Harvestworks

1985 Artists in Residence

Awarded Artists:

Shelly Hirsch

Shelly Hirsch (Engine 27) for multi-channel installation of Wandering Jews, a historical multimedia collage and a confrontation with popular notions of Jewishness. As a sound installation at Engine 27, the piece will use original music, sound recordings and interviews to follow the paths of two very different people from the artist’s life. The recipient of many awards, grants, fellowships and residencies, Shelly has presented her own work throughout the US and Europe, and lives and works in New York City.

Associated project: Untitled

Peter D’Agostino

Peter D’Agostino for the completion of Year ZERO ZERO, a video and multimedia installation that takes a personal look at representations of the new millennium in art, religion and technology. The installation will be a synthesis of experimental and documentary forms utilizing the image, sound and text capabilities of interactive CD-ROM and the World Wide Web. Installations are proposed for presentation at The Kitchen, as well as in Brasilia and Rome (the three cities featured in the work).

Associated project: “Double You (and X, Y, Z)”

A four-part video piece for both linear and interactive video disk. The four part structure parallels four stages of early language development.

Anna Rubin

“Father/Daughter”

A semi-autobiographical work that focuses on purely abstract and figurative (textural/communicative) sound. Performances of this work are scheduled at the Alternative Museum (NYC) and in Germany, Holland, and Belgium.

Associated project: Taming the Beast: A Masked Music

Erica Beckman

“Cinderella”
Sound/effects portion of a 15-minute film updating the classic fairy tale.

Associated project: Cinderella

Jon Catler

“Planet Slicer”
A 3-part suite for acoustic and electronic instruments in a 31-tone scale. Residency will explore the possibilities of creating a score in this unusual tuning system.

Associated project: Planet Slicer

Charles Dennis

“People in High Places”
A multi-media dance/performance work in collaboration with composers Bruce Tovsky and Bob Telson.

Associated project: People in High Places

Peter Griggs

“Magnetic Fields”
Residency will explore and produce electronically and digitally altered acoustic sounds for a new musical work.

Associated project: Magnetic Fields

Hugh Levick

“Kick Copy”
A spoken opera in 12 sequences combining video, slides and live performers.

Ginger Miles

“Tex-Syns”
A one-hour radio work using both environmental and synthesized sounds for the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986.

Associated project: Kick Copy

Rita Myers

“The Center of the Eye has Nine Vessels”
The third in a series of video/sound works designed as “meditations on the poetic universe described by myth and magic”.

Associated project: The Center of the Eye has Nine Vessels

Pauline Oliveros

“Radio Piece”
A combination of text, sounds, and instruments in a 20-minute work for national radio distribution.

Associated project: Radio Piece

Ann Palevsky

“All Hotels are Transient”
A large-scale performance event in conjunction with the “Homeless at Home” exhibition sponsored by Storefront for Art & Architecture.