Support for travel to Ghana and Mexico City to work on a film adaptation about Kwaku Ananse, a folk hero in West African fables.

Support for travel to Syria and Jordan to conduct interviews with displaced Iraqis, including members of the artist’s extended family, towards a series of experimental videos.

Research support for new models of artistic collaboration based on Allen’s work as director of Machine Project in Los Angeles.

Support for Ancient Through Modern, an ongoing project that intervenes in museum collections of Islamic Art.

Support for the project Trailer Talk: ON THE LINE. The artist will travel along the US-Mexico border from California to Texas, employing elements of live talk radio, travel documentary, and town meetings to examine the proposed border fence.

Support for travel and exchange with Chinese artist Shi Yong towards a new collaborative performance / installation.

Support for travel to La Brea Pitch Lake in Trinidad.

Research toward recreating the journey northward that Bailey’s predecessors would have taken on the Underground Railroad to Canada, culminating in a new work to be exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Support for MIA THE MECHANIC, a photo storybook for girls in Arabic, French and English created by the Morocco-based artist in collaboration with American filmmaker, writer and graphic designer Sean Gullette.

Support for travel to Poland to shoot a video based on biblical stories.

Support for travel to the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival in Jakarta to work with local gamelan musicians toward the creation of a soundtrack for Shuffle, the first installment of Biggers’s three-part video suite titled The Carnival within: Shuffle, Shake, Shatter.

Support for travel to Spitsbergen in the Artic to create a new video exploring gender roles in polar exploration.

Support for I Really Want to be White, an installation at the intersection of Middle Eastern decorative arts and robotics.

Support for a video project retracing the route taken by American hashish smugglers in 1974.

Support to collaborate with artists from Iceland and Germany on video works for the artist’s web project The Critical Condition.

Support for travel and research into extraterritorial zones in the US, with a focus on Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) and Immigrant Detention Centers.

Support for Changning District Orchestra, a video document of the migrant recycling population of the Changning District in Shanghai, China.

Support for a video project documenting DREAM-activist youth in California fighting the deportation of undocumented students.

Support for the Sofia, Bulgaria pilot launch of So MoMA, a traveling museum of contemporary art examining the role that a museum can play in post-conflict areas, with temporary exhibitions that use local resources and exhibit the work of local artists.

Support for The Discovery of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929, a reimagining of 12 missing early films which may have had integrated casts and/or been directed by black filmmakers.

Support for the artist’s trek through Annapurna Himal in central Nepal and the creation of a feature-length video travelogue.

Support for Subterranean Pass Way, a 16mm film projection/installation looking at the anti-slavery Underground Railroad movement in the US and Canada.

Support for the Los Angeles collective Fallen Fruit to lead “public fruit” activities and dialogue in sister city Auckland, New Zealand including A Public Fruit Jam.

Support for travel to the Isle of Man to collaborate with Manx historian, documentary filmmaker and sound engineer Charles Guard on the installation Found in Translation.

Support for travel to France to investigate and document social housing complexes in the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles, the epicenter of the Fall 2005 race riots. Part of a body of work that examines the idealism and reality of public housing.

Support for Be Dammed, an art/activism project about the effects of dam construction on the natural and social landscapes of the Americas.

Support for travel to Montevideo, Uruguay to create a film portrait of the artist’s 94 year-old grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.

Support for travel and research in Spain, England and France towards a photo/video project exploring the partnership between humans and bees.

Support for research in Mauritania into Haratine and Beydane contemporary music culture.

Image: Che Chen, Island Cultures: Chott-El-Jerrid, Tunisia. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for travel to Guadalajara, Mexico to research the production of traditional ceramic wares leading to an exhibition examining function and aesthetics.

Support for the Fundred project in New Orleans.

Support for travel to Ecuador to document the ongoing effects of oil contamination perpetrated by Texaco in the Amazon from 1964-1990 towards the series of experimental videos Deep Black Sea.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for a collaborative performance/video project by the Vietnam-based artist and Tokyo-based art collective Nibrol involving youth culture in Vietnam and Japan.

Support for travel and research in Jamaica, Ghana and the UK towards the project Black Hair and Tilled Land: Combing through Canerows, exploring the history of sugarcane and Afro-Caribbean hairstyles named for the Triangle Trade cash crop.

Support for travel to Hong Kong for the creation of a video docu-drama involving an x-phi study that examined whether different cultures tend to be moral absolutists or moral relativists.

Support for travel to Peru, Uruguay, and 35 US states to document certain forgotten historical landmarks associated with radical community activist groups from the 1500s to the 1960s.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to Argentina for Critical Art Ensemble’s work with the art and environmental organization Ala Plástica in Río de la Plata, towards the second part of the project Basins.

Support for travel to Panama and Spain to research religious festivities centered around two black mystical figures, as part of an ongoing project involving musicians Ismael “Maelo” Rivera and Pau Casals.


Image: Tony Cruz, Sin Titulo #1. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for travel to Peru to research the architectural remnants of various Pre-Inca cultures in the areas of Trujillo, Chiclayo, Lima, and Cuzco, as well as the ruins of Machu Picchu.

Image: Santiago Cucullu, Entre los Bifrontes. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Image: Sandra de la Loza, The Art of Lockpicking, The Lockpicking of Art. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for the first phase of Mapping the American Empire, a multi-media project involving travel to the 150 countries where the US has troops stationed.

Support for Noise, the third chapter of a video trilogy exploring Chinese immigration in Mexico.

Support to expand the artist’s “handmade sign” project to Mexico City and surrounding rural towns.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to Berlin to collaborate with performance artist and drag queen Vaginal Davis on a photo and video project exploring contemporary trans culture of the city.

Support for Ringing the Temple Bell, a three-day event involving performances, workshops, and the building of an earthen bread oven/kiln.

Image: Daniel Duford, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Head. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for travel to the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Greenland to film the Inuit communities’ public resolution of sovereignty and to collaborate with artists from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.

Support for travel to Transdniestria, the self-declared republic between Moldova and Ukraine, to document daily activities in its major cities using software the artist has developed.


Image: Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience: One on One. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Klein Arts, New York.

Support for Soundproofed, a solo performance in a Mormon Church-funded mall in Utah as part of the artist’s ongoing Plural Wife Project.

Support for the development of a collaborative project in Spree Park, an abandoned amusement park in Berlin, Germany.

Support for Woven, a sculpture / performance venue, consisting of a 30-foot, sprung dance floor on the Los Angeles River.

Support for Borderless– a project involving travel to the artist’s birthplace, Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in order to trace his genealogical roots to neighboring Haiti. The project challenges the tradition of Dominicans foregrounding their roots to Spain and distancing themselves from their neighbors.

Support for research into new methods for image creation involving animation, sense data, and the resolving power of the human eye.

Support for travel to England, Brazil, and South Africa to continue three different photographic portrait series involving the politics of pigmentocracy, gender, and age.

Support for travel to Cali, Colombia to collaborate with local artist Wilson Díaz on a new body of work, Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant.

Support for travel to and research in Edinburgh, Scotland towards the development of a protest computer video game addressing environmental racism, health care corruption and gentrification, with characters based on her Scottish ancestral lineage.

Support for ongoing work.

Support toward the creation of a new film for travel from China to Taiwan retracing the route taken in 1949 by the artist’s family to escape Communist China.

Support to travel to Egypt to study the tradition of portraiture in Coptic Christianity in order to expand his own form of self-portraiture and further investigation of his own white, straight, male, American, Christian identity.

Support for travel to Tokyo and Kyoto to research graphic storytelling forms Kamishibai and Garo/Seijin.

Support to develop a scent that facilitates interspecies communication between humans and beavers in Tierra del Fuego.

Support for travel to India and Nepal to research everyday life in Mumbai, the architecture of Agra, the spiritual aspects of Varanasi, and the physical landscape of Barun Valley.

Support for Timelining, a performance work exploring queer intimacy and the intersection of individual and collective memory, to be performed at The Kitchen in NYC.

Support for travel to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia for research and interviews with the Roma.

Development support for the Canadian section of Perplexities, a book project involving indigenous communities in the four countries that did not vote in support of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Involves travel to Iqaluit, the new capital of Nunavut, Inuit Territory and an interview with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference.

Image: Andrea Geyer, from the series Time Present (detail), 2008. Courtesy of the artist.

Research support for What we left unfinished, a long-term project examining the history of the Afghan Left through five unfinished Afghan films from 1978-92.

Support for Like A Hammer, a new performance bringing together Native American powwow culture, drumming, and house music.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to the reef atolls off the coast of Belize to study the sea sponges that grow there as part of the artist’s ongoing social artwork project Sponge.

Support for a residency at Curtiduria (Oaxaca Arts Center) in Oaxaca, Mexico to expand the artists exploration of race and nation begun with his study of lynching photography in the American West.

Support for Night Hawk, a conceptual project in which a performer will cross the Arizona-Mexico border wearing an authentic Black Robe from the KKK embroidered by local Mexicali artists.

Support for Returning Kaleidoscopic Migration Constellations, a film involving movements of people in the history of California, New York, Brazil, Vienna, and Berlin.

Image: Renee Green, Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for new work inspired by the Serbian mythological creature Azdaja, to be presented at Drugstore, a queer cultural space in Belgrade.

Support for a digital drawing project involving personal reflections of residents of the former Soviet Union on key events foreshadowing the dissolution of the USSR, in collaboration with CECArtsLink.

Support for the Waves of Change video series, a compendium of alternative/citizens/community media projects (radio, television, internet and more) from around the world.

Support for Hustlers + Empires, a multichannel video about aging, death, and chaos.

Support for travel to Japan to research Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of Butoh dance, starting with the question, “how does one vogue Tatsumi Hijikata?”

Support for travel to France and Spain to complete a series of large-scale drawings and photographs of the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and George Wyman’s Bradbury Building in LA.

Travel to Chile for Apomorph, a film relating the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago to the Open City at the Catholic University of Valparaíso’s school of architecture.

Support for the Paris and London iterations of the project In the Near Future, in which Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an investigation into the figure of the protester and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.

Support for ongoing work.

Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Support for travel to the Netherlands to research Dutch still-life paintings created during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Rijksmuseum in Holland.

Support for a new video project that reinterprets the story of the Czech fencer Balduin in collaboration with a fencing school in Berlin.

Support for the artist’s nomadic journey through Bolivia, creating ephemeral installations and photo-documentation in the style of Colonial Photography with collaborator Roy Minten.

Support for ongoing work.

Travel and research in Italy and Jordan toward the development of a script for a narrative film about Wael Zuaiter, the first victim in a series of assassinations of Palestian artists, intellectuals, and diplomats committed by Israeli agents.

Support for travel to Tokyo to collaborate with composer Eiji Yoshizawa and to meet Akira the Hustler, Kazuyuki Takezaki, Eisin Sasaki, and other artists involved with the gay and lesbian AKTA Community Center toward the creation of a new video work.

Image: Bryan Jackson, Juicy Menu | Akira the Hustler, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.

​Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Image: Mary Jeys, Prototype 2012. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for travel to Japan to develop a photography and sound based installation involving the economy of Matsutake mushrooms in Oregon and Japan.

Support for the artist’s Acoustic Painting series, which uses soundproofing materials from industrial settings to bridge two-dimensional works and audio pieces.

Support for GESTURE, a film project about the Kiki scene in NYC, with collaborator Twiggy Pucci Garçon and others.

Support for a collaboration between US media artist Franklin Joyce, Indonesian counter-culture icon/brand designer Dendy Darman and artist Veroland, for a project involving Becak (Bicycle taxis) and the celebration of Independence in Bandung, Java, Indonesia.

Support for a video project in Kolkata, India involving the port of departure, globalization, and tolerance of marginal sexualities.

Support for travel and research for The Masotta Project, which will examine Oscar Masotta’s body of writings and the collision of Peronista politics, European avant-garde art, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires.

Support for travel to Ghana to explore the intersection of contemporary and traditional music-making, towards a new music / video project Obruni Papa.

Support for research for the project 19.83, the cataloguing and detailing of Olympic Gold Medal Winner and activist Tommie Smith’s personal museum.

Support for a collaborative trip with Laurel Braitman, historian of science, to the Lagoon of San Ignacio in Baja California for research on ballenas amistosas (friendly whales).

Support for a three-week residency in France to work with painter Pierre Soulages as part of the larger project BLACK ART INDEX.

Support for the creation of a site-specific installation in Lahore, Pakistan in which the Taj Mahal can be viewed through a live video feed.

Support for continuing research and interviews with former Trümmerfrauen, “Rubble Women” in Berlin, recruited to clean up their demolished city with the fall of Nazi Germany.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to Haiti, Jamaica, and Ghana to continue the artists portraiture photography work.

Support for love bomb (love highway)! and ongoing work.

Support for Saigon: Diary of a Fat City, a project documenting the daily life of twelve recycling women in Saigon, Vietnam through video and installation.

Support for travel to Durban, South Africa to research contemporary material culture in Zululand.

Support for the Oaxaca performance of El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man, a recurring wrestling event in which Leonardo portrays a Mexican wrestling luchador who fights his own “invisibility,” both literally and metaphorically.

Support for research in the Greenham Commons Women’s Peace Camp archives in London.

Support for travel to Kenya to research the interaction of soil, culture, and time, in collaboration with Nairobi-based video artist David Koch, the UN Programme for the Environment, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.

Support for the European tour of a new album/project with original music, spoken word and performance.

Planning support for Liska, playwright/director Kelly Copper, and three Amsterdam-based performers toward the creation of a new work based on ideas of translation and misunderstanding.

Support toward work at the newly launched Winter/Summer Performance Institute in Lesotho, Southern Africa with collaborators from South Africa, Lesotho, and the U.K.

Support for travel to Istanbul to visit the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia with a specific interest in exploring themes such as patterning, decoration, calligraphy, and wall painting.

Support for Sons of Iran, a feature length documentary film that will follow the lives of students and their teachers at a Khomeni boarding school in Tehran, Iran.

Support for LAPD’s Walk the Talk, a Skid Row street pageant of local oral history tributes, linked together by a New Orleans brass band.

Support for travel and research in Brest, France, the location of Fassbinder’s film version of Jean Genet’s novel Querelle, as part of an ongoing creative investigation of the material.


Image: Lovett/Codagnone, Genet in New York, 2011. Courtesy of the artists.

Support for travel to Nairobi, Kenya to continue developing the ongoing public art project Amani Kites.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for the experimental film 1+8, about Turkey and its relationship with the eight countries it borders, in collaboration with Istanbul-based artist Angelika Brudniak.

Support for travel to Bangladesh for a photography project examining water issues and culture, travel and architecture in Barisal Khulna and Chittagong as well as in areas near the river and deltas.

Public performance and documentation about Arthur Negro, a founding member of the Former Black Militant Golf and Country Club to take place in various locations in Harlem and Hanoi, Vietnam.

Support for travel and research in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Cape Town, South Africa, for a film project based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City and Invisible Cities.

Support for a collaboration with London-based poet and performance artist Caroline Bergvall towards creation of a new performance work.

Support for travel to Buenos Aires to expand the artist’s dance practice that evinces failure.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to photograph the remaining architecture from Nazi-occupied Berlin and Mussolini-era Fascist Rome towards the project Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a film adaptation of Eugene Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros.

Support for video and performance project in which the artist interviews Faafafines in Western and American Samoa and receives the Lima tattoo.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to La Paz, Bolivia and Caracas, Venezuela to conduct interviews for The Good Life, a multi-channel video installation, a newsprint publication, and an internet archive exploring US interventions in Latin America.

Support for an archival art piece in the form of a book, the latest incarnation of the project Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists.

Support for Nile-ism, a site-specific performance project in Cairo, Egypt in two parts— “The Shocking History of the Eleven Human Senses”, a musical play hosted by the Townhouse in Cairo, and a procession enacted on the Nile River.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for a project expanding upon the artist’s ongoing sculpture and performance practice that involves the composition of unique personal symphonies.

Support for travel to Castelfidardo, Italy to attend the 34th annual Festival Internazionale Fisarmonica and tour the Borsini factory as part of an investigation into the accordion as a popular music instrument and social activator.

Support for travel to Dakar, Senegal toward the creation of a new video work exploring the artist’s ancestry and themes of human trafficking and globalism.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for a project in Ho Chi Minh City examining communist propaganda and capitalist marketing, in which the artist rents an “advertisement” billboard to show a rotating selection of local artists’ work.

Support for The Tuba Thieves, a film project exploring the recurring theft of sound in Southern California.

Support for travel to Jamaica to meet local family members, artists and art workers, documenting the trip in photos, video and text.
Image:
Lorraine O’Grady, The Strange Taxi: From Africa to Jamaica to Boston in 200 Years. Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY.

Support for a project restaging key battles from the Guatemalan Civil War in the late 80s and 90s in the parking lot of a Cypress Park Home Depot with members of the Mayan community in LA who fought in the war and are now day laborers.

Travel to her native country of Trinidad (her first time working there) during Carnival to learn the stilt-walking traditions of Moko Jumbies at the Keylemanjahro School of Arts and support to create an installation at the project space of local architect Sean Leonard.

Support for El Pedon, a project in which the artist extracts a cubic meter of soil from Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico and transports it, intact, to an arts institution in the US.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for Owens’s first international travel to Ecuador to explore multiple cities and research aspects of local culture and politics.

Research and travel support towards the creation of a new body of work entitled Hasenfus, involving a1986 CIA plane crash in Nicaragua, which led to the exposure of the “Iran-Contra Scandal”.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for Shaw and Lois Weaver to bring their performance piece Long Table to the Hemispheric Institute’s 2007 Encuentro in Argentina.

Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Support for Common Sense Athens, an iteration of the artist’s ongoing installation and performance involving a large-scale crocheted drawing, which audience participants dismantle, unravel, and repurpose.

Support for travel to the Ahmed Zabana National Museum in Oran, Algeria for a photo and video project Zabana Inshallah, documenting the dismantling of certain colonial collections there.

Researching the Lebanese diaspora at the Arab World Institute in Paris and the Centro Libanés in Mexico City, towards the artist’s ongoing painting, drawing, and print work.

Support for a return to his native country of Eritrea to retrace the route that his family followed when fleeing the war in the 1970s, constructing temporary traditional housing structures along the way and staging a 27 mile walk to the sea. The artist will also research professional mourners from the Bilen and Tigrinya tribes for two upcoming exhibitions.

Support for the film Vitruvian Figure (2014), documenting the production process of the artist’s warehouse-sized architectural model of the Philippine Arena mega-church currently under construction in the outskirts of Manila.

Support to create programs for PhotoStory, a participatory photography project thus far conducted in six countries, now taking place in South Africa and Mali.

Support for The Repellent Fence, a site-specific installation and monument examining the Tohono O’odham border experience as a metaphor for the Western hemispheres larger Indigenous human rights crisis.

Image: Courtesy of the artists.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to Bangalore, India for photo/video documentation of the architecture of M. S. Ramaiah, migrant laborers, and the utopian imagery of development.

Support for travel to Mali to research the intersection of Hip Hop and traditional Dogon culture in Bamako and the annual festival on the Niger in Ségou.

Support for INGRAINED—working with the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico to develop a new site-specific installation that examines undocumented histories of people and land in Puerto Rico.

Support for travel and documentation of the artists first trip back to Jamaica in 25 years with his father to visit family land in Three Hills, Ocho Rios and to conduct research in Spanish Town and Kingston.

Support for Desahogo, a project involving the hiring of street vendors to document oral histories of passersby in Cali, California; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Quito, Ecuador; Tijuana, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Support for Proyecto Nomade II, which uses hybrid man-powered vehicles to examine ideas of the individual within the local and global marketplace. In collaboration with Oaxaca-based artist Demian Flores.

Support for HOME/ARCHIVE, a collaborative archival project exploring how domestic space stages remembrance.

Support for a performance project with Romanian heavy metal bands to take place in a rural area near Iași, Romania, engaging questions of identity and territory in the region.

Support for research in Chennai, Kerala and Mumbai, India towards a video project exploring the international outsourcing of 3D animation and visual effects for the creation of US landscapes in Hollywood movies.

Support for travel and research in Freetown Christiania in Denmark, the Whiteway Colony in the UK, and utopian communities in Ireland towards an installation examining notions of utopia.


Image: Andrea Ray, Searching for Utopia: future eco-community in Ireland. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for a toy-making and vending project involving El Rastro flea market in Madrid, Spain.

Support for travel to London for research on embroidery artist Mary Linwood.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for the artist’s return to the island Bequia in the south Caribbean to create tattoo designs combining the residents’ contemporary whaling tales and personal histories with the artist’s 19th century New England scrimshaw motifs.

Image: Duke Riley, Bequia Tattoo Studio. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for Erection Room, a site-specific installation that responds to the physical presence of people who encounter it.

Support for travel to Iceland to film the artists moving in extreme landscapes for a new video/performance piece involving the feminist reworking of the “man alone” trope.

Support for travel to South Africa to investigate his Afrikaners roots, creating an event on the land that was once a family farm to be documented by Google Earth.

Support for a project in Berlin in collaboration with Swedish artist Klara Liden as part of a series using choreography as political practice and form of social organizing.

Support for a film project involving travel to Johannesburg, South Africa and England, for interviews with former members of an anti-apartheid group.

Image: Miljohn Ruperto, Arden Cho as Isabel Rosario Cooper. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for the first iteration in Phoenix, AZ of Sleepover, a series of activities with diverse constituents exploring re-entering society after incarceration.

Support for the creation of concert video projections in collaboration with DAM and PR, Palestinian hip hop groups, and Waleed Zaiter, an Arab-American graphic animator. These projections will accompany the release of Salloum’s feature-length documentary, Slingshot Hip-Hop: The Palestinian Lyrical Front.

Support for a new site-specific installation and single channel video recreating the artists experience during his process of immigration in Baja California. To be presented in Tijuana and Chicago.


Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Support for the expansion of the artist’s current performance and video practice into sculpture with the purchase of a 3D printer.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for the travel to Cusco, Peru to work with collaborators on QORICANCHA (AND THE SACRED SONGS OF CUSCO), a new multimedia opera addressing the forced application of modern cultures onto the remnants of ancient ones in Peru with “lost” Peruvian songs sung in Quechua by Sonia Ccahuana.

Support for research trips to New Orleans and Charlotte to develop Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a restaging and reinterpreting of Louisiana’s German Coast Uprising of 1811.

Support for travel to Mongolia to collaborate with local artist Tuguldur Yondonjamts on a performative sculpture project involving natural electric fields.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to Nepal, the place of the artist’s birth, for interviews and video/photo documentation exploring body politics, violence, memory, and identity towards an exhibition involving Nepali expatriates in the US.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for the continued development of the performance work, The Jester of Tonga, based on the true story of Jesse Bogdonoff, a Californian accountant who was officially declared the jester of the island of Tonga by the country’s king. He earned millions in interest for the country from a scheme of selling Tongan passports to Hong Kong citizens. Involves travel to California and Tonga for further research.

Support for travel to La Gomera in the Canary Islands to work with women practitioners of the whistling language Silbo Gomero towards a project involving a whistled adaptation of Gertrude Stein’s Lifting Belly.

Travel to the Northeast coast of Australia to research ideas of Dreamtime and landscape in aboriginal communities, and to set up a free outdoor photography studio in collaboration with Australian sculptor and painter Daniel Templeton.

Support for Readymaids, a performance video and photo project involving “maid agencies” in Java, Indonesia.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for research and development for Rebecca (working title), a multi-pronged collaboration with Nigerian filmmaker Ekenna Igwe, which includes a narrative film and a non-linear video installation based on Daphne du Maurier’s popular 1938 novel Rebecca.

Support for travel to Brazil, Colombia, Panama, and the Caribbean to engage in conversations with artists of African descent for a video documentary.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for travel to India for a project involving the harnessing of solar power from panels embedded and embroidered in women’s veils.

Support to collaborate with recent Art Matters grantee Ginger Brooks Takahashi on her funded video and photo project in Mongolia inspired by Ulrike Ottinger’s film Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia.

Support for the recreation of Last Supper, a mixed media installation examining diabetes in native communities, to be shown in various locations in Indian Territory, US and Canada.

Support for travel to Star City, Russia, site of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. The artist will conduct research towards the project The Orthostatic Tolerance, involving the creation of an Ocean and Aerospace Exploration Agency for the Bahamas, his home country.

Support for a collaboration with artists Ann Carlson and Bently Spang of the Northern Cheyenne nation toward the creation of a section of Future Memory, a video installation that imagines probable and desirable alternative futures.

Support for an art exhibition about endemic pollution in south Seattle, paralleling the artists’ process of transforming a former gas station into a pocket park.

Support for a research trip to Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, inspired by Ulrike Ottinger’s film Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, to examine strategies for nomadic living, shared labor and non-mechanized textile production.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for Our Examination Round His Factification for Incarnation of Work in Progress (Dürer’s Rhinoceros), a video installation in collaboration with patients at the Miguel Bombarda Psychiatric Hospital in Lisbon.

Research support for members of Temporary Services and Ljubljana-based artists Polonca Lovšin and Stefan Doepner and curator Urška Jurman to investigate public inventions in Ljubljana that people create to meet their everyday needs.

Support for the travel to Istanbul for the development of the live soap opera Room for Cream Istanbul in collaboration with Lambda Istanbul and local queer performers and artists.

Support for the creation of a video with Syrian filmmaker and actor Rami Farah investigating land, identity, memory, and contested visions for the future in the Golan Heights.


Image: Courtesy of the artists.

Support to expand a previous project, The Truth is I Am You, to five different continents, asking people from diverse cultural and language backgrounds to share their understanding of the truth, toward a video and sound installation in collaboration with artist Ryan Alexiev.

Support for YOUR UNTITLED MARK (upon me), a project in which the artist and video collaborator Stosh Fila create live portraiture with five Filipino queer/trans writers, artists, and movers through a one-on-one movement workshop in Manila, Philippines. Part 1 of a series “STAY GOLD (Where Old is a Thing of Beauty)”.

Support for travel to Vietnam for the creation of the video A Chilly Night at a Desolate Palace, juxtaposing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with the Vietnamese folk opera, cải-lương.

Image: Hong-An Truong, untitled. Courtesy of the artist.

Support for travel to Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico to interview queer people using questions inspired by Pasolini’s 1965 documentary on public attitudes towards sex, as well as documenting nightclub performances and queer theater happenings.

Support for travel to Vietnam to collaborate with artists at Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts Institute to create ceramic sculptures that integrate busts of famous dictators with those of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, as well as organizing group shows and open studios with artist Dinh Q Le.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for the Robert Blanchon Estate Project.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for an adapted film version of Leonora Carringtons comic novel The Hearing Trumpet, set and shot in present-day Mexico.

Support for the project Watching Dust, in which excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera Dust are performed for “comfort women” survivors at the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation in Taiwan.

Support for ongoing work.

Support for a film project on Eva Perón working with the original French theater script “Eva Perón” by Copi to explore myth, identity, and translation.

Support for ongoing work and travel to Mexico City.

Support for Towards a Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, a project inviting indigenous artists, arts professionals, and tribal governance to engage in the performative ritual that is the studio portrait.

Galleon Trade is an exhibition in Manila, Philippines of artists with ties to the Philippines, Mexico, and California seeking to create new routes of cultural exchange along the old historic Acapulco-Manila route of commerce and trade.

Support for travel to Japan to participate in the Takayama Festival at the Hida Folk Village in Gifu and research folkloric performance practices toward the creation of a new performance.

Image: Courtesy of the artist.

Support to document a series of site-specific, research-driven performances in rural South Carolina and Alabama as part of an ongoing performance project Haunts.

Support for an experimental, multidisciplinary documentary focusing on tensions between people who are unhoused and the relatively privileged in Olympia.

Support for The Mountain Project, an ongoing project that involves tours of regional geographies with indigenous participants.

Support for The War Within: Healing the Wounds, a feature-length documentary capturing the lives of veterans and active duty soldiers of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.