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Hello and welcome to our online magazine and archive project dedicated to providing readers with a window inside the creative incubator of the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center. Learn More >>
Hello and welcome to our online magazine and archive project dedicated to providing readers with a window inside the creative incubator of the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center. Learn More >>
Montalvo's Lucas Artists Residency Program is proud to announce its latest jury selections for incoming Fellows.
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Curatorial essays. Video interviews with participating artists. Photos and write-ups about related programming.
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Former and current Lucas Artists Fellows routinely make headlines around the world. Read the latest they've been up to.
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Recent Articles
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Interview Between RADIOEE.NET and Lucas Artists Program Curator Donna Conwell
Lucas Artists Program Curator Donna Conwell sat down with RADIOEE.NET for a wide ranging conversation about their work and upcoming broadcast project AUTOPILOTO. The collective explore their interest in radio and mobility and the impetus for their new broadcast focusing on the evolving technology of self-driving transit in this edited interview. What will our streets and cities look and sound like in a driverless future? How will society and infrastructure systems adapt? What might humans do during their newly available transit time? In what ways do machines imitate human's auto-pilot modes of engaging with the world? Read More >> |
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A Look Back at Summer 2018
In this edition, we highlight the compelling and varied activities of our Fellows and Guest Artists, from their time spent in the studio and around the table seeding and developing ideas and building new collaborative partnerships to the presentation of critical new works drawing on the fields of performance, visual arts, sound, and intermedia that have sparked important conversations around issues that matter to us all. Read More >> |
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2018 Art on the Grounds: We the People
This July 20th, we were joined by poets, musicians, and visual and sound artists from across the globe as we collectively consider: How can we expand our understanding of “we” and imagine new, more inclusive ways of being together? This communal gathering on Montalvo’s grounds featured poetry, performance, sound works, installation art, and participatory engagement activities. See clips from the various performances of the evening in the video below by videographers ShakaJamal and Sompong Viengvilai. Watch Here >> |
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We the People
On July 20, Montalvo hosted a communal gathering on its grounds, featuring poetry, performance, soundworks, installation art, and participatory engagement activities. Audiences joined poets, musicians, and visual and sound artists from across the globe as we collectively considered: How can we expand our understanding of “we” and imagine new, more inclusive ways of being together? Read More >> |
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Jennifer Johns: Looking a Police Officer Straight in the Eye and Other Rituals for Finding Love
By Margarita Kompelmakher, PhD In my third installment of a series of interviews with Lucas Artists Fellows working in performance, I interview singer-songwriter-performer Jennifer Johns before the premiere of her new performance work LIV: A Ritual For Humanity at the Art on the Grounds: We the People event in July 2018. One month later, we meet again to discuss how it went. Listen along in this before-and-after audio-blog journey as we discuss Johns’ courageous piece in which she builds a home for the history of police brutality in the US and “arrests” a police officer as part of a ritual for finding love and forgiveness. Read More >> |
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Simón Adina Hanukai: Sparking Discussion About Data Ethics Through Art
By Margarita Kompelmakher, PhD In this interview, I chat with Co-Artistic Director of Kaimera Productions Simón Adinia Hanukai about his new installation project, DATAPRINT, which will premiere this weekend at the Tech Museum in downtown San Jose, California. Working with a group of collaborators across the disciplines of data science, video game writing and data ethics, Simón is taking some major risks with a project that sits on the cutting edge of new media installation work. Listen along as he shares his thoughts on collaboration and describes the challenges involved in mounting a simultaneous presentation of DATAPRINT in two global capitals of technological innovation--Bangalore, India and Silicon Valley, USA. Read More >> |
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NEW VIDEO
Marilá Dardot: Saudade (Our Flags) In her first exhibition in the United States, Brazilian artist Marilá Dardot premiered a large-scale installation of flags, Saudade (Our Flags), created by immigrant and refugee community participants during a series of public workshops. The flags, which represent in text or visual form something their maker misses about the country where they were born, were raised on Montalvo’s grounds on Sunday, July 15 at a communal flag-raising ceremony. With this work, Dardot seeks to amplify the voices of our varied diaspora communities, and honor the complexities and challenges of their experience in the midst of a divisive national conversation about immigrants and the nature of American identity. View a video documenting Saudade (Our Flags) by videographer Brandon Hanson. Watch Here >> |
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NEW VIDEO
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Imole Blue II (Field of Memories) One of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba, María Magdalena Campos-Pons created a garden, Imole Blue II (Field of Memories), for Montalvo’s grounds with participation from the community. Taking inspiration from an aerial photograph of a Soviet medium-range ballistic missile installation taken by a US Air force plane during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, this garden is part peace memorial and part living sketch. Campos-Pons is interested in the uneasy juxtaposition of the visual beauty of the photograph upon which she based her garden plan--which looks like blooming flowers set inside a hexagram shape--and the horror and destructive capability that the image belies. View the creation of the peace garden in this video from videographer Brandon Hanson. Watch Here >> |
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Preston Lane: Appalachian Theatricality and the Future of American Regional Theater
By Margarita Kompelmakher, PhD Over the past year, the Lucas Artist Residency Program welcomed an inaugural group of playwriting Fellows. It has been my pleasure to spend time with this talented and diverse group of artists and observe how the discipline of theater makes a home for itself at Montalvo. The following is Part 1 in a series of audio-blog portraits that discuss their playwriting projects and topical questions about the theater—past and present, here and elsewhere. Read More >> |
