This year’s cohort includes artists working across a variety of disciplines including movement, performance art, dance, puppetry, sound, new media, augmented reality, and multimedia. These five artists will be joined by Fellow Artist in Residence Allen Moore, an interdisciplinary painter, experimental sound artist, educator, and curator.
Featured Artists
Bradford Chin is a dance artist and methodologist, DEIJ and accessibility consultant, and audio describer for dance. Bradford’s work centers disability and accessibility so that we may better understand how disability is conceptualized and positioned in dance and performance. While in residence with HCL, Bradford is exploring the use of Audio Description (“AD”) as the primary generative device in creating and presenting a dance work.
Christopher Knowlton is a transdisciplinary movement artist, scientist, dancemaker and engineer who uses emerging technologies to create augmented performance work. Inspired by science, nature, play, improvisation and human-centered approaches to design, his work spans dance, film, new media, puppetry and storytelling. While in residence with HCL, Christopher is exploring the deification of new technologies, the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for dance, and the distinction between generative and extractive AI.
Haruhi Kobayashi explores sound as a sculptural medium. Her work addresses the intersection of the environmental information we receive from sound, the impact of the environment that sounds inhabit, and methods of manipulating the content of sound through acoustics or electronics. While in residence with HCL, Haruhi is developing Sonic Playground, an evolving multi-channel sonic sculptural artwork.
Carissa Lee works with performance, sound, public intervention, workshops, video, and theater. Carissa’s work explores the tensions and current emotional landscape of anti-blackness. To explore the unknown, she researches the known, including personal experiences and Black vernaculars. While in residence with HCL, Carissa is expanding a performance art piece that centers around the experiences of women and research around her family archive.
Allen Moore is a Black American interdisciplinary painter, experimental sound artist, educator, youth mentor and curator. While in residence with HCL, Allen is developing an audio and visual exploration delving into themes of grief, black mortality, afrofuturism, and the sonic aesthetic of the black imagination. The project encompasses a multifaceted approach, incorporating the merging of sound and visual elements.
KT Shivak is a sculptor, puppet builder, and performer. Her puppets have appeared in the New York Times, Puppetry International Magazine, the National Puppetry Conference, and at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. While in residence with HCL, KT is developing Rhynoceron, a piece featuring a lifesize rhinoceros puppet based on a real animal from history that sparked an obsession both to possess it and to consume its image.
Come witness groundbreaking new work by these amazing artists and stay tuned to all the events coming up at HCL!
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