Visiting Artist

Ken Ueno

ARC Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Sound Artist, and Professor of Composition at UC Berkeley
Ken Ueno was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities. Much of Ueno’s music is “person-specific” wherein the intricacies of performance practice is brought into focus in the technical...

Chris Vargas

Video Maker and Interdisciplinary Artist
Chris E. Vargas was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 - he was selected in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Chris E. Vargas is a video maker & interdisciplinary artist currently based in Bellingham, WA whose work deploys humor and performance in conjunction with mainstream idioms to explore the complex ways that queer and trans people negotiate spaces for themselves within historical & institutional memory and popular culture. He earned his MFA in the department of Art Practice from...

Cecelia Vicuña

Poet, Artist, Activist, Filmmaker
Cecilia Vicuña gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in...

Adel-Jing Wang

Sound Studies Scholar, Art Anthropologist, Curator and Practitioner in Sound Art
Adel-Jing Wang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Based in Hangzhou, China, Adel-Jing Wang is a sound studies scholar, art anthropologist, curator and practitioner in sound art. She is currently an associate professor of sound studies at Zhejiang University, China and has also served as a visiting scholar at MIT Anthropology(2019-2020) andthe School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong (2017....

Marianne Weems

Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz
Marianne Weems is the 2007-2008 ARC Artist-in-Residence. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Marianne Weems is a theater and opera director and founder of the award-winning New York-based theater company The Builders Association, an influential ensemble that has created a significant body of work at the forefront of integrating media with live performance. With the company, she has created and directed 17 original large-scale productions and worked with unexpected collaborators including the architects Diller + Scofidio, The...

Mac Wellman

Playwright, Author, Poet
Mac Wellman was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mac Wellman’s recent work includes: The Offending Gesture, directed by Meghan Finn at the Connelly Theater in 2016; Horrocks (and Toutatis Too) Woo World Wu at Emerson College in Boston in 2013 (with Erin Mallon & Tim Sirgusa); Muazzez at the Chocolate Factory (PS122’s COIL Festival) with Steve Mellor, in 2014; 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in...

Angie Wilson

Interdisciplinary Artist
Angie Wilson gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 2, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Angie Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist working in textile-based sculpture, installation, social practice, interiors, and costume design. She is interested in the intimacy of textiles – as protective, sheltering, comforting, and expressive. Textiles as clothing and domestic objects signify identity, hold memory, and tell stories. Angie references weaving as a powerful metaphor for...

David Wilson

Paper & Performance-based Artist
David Wilson was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Living Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 21, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland, CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition The Possible...

Caroline Woolard

W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement & Founding Co-Organizer of Art.coop
Caroline Woolard gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 26, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and ...

Anicka Yi

Conceptual Artist
Anicka Yi gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She...