Performance

Marianne Weems

Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz
Marianne Weems is the 2007-2008 ARC Artist-in-Residence.

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 National Center for Super Computing Applications, and the South Asian arts...

Lisa Wymore

Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Lisa Wymore gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2017.

Lisa Wymore completed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and continued her career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member within the Northwestern University Dance Program from 2000 to 2004....

Robert Wilson

Experimental Theater Stage Director & Playwright
Robert Wilson was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the...

Reggie Wilson

2005/6 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Choreographer
Reggie Wilson was the 2005-2006 ARC Artist-in-Residence.

Reggie Wilson (Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer, Performer) founded Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he often calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.”

His work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Live Arts, and Summerstage (NYC), Jacob's Pillow Dance...

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.

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 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and received the San...

David Wheeler

2019 ARC Fellow
David Wheeler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

David Wheeler received his BA from Macalester College in 2009, where he double majored in Theatre and Classical Archaeology. During his time there, he spent two seasons working on Macalester’s excavations at Omrit in Israel and a third season at Kenchreai in Greece. He also spent a semester in Egypt studying at the American University in Cairo, where he was awarded the prestigious Simpson Scholarship to pursue his interest in Egyptian Archaeology. Upon returning from Egypt, he...

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.

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 October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at...

Luis Valdez

Playwright, Director
Luis Valdez gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 18, 2014.

Luis Valdez is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today.His internationally renowned, and Obie award-winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers’ Theater) was founded by Luis in 1965 – in the heat of the United Farm Workers (UFW) struggle and the Great Delano Grape Strike in California’s Central Valley.His involvement with Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the early Chicano Movement left an indelible mark that remains...

Kellen Trenal

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, Performer, and Small Business Owner
Kellen Trenal was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – they were chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Kellen Trenal (pronounced like “Chanel”) is a visual artist, performer, small business owner, alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, and holistic wellness enthusiast, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Proudly representing both African (Black American) and niimíipuu (Nez Perce) ancestry, Kellen embraces these multiple identities to empower their work in all its manifestations....

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Contemporary Artist
Rirkrit Tiravanija gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 23, 2015.

Rirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary Thai artist who pioneered the Relational Aesthetics movement. By deconstructing the concept of art into its basic components, the artist focuses on the interactions between people and their surroundings rather than aesthetic objects. “My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself,” he has explained. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961, he grew up in multiple...