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Welcome to On Our Radar, a searchable database featuring more than 300 projects that advanced to the second or third round in last year's highly competitive Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts grant round. Although these projects were not ultimately funded, we feel they are projects to watch, and we invite you to explore them. This site will be online until September 30, 2013.

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Emerging Fields Other Ashley Hunt and Taisha Paggett Los Angeles, CA Par Course Los Angeles Par Course is a proposal for a public sculpture 'trail' that calls its viewers into performances in public space. Based upon an outdoor, "par course" exercise trail combined with a sculpture garden, each station/sculpture of this course directs viewers into actions that call upon their movements, thoughts and political imaginations. http://parcourse.info mail@ashleyhunt.info
Performing Arts Performance Art Nikita Hunter Brooklyn, NY Sadhana Acts: Healing Sadhana Acts: Healing [SA:H] is a performance piece that includes the tenants of South Asian Buddhist and Hindu spiritualism. In [SA:H], 10 women (five chanters and five dancers) will perform a scene of meditation based on Sadhus and Hindu monks's ancient meditation as a human mandala. http://nikitathunter.weebly.com/ nikitahunter4@aol.com
Performing Arts Theater Rachel Hynes Washington, DC Cataphiles Combining circus, fractured storytelling and object manipulation, Cataphiles (meaning those who fear small spaces) is a piece of physical theatre about off-the-grid spaces and the opportunities they offer for freedom and violation. In the catacombs of Paris, the prisons of Argentina and the world of dreams, lines blur between three stories, three spaces and the truth. http://rachelhynes.weebly.com/ rhhynes@gmail.com
Performing Arts Dance Without Us Oakland, CA Without Us Without Us is part performance, part research project. It is a site-specific installation, sound composition, dance and text piece; the culmination of extensive inquiry into the ecological history of urban and rural environments in the United States, Europe and Asia. The artists engaged local communities throughout the research/creation process. http://www.inkboat.com/ info@inkboat.com
Emerging Fields Digital Arts Homer Jackson and Rocky Kev Phila, PA The Adventures of Big Bad Hiss The Adventures of Big Bad Hiss is an animation work presenting a look into the worlds of sound, music and radio, through the tales of fictional folk hero and musician, Big Bad Hiss, who—like legendary bluesman Robert Johnson—also stood at the crossroads and made the choice of his life. homershines@yahoo.com
Emerging Fields Interdisciplinary Lars Jan Los Angeles, CA HOLOSCENES HOLOSCENES is a performance installation and public spectacle responding to our species' urgently evolving relationship to water and global climate cataclysm. From inside three jumbo, hydraulically-animated aquariums, a rotating cast of performers gazes outward, repeatedly enacting everyday behaviors gathered from global, open-source submissions, as water fills and empties from each tank in response to real-time environmental data. http://holoscen.es lars@earlymorningopera.com
Performing Arts Other baredances Washington, DC Gallery Space Gallery Space is a multimedia, interdisciplinary project that includes a full evening-length live performance as well as a gallery exhibit. Gallery Space explores loss of identity by examining the dichotomy between a woman's humanity versus the commercial and social images that lead the woman away from her true nature. baredances is a collaboration of Francesca Jandasek, Stephanie Yezek, Dan Istrate and Ludovic Jolivet. http://baredances.com/ fjandasek@gmail.com
Emerging Fields Architecture/Design Anna Jaworska Chicago, IL Hi, there... Hi, there is a proposal for an approximately ten foot high by six foot wide by 35 foot deep architectural installation, seamlessly positioned within a gallery setting. It will be an immersive environment, blurring the boundaries between the physical space of the gallery and the interior space of the installation, resulting in confusion, absurdity and humor. http://www.aniajaworska.com/ ania@aniajaworska.com
Performing Arts Dance-Theater The Rani of Jhansi Somerville, MA The Rani of Jhansi The Rani of Jhansi will be a collaboration between renowned jazz saxophonist and composer Fred Ho and choreographer Wendy Jehlen. The resulting work will be a martial-art, dance, music, theater and performance piece that will be created in Boston and NYC beginning in January 2013, and will premiere in Delhi, India, in early 2014. The Rani of Jhansi is a collaboration of Wendy Jehlen and Fred Ho. http://www.anikai.org/ wendyjehlen@gmail.com
Performing Arts Dance-Theater kairos Minneapolis, MN kairos kairos is a multidisciplinary collaboration with SuperGroup exploring patterns of stasis and change in relationship to the intelligent, multitasking body. The performance will premiere as part of the Walker Art Center's Momentum: New Dance Works 2013, with tours in 2014–2015. kairos is a collaboration of Rachel Jendrzejewski, Sam Johnson, Jeffrey Wells and Erin Search-Wells. http://rachelka.com rachel.halcyon@gmail.com
Emerging Fields Digital Arts David Jenkins Brooklyn, NY Into Ether: The Discorporeation of John Doe My project is a work of participatory cyberfiction, spanning blogs, web series, online forums and digital artifacts to create an immersive, non-linear narrative that the viewer uncovers. The story follows a young man whose interest in the occult leads him on a dangerous path to self-discovery, destruction and potentially transcendence. http://www.davidjenkins.net jenkins.david@gmail.com
Emerging Fields Architecture/Design Olalekan Jeyifous Brooklyn, NY Third Mainland Bridge Tower/Highway Super-Structure This project uses the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, Nigeria as a site for exploring the city and the infinite ways it is inhabited by its citizens in order to produce a scale model of a super-structure that combines attributes of improvised settlements with those of an imposing modern skyscraper. http://vigilism.com lekan@vigilism.com
Literature Non-Fiction Lacy Johnson Houston, TX White Scraps Like Beacons White Scraps Like Beacons is a lyrical, meditative investigation of how certain memories come to haunt people more than others, how we make sense of past experiences and how it's possible to learn new ways of being after unthinkable events shatter the people we once were. http://lacymjohnson.com lacy@lacymjohnson.com
Emerging Fields Gaming Augmented Asbury Park West Long Branch, NJ Augmented Asbury Park Augmented Asbury Park is an augmented reality reconstruction of historic architecture on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, NJ. Visitors will be able to interact with a virtual three-dimensional image on an iPad or iPhone. This project utilizes the technology of virtual gaming to recreate a historic site. Augmented Asbury Park is a collaboration of Edward Johnston, Mike Richison and Marina Vujnovic. http://www.edwardjohnston.co/Edward_Johnston/Augmented_Reality.html edwardsjohnston@gmail.com
Emerging Fields Interdisciplinary WORDS + DESIGN: Literary Brooklyn Creative Hub Brooklyn, NY Literary Brooklyn Creative Hub Literary Brooklyn Creative Hub brings together up to seven identifiable literary and design organizations/spaces to collaborate and cross lines to present public programs and utilize an online platform to connect work to broader audiences. The project uses my curatorial, editorial and design acumen to help break the norm of different writing communities working in "silos"—separate and contained. WORDS + DESIGN: Literary Brooklyn Creative Hub is a collaboration of Patricia Jones and Atim Annette Oton. http://www.psjones.com/ pksjones@hotmail.com