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The Harold J Miossi Art Gallery at Cuesta College and INVERSE hosted this year's summer residency - a three-week intensive virtual program of workshops, presentations and collaboration, for 11 students, culminating in individual performances, both private and public. These artists dove deep into themes of collaboration, of identity, of personal and private space, of health, and of healing. Working with practicing professional artists, residents considered the intersections of life and art, of the personal and the public, and safe space. They spent individual time exploring and practicing performance and developing their practices.
2020 RESIDENTS AND PROJECTS
Justine Neves - August 7 at 8pm PDT - on Instagram @willpleaser.dragking
In this Instagram Live performance, Justine explores the idea of public and private space, of preparation, and the arbitrary nature of gender identity through drag.
Nikki Telegan - August 8 at 8pm PDT - on Instagram @pusssygrime
In this Instagram Live durational performance, Nikki explores her identity as a traditional stage performer in a virtual world, if there’s a difference between on and off “the stage,” and how much of a mess she can get away with making in public space. Exploring themes of honesty and consumptive qualities of desiring to connect with the audience.
Hannah Yost - August 12 at 6pm PDT - on Instagram @hannah_yost_artwork
In this Instagram Live performance, Hannah re-engages friends and communities from her childhood through written letters. She addresses questions like “What is friendship? What is a positive community? Can Friends agree to disagree?”
Linda Wald - Private performance - documentation posted on Instagram @waldmonkee
In this private performance, Linda questions and mourns celebration and tradition in the era of social distancing. She examines and dissects family ritual in the presence of a small group of her social pod.
Lauren Goldenberg - Video project - Available on YouTube here and below.
In this performative video project, Lauren reads her personal accounts from adolescent diaries aloud on the streets and on TikTok. She only stops to take dance breaks and eat chocolate pudding. A wildly mundane and decadent overshare.
Silas Ruesler - Private performance - documentation posted on Instagram @ko0l_dad
In this private performance, Silas begins a long exploration of their relationship with family, with industry and with class. They re-engage objects from their family’s industrial history and question whether these objects and histories can or should be made their own.
Luke Austin - Sculptural project - documentation posted on Instagram @l.f.austin
For his INVERSE Residency 2020 project, Luke spends some time at his childhood home and ritualistically re-engages objects from his youth, ultimately creating a sewn sculptural project.
Erika Wilhite - Work-in-progress performance - registration required
Artist’s Laboratory Theatre is producing their new play, Good Person of South Fayetteville, for online performances in 2020. The play was developed from two years of research and story gathering, and the characters and circumstances of the play are inspired from real people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in South Fayetteville, a neighborhood that has experienced rapid gentrification and displacement of lower income families. During the INVERSE Residency, audience is invited to participate in a work-in-progress performance that takes place over three days through emails, phone calls, texts, social media, and Zoom. To participate, please email feelgooddogoodinternational@gmail.com.
Brigita Zrustova - August 13 at 8pm PDT - on Instagram @brigitazrustova
In this Instagram Live performance, Brigita explores communication within the transatlantic and virtual landscapes of our current moment. In Disconnect to Connect, Brigita searches for a shared experience and understanding through language and technology, questioning the human experience as we understand it.
Triz Santamaria - documentation on Instagram @triz314
In this Instagram Live performance, Triz explores intimacy and vulnerability within the digital sphere. In a deeply personal act of asking the audience for forgiveness, Triz challenges the concept itself, while hoping to find resolve.