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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Felipe
Dulzaides
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2008
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Support for Utopía Posible, an ongoing body of work that addresses the architecture and completion process of Cuban National Art Schools (ISA).
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Film & Video
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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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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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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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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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Leslie
Hewitt
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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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Fawn
Krieger
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2008
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Support for continuing research and interviews with former Trümmerfrauen, “Rubble Women” in Berlin, recruited to clean up their demolished city with the fall of Nazi Germany.
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Dinh Q.
Le
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2008
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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.
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Kalup
Linzy
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2008
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Support for the European tour of a new album/project with original music, spoken word and performance.
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James
Longley
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2008
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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.
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Film & Video
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Rodney
McMillian
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2008
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Support for a collaboration with London-based poet and performance artist Caroline Bergvall towards creation of a new performance work.
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Ivan
Monforte
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2008
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Support for video and performance project in which the artist interviews Faafafines in Western and American Samoa and receives the Lima tattoo.
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Trevor
Paglen
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2008
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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”.
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Travel
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Ernesto
Pujol
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2008
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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.
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Michael
Queenland
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2008
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Support for travel and documentation of the artists 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.
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Travel
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Paul
Ramirez Jonas
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Ishmael
Randall Weeks
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2008
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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.
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Andrea
Ray
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2008
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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. Image: Andrea Ray, Searching for Utopia: future eco-community in Ireland. Courtesy of the artist.
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Travel
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Randy
Regier
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2008
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Support for a toy-making and vending project involving El Rastro flea market in Madrid, Spain.
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Travel
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Emily
Roysdon
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Luis
Sánchez Ramírez
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2008
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Support for a new site-specific installation and single channel video recreating the artists experience during his process of immigration in Baja California. To be presented in Tijuana and Chicago. Image: Courtesy of the artist.
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Xaviera
Simmons
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2008
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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.
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Photography,
Travel
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Jeannie
Simms
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2008
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Support for Readymaids, a performance video and photo project involving “maid agencies” in Java, Indonesia.
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Jeff
Sonhouse
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2008
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Support for travel to Brazil, Colombia, Panama, and the Caribbean to engage in conversations with artists of African descent for a video documentary.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Tavares
Strachan
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2008
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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.
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Travel
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Tam
Van Tran
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2008
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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 Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, as well as organizing group shows and open studios with artist Dinh Q Le.
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Travel
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Anne
Walsh
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2008
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Support for an adapted film version of Leonora Carringtons comic novel The Hearing Trumpet, set and shot in present-day Mexico.
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