory, a video installation that imagines probable and desirable alternative futures.
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Film & Video
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Temporary Services
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2007
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Research support for members of Temporary Services and Ljubljana-based artists Polonca Lovšin and Stefan Doepner and curator Urška Jurman to investigate public inventions in Ljubljana that people create to meet their everyday needs.
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Hank Willis
Thomas
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2007
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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, toward a video and sound installation in collaboration with artist Ryan Alexiev.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Allison
Wiese
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2007
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Support for ongoing work and travel to Mexico City.
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Travel
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Jenifer
Wofford
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2007
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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.
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Travel
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Saya
Woolfalk
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2007
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Support for travel to Japan to participate in the Takayama Festival at the Hida Folk Village in Gifu and research folkloric performance practices toward the creation of a new performance. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
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Performance,
Travel
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