Grantee tags performance art

“Journey of the Invader Spirit”

Morrison , Mandy

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

"Journey of the Invader Spirit" is a fictive narrative that weaves dark humor and fantasy, with the dilemma of post-consumer waste. The link is a 5-min excerpt. Total running time is 15:47 Read More

Land Use Intervention Library

Almeida, Nora

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Land Use Intervention Library is part of an ongoing project about land use, climate change, and self-determination based in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The library exist(s)ed temporarily as two site-specific public performances and permanently as a handmade catalog, video, and collection of ephemera. Read More

Art As Social Inquiry

Theresa BrownGold aka TBG Pussi Artist

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

Art As Social Inquiry combines art and advocacy as a way to engage audiences. Read More

Illinois River Project

Don Hải Phú Daedalus

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

The Illinois River Projects pilots the process of using the fish bones of invasive carp to remediate soil polluted with heavy metals. Read More

Suite Sandy Boulevard

Watson, Lou

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Suite Sandy Boulevard is an experimental concert which takes the eponymously named road in Portland, Oregon as its theme. The show features choreographed leaf-blowers, operatic vocals (using billboards as lyrics) and storefront guessing games. Read More

“Anything But Brilliant: a love story”

Lights Up! Productions

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Lights Up! Productions presents the premiere production of Anything But Brilliant, by Bobby Ryan, co-directed by Bobby Ryan and Matt Pavik. Read More

Searching for Democracy: An Act of Civil Obedience

Grossman, Beth

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Searching for Democracy is a street performance of scribing the United States Constitution with a quill pen on moneybags from failed banks. This public dialog calls attention to the impact of financial interests on Constitutional interpretation. Read More

Zara Notes (2014)

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Zara Notes is a theatrical exploration of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. The fictional hermit-prophet takes you through his tenets and then sweeps you up in the endless, joyful cycle of creation/destruction/recreation. Read More