Genesis Project is a month-long, artists’ residency program catering to body-based artists who identify as working between disciplines and/or seek to integrate other disciplines into their performance practice through individual experimentation and open-source collaboration. Six artists from around the world will travel to Bushwick and live in double-decker bungalows designed by architect, Terri Chiao (www.asmallspace.com), to cook, collaborate, and exchange ideas 24/7.
The aim of Genesis Project is to re-imagine the format of artist residencies. Genesis Project facilitates an environment wherein creativity is the act of investigation rather than production. The residency offers 6 artists work space for daily practice. It is the intention of Genesis Project to sharpen the potency of each artist’s daily practice while advocating the exchange of increasingly necessary interdisciplinary skills.
The project is hosted by 319 Scholes in collaboration with Culture Push. Located in the historically industrial neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, 319 Scholes art space is a studio and exhibition space that supports the minds and needs of contemporary artistsof various mediums. The physical space becomes an arena of exchange, allowing production and conception, practice and performance to come together and thus unite artists with their audiences. This attitude is reflected in the raw aesthetic of the physical landscape and unique architecture. Visit the website (319scholes.org).
Upon arrival, the artists will engage in diaglogue around how to structure the open house (Saturday, Aug. 13th from 2pm – 6pm, or by request), and plan parties, workshops, and the final event on Saturday, August 27th, 7pm. To request a private visit, please email genesisproject@culturepush.org. For updates, please refer to the Genesis Project webpage: http://culturepush.org/?q=node/25285
Genesis Project is a program of Culture Push, a New York-based non-profit arts organization that focuses on collaboration and group learning through active, participatory experiences. Founded in 2008 by Clarinda Mac Low, Arturo Vidich, and Aki Sasamoto, Culture Push has partnered within the arts with The Whitney, Abrons Art Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 319 Scholes, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Basekamp (Philadelphia), and The City of New York. Genesis Project is directed by Culture Push co-director, Arturo Vidich.
The artists were carefully selected by a panel of curators from Marginal Utility, Performa, Culture Push and 319 Scholes Art Space. The artists chosen to participate come from diverse backgrounds and media:
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti was born in Thailand and graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. His work revolves around revealing the unexplored facets of experience and the exploration of the phenomenon of cross-interdisciplinary art and culture. What are the thoughts, doubts, fears, uncertainties, and reflections that we have and experience as we head towards the new material and immaterial territories, which we are to inhabit in the future? Sarawut searches for answers that can help reverse the subordination and objective materialism, which are prevalent in today’s society. His art has been shown in countries throughout the world, including Germany and the United States. He recently presented an installation for the 17th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit at the Watermill Center in New York. http://www.chutiwongpeti.info/
Paolo Cirio works as a media artist in various fields: net-art, public-art, video-art, software-art and experimental storytelling. He was born in Turin, Italy in 1979 and currently lives in London. His mixed media installations and internet based projects have been sustained by researches and collaborations, residencies and commissions and have been featured worldwide. Cirio investigates perception and the creation of cultural, political and economic realities that are designed by information through content, distribution and modes of media. Cirio has had numerous group exhibitions worldwide and he exhibited in major exhibitions and museums such as Laboral, Gjion, 2010; S.M.A.K, Ghent, 2010; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2009; Courtauld Institute, London, 2009; HMKV, Dortmund, 2009; PAN, Naples, 2008; MOCA, Tapei, 2007; Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, 2007; NTT ICC, 2006 Tokyo; among others. http://www.paolocirio.net
Jesse Darling is a journeyman artist currently based in London, UK. JD has a background in dance and physical theatre, but went on to study fine art at Amsterdam’s Rietveld Academie and at St Martin’s College in London. Responsive, collaborative, often site-specific, her work plays with entropy and contingency: structures (social, societal, archetypal and architectural) bricolaged together by magical thinking, gaffer tape and the “black foam” of intersubjective networks. JD works in installation, intervention and video, “dasein by design”, and the spaces in which performance becomes unmediated experience. She has performed, published, collaborated and exhibited internationally. Jesse Darling also teaches experimental video and performance in community groups, and views this work as an important strand in her research. http://bravenewwhat.org
Fitzgerald & Stapleton are a dance theatre company founded and directed by Irish artists Emma Fitzgerald and Áine Stapleton. Their work is complex and challenging – displaying an unrelenting and personal intimacy which refuses to be contained within a single narrative or identity. The relationship between language and experience is at the heart of Fitzgerald & Stapleton’s choreographic and performance techniques and for every production they create the duo write a text of performance directions known as a score. They will create their next production ‘The Smell of Want’ in Autumn 2011 as a co-commission between Abrons Arts Centre New York and Culture Ireland‘s Imagine Ireland festival. Their 2010 Chocolate Factory Theatre New York commissioned show ‘The Work The Work’ was described by the New York Times as “A strange and strong enough experience to suggest that the power of art is in its capacity to puzzle rather than to please”. The company is continuously accessing new audiences through their use of various media – they recently created a choreography for radio “In My Father’s Name” available to download – http://www.rte.ie/digitalradio/choice/index.html , and a web-based collaborative choreography with four Irish women ranging in age from eight to sixty-three “MINE” (2010) – www.choreograph.net . Their quartet “Starvin” is taught on the MA Contemporary Dance syllabus of the University of Illinois. http://fitzgeraldandstapleton.com/
Jody Wood received her MFA in Expanded Media from the University of Kansas in 2009. She has exhibited at venues including Nexus/Foundation for Today’s Art, The Spencer Museum of Art, D’adamo/Woltz Gallery, and was recently included in an annual Savior Faire Performance Art Series at Soho20 Gallery Chelsea in NYC. Her work has been awarded funding grants from the Spencer Museum of Art and the Multidisciplinary Research Building in Lawrence. Wood was a PONCHO recipient of a one-year artist-in-residency scholarship in Sculpture at Pratt Fine Art Center in 2004 and has been a visiting artist lecturer at Emporia State University and Pratt Fine Art Center.
http://www.jodywoodart.com
Arturo Vidich co-founded Culture Push in 2008, and co-directs the organization. He is an inter-media artist working mainly in performance and video. Vidich’s work consists of actions and artifacts that revolve around his long-time fascination with bodies and behavior, both human and non-human. Beginning in 2003, Vidich’s performance work has been presented in New York by The Chocolate Factory, Abrons Art Center, New Museum, Dorkbot NYC, Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, SITE Fest 2010, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Movement Research, Catch Series, Dixon Place, Chashama, and AUNTS. Vidich is a 2011-2012 recipient of the Studio Series Residency from New York Live Arts. In 2008, Vidich was awarded the Movement Research Artist Residency. In 2007, Vidich was awarded the International Artist Residency at the Red Stables, Dublin, Ireland. Vidich has collaborated and performed with Deborah Hay, Yvonne Meier, Daria Faïn, Allison Farrow, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Hari Krishnan, Eiko & Koma, Lower Lights Collective, Christopher Williams and Nami Yamamoto, and with Aki Sasamoto since 2001. He has a degree in Dance from Wesleyan University, and a graduate degree from ITP, NYU Tisch. In 2010, Vidich recieved a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance) for his collaboration on Yvonne Meier’s Stolen.
http://arturovidich.com
