2019 New Music USA Residency

Awarded Artists:

Nicole Goodwin

Nicole Goodwin is the author of Warcries, as well as the 2018-2019 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, 2017 EMERGENYC Hemispheric Institute Fellow as well as the 2013- 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow. She published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parenting blog Motherlode. Additionally, her work ‘”Desert Flowers” was shortlisted and selected for performance by the Women’s Playwriting International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Associated project: Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems

Nicole will create an audiobook project based on a book of poems she has written entitled “Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems.” The process for the audiobook is basically creating an experimental piece that derives from her collection of poetry based on the experiences of Black women as well as her observations on her own experiences being […]

Natacha Diels

Natacha Diels’ work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease.

Associated project: I Love Myself Fully and Unconditionally

Natacha Diels, in partnership with MATA, New York’s most dcomopolitan new music presenter, will produce I Love Myself Fully and Unconditionally, a site specific installation/tour for the New York Electronic Art Festival on Governors Island. A collaboration between composers Natacha Diels and Sam Scranton, is equal parts ‘installation’ and ‘Individual Guided Tour’.