Performance

Ra Malika Imhotep

Black Feminist Writer, Performance Artist, and PhD Candidate of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley
Ra Malika Imhotep gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Their academic and creative work tends the relationships between Black femininity, Southern vernacular aesthetics, and the performance of labor. They are a co-convener of the embodied spiritual-...

Identity X

UC Berkeley Competitive Dance Team
Identity X gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Identity X is a UC Berkeley competitive dance team created in Fall 2013.

Yen-Ting Hsu

Sound artist and Composer
Yenting Hsu was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art...

Megan Hoetger

Performance Researcher, Curator, and Historian
Megan Hoetger gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016.

Megan Hoetger is a performance historian, curator, and hard femme. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley where she was mostly hanging out with activists, community organisers, and interdisciplinary circles of folks from dance studies and theatre-making, art practice and art history, geography, critical theory and ethnic studies, comparative literature, architecture and design, urban planning, film and media studies, gender and women’s...

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

2019 ARC Fellow
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, performer and healer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. Her practice serves as a bridge, merging the intersections of art, activism, spirituality and healing as tools for...

Michelle Hensley

Founder of Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company
Michelle Hensley was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014.

Michelle Hensley founded Ten Thousand Things Theater, where she directed and produced more than 60 tours of award-winning drama to audiences in prisons, shelters and housing projects, as well as to the general public. Many of her productions made the local critics’ Top Ten lists. A McKnight Theater Fellow, in 2005 she received the Francesca Primus Prize from the American Theater Critics Association for outstanding...

Pablo Helguera

Installation, Sculpture, Photography, Drawing, Socially Engaged Art and Performance Artist, and Professor of Performing Arts at The New School
Pablo Helguera gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 8, 2014.

Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera’s work incorporates pedagogy, sociology and theater and literary strategies. His project, “The School of Panamerican Unrest”, a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, making 40 stops in between and covering almost 20,000 miles, it is...

Sarah Hennessey

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sarah Hennessey was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Sarah Hennessey is Nimíipuu and she is a poet, performer, playwright, and youth empowerment theater practitioner. Her work highlights the symbiosis of storytelling and language reclamation. By integrating her penchant for literature and performance into her educational outreach, Sarah infuses her instruction with not just interdisciplinary pedagogy, but also both traditional and contemporary...

Trajal Harrell

Dancer and Choreographer
Trajal Harrell gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016.

Trajal Harrell gained international recognition for creating a series of works that bring together the tradition of voguing - a modern dance style developed in the late 1980s from the Harlem ballroom scene - with early postmodern dance. He is considered to be one of the most important choreographers working in contemporary dance today. In his latest work, the artist combines theoretical ideas from voguing with gestures formal ideas that deriveg from Butoh dance, which was conceived...

Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Interdisciplinary Artist
Bracken Hanuse Corlett gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center in Fall 2024, alongside F2024 ARC Artist-in-Residence, Amanda Strong.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. He began working in theatre and performance in 2001 and eventually transitioned towards his current practice that fuses painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a grad­uate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art and went to Emily Carr University of Art and Design for...