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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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William
Gaynor
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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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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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David
Kagan
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2011
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Support for travel to Ghana to explore the intersection of contemporary and traditional music-making, towards a new music / video project Obruni Papa.
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Film & Video,
Travel
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Helen
Lessick
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2011
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Support for travel to Kenya to research the interaction of soil, culture, and time, in collaboration with Nairobi-based video artist David Koch, the UN Programme for the Environment, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
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Travel
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Cynthia
Madansky
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2011
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Support for the experimental film 1+8, about Turkey and its relationship with the eight countries it borders, in collaboration with Istanbul-based artist Angelika Brudniak.
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Film & Video
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Wardell
Milan
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2011
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Support for travel to photograph the remaining architecture from Nazi-occupied Berlin and Mussolini-era Fascist Rome towards the project Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a film adaptation of Eugene Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros.
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Travel
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Lorraine
O'Grady
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2011
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Support for travel to Jamaica to meet local family members, artists and art workers, documenting the trip in photos, video and text.Image:Lorraine O’Grady, The Strange Taxi: From Africa to Jamaica to Boston in 200 Years. Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY.
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Travel
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Yoshua
Okón
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2011
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Support for a project restaging key battles from the Guatemalan Civil War in the late 80s and 90s in the parking lot of a Cypress Park Home Depot with members of the Mayan community in LA who fought in the war and are now day laborers.
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Sheila
Pepe
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2011
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Support for Common Sense Athens, an iteration of the artist’s ongoing installation and performance involving a large-scale crocheted drawing, which audience participants dismantle, unravel, and repurpose.
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Sreshta Rit
Premnath
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2011
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Support for travel to Bangalore, India for photo/video documentation of the architecture of M. S. Ramaiah, migrant laborers, and the utopian imagery of development.
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Film & Video,
Photography,
Travel
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Jessica
Segall
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2011
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Support for travel to Mongolia to collaborate with local artist Tuguldur Yondonjamts on a performative sculpture project involving natural electric fields.
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Film & Video,
Performance,
Travel
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Susan
Silton
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2011
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Support for travel to La Gomera in the Canary Islands to work with women practitioners of the whistling language Silbo Gomero towards a project involving a whistled adaptation of Gertrude Stein’s Lifting Belly.
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Travel
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Sonali
Sridhar
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2011
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Support for travel to India for a project involving the harnessing of solar power from panels embedded and embroidered in women’s veils.
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Travel
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Wu
Tsang/Alexandro Segade
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2011
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Support for travel to Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico to interview queer people using questions inspired by Pasolini’s 1965 documentary on public attitudes towards sex, as well as documenting nightclub performances and queer theater happenings.
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Travel
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