Creative Capital

Gretchen Henderson
Santa Cruz, CA

The Book of Hieroglyphical Figures

This genre-bending novel borrows its title from a book by the 14th-century alchemist, Nicolas Flamel (the perhaps-fictional name of some 17th-century editors and printers). While transformation grounds my "novel", my appropriation reimagines a translator of Flamel's work—the scientist, Isaac Newton—to investigate both figures's authority through my fictionalized authorship.

http://bookunbound.wordpress.com/
gretchen.e.henderson@gmail.com

David Herskovits
Brooklyn, NY

Listen!

Listen! is a play performed live, to recall a lost history that is poignant and enchanting. Non-narrative in a traditional sense, the production weaves multiple stories all concerning the flowering and destruction of Yiddish culture in the 20th century.

http://www.targetmargin.org/
david@targetmargin.org

Annamarie Ho
New York, NY

Title to be determined

My project turns the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony—where the award recipient, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, was not present due to imprisonment—-into an opera. The opera will then be filmed and shown as a modern-HD Cinerama experience, where the viewer is immersed by surround sound and video.

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

SITCHAASSDOWN FOCUS GROUP TOUR (STFG)
New York, NY

$earching for American Justice: The Pursuit of Happiness

Searching for American Justice is a transdisciplinary, interactive, improvisational satire featuring a vapid socialite—AmericanJustice—whose blind allegiance to the status quo highlights our failing democracy. Through video documenting her interactions with people on the street and audiences in theaters and social networking platforms, her spirited debates will raise awareness about pivotal political issues.

SITCHAASSDOWN FOCUS GROUP TOUR (STFG) is a collaboration of Kanene Holder, Noah Fischer, Michael Wiggins, Michael Paul Britto, Carmen Dixon and Herman Jean-Noel.

http://www.searchingforaj.com/
searchingforaj@yahoo.com

Etat de Siege Productions
New York, NY

From Classical Myth to Modal Myth

We are creating digital and physical archives of rare poetry, jazz and music recordings that breach the boundaries of literary genre and notions of genre in general. We are calling this work Astrosonics and Afrosonics interchangeably and defining these terms in essays and other formats, as well as through the work we choose to include in and produce for the archive, and the modes of distribution chosen for the work.

Etat de Siege Productions is a collaboration of Harmony Holiday and Brian William Rogers.

http://afrosonics.blogspot.com/
AstroandAfrosonics@gmail.com

Tahni Holt
Portland, OR

Duet Love

Duet Love is a highly stylized evening-length dance performance meant for modest black-box theaters and composed of four performers, video, lighting, costume and sound. Duet Love harnesses the popular associations built into images of iconic romantic couples to examine viewers' desire for stability, recognition and narrative structure in live dance performance.

http://www.tahniholt.com
hello@tahniholt.com

Culturebot
New York, NY

Everyone's a Critic

Everyone's A Critic is an ongoing series of non-hierarchical, non-traditional public conversations conducted as part of Culturebot's Citizen Critic Project. The CCCP is an initiative to develop and disseminate the idea of critical horizontalism, moving arts conversations from "like/not like" into meaningful, constructive dialogue and transforming the soft ties of social media into the strong connections of real life interaction.

Culturebot is a collaboration of Andrew Horwitz, Aaron Mattocks, Jeremy Barker, Alyssa Alpine and Maura Nguyen Donohue.

http://www.culturebot.org
andy@culturebot.org

Zach Houston
Oakland, CA

Poem$tore

Poem$tore will be a storefront studio/gallery dedicated to producing and selling poems. I aim to consolidate a diffuse group of language-oriented entrepreneurs, from poetic and computer worlds, into a community dedicated to exploring the possibilities of language and simultaneously spreading, so to speak, the good word.

http://www.zachhouston.com
poems@zachhouston.com

Christina Hung
Central, SC

Document Destruction

In this project, panoramic photomicrographs of biological specimens that have been deliberately damaged during the imaging process are presented at trade shows organized around visualization technology research and development. The goal is to draw this audience into a discussion of imaging technology that is informed by feminist scholarship, and critical art practices.

http://christinahung.net
chung@clemson.edu