DAI ASANO (he/him)
Japan/United States
@tokyo106
Discipline: Performance/Visual Art/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Dai Asano (b. 1996, Mie, Japan) is a Japanese artist. His performance delves into the experience of time: 間—Ma, in-between, which he perceives not as a moment but as a motion. Rooted in Kitaro Nishida’s “pure experience”, Asano’s theoretical approach explores the state before the separation into self and object. Asano is graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Photography and a B.A. in Business Ethics from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
ALEX BARD (he/him)
United Sates
@alexbardstudio
Discipline: Performance/Visual Art/Interdisciplinary
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Alex Bard is a U.S. based interdisciplinary artist, whose works spans a range of mediums including sculpture, sculptural costumes, performance art, photo compositions and videos. Anthropology, mythology, comparative religions, and psychology serve as inspiration. He strives to use universally understood symbols that transcend cultural, historical and political boundaries, and speak to audiences from all backgrounds. Each piece presents archetypal images that reflect different facets and levels of human consciousness, encouraging self-awareness and reflection. His goal is for his art to help people know and understand themselves better. He aims to remind viewers of their innate strengths and qualities, empowering the meaning of their own lives.
CHLOÉ BELLÈMERE (she/her)
France
@chloeblm
Discipline: Performance Art/Set Design
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Chloé Bellemère creates set designs, performances, and visual works that explore memory and spaces resonating with the individual. Her work nurtures an intimate relationship between humans and landscapes, revealing what each reflects of the other. After studying at the Pratt Institute in New York and the UNSW Art & Design Institute in Sydney, she graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Since 2017, she has been participating in the summer programs at the Watermill Center, where she contributes as a photographer, set designer, or performer. From 2019 for two years, she was the academician’ set designer of the Comédie-Française. She has worked in France and internationally with renowned artists such as Marina Hands, Blanca Li, Pierrick Sorin, and Robert Wilson.
ROBSON CATALUNHA (he/him)
Brazil
@robsoncatalunha
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Robson Catalunha is a multidisciplinary artist. He holds a Master’s degree in Arts having studied The Internacional Summer Program at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He has worked on projects in countries across South America, Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2016, he was directed by Bob Wilson in Garrincha. In 2017 and 2018, he was one of the resident artists of Summer Program. In 2022, he returned to the Summer Program as a guest artist to perform at The Watermill Center’s 30th-anniversary event. In 2020, based on these experiences, he founded the Hybrid Arts Festival in São Paulo (Brazil). In recent years, conceived, directed, produced, and performed in original projects blending elements of cinema, theater, and virtual reality. The first of these works, The Hybrid, was nominated for the APCA Prize (São Paulo Association of Art Critics) due to its innovative technological approach and was selected for the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Turin Film Festival (Italy) and Santiago International Film Festival (Chile). In 2014, received recognition from the São Paulo City Council for excellence in artistic and cultural contributions.
TRUTH COLÓN (she/they)
United States
@Truth3y
Discipline: Dance/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Truth Colón is a movement artist and performer based in New York. Originally from Las Vegas, she graduated from Las Vegas Academy of the Arts then received her BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts majoring in both Dance, and Social and Cultural Analysis. Performance is her most familiar practice but, experimenting with theater, visual art, writing, and film propel Truth creatively and have congealed her artistic practice. Truth’s movement explores embodied sensations of emotional states, physical and psychological thresholds and draws inspiration from ubiquitous signs from her intuition. She has been showcased at Trocha Gallery and most recently her work in progress solo and dance film exhibited at Phillips Auction House.
INGA GALINYTE (she/her)
Lithuania
@ingagalinyte
Discipline: Performance/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Inga Galinyte (Lithuania) is an multidisciplinary and performing artist. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. By looking interdisciplinary, the artist creates her unique performative language that explores the disciplines of performance art, contemporary dance, theater, combining them with the knowledge and practices of visual art. In the artistic process, Inga often plays around with the daily collected data of images, sounds, movements, and texts, where their connections and variations become scripts for her works that focus on topics of memory, empathy, and immortality. In developing her artistic tools, next to academic education, Inga participated in the Paris Summer Academy organized by Oriantheatre dance company, did research in a movement language called Gaga in Tel Aviv developed by choreographer Ohad Naharin, was selected to participate in several international performing arts programs at Watermill Center in New York, founded by theater director Robert Wilson and other various workshops. Her works were presented across the world, including the Lithuanian Swamp Pavilion during the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, the 12th Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, the Watermill Center in New York, The exhibition Le Loup de Fer in Paris, among others. In addition to personal creations, the artist also participated as a performer in the works of artists, such as Alexandra Pirici, Willi Dorner, Cocorosie, Pere Faura.
MYLAN HOEZEN (he/him)
Netherlands
@mylanhoezen
Discipline: Performance Art
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Mylan Hoezen is an Amsterdam based artist. He delves into endurance and awareness through the creation of performances, movement scores and sculptural objects. In his practice he seeks to gain deeper insights into the mind-body connection while exploring ways to challenge and transcend physical limitations. Mylan Hoezen holds a Master in Fine Arts from Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam and a Bachelor from Academie Minerva, Groningen.
SIMONA KUST (she/her)
Sweden/Russia/United States
@simonakust
Discipline: Performance/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 2 – August 8, 2024
Simona Kust, originating from an art commune background, initiated her career as a high fashion model early in life, interweaving her experiences with cinema. Presently, she is embarking on an exploration of performance art.
ADELINA LARSSON MENDOZA (she/her)
Sweden/Mexico/Australia
@adelinalarssonmendoza
Discipline: Dance
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Adelina Larsson Mendoza is a Mexican/Swedish choreographer living on Wadandi Country in Woodijup, Western Australia. Since migrating to Australia (2017) she has worked across various communities as an artist, producer and educator. She is the founder of Strange Attractor, an interdisciplinary residency program which led her to become Associate Artist with Critical Path Choreographic Centre, curating residencies and events for local and international artists (2017-2019) in Sydney. Since 2014, Adelina is Associate Artist with the award-winning social arts company Big hART, contributing artistically to their national programs and productions, most recently as Associate Director for Punkaliyarra (Perth Festival 2023) and Heart of Country, a commission by the WA Museum (2024). An active dance maker since 2013, In the Rite II: Solo received an Australian Dance Award (2019) as part of her extended In the Rite trilogy of stage works (2016-2021). In 2021, she received a prestigious two-year Fellowship from Regional Arts WA for Min Folkdans, her first major choreographic production, drawing on archival and cultural histories of movement within her Mexican and Swedish heritage.
ELENA MEONI (she/her)
Italy
@elenameonii
Discipline: Theatre
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Elena Meoni was born in Pistoia in 1999. She practiced modern and contemporary dance from 6 to 13 years old. Afterwards she experimented other sports such as athletics, volleyball and tennis. She started approaching theater at 15, debuting at the Teatro Manzoni in Pistoia with “The tragedy of Richard III” directed by Renata Palminiello. When Elena finished high school, she started the Orazio Costa Academy in Florence, where she graduated in 2020. Elena then continued her training in theater and cinema with various professionals of the sector, both Italian and international.
Since 2016 she has had the opportunity to work as an actress in several productions. Among these, Interno/Esterno directed by Charles Chemin and Pinocchio by Pier Paolo Pacini. In 2023 she was co-protagonist of a television movie Per un nuovo domani directed by Luca Brignone. In 2023 she also started collaborating with some friends to create their own show, she then collaborated as an actress, but also as an assistant, set designer and everything that was necessary. In 2024 she worked as assistant director on Pessoa – Since I’ve been me by Robert Wilson, in Italy.
ALEN NSAMBU (he/they)
Finland
@alenzambu
Discipline: Theatre/Opera/Dance/Visual Arts
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Alen Nsambu is a Finnish-Angolan performer and choreographer based in Helsinki, Finland. Nsambu graduated from Den Danske Scenekunstskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark with a BFA degree in dance and choreography. Since graduating they have worked internationally as a performer with various directors and choreographers. Nsambu has also presented their own works in venues such as Zodiak -Center for New Dance and the International Performing Arts Festival. In 2022 Nsambu was selected to become one of the Generation2023 artists for the triennial exhibition curated for Amos Rex museum in Helsinki.
Nsambu’s artistic interests lie in the multitudes of the body and its capability to transform through diverse registers. The eyes and mouth as an opening to allow the internal landscapes to leak to the outside. Nsambu sees the stage, in its many versions, as a potential for the marginalized body to become something that the outside world is trying to suppress.
NOÉMIE STEVENS (she/her)
France
@noemiestevens1
Discipline: Performance/Multidisciplinary
In Residence: July 8 – August 8, 2024
Noémie Stevens is a performer and multidisciplinary artist. She earned a Master’s degree in Literature and Arts from the Sorbonne, focusing on remake and narration in contemporary literature and art. Her first dramaturgical work involved staging actors around a “banquet” to explore the notions of character and narrative. Formerly a gymnast, she learned performance and bodily engagement with Flemish director Jan Fabre in Antwerp. She furthered her exploration of movement and dance techniques with Ultima Vez Company in Brussels, the CND in Pantin, and Movement Research in New York, observing the interplay between choreographic and textual languages. As an actress, Noémie has given readings at the Bouffes du Nord in Paris and worked at the Opera. In 2019, she collaborated at the Palais de Tokyo as an assistant in dramaturgy and staging. In 2020/2021, she resided at the National Institute of Art History in Paris with a collective of artist-researchers interested in productive reading in the artistic process, and hosted a live radio broadcast with emerging artists. In 2023, she founded her own company, developing a sound and performative project.
TEZ (he/him)
France
@tezokay
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Discipline: Music/Multidisciplinary
Tez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. From solo beatbox to collaboration with other artists in music production and sound design Tez’s music offers an experience of unique sound. Tez’s practice also explores the visual arts, evolving from photomontage to video, through 3D and augmented reality. Tez’s work is deeply imbued by his fascination with science fiction and the exploration of a possible future.
AMON ROBERT WENDEL (he/him)
Germany
@narzissenundkakteen
Discipline: Theatre/Opera/Music
In Residence: July 8 – August 2, 2024
Amon Robert Wendel is a 22 years old actor from Berlin. He gained his first professional experiences when he was five years old. From that on, he played in many projects for German and international cinema for Sweden, France, Romania or South Africa. He is a performer at the inclusive theater, RambaZamba Theater in Berlin. He has performed in Once Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by the famous German director Leander Haußmann there. You can currently find him in movies Mermaid in the Desert and Berlinale’s production Abendland by the Israeli director Omer Fast.