Works In Progress Showcase
Featuring the HCL 2024 Artists in Residence Cohort
High Concept Labs presents a showcase of new work in progress from each of the 2024 Artists In Residence cohort:
Bradford Chin
Christopher Knowlton
Haruhi Kobayashi
Carissa Lee
KT Shivak
This cohort includes artists working across a variety of disciplines including movement, performance art, dance, puppetry, sound, new media, augmented reality, and multimedia. These five artists will be joined by Fellow Artist in Residence Allen Moore, an interdisciplinary painter, experimental sound artist, educator, and curator.
HCL, a laboratory for experimental and genre-defying artistic projects, presents Works in Progress Showcases to bring people together around the creative process. Artists are offered a stage to share emergent work, while audiences are invited to witness and support the development of innovative artwork by groundbreaking artists.
Content Disclosure: There may be loud or sudden sounds and lights during the performance. The performance contains loud or abrasive sounds. The content includes mature language and explores challenging themes.
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Featured Artists
Bradford Chin is a dance artist and methodologist, DEIJ and accessibility consultant, and audio describer for dance. Bradford’s work centers disability and accessibility so that we may better understand how disability is conceptualized and positioned in dance and performance. While in residence with HCL, Bradford is exploring the use of Audio Description (“AD”) as the primary generative device in creating and presenting a dance work.
Christopher Knowlton is a transdisciplinary movement artist, scientist, dancemaker and engineer who uses emerging technologies to create augmented performance work. Inspired by science, nature, play, improvisation and human-centered approaches to design, his work spans dance, film, new media, puppetry and storytelling. While in residence with HCL, Christopher is exploring the deification of new technologies, the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for dance, and the distinction between generative and extractive AI.
Haruhi Kobayashi explores sound as a sculptural medium. Her work addresses the intersection of the environmental information we receive from sound, the impact of the environment that sounds inhabit, and methods of manipulating the content of sound through acoustics or electronics. While in residence with HCL, Haruhi is developing Sonic Playground, an evolving multi-channel sonic sculptural artwork.
Carissa Lee works with performance, sound, public intervention, workshops, video, and theater. Carissa’s work explores the tensions and current emotional landscape of anti-blackness. To explore the unknown, she researches the known, including personal experiences and Black vernaculars. While in residence with HCL, Carissa is expanding a performance art piece that centers around the experiences of women and research around her family archive.
Allen Moore is a Black American interdisciplinary painter, experimental sound artist, educator, youth mentor and curator. While in residence with HCL, Allen is developing an audio and visual exploration delving into themes of grief, black mortality, afrofuturism, and the sonic aesthetic of the black imagination. The project encompasses a multifaceted approach, incorporating the merging of sound and visual elements.
KT Shivak is a sculptor, puppet builder, and performer. Her puppets have appeared in the New York Times, Puppetry International Magazine, the National Puppetry Conference, and at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. While in residence with HCL, KT is developing Rhynoceron, a piece featuring a lifesize rhinoceros puppet based on a real animal from history that sparked an obsession both to possess it and to consume its image.
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