Carolyn Gennari
Carolyn Gennari is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, performance, photography, and sculpture. Using the archive as source material, her creative practice is heavily research based and explores how performance and media can generate news ways of thinking about the past. Often beginning her projects within archives and museums, Carolyn traces objects back to present day communities, places and events, positioning the archive as an active site in which to consider history and its relationship to the contemporaneous. In her work, it is no longer important that original historical events be portrayed as much as the interpretation of those events spun from a process of fragmentation, imitation and re-imagination. Using storytelling and performance as tools for expanding what we understand as knowledge, her work provides historiographic experiences that allow for new modes of interpretation, action and reflection.During Gennari's residency, she created The Object of This Exercise.
Cecilia Sweet-Coll
Cecilia is an animator and musician from San Francisco, CA with backgrounds in film, dance, virtual reality, photography, and sculpture. They dig playing where music and movement meet, and their work tends toward the meditative, textural, conceptual, and abstract. Cecilia also coordinates a team of abolitionist artists through JusticeLA and organizes toward housing as a human right with the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Their hope in all their work is to make more space for people to rest and breathe.
During Sweet-Coll's residency, they created By Us For Us.
Emerie Snyder
Emerie Snyder announced at age five that her hobby was "thinking about lots of things." It's still true. Emerie is a NYC-based theatre director and creator of new performance work, focusing on site-responsive theatre, relationships between visual art and theatre, and solo performance. Current projects in development include EXHIBIT, an immersive gallery tour play; DUTIFUL VICTIMS, a site-specific theatre experiment inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Victims of Duty; TRANSMISSION, a participatory performance sermon by Gwydion Suilebhan; and THIS IS LIKE THAT, a slide lecture play by Michael Sean Cirelli. Emerie is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and the Arts Curator for Warren Saint Marks Community Garden in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
During Snyder's residency, she created This is not a Museum Tour.
Erick Medel
Erick Medel (b.1992) lives and works in Los Angeles. Can one become a real American simply by desiring the same things the dominant culture desires? Even when that stage (middle class ideals) is achieved can one truly be seen as American? Through transformations in materials and form, Medel opens up a dialogue about the customization of identity and the power of consumer culture, habits, and symbolism in the promotion of ideologies.During Medel's residency, he created El Coyote As A Protector, 2019.
Parasol B
Parasol B is an artist exploring interactive and experiential work through sound, electronics, sculpture and painting. She finds it imperative that people have access to artwork they can interact with and finds it intriguing that many people are uncomfortable with touching artwork, even when given permission. She also creates specific messages for people to take away from her work by encoding data visually, then supplying the visual vocabulary or tools to decode the meaning.
During Parasol's residency, she created The Cabinet of Cacophonies.
Furen Dai
Furen Dai’s practice has focused largely on the economy of culture industry, and how languages lose function, usage, and history. Dai’s hybrid art practice utilizes video, sound, sculpture, painting and collaboration. Her years as a professional translator and interest in linguistic studies have guided her artistic practice since 2015. She has been researching and developing the nearly extinct language of NüShu. The language, derived from Chinese characters, was created and used exclusively by women.
Dai received a Bachelor in Russian Language studies from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2010, a Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurial Management from Boston University. She also holds a MFA degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2016. Her work has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and around the world. Past exhibitions include 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece), OSMOSIS Audiovisual Media festival 2017 (Taiwan), Illuminus Boston 2017, Now&After'16, The State Darwin Museum (Moscow). She is a recipient for The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017, Excellence Award for the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival. The exhibition at 456 Gallery will be her first solo show in New York.
During Dai's residency, she created Dear Mother.