{"id":788,"date":"2013-02-26T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2014-11-11T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:19:58","slug":"triangle-lab-artist-investigator-project-receipent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/triangle-lab-artist-investigator-project-receipent\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIANGLE LAB ARTIST-INVESTIGATOR PROJECT RECEIPENT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER AND INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCE THE SELECTION OF TEN BAY AREA ARTISTS FOR TRIANGLE LAB&#8217;S ARTIST-INVESTIGATOR PROJECT<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">California Shakespeare Theater and Intersection for the Arts have announced the first 10 participants of Triangle Lab\u2019s Artist-Investigator project. The project\u2019s goal is to support artists from multiple disciplines who wish to develop new models of theatre making. From the 140 submissions received, the 10 final projects include such experiments as a QR-based, choose-your-own adventure style play and a crowd-sourced video of people performing the balcony scene from\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Romeo and Juliet.<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Each artist investigator will receive a $3,000 stipend and $1,000 for project expenses. The artist-investigators are: Chris Black, Arielle Julia Brown, Desdemona Chiang, Debby Kajiyama and Jos\u00e9 Navarrete, Jo Kreiter, Susie Lundy, Kegan Marling, David Szlasa, Michelle Wilson, and Dan Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BERKELEY, Calif. \u2013\u00a0<strong>California Shakespeare Theater<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Intersection for the Arts<\/strong>\u00a0today announced the Triangle Lab\u2019s selections<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for its\u00a0<strong>Artist-Investigator<\/strong>\u00a0project, a series of ten experiments to develop new models of theater making. The Artist-Investigator project seeks to support artists from a variety of disciplines\u2014theater, dance, performance and visual art, multidisciplinary artists, and those exploring social practice\u2014who are curious to invent, discover, or refine a particular way of working.<\/p>\n<p>The request for proposals generated a total of 140 submissions covering a remarkable array of undertakings by diverse Bay Area artists from many fields. The ten selected projects present a wide range of topics explored in various medium, from a\u00a0<strong>QR-code based, choose-your-own adventure play<\/strong>, to\u00a0<strong>multiple responses to the ongoing problem of violence in Bay Area cities<\/strong>, to a\u00a0<strong>crowd-sourced video of hundreds of people performing the balcony scene from\u00a0<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0Each Artist-Investigator will receive a $3,000 stipend, plus $1,000 for project expenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of this project is to support experiments that will yield models that can be replicated by other artists,\u201d says Triangle Lab Director\u00a0<strong>Rebecca Novick<\/strong>. \u201cThese ten projects, delving deeply into thorny community issues, new technologies, and new ways to involve a wide range of voices in the creation of new performance, are exactly the inspiring models that we think represent the future of what artists can bring to our changing culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those selected as Artist-Investigators are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chris Black<\/strong>\u00a0Black is collaborating with students from Marshall Elementary School in San Francisco to develop a dance-based, site-specific performance exploring the students&#8217; relationships to the school\u2019s physical and cultural environment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arielle Julia Brown<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Love Balm Project<\/em>\u00a0will curate a series of site-specific performances\u2014based on the play\u00a0<em>Love Balm for My SpiritChild<\/em>\u2014throughout Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose featuring testimonies from Bay Area mothers who have lost children to systemic violence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desdemona Chiang<\/strong>\u00a0Chiang will create a short (30-minute) interactive \u201cplay\u201d engaging individual audience members in a choose-your-adventure structure via mobile technology and QR code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Debby Kajiyama and Jos\u00e9 Navarrete<\/strong>\u00a0The Anastasio Project is a mobile, multidisciplinary street performance work using the stories of Rodney King and Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas as inspiration to investigate race relations with East Oakland youth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jo Kreiter<\/strong>\u00a0Kreiter is launching a site-specific performance project in partnership with Quesada Gardens Initiative, College Track, and 10 young women ages 14\u201318. The project responds to the transformation of one street in the Bayview District of San Francisco, where neighbors have radically remade their block from a junkie paradise to an inspired greenway that encompasses several community gardens. She will be assisted by dance artist Jennifer Chien.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Susie Lundy<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Sky Burial<\/em>\u00a0is a publicly installed, community-processional project composed of 131 hand-crafted, mixed-media wings exhibited throughout Oakland at each homicide site, commemorating individual murder victims of 2012. The wings will be on display at La Pe\u00f1a Cultural Center in April and May 2013 before they are installed throughout the city in June.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kegan Marling<\/strong>\u00a0With a whiskey-ginger in hand, choreographer Marling\u00a0inhabits two local queer pubs to listen to stories of bartenders and regulars about gay role models and growing up during the AIDS epidemic\u2014all the while mining for performance structures relevant to how each community absorbs art.<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Szlasa<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Full Balcony<\/em>\u00a0is a crowd-sourced video performance of the balcony scene from Shakespeare\u2019s<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0In\u00a0<em>Carbon Corpus<\/em>, artist Wilson sells the animal-based carbon credits of her body in order to scrutinize and critique environmental issues, food systems, and alternate economies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Wolf<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Corner Collisions<\/em>\u00a0will be sounds, songs, and scenes collected from and performed on nine street corners in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Shakespeare Theater and Intersection for the Arts today announced the Triangle Lab\u2019s selections for its Artist-Investigator project, a series of ten experiments to develop new models of theater making. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-triangle-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desdemona.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}