Thinkers in Residence spend time on 14th Street over the festival weekend reflecting on 14th Street, patterns of movement, artists, pedestrians, publics, personal reflections, and participation. Their responses take the form of writing, walking, image-making, poetry, or on-the-spot conversations with the public. It is with great pleasure that we announce this year’s cohort of Thinkers in Residence for AiOP 2019 INVISIBLE.
Destinee Forbes is an arts professional based in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College in 2017 and received her M.A. in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2018. Destinee was the inaugural Storytelling Fellow at The Laundromat Project from 2018 to 2019, and has an eye for branding, marketing, public relations and communications within the arts sector. As a freelance writer and curator, Destinee is interested in exploring ideas of memory, trauma, identity, and intimacy represented in art in her research and writing.
Davidson Garrett is a poet, actor, and former New York City yellow taxi driver. He is a member of the PEN Worker Writers School and also a member of Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA. He is the author of the poetry collection, King Lear of the Taxi, and three chapbooks, To Tell the Truth I Wanted to be Kitty Carlisle and Other Poems, Southern Low Protestant Departure: A Funeral Poem, and What Happened To The Man Who Taught Me Beowulf ? and Other Poems.
Heng-Gil Han represented by Lee, Kakyoung’s 2015 print “YES/NO” based on Morten Traavik’s same-titled performance photograph of 2010. Etching on copperplate white paper; image: 8×10 inches, paper: 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Edition of 25. 2 APs.
Heng-Gil Han
LuLu LoLo, Ed Woodham, Naomi Kuo, Zaid Islam, Tara Homasi, Nikki Schiro, Fred Ozaneaux, Gordon Knox, Alexis Dudden, Doug Hostetter, Yooah Park, Hyun Gug Park, Kyoengsub Yue, Jeong Hyung Lee, Ifeatuanya (Ify) Chiejina, Julian Louis Phillips, Gregory Sholette, Tal Lee, Jessica Alazarki, Jennifer Sanchez, Devynity Wray, Jason Lalor, Cathy Hung, Catherine Peila, David Smith, Seon Kyeong Lee, Reuk Gu, Sun Tae Kim, Yoo Hong Kim, Young Sun Han, Seol Park, the Group 7940, Danni Shen, Daisil Kim-Gibson, Suzy Kim, Dister London, Chemin Hsiao, Uno Nam, Rahul Alexander, Matthew Greco, Erik Lee, and many others, with whom I have recently exchanged email correspondences.
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’ parentblog Motherlode. Additionally, her work ‘”Desert Flowers” was shortlisted and selected for performance by the Women’s Playwriting International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Alicia Grullón moves between performance, video, and photography. She channels her interdisciplinary approach towards critiques of the politics of presence–an argument for the inclusion of disenfranchised communities in political and social spheres. Grullón’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions including Franklin Furnace Archives, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC Arts | Media House, School of Visual Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, and Performa 11. She has received grants from several institutions including the Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, and the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York. Review’s and essays regarding Alicia’s work can be found in the New York Times, Village Voice, Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, Art Fag City, and ArtNet News. Grullón has participated in residencies in the United States, South Korea, and Germany, and has presented workshops as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Creative Time Summit ’15, and The Royal College of Art, among others. Photo Credit: HemiPortraits
Cheryl Kaplan is an artist, filmmaker and thinker. Selected for Creative Capital’s On Our Radar, Kaplan’s performance PUBLIC NOTICE debuted at the BMW Guggenheim LAB. Exhibitions/performances include: American Academy Rome, Royal Academy of Arts, London, World Financial Center and Andrea Meislin Gallery. Kaplan appears in Oscar Nominated HBO Film First Cousin Once Removed. She’s produced independent films for Laurie Anderson, Rosanne Cash and Eve Sussman. Fellowships: MacDowell, Blue Mountain, Starr Scholar Royal Academy, and Special Bogialsco Visual Arts Fellow. Kaplan is founder of red square debates with contemporary artists and philosophers, including Francoise Gilot, Louise Bourgeois, William Kentridge. Criticism appears in Art in America, ELLE, Flash Art, ARTNews, Deutsche Bank Art Magazine and BOMB.
Christine Licata is currently the Executive Director at No Longer Empty. She has served as the Director of Community & Public Programs at The Bronx Museum (2017-19), Director of Performing and Visual Arts for Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education (2013 – 2017), Associate Director of Visual Arts at the Boston Center for the Arts (2012 -2013) and Associate Curator at Taller Boricua Galleries in Spanish Harlem (2008 – 11). As an Art Writer and Critic, she has been published in exhibition and artist catalogs as well as written for Artlog, Degree Critical, PERFORMA 07 and Art on Paper. She has a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts.
Maria Lisella is the sixth Queens Poet Laureate 2015-2018 and the first Italian American to be so named. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize, her collections include Thieves in the Family (NYQ Books), and two chapbooks, Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press), and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). A charter member of the online poetry circle brevitas, she also co-curates the Italian American Writers Association readings, contributes to USA TODAY, The Jerusalem Post and the bilingual, La Voce di New York.
Clarinda Mac Low is co-founder and Executive Director of Culture Push, an experimental organization that links artistic practice and civic engagement, and co-curator of Works on Water, a triennial that supports art that works on, in or with water and waterways. Her other work has appeared at Panoply Performance Laboratory, the EFA Project Space, P.S. 122, the Kitchen, X-Initiative, and many other places and spaces around New York City and elsewhere in the world, including the Manifesta Biennial in Spain. Recent work and ongoing projects include: “Incredible Witness,” a series of game-based participatory events looking at the sensory origins of empathy; “Free the Orphans,” a project that seeks to “free” copyright orphans (creative work with unknown copyright holders), investigating the spiritual and intellectual implications of intellectual property in a digital age. She received a BAX Award in 2004, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, 2007 and a 2010 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance.
Sean Mooney is Chief Curator for the Rock Foundation, one of the finest collections of indigenous arts in the world. Sean additionally holds the position of Curator of the Edmund Carpenter Collection of Arctic Art at the Menil Collection, Houston. He is formerly Director of Exhibition Design at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums. In a museum career spanning over 30 years, Sean has produced more than 200 exhibitions globally Sean writes regularly on a variety of art-related topics, mostly emphasizing the indigenous arts of the Arctic regions and other Native American groups. Most recently, Sean curated Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition catalogue was short-listed for the prestigious Dedalus Foundation award for best exhibition catalogue of 2018. Photo credit: João Salema
Matthew Morowitz has been involved with Art in Odd Places since the 2012 festival, MODEL. A native of New Jersey, Matthew holds a dual BA in Archaeology and Art History from Dickinson College, an Advanced Diploma in Cities and Urban Development from NYU, and is currently pursuing an MA in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design. He has professional experience in cultural resource management, historic preservation, and a random assemblage of skills from various temp jobs. He is interested in better ways to utilize grassroots advocacy when pushing for more equitable public spaces and community preservation.
Paul Takeuchi grew up in Washington, D.C. and now lives with his family in Brooklyn. An award-winning photographer as well as a writer, Takeuchi has been published in Exquisite Corpse, Word Riot, Tokyo Journal, The New York Times, Cutthroat, The Sonora Review, among many others. His photo essays have appeared in many publications, including Shots, Redivider, Th
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