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1171 ArtistsShontina Vernon
Forging Ahead
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2019
Multimedia Performance, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2019
Sidra Bell
COMMUNION
Communion focuses on the ascendancy of community (muscle), compromise, effortfulness, support, simplicity, and love. Sidra Bell Dance New York’s company performs with live music by Immanuel Wilkins Quartet.
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Jazz, Performing Arts, 2023
Silas Riener
Open Machine
Open Machine is an interdisciplinary dance performance that improvises navigation through physical and digital space with movement scores, objects, and social interaction.
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2023
Simone Leigh
What's Her Face
What's Her Face is an installation comprised of sculpture and video that uses gestures, ceremony and rituals associated with Simone Leigh's biography as a conceptual point of departure.
Visual Arts, Craft
2012
Craft, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 2012
Simone White
or, on being the other woman
In or, on being the other woman, Simone White uses performance and writing to bring post-Marxist materialism into conversation with Black studies, asking, what is a Black woman who works to live?
Literary Arts, Multimedia Performance
2021
Literary Arts, Multimedia Performance, Poetry, 2021
Simparch
Clean Livin'
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2002
Architecture & Design, Visual Arts, 2002
Sister Engineering
Counterpoints
Counterpoints is a sonic meditation utilizing handmade electro-acoustic instruments to study the technological sublime of opposing elements coexisting to create musical poem.
Performing Arts, Jazz
2023
Jazz, Multimedia Performance, Music Performance, Performing Arts, 2023
Sister Sylvester
Ghost Genes
Ghost Genes is an exploration of the hidden histories and the ghosts that haunt genetics and synthetic biology.
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2025
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2025
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
EARTH SEED
In their community project EARTH SEED, People’s Kitchen Collective asks, “What is the future of survival?” Building resource kits inspired by Octavia Butler’s Parables book series, the collective gathers a...
Artistic Activism, Social Practice
2021
Artistic Activism, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2021
Sofía Córdova
Mano de Obra (The Hand of Work)
Mano de Obra is a performance, video, and installation work examining labor organizing ranging from personal and first-hand strike history to poetic vignettes and references.
Visual Arts, Installation
2024
Installation, Performance Art, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2024
Sofía Rei
Reinitas
There is a bar in the Nebraska plains that serves as a refuge for meatpacking workers. It’s called Reinita, in honor of owner Berta Quintero’s mother. This bilingual multimedia performance follows three generations of Quintero women in Fremont, Nebraska—a city shaped by the meatpacking industry and mass deportations. It is composed by Sofía Rei, based on reporting by NPR senior correspondent Jasmine Garsd.
Music, Multimedia Performance
2026
Multimedia Performance, Music, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2026
Sofian Khan
Karachi Sky
Memoir meets in memoriam in this personal journey through a filmmaker’s twenty year archive and the relationship that changed the course of his life.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2024
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film, Moving Image, 2024
Solo Badolo
Baggré: Science and Maths of the Ancestors
Souleymane “Solo” Badolo came from the science and calculations that our ancestors used to heal and predict the future, using signs that are marked in sand, shells.
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Performing Arts, 2023
Sonali Gulati
Indian Patient
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2012
Documentary Film, Moving Image, 2012
Sophia Nahli Allison
Prologue
A cinematic dreamscape awakens an intimate encounter between two Black women over a century ago. But as truth and fiction begin to blur, a complex living, breathing archive is revealed.
Film/Moving Image, Experimental Film
2025
Experimental Film, Film, Narrative Film, 2025
Sophiline Shapiro
Pamina Devi
Performing Arts, Dance
2006
Dance, Performing Arts, 2006
Spencer Nakasako
Refugee
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2000
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2000
Srikanth Reddy
Underworld Lit
Literary Arts, Poetry
2013
Literary Arts, Poetry, 2013
Stacey Steers
Edge of Alchemy
Animation, Moving Image
2012
Animation, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2012
Stefanie Batten Bland
Coup d'Espace
Spaces expands on Company SBB’s immersive physical-theater practice and is based in observation, with audience as both onlookers and participants, nestled under the soft, penetrable walls of a tent.
Performing Arts, Dance
2023
Dance, Performing Arts, Socially-Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Performance, 2023
Steffani Jemison
In Succession
Visual Arts, Installation
2020
Installation, Moving Image, Video Art, Visual Arts, 2020
Steffi Domike
REFUGIA-BAZ (Becoming Autonomous Zones)
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art
2002
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2002
Stephanie Dinkins
Not the Only One
Technology, Multimedia
2019
Multimedia, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Technology, 2019
Stephanie Rothenberg
Reversal of Fortune
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2009
Ecological Art, Installation, Visual Arts, 2009
Stephen Vitiello
Dogs in the Yard, Birds Overhead
Technology, Installation
2006
Installation, Sound Art, Technology, Visual Arts, 2006
Steve Badgett
Clean Livin'
Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
2002
Architecture & Design, Visual Arts, 2002
Steve Barnes
GenTerra
Visual Arts, Installation
2002
Installation, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2002
Steve Cuiffo
Elephant Room
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2009
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Theater, 2009
Steve Kurtz
GenTerra
Visual Arts, Installation
2002
Installation, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2002
Steve Parker
HOUSTON IS SINKING
A series of interactive sculptures, made from defunct nautical tools, that sonify land loss in Houston, Texas—one of the fastest sinking cities on earth.
Visual Arts, Public Art
2025
Public Art, Sculpture, Sound Art, Visual Arts, 2025
Steve Rowell
Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys
Technology, Data Visualization
2013
Data Visualization, Technology, 2013
Steven Bognar
Gravel
Moving Image, Narrative Film
2001
Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2001
Steven Kazuo Takasugi
R.S. in Cody: Heart Mountain
R.S. in Cody: Heart Mountain is an evening-long work for music theater whose subject involves the fluidity and malleability of identities in the light and shadow of Japanese-American Internment during World War II.
Performing Arts, Music Composition
2022
Music Composition, Musical Theater, Performing Arts, 2022
Steven Tamayo
4 years
For 4 Years, Steven Tamayo and the Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe (Defenders of the Water School) will paint twelve traditional buffalo robes to help revive lost but essential pieces of Lakota culture.
Visual Arts, Cultural Organizing
2022
Cultural Organizing, Painting & Printmaking, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2022
Stevie Wang-Breal
Florence from Ohio
Documentary Film, Moving Image
2020
Documentary Film, Moving Image, Video Art, 2020
subRosa
REFUGIA-BAZ (Becoming Autonomous Zones)
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art
2002
Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, 2002
Sue Ding
Ghosts of Blue
A rumination on the color blue, told through the lens of science, art, and philosophy.
Film/Moving Image, Documentary Film
2026
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Film, 2026
Sue Johnson
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Technology, Artistic Activism
2000
Artistic Activism, Digital Media, Socially-Engaged Art, Technology, 2000
Sue Schaffner
Gynadome: A Separate Paradise
Technology, Internet Art
2000
Internet Art, Multimedia, Technology, 2000
Sue Slagle
Titanic Depression
Using the 1997 film Titanic as a departure point, Titanic Depression addresses issues of class, gender roles, gratuitous wealth, and the environmental impact of climate change.
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2020
Multimedia Performance, Performance Art, Performing Arts, 2020
Suha Araj
Pickled (Khsara)
Pickled (Khsara) is a comedic feature-length film set in the Palestinian diaspora about women who don’t get married “in time.”
Comedy, Moving Image
2021
Comedy, Moving Image, Narrative Film, 2021
Sujata Bhatt
Invisible Hand
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2002
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, 2002
Suji Kwock Kim
UTOPIA, INC.
UTOPIA, INC is a hybrid work incorporating poetry, memoir, lyric essay and visual materials, exploring the lives of Suji's family and other diasporic North Koreans in South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and U.K. It investigates questions of postwar migration and displacement, nation and narration, surveillance and autocracy, memory and postmemory.
Literature, Poetry
2026
Literature, Poetry, 2026
Suneil Sanzgiri
Two Refusals
Two Refusals is a feature-length experimental essay film that looks to sites of refusal, rejection, and revolt across India and Africa, and the bonds of solidarity that developed across the two continents against the Portuguese Empire.
Documentary Film, Experimental Film
2022
Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Moving Image, 2022
Sunhui Chang
the boiling
“the boiling” is a New Americana theater staged in an evocative world by melding film, CCTV, VR, and holographic effects with theatrical stage and live-camera acting.
Performing Arts, Multimedia Performance
2023
Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts, Theater, 2023
Susan Chen
Chinatown Girl Scouts: Past & Present
Celebrating Chinatown Girl Scout’s 100-year history through community portraiture in oil paint.
Visual Arts
2025
Visual Arts, 2025
Susan Narucki
Chance Encounter
Performing Arts, Music Performance
2006
Music Performance, Performing Arts, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2006
Susan Robb
Wild Times
Visual Arts, Ecological Art
2013
Ecological Art, Public Art, Visual Arts, 2013
Susan Simpson
Lead Feet and Nothing Upstairs: The History of the Lifelike
Performing Arts, Performance Art
2006
Performance Art, Performing Arts, Puppetry, 2006
Susanne Cockrell
Temescal Amity Works
Visual Arts, Public Art
2005
Public Art, Social Practice, Socially-Engaged Art, Visual Arts, 2005