Performance

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.

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 Department of Performing and Media Arts. Alongside Dr. Debra Castillo here on campus...

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.

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.

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), Some Golden States (1987), Stretch Marks (1989), Sex/Love/Stories...

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.

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, within different materials including texts and archival matter such as: scripts,...

Angela Marino

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the UC Berkeley
Angela Marino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 & 2017 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Angela Marino's teaching and research focuses on performance and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. She teaches classes on theater and performance studies theory, methods, and a praxis class called Teatro Lab. She also leads an interdisciplinary research initiative, Critical Perspectives on Democracy and Media (D+M Lab), which supports community-engaged partnerships with student research apprentices in policy analysis and art production. See...

Pauline Malefane

Actress, Singer, Musical Director of the Isongo ensemble, and Senior Lecturer Classical Voice at the University of Cape Town
Pauline Malefane was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2008-2009.

Pauline Malefane is co-founder and co-Music Director of Isango Ensemble. She has worked with members of the company since 2000. She is also an advocate for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She saw world-wide success playing the role of Carmen, both on stage and in the Golden Bear-winning feature film U-Carmen eKhayelithsa, for which she won a Golden Thumb from Roger Ebert. She was awarded the Best Actress Award at the South African Film & Television Awards...

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Multidisciplinary Artist
Cannupa Hanska Luger gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2020.

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Incorporating ceramics, steel, fiber, video and repurposed materials, Luger activates speculative fiction, engages in land-based actions of repair and practices empathetic response through social collaboration. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an...

Simon Leung

Professor of Art at UC Irvine
Simon Leung was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Making Time at Human Resources Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 22, 2012.

Simon Leung’s foremost concern as an artist is how “the ethical,” broadly defined, can be thought and traced. His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on “the residual space of the American/Vietnam War” (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay...

André Lepecki

Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Associate Dean in the Center for Research and Study at the Tisch School of the Arts
André Lepecki was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Living Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2014.

André Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies, curatorial practice, performance theory, contemporary dance and visual arts performance. Selected curatorial work includes Chief Curator of the festival IN TRANSIT (2008 and 2009 editions) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Co-curator of the archive Dance and Visual Arts since 1960s for the exhibition MOVE: choreographing you, Hayward Gallery (2010)....

Stan Lai

Playwright and Theater Director
Stan Lai was the Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center from 2012-2013.

One of the most celebrated voices in the contemporary Chinese theatre, Stan Lai has been called "The best Chinese language playwright and director in the world." (BBC) "The preeminent Chinese playwright and stage director of this generation." (China Daily) "Asia's top theatre director." (Asiaweek) "The most celebrated Chinese language playwright and director in the world and his body of work - which to date includes over 35 original plays - has redefined how we think about...