2025 Residency Cohort
HCL will support Tirtza Even in the development of Disturbed, a multi-part multichannel installation that depicts, through subtle digital disruptions and a layered polyphony of testimonies, the emotional impact that the changing climate has had on individual lives. A variety of distinct segments, each filmed at different locations, are designed to convey the impact, emotional and physical, that climate-change has had on the residents of the specific location focused on. The third section will be filmed in Alaska in the summer of 2025.
For her 2025 fellowship project, Haruhi Kobayashi will develop a live reimagining of her forthcoming debut solo album, Through Monolid Eyes (pending title), as a theatrical concert experience.
Through collaboration with movers and dancers to enhance stage presence, lighting designers to transform the atmosphere of each scene, and other musicians—such as vocalists and drummers— the album's energy will be brought to life.
In Christopher’s Fellowship year with HCL, he will focus on the continuation of Deus Ex Machina Doctrina, a solo interactive performance installation exploring the deification of new technologies, the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for dance, and the extractive forces underpinning generative AI.
HCL will be supporting Carissa Lee with the ongoing development of Thrival. This performance-based work is rooted in themes of transformation, resilience, and renewal. The work deconstructs the sounds of survival—laughs, cries, sighs, whoops, screams, long notes, harmonies, and rhythms—and uses them as foundational elements to explore the journey from merely surviving to truly thriving. It weaves in themes of baptism and renewal, asking how we collectively navigate and transcend the challenges that define survival.
With support from HCL, Bradford Chin, will be developing Access in Motion: Movement dreams for the future (AIM) is a disability-centered, multimedia communal dance experience facilitated as a looping, interactive movement installation. Centering disability as a uniquely generative lived experience, this communal movement experience approaches accessibility media—including audio description, video projections, and considerations for accessible movement—as artistic tools.
2024 Residency Cohort
HCL will support KT in the development of The One Horn, 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. The piece is inspired by the paradox of a rhino in Renaissance Europe, stolen from its habitat and transplanted on a sailing ship, to a palace, a combat arena, and eventually sent to its final destination: Vatican City.
For her 2025 fellowship project, Haruhi Kobayashi will develop a live reimagining of her forthcoming debut solo album, Through Monolid Eyes (pending title), as a theatrical concert experience.
Through collaboration with movers and dancers to enhance stage presence, lighting designers to transform the atmosphere of each scene, and other musicians—such as vocalists and drummers— the album's energy will be brought to life.
In Christopher’s Fellowship year with HCL, he will focus on the continuation of Deus Ex Machina Doctrina, a solo interactive performance installation exploring the deification of new technologies, the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for dance, and the extractive forces underpinning generative AI.
HCL will be supporting Carissa Lee with the ongoing development of Thrival. This performance-based work is rooted in themes of transformation, resilience, and renewal. The work deconstructs the sounds of survival—laughs, cries, sighs, whoops, screams, long notes, harmonies, and rhythms—and uses them as foundational elements to explore the journey from merely surviving to truly thriving. It weaves in themes of baptism and renewal, asking how we collectively navigate and transcend the challenges that define survival.
With support from HCL, Bradford Chin, will be developing Access in Motion: Movement dreams for the future (AIM) is a disability-centered, multimedia communal dance experience facilitated as a looping, interactive movement installation. Centering disability as a uniquely generative lived experience, this communal movement experience approaches accessibility media—including audio description, video projections, and considerations for accessible movement—as artistic tools.
As Rigo transitions to a Fellow Artist in Residence, HCL will be supporting the continued development of his Research Lab series. This innovative initiative, informed by Rigo’s seasoned experiences as a facilitator, strives to be a haven for artistic movers driven by curiosity and a passion for uninhibited self-expression.
HCL is supporting Sofía to develop collective actions with collaborators from Mexico City and Chicago. She is also continuing Ciclos, a series of performances with Sofía Fernández Díaz that plays with the idea of performance as a ritual to honor the innate female connection with nature by creating large scale paintings using the body, organic materials and crafted tools.
In her second year with HCL, Helen will use curiosity to pull apart and lean into joy and grief and find proliferation within them. She will experiment with risk and failure in the process of looking at grief and joy and to find play in the process of not knowing what will be discovered.
HCL continues to support Regina in developing an audio-visual live performance series guided by the name, holding stones. Each gathering presents a sound story set to experimentations with multi-channel light, shadow and video projection.
HCL proudly supports Allen Moore in the ongoing development of The Black Arcade Collaborative, a groundbreaking 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.
2023 Residency Cohort
Photo Credit: Julia Comita
As Rigo transitions to a Fellow Artist in Residence, HCL will be supporting the continued development of his Research Lab series. This innovative initiative, informed by Rigo’s seasoned experiences as a facilitator, strives to be a haven for artistic movers driven by curiosity and a passion for uninhibited self-expression.
HCL is supporting Sofía to develop collective actions with collaborators from Mexico City and Chicago. She is also continuing Ciclos, a series of performances with Sofía Fernández Díaz that plays with the idea of performance as a ritual to honor the innate female connection with nature by creating large scale paintings using the body, organic materials and crafted tools.
In her second year with HCL, Helen will use curiosity to pull apart and lean into joy and grief and find proliferation within them. She will experiment with risk and failure in the process of looking at grief and joy and to find play in the process of not knowing what will be discovered.
HCL continues to support Regina in developing an audio-visual live performance series guided by the name, holding stones. Each gathering presents a sound story set to experimentations with multi-channel light, shadow and video projection.
HCL proudly supports Allen Moore in the ongoing development of The Black Arcade Collaborative, a groundbreaking 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.
Photo Credit: Jansen Bridge
Photo Credit: Matthew Gregory Hollis
2022 Residency Cohort
Photo Credit: Karine Rivière
Photo credit Catalina Bartolome
Photo and Graphic Design Credit: Al Brandtner
Photo Credit: Matthew Gregory Hollis
2019-2021 Artists in Residence
Photo Credit: Karine Rivière
Photo and Graphic Design Credit: Al Brandtner
Photo credit Wills Glasspiegel
Photo courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Pablo Abdala
2018 & Prior Sponsored Artists & Institutional Incubators
Sadie Wood’s art practice is anthropological in nature and rooted in a post-disciplinary background drawing from personal biography as well as performing and visual arts training, curatorial experience and academic education. As an artist, curator, dj and professor, she works heavily with archives for research and interventions to produce work that embodies liberatory practices exploring cultural heritage of the Americas and Global South. For Sadie, art is a utility for messaging and storytelling that can give rise to social empowerment.
Photo and Graphic Design Credit: Al Brandtner
Photo courtesy of the artist