Creative Capital

Marshall Brown
Chicago, IL

The Center of the World

An experiment in futures research, scenario planning and architectural eutopia (the fortunate or blessed place): the project envisions Chicago's Circle Interchange as the center of the world. An exhibition and book will project visionary "histories of the future" posited in short urban fictions, maps, diagrams, photomontages, drawings, models and digital animations.

http://www.marshallbrownprojects.com/CENTER-OF-THE-WORLD-CHICAGO

Dave Buchen
San Juan, International
Puerto Rico

Baudelaire in a Box

The project will result in a multi-night performance of the entire contents of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal as cantastoria in 2017. Cantastoria is the performance of visual art with music, so each poem will be performed combining a scrolling image created by myself and an original musical adaptation by a musician.

http://baudelaireinabox.wordpress.com/
oobleck@theateroobleck.com

Halsey Burgund
Bedford, MA

Interscapes

Interscapes is an outdoor, contributory sound art installation that connects selected urban parks in disparate global locations with a shared audio experience. The audio will consist of a continuous layer of site-specific instrumental music geographically intermixed with an evolving layer of recordings made on-site by participants.

http://halseyburgund.com
contact@halseyburgund.com

Zbigniew Bzymek
Brooklyn, NY

Idiot - To Our Enemies

A staged performance that includes video of Dostoevsky's The Idiot with the author as protagonist. It unearths moments of inspiration for scenes from The Idiot, adopting a vampiric, Bernhardian confabulation of facts (á la Wittgenstein's Nephew) from Dostoevsky's biography, focusing on his near execution as a result of involvement in the Petrashevsky circle.

http://www.madeuplanguage.com
zbigniew.bzymek@gmail.com

Beatriz Adriana Camarena Osorno
San Francisco, CA

Altar

Altar is a non-fiction literary work about the Altar Valley Desert, which is crossed by the U.S.-Mexico border. The project will transform our imagination of this desert, by engaging its peoples, economy, ecology and its longest history as a watershed and an integrated landscape. The final form is a book.

http://www.unsettlers.org/
adriana.camarena@gmail.com

Hector Canonge
New York, NY

Salt Institute Portal (SIP)

The Salt Institute Portal (SIP) is a multipurpose structure and public environment built from salt bricks. It functions as a place for social interaction, cultural exchange and learning, connecting the ancient Aymara people of the salt-flats of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, South America, with residents and visitors in Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah in the United States.

http://www.hectorcanonge.net/
hector@hectorcanonge.net

Mary Ellen Carroll
Houston, TX

prototype 180

prototype 180 is a conceptual work of art and urban alteration that entails a radical form of renovation through the physical rotation and reoccupation of a single family house in the aging, first ring subdivision of Sharpstown in Houston, TX. The foundation for prototype 180 is public policy and Houston's unique condition as being the only metropolitan area in the U.S. without a formal land use policy (no zoning).

http://www.prototype180.com/
info@prototype180.com

Leilani Chan
Santa Monica, CA

Global Taxi Driver

Rooted in the stories of taxi drivers from around the world, Global Taxi Driver (GTD) written by Leilani Chan, will explore immigration and mobility and in the 21st century. Utilizing a community-based ensemble theater process, GTD will have multiple outcomes. The final form will be a live interdisciplinary ensemble performance.

http://globaltaxidriver.com/
leilani@teada.org