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2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
Brooklyn
Bred 2
Curated by Martha Wilson
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Alan H. Fishman,
Chairman of the Board
William I. Campbell,
Vice Chairman of the Board
Adam E. Max,
Vice Chairman of the Board
Karen Brooks Hopkins,
President
Joseph V. Melillo,
Executive Producer
Featuring: Clifford Owens (Oct 16)
Dynasty Handbag (Oct 17)
Pablo Helguera (Oct 18)
Lighting Design by
Lenore Doxsee
RUN TIME: Approx 1hr (no intermission)
DATES:
OCT 16—18 at 7:30 & 9pm
LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)
Season Sponsor
Time Warner Inc. is the BAM 2014 Next Wave
Festival Sponsor
Major support for theater at BAM provided by:
The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust
Stephanie & Timothy Ingrassia
Donald R. Mullen Jr.
The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund
The SHS Foundation
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
#BROOKLYNBRED
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About the
Show
MARTHA WILSON
Curator, Performer (A Forum for
Performance Art, Oct 16)
Martha Wilson is a pioneering
feminist artist and gallery director
who over the past four decades has
created innovative photographic and
video works that explore her female
subjectivity. She has been described
by New York Times critic Holland
Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most
important people for art in downtown
Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976
she founded Franklin Furnace, an
artist-run space that champions
the exploration, promotion, and
preservation of artist books, temporary
installation, performance art, as well
as online works. She is represented by
P.P.O.W Gallery in New York and has
received fellowships for performance
art from the National Endowment for
the Arts and the New York Foundation
for the Arts, Bessie and Obie awards
for commitment to artists’ freedom
of expression, a Yoko Ono Lennon
Courage Award for the Arts, a Richard
Massey Foundation-White Box Arts
and Humanities Award, and in 2013
received an Honorary Doctor of Fine
Arts degree from the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design University.
Photo: Martha Wilson by Christopher Milne
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Clifford Owens:
A Forum for
Per formance Ar t
THURSDAY, OCT 16
Conceived by
Clifford Owens
Performed by
Amanda Alfieri
Renee Cox
Shaun Leonardo
Clifford Owens
Martha Wilson
Additional support for this performance
provided by Agnes Gund
SPECIAL THANKS
My sons, Inti Owens and Joaquin
Owens, my mother, Betty Owens,
Agnes Gund, Christopher Y. Lew,
Daniella Rose King, Lizzie Gorfaine,
RoseLee Goldberg, Esa Nickle, AC
Hudgins, Bernard Lumpkin and
Carmine Boccuzzi, Michael Maxwell,
Todd Rosenbaum and family, Elia Alba
and Alex Flores, Dawit Petros, Sarah
Riesman, Matthew McNulty, Martha
Wilson, Shaun Leonardo, Amanda
Alfieri, Renee Cox, Terry Adkins, and
Barbara DeGenevieve.
CLIFFORD OWENS
Artist, Performer
Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in
numerous group and solo exhibitions.
His solo exhibitions include Better the
Rebel You Know (Home, Manchester,
England, 2014), Anthology: Clifford
Owens (Museum of Modern Art
PS1, 2011—12), and Perspectives
173: Clifford Owens (Contemporary
Arts Museum Houston, 2011). His
group exhibitions include Radical
Presence: Black Performance in
Contemporary Art (Contemporary
Arts Museum, 2012), Greater New
York 2005 (Museum of Modern Art
PS1, 2005), Freestyle (The Studio
Museum in Harlem, 2001), and the
traveling exhibition Performance Now
(2013—14). He studied at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mason
Gross School of Visual Arts Rutgers
University, and the Whitney Museum
Independent Study Program. Owens
was an artist-in-residence at the Studio
Museum in Harlem, and he attended
the Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture. He has received
numerous grants and fellowships
including the William H. Johnson
Prize, Art Matters grant, a Louis Tiffany
Comfort Award, New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowship, the Rutgers
University Ralph Bunche Distinguished
Graduate Fellowship, and from the
New York Community Trust, the
Lambent Foundation. Publications,
reviews, and interviews about his
work include The New York Times, Art
+Auction, The Village Voice, Modern
Painters, Art in America, Artforum,
The New Yorker, BOMB, The Wall
Street Journal, The Drama Review,
Greater New York 2005, Performa:
New Visual Art Performance,
Rethinking Contemporary Art and
Multicultural Education, and Why
Art Photography? He has written for
exhibition catalogues, The New York
Times, Artforum, and Performing Arts
Journal. Owens has lectured widely
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about his art practice. He has been
visiting artist faculty and a guest critic
at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art,
Yale University, Harvard University,
Princeton University, New York
University, and the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. His project,
“Anthology,” was the subject of a
solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 and the
source for his first book. Owens has
recently completed “Seminar,” a project
about the pedagogy of performance
art at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn;
“Five Night’s Worth,” in conjunction
with Performa13 and the traveling
group exhibition “Radical Presence:
Contemporary Black Performance”;
“The Kiss” in collaboration with
Legacy Russell at Danspace Project
in New York City; and “Photographs
with an Audience: Philadelphia” and
“Photographs with an Audience:
Manchester.” Owens was born in
Baltimore, MD in 1971 and lives and
works in NYC.
AMANDA ALFIERI
Artist, Performer
Amanda Alfieri is a performance
artist from Los Angeles. She received
her MFA from Columbia University
in 2013. In 2008 she attended the
Skowhegan School of Sculpture and
Painting. In 2011 she was possessed
by Tupac Shakur, and in 2012 she was
a semi-finalist in the casting process
for the reality TV show Survivor.
RENEE COX
Artist, Performer
Renee Cox is a New York-based
photographer and mixed-media
artist who is known for her seminal
presentation of Afro-futuristic
photography. Cox was born in Jamaica
and later moved to New York where
she received a degree in film studies
from Syracuse University. Cox spent
several years working as a fashion
photographer in Paris, later returning to
New York where she continued to work
over the years as a photographer for
several high-profile fashion magazines.
Cox has used her work to express her
concern and perspectives on social
issues and religious imagery. One of
her most notably controversial pieces
was a photograph titled “Yo Mama’s
Last Supper” exhibited in 2001. In
this work, she recreated Leonardo Da
Vinci’s iconic “Last Supper” featuring
her nude self, sitting in for Jesus
Christ surrounded by black disciples.
“Yo Mama’s Last Supper” has since
been referenced in several scholarly
publications and discussed in lectures
around the world.
Finding the inspiration for her work
from her own life experiences, Cox has
used her own body to represent her
criticisms of society and to celebrate
and empower women. In 2006 Cox
exhibited her series “Queen Nanny
of the Maroons” at the Jamaican
Biennale shown at the National Gallery
of Jamaica. The body of work was
awarded the Aaron Matalon Award,
the highest honor given to any artist
exhibited. One of the works from the
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show, “Red Coat,” has traveled to
museums as part of the Caribbean:
Crossroads of the World exhibition,
including the Perez Art Museum Miami
(2014) and the Studio Museum in
Harlem (2012).
Cox has been featured in other
museum exhibitions including the
Spelman Museum of Fine Art (2013),
Wadsworth Atheneum (2008), Nasher
Museum of Art at Duke (2006),
Brooklyn Museum (2001), Institute of
Contemporary Art in Boston (1996),
and Whitney Museum of American Art
(1993), among others.
Cox’s work was recently featured in
“Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of
Contemporary Carribean Photography”
as part of the Contact Photography
Festival (Toronto, Canada, 2014).
Her latest body of work, “Sacred
Geometry,” consists of digitally
manipulated black and white portraits
that display self-similar patterns.
Executed with precision, the works
create sculptural kaleidoscopes of
the human body while exploring the
power of symbols as elements of
collective imagination. The inspiration
for “Sacred Geometry” comes from
fractals, the centuries old mathematical
concept used by many ancient African
cultures.
“Sacred Geometry” has also been the
result of Cox’s embrace of the digital
world. Bridging the gap between the
old and new technology has brought
on new challenges and endless
possibilities. Work from the new series
will be part of an exhibition in Miami
later this year.
SHAUN LEONARDO
Artist, Performer
Shaun Leonardo, a Brooklyn-based
artist originally from Queens, is a
multidisciplinary artist who uses
modes of self-portraiture as a means to
convey the complexities of masculine
identity while questioning preconceived
notions of manhood. The portraits take
the form of cutout paintings, drawings,
and sculptures, and are brought to
life through performance. He received
his MFA from the San Francisco Art
Institute and has received awards from
Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, New York Studio School,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Art Matters, New York Foundation
for the Arts, McColl Center for Visual
Art, Franklin Furnace, and the Jerome
Foundation. His work has been
presented in galleries and institutions
internationally along with recent solo
exhibitions in NYC, and is featured
in the current exhibition Crossing
Brooklyn at Brooklyn Museum.
elcleonardo.com
PING WANG
Photographer, Digital Media Assistant
Ping Wang was born and raised in
Beijing and lives and works in NYC.
Wang is a recent graduate of the
One Year Conservatory Program in
Photography at the New York Film
Academy in New York City. His
photographic works evidence a delicate
balance between Eastern and Western
visual culture, resulting in a personal
style characterized by drama and
restraint. His emotional sensitivity
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Who’s
Who
drives him to focus on the subtleties of
light, architecture, and the moments
that often go unobserved.
RADKA SALCMANNOVA
Assistant to Clifford Owens, Project
Manager
Radka Salcmannova was born in 1986
in Prague. She studied at the Institute
of Art and Design, Academy of Arts,
Architecture and Design, and the
Academy of Fine Arts (all in Prague),
and School of Visual Arts in NYC.
MATTHEW MCNULTY
Photographer
Matthew McNulty is a photographer
based in New York City. Approaching
the medium via abstraction and
representation, he works toward a
clearer sense of self.
VANESSA CASTRO
Performance Assistant
Vanessa Castro is an independent
curator, multi-disciplinary artist,
musician, and published writer living
in Brooklyn. Her practice, which
engages with many mediums, explores
performance primarily through feminist
and post-colonial critique.
PAUL McADORY
Performance Assistant
Paul McAdory is a senior at NYU’s
Gallatin School of Individualized Study,
where he focuses on neuroscience, the
arts, and their points of intersection.
When he’s not in school, he works
as a freelance art handler and writer
in New York. His interests include
curating, enunciating the inappropriate
at inopportune times, his classmates’
interest in the fluid mechanics of
identity, and music. Born near
Jackson, MS, McAdory came to New
York to see another side of the US.
DIANE BAINTON-KIZZEE
Make-up Artist
You are my masterpiece, you are,
and art is in your blood
—Arnold Nicolas (Diane’s father)
Among the many bright and beautiful
faces hair and makeup artist Diane
Bainton-Kizzee has worked with are
Darlene Love (Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame 2011 Induction Ceremony),
country singer Tom McCarthy, Rocsi
Diaz of Entertainment Tonight,
Michael Blackson, Jaime Hector, Marc
H. Morial, producer Eric Lewis, the
Reverend Al Sharpton, and fashion
designer Keishel Williams. Her music,
editorial, and runway work has been
seen at BAM, Full Figured Fashion,
Mercedes Benz, and African Fashion
Weeks, and in The New York Times,
Essence magazine, and Infuse
magazine.
She is a member of the Harlem
Alliance, the Powder Group, and New
York Women in Television and Film.
Bainton-Kizzee is a native of Belize and
a proud descendant of the Garifuna
people.
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Photo: Clifford Øwens by Sam Fisher
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Dynasty Handbag:
Soggy Glasses,
A Homo’s Odyssey
FRIDAY, OCT 17
Written, directed, and performed by
Jibz Cameron
Sound design by
Jibz Cameron
Audio Production by
Eli Crews
Drawings by
Jibz Cameron
Animation and additional drawings by
Meriem Bennani
Costumes and props by
Peggy Noland and Hayden Dunham
Dramaturgy by
Sacha Yanow
Production Assistant
Morgan Bassichis
Produced by
Alexandra Rosenberg
SPECIAL THANKS
Martha Wilson and Franklin Furnace
Archive, Beth Pickens, Jack Black and
Tanya Hayden, Emma Reeves and
MOCAtv, Allison Michael Orenstein, Jill
Soloway, J’nai Cameron + Sadaf Rassoul Cameron, + the Cameron-Kalish
family, Arianne Schaffer, OneArchives,
Faye Driscoll, Elizabeth Olear, Clyde
Cameron, Extra special huge thanks
to EVERYONE who supported Soggy
Glasses fundraising efforts in NYC and
LA (this would not be possible without
you!), and ANONYMOUS and good
orderly directions.
Soggy Glasses was supported by residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell
Colony, and is made possible, in part,
by a 2014 LMCC Process Space artist
residency (lmcc.net).
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Jibz Cameron is a performance/
video artist and actor who lives and
works in NYC. Her work as alter ego
Dynasty Handbag has been seen at
such institutions as New Museum,
The Kitchen, MOCA, Joe’s Pub, PS
122, Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, REDCAT, OUTFEST, SXSW Film
Festival, and Performa ‘07, ‘09,
‘11, as well as many international
dives both great and small. She was
heralded by The New York Times as
“the funniest and most pitch perfect
performance seen in years” and by The
New Yorker as “outrageously smart,
grotesque, and innovative.” She has
produced numerous video projects
and two albums of original music,
Foo Foo Yik Yik (2006) and Cosmic
Surgery (2013). Her work has been
supported by residencies at Yaddo,
the MacDowell Colony, and Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council. In addition
to her work as Dynasty Handbag she
has also been seen acting in work by
the Wooster Group, the Residents,
Kalup Linzy, and in many web series
including Ambiance Man, and Rods &
Cones. She also works as a professor
of various performance and comedy
related subjects and is currently in
development on a television series
with Electric Dynamite.
dynastyhandbag.com
Photo: Jibz Cameron by Allison Michael Orenstein
JIBZ CAMERON
Writer, Director, and Performer
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Who’s
Who
ELI CREWS
Audio Production
Eli Crews is a music producer and
recording engineer based in Brooklyn.
He currently works mainly out of Figure
8 Recording, a brand new studio in
Prospect Heights. He has had the extreme pleasure of working with Dynasty
Handbag, tUnE-yArDs, ?uestlove, Yoko
Ono, Lorde, Yo La Tengo, Cibo Matto,
Kathleen Hanna/the Julie Ruin, Thao
Nguyen, Mirah, Deerhoof, Erase Errata,
and many other class acts.
MERIEM BENNANI
Animation
New Yorked-based artist Meriem Bennani grew up in Morocco, and earned
an MFA from the École Nationale
Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in
Paris and a BFA from Cooper Union in
New York. Bennani and artist Hayden
Dunham are the co-founders of Other
Travel, a collaborative curatorial project
involving the creation and delivery of
extra-terrestrial gifts to seven artists
in the New York area. She is currently
hard at work on Some Silly Stories, a
series of kooky, kinky, hand-animated
perversions based on her own crude
drawings and a constant dialog with
musician Flavien Berger.
PEGGY NOLAND
Costumes
Peggy Noland is an artist based in
Kansas City and Los Angeles. Using
clothing as her medium, she opened
the storefront Peggy Noland in 2006
with a collection that drew from Pop
Art, Japanese streetwear, and club
kid fashion. Since then, the concept
shop has evolved into an Oldenburglike retail installation that responds
to consumer culture by exaggerating
trends—most recently creating puffy
paint plays on brands and logos. An
avant-garde sense of humor is a strong
current in Noland’s work, absorbing the
world around her and then reflecting it
back through the mirror of a distorted
funhouse. The result is content-driven
clothing whose supporters include
Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Gossip. She
has exhibited internationally throughout Barcelona, Berlin, and New York,
and her work has been featured in The
New York Times, Dazed and Confused,
Interview, and Women’s Wear Daily.
HAYDEN DUNHAM
Costumes
Hayden Dunham sometimes prefers
the name Quinn Thomas. As Thomas,
she works with liquid displays and
substances which take on high gloss
forms such as silicone plastics and
bubble formations. Virtual realms,
medical scents, cyborg dreams, and
feeling technologies permeate her
sculptural work. The concept of mutation is a constant presence, as when
an object appears as one thing but quietly performs as another. She is especially interested in the ruptures in this
dynamic which occur when a person
or object fails to “pass.” Her work has
been reviewed by The New York Times
and has appeared in the Perez Art Museum Miami, MoMA PS 1 Print Shop,
Museum of Arts and Design, New
Museum, MOCA, The Perfect Nothing
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Catalog, Signal Gallery, and with Jackie
Klempay and Colette, among others.
Dunham received a degree from New
York University’s Gallatin School in
2010. She is currently the co-founder
of Other Travel, a publication and curatorial project based in NYC. This is her
fifth production with Dynasty Handbag,
and she could not be more excited to
be a part of Soggy Glasses.
has performed at Dixon Place, MIX
Festival, HOT! Festival, Wild Project, Recess, and the Garage (San
Francisco), and in films by Dia Felix
and Maria Breaux. Bassichis’ essays
have appeared in the Radical History
Review, Captive Genders, and other
anthologies. Bassichis is a graduate of
Brown University, and is a practitioner
of Generative Somatics.
SACHA YANOW
Dramaturgy
ALEXANDRA ROSENBERG
Producer
Sacha Yanow is a NYC-based performance artist and actor. She has
performed in theater, film, and dance
works by many artists including Karen
Finley, Sarah Michelson, Laura Parnes,
Katy Pyle, Theater of the Two-Headed
Calf, and Julie Tolentino. Her own
performance work has been supported
through residencies at the Field, Dixon
Place, and Yaddo, and presented at
Dixon Place, Brooklyn Arts Exchange,
Movement Research, and the Kitchen.
She currently serves as director of Art
Matters Foundation and previously
worked as director of operations at the
Kitchen. She is a creative consultant
for Mercurial Pictures (Elisabeth Subrin), and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence
College and the William Esper Studio’s
Actor Training Program.
sachayanow.com
Alexandra Rosenberg is a Brooklynbased artist manager, performance
producer, and special events producer,
with a focus in experimental, contemporary performance. She currently
represents Annie Dorsen, Maria Hassabi, Arturo Vidich, Alex Waterman
and Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas,
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble, and
Jibz Cameron a.k.a. Dynasty Handbag.
Recent projects include Robert Ashley
and Alex Waterman at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Faye Driscoll’s Thank You
For Coming: Attendance at Danspace
Project, and producing the acclaimed
food event Taste of Bushwick to benefit
the Bushwick Starr. Previous to founding her own company Rosie Management, Rosenberg worked as a producer
and administrator with ArKtype, The
Chocolate Factory, Beth Morrison
Projects, Ping Chong & Co., and the
New York City Arts Coalition. She is a
graduate of Bennington College.
rosiemanagement.com
MORGAN BASSICHIS
Production Assistant
Morgan Bassichis is a NYC-based
writer and performer, whose plays
include When the Baba Yaga Eats You
Alive and The Witch House. Bassichis
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Pablo Helguera:
The Parable
Conference
SATURDAY, OCT 18
Conceived by
Pablo Helguera
Assistant Director
Sarah Hughes
Piano
Kelly Rogers
Event Planner
Allison Derusha
Presenting Hosts
Pablo Helguera
Brian Linden
Laura Lona
Rossella Matamoros
Equiano Mosieri
Greig Sargeant
Corey Tazmania
Candace Thompson
Table Hosts
Gabriela Bonomo de Nobrega
Meredith Cristal
Alessandra Gomez
Adrian Jevicki
Zach Lamming
Kat Lys
Turna Mete
Florence Nasar
Luca Nicora
Tamara Sevunts
Clint Tate
Correspondents
Ailssa Firth-Eagland
Debra Fisher
David Harth
Production Coordinators
Alessandra Gomez
Lizzie Hurst
Zach Lamming
SPECIAL THANKS
Joshua Linehan
Gracia Ross
PABLO HELGUERA
Artist, Performer
In a methodical way, returning to
strategies connected to the baroque
fugue and ars combinatoria (combinatory art), Pablo Helguera (born Mexico
City, 1971) often draws improbable
relationships between human histories,
biographies, anecdotes, and historical
events, bringing them all together in a
cohesive whole and making all serve
as a reflection on our current relationship with art as a society. Helguera
often focuses on history, pedagogy,
sociolinguistics, and anthropology in
formats such as lectures, museum displays, performance, and written fiction.
His project The School of Panamerican
Unrest (2003—11), an early example
of pedagogically-focused, socially
engaged art, consisted of a nomadic
think-tank that physically crossed the
continent by car from Anchorage to
Tierra del Fuego. He has exhibited
widely internationally (MoMA, Havana
Biennial, Performa, Reina Sofia, among
many others) and has been a recipient
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of the Guggenheim, Franklin Furnace,
and Blade of Grass Fellowships,
and Creative Capital and Art Matters
grants. He was the first recipient of the
International Award of Participatory Art
of the Emilia Romagna Region in Italy.
His book Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011), a primer for social
practice, has quickly become adopted
as a primary textbook for art schools
and university programs internationally.
He has authored several other books
including The Pablo Helguera Manual
of Contemporary Art Style, Theatrum
Anatomicum (and other performance
lectures), What in the World, and Art
Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art
World, a book on the sociology of contemporary art. In 2013 he launched
the project Librería Donceles, creating
the only Spanish used bookstore in
New York, a non-profit project intended
to draw attention to the perceptions
of Latin American culture in the US.
Currently touring to Phoenix and San
Francisco, the bookstore will return to
Brooklyn in 2015. His current project
Nuevo Romancero Nuevomejicano
for Site Santa Fe, NM, consists of a
performance and a series of exhibitions
about the history of the Mexican Period
of New Mexico using extant music and
historical documents.
SARAH HUGHES
Assistant Director
Sarah Hughes is a director, writer,
producer, sound designer, stage manager, and teaching artist. She worked
with Elevator Repair Service Theater
from 2007—14 and now works with
the Office for Creative Research. Other
theater projects include: A Star Has
Photo: Pablo Helguera, Courtesy of the Artist
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Who’s
Who
Burnt My Eye: The Strange Case of
Connie Converse (Howard Fishman);
On the Future of Art (Pablo Helguera);
Brunchtime is Over, The Pickle and
Special Cheese (Sam Goodman);
Barter (Vox Theater); Big Green
Theater (the Bushwick Starr/Superhero
Clubhouse); Neptune, Saturn; and
Earth (Superhero Clubhouse). She has
also worked with Classical Theater of
Harlem, Target Margin Theater, and
Half Straddle, among other companies.
Upcoming: Special Cheese with Sam
Goodman at Catch 64.
lation, sound, and video. She creates
interdisciplinary work that explores
the visceral and metaphysical aspects
of the body in relation to language,
sound, and movement. Lona is the
founder and director of MAAS | Mandragoras Art Space, an organization
dedicated to the research and experimentation of new approaches in performance, where she performed Devenir,
a piece based on Antonin Artaud’s To
Have Done with the Judgment of God.
ROSSELLA MATAMOROS
Host 2
BRIAN LINDEN
Host 1
Brian Linden has collaborated with
Pablo Helguera on On the Future of Art
(Guggenheim Museum), The WellTempered Exposition: Book One, Part
One (Location One), and The Juvenal
Players (The Kitchen and Grand Arts
in Kansas City). He recently performed
in David Edgar’s Iron Curtain Trilogy
with Burning Coal Theatre Company in
Raleigh, NC, which will be remounted
next month at the Cockpit Theatre in
London.
Rossella Matamoros is a Costa Rican
artist, MFA, Fulbright Scholar, Japan
Foundation Scholar, French Government Scholar, and Licentiate in Fine
Arts. She works in visual arts, scenography, dramaturgy of dress, and performance. She has participated in several
international biennials, including the
50th Venice Biennial in Italy in 2003.
Matamoros explores the themes of
trauma and recovery in different stages
of human development.
EQUIANO MOSIERI
Host 4
LAURA LONA
Host 5
Laura Lona is an independent actor
and artist, born in Caracas, Venezuela
in 1976. She studied anthropology at
the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas, and is a 2010
alumna of the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York. Her
theatrical practice embraces elements
of performance art, ritualism, instal-
Equiano Mosieri is a Nigerian-BritishAmerican artist, happily working with
Pablo Helguera once again. New York
and regional theaters have seen him in
a variety of roles from leads to clowns.
He has recently been seen in LoudSol’s
Summer Blue, Shakespeare Forum’s
The Merchant of Venice, and Shakespeare & Company’s Romeo and Juliet.
He earned a BA from Tennessee State
University and an MFA from Brandeis
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University. Currently, the writing of
futuristic poetry and perfecting the
hard-boiled egg demand most of his
attention.
GREIG SARGEANT
Host 3
Greig Sargeant is an associated artist
of Target Margin Theater and Elevator
Repair Service. He most recently appeared in Go Forth/Please Bury Me at
the Baryshnikov Arts Center, directed
by Kaneza Schaal; Fondly, Collette
Richland at the Walker Arts Center in
Minneapolis; Dinner Party at the Johnny Carson Theatre in Lincoln, NE; Gatz
at the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles;
and the title role in the TMT production
of Uncle Vanya directed by David Herskovits. Off-Broadway credits include
The Little Foxes (NYTW, directed by Ivo
Van Hove), The Sound and the Fury
(NYTW), Strictly Dishonorable (The
Vineyard), The Seagull, Dido, Queen
of Carthage (Ohio Theater), and Egypt
(LaMama E.T.C.), among others. He
received his MFA in acting from West
Virginia University and trained in New
York with William Esper.
COREY TAZMANIA
Host 6
Brooklyn native Corey Tazmania has
performed in the previous works by
Pablo Helguera: On The Future of Art
(Guggenheim) and The Well Tempered Exposition (Performa 11). His
performances for other artists include:
Jen Liu, MK Maher, Chelsea Knight,
Elise Rasmussen, Doctor Paco Cao,
Anthea Behm, Camel Collective, and
Michael Clark. Theater company
credits include: seven seasons with the
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey,
company member of New Jersey Repertory Company, 59E59, Soho Rep,
and Ensemble Theatre Company of
Santa Barbara.
CANDACE THOMPSON
Host 7
Candace Thompson is a performer and
video maker who lives in Brooklyn.
She most recently appeared in Pablo
Helguera’s piece On the Future of Art
at the Guggenheim Museum, and in
the wildly popular web series High
Maintenance. A director and member
of the video collaborative Other People
(otherpeeps.com), she sings and plays
autoharp with the band George Sand.
It just so happens, the band will be
leaving bright and early tomorrow for
their first European tour.
LENORE DOXSEE
BrooklynBred2
Lighting Designer
Lenore Doxsee is a lighting designer for
theater, opera, and dance. Designs for
dance include John Jasperse’s Within
between, Morgan Thorson’s Heaven,
and many pieces with Miguel Gutierrez including And lose the name of
action (BAM Next Wave 2012) and
Last Meadow. Doxsee has received
two Bessie Awards for her work with
Gutierrez. Other designs include Target
Margin Theater’s The Tempest, We are
Proud to Present… at Soho Rep, and
Orlando at New York City Opera.
2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL