Performance

Anne Walsh

2011 & 2019 ARC Fellow
Anne Walsh was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 & Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Anne Walsh is a maker of performance, video, sound, and text works, many of which re-mediate the works and lives of other artists and her own family. Walsh’s book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh (2019, no place press/MIT Press) epitomizes the aggressively indexical, personal, and analytical nature of her practice: it is a visual and written ‘adaptation’ of Leonora Carrington...

Scott Wallin

2010 ARC Fellow
Scott Wallin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

As a theatre director, psychiatric social worker, and university instructor, Scott Wallin is passionate about working closely with others to create works of art that build community, push expectations, and explore a diversity of experiences. His scholarly work examines how theater reflects and influences our understandings of madness and mental illness. Other interests include applying performance theory...

Luis Valdez

Playwright, Director
Luis Valdez gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 18, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Contemporary Artist
Rirkrit Tiravanija gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 23, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

The Yes Men

Activist Duo
The Yes Men gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on March 2, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos Through various actions, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about problematic social and political issues. To date, the duo have produced three films: The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix the World (2009),...

Joel Tan

Playwright and Dramatist
Joel Tan was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Impact in the Arts Think Tank Conference at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Joel Tan is a Singaporean playwright based in London and Singapore. Recent work in the UK includes No Particular Order at Theatre503; When The Daffodils at the Orange Tree Theatre; Living Archive at the Royal Court; Ghosts in the Blood for Audible UK; Overheard, and Augmented Chinatown with...

Jennif(f)er Tamayo

ARC Fellow, Poet, Essayist, and Performer
Jenni(f)fer Tamayo was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Jennif(f)er Tamayo is a queer, migrant, formerly undocumented poet, essayist, and performer. Her poetry collections include [Red Missed Aches] (Switchback, 2011), YOU DA ONE (Noemi 2017) and her latest publication, TO KILL THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT (Green Lantern Press, 2018). Currently, JT lives and works on Ohlone...

Aimee Suzara

ARC Fellow, Writer, Performer, and Educator
Aimee Suzara was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Oakland-Based Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer whose mission is to create poetic and theatrical work about race, gender, and the body to provoke dialogue and social change. As a playwright, her new work THE REAL SAPPHO was commissioned by Cutting Ball Theater and awarded by...

Super Futures Haunt Qollective

Artist Collective
Super Futures Haunt Qollective gave a Performance and Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 18, 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) is an art and research based collaboration between three avatars.

In their terrestrial forms, SFHQ members F. Sam Jung (MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a sky person and urban planner in New York. C. Ree (MFA University of California, Irvine) is an artist and film...