Performance

Sam Aros-Mitchell, IPAR Artist-in-Residence

April 20, 2026
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Sam Aros-Mitchell Choregrapher/Performer April 20 – 25, 2026

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Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of...

Ted Purves

Artist, Writer, and Founder of the Social Practice Program at CCA
Ted Purves was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ted Purves was an independent artist, editor, and curator. His work has been exhibited and published in many venues and journals throughout California, as well as in New York, Boston, Albany and several cities in Germany. Purves has won funding from the Creative Work Fund in San Francisco and the Headlands Center for the Arts and been an artist-in-...

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vincente Perez was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities...

Devi Peacock

Founder and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion
Devi Peacock gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 6, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Devi Peacock is a South Asian non-binary storyteller, performing artist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, they were the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, an Oakland-based BIPOC, queer- and trans-led arts organization, as well as the co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd Ave. cultural land trust in Oakland. They additionally...

Ayodele Nzinga

Actress, Director, Playwright, Poet, Dramaturg, Performance Consultant, Educator, Community Advocate, and the Director of the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc
Ayodele Nzinga gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Ayodele Nzinga is a multi-hyphenated artist; a brilliant actress, producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate. She is the director of the Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc., Oakland's oldest North American African Theater Company and founder of Lower Bottom Playaz Summer Theater Day Camp. She is co-...

Christian Nagler

ARC Fellow, Performer, Writer, and Translator
Christian Nagler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – he was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Christian Nagler is a performer, writer and translator. His work looks at (and performs) the imbrications of embodiment and global economics both in his everyday life and in projects like Market Fitness, and...

Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz

Choreographer, Sound Artist, Video Maker
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dr. Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz’s research is at the intersection of performance studies, illegality and citizenship, borderlands studies, critical phenomenology, and critical dance studies. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a research and teaching focus on creative ethnography and (Afro)Latinx/Latin American undocumented cultural production. He’s an assistant professor in the...

Jon Refsdal Moe

Professor of Dramaturgy at Stockholm University of the Arts
Jon Refsdal Moe was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jon Refsdal Moe is a writer and dramaturg from Oslo. He has written two novels, one doctoral dissertation, several essays and a lot of criticism. He was artistic director of Black Box teater in Oslo from 2009 to 2016 and is now professor of dramaturgy at Stockholm University of the Arts.

Tim Miller

Performance Artist
Tim Miller was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2001. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed performance artist. Miller’s creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller has tackled this challenge in such pieces as Postwar (1982), Cost of Living (1983), Democracy in America (1984), Buddy Systems (1985), ...

Jasmina Metwaly

Artist, Filmmaker, and Member of the Mosireen Collective
Jasmina Metwaly gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 31, 2019. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born to a a Polish mother and an Egyptian father, Jasmina Metwaly is a Cairo-Berlin-based artist and filmmaker, member of Mosireen Collective and of media archive 858.ma. She works in video and film, and has recently started drawing again. She likes to work with people and their histories,...