Performance

Gregory Sholette

Artist, Writer, Teacher, Activist, and Professor of Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at CUNY Queens College
Gregory Sholette was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of the Andrew A. Mellon Foundation funded project Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY) headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate...

Kim Sauberlich

ARC Fellow Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College of Charleston
Kim Sauberlich was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kim Sauberlich is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production. Sauberlich's dissertation and book project entitled Black Orpheus: Musical Scenarios in Atlantic Rio de Janeiro (1808-1888) examines Atlantic performances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the 1808 transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil’s 1888...

Rude Mechs

Multi-Disciplinary Collective of Theater Artists
Rude Mechs gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Since 1996, Rude Mechs has been crafting a genre-defying slate of original theatrical productions infused with big ideas, humor, and stunning spectacle. Their work is characterized by the use of play in performance, theaters as gathering spaces for audiences and artists, and humor as a tool for intellectual exploration. Rude Mechs tours these performances nationally and internationally, operates...

Amadeus Regucera

ARC Fellow
Amadeus Julian Regucera was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984, He/They) engages with the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and the erotics of its production through concert music, installation, performance art, and video. He has had the opportunity to present works around the world: notably, at ManiFeste (Paris, FR), the Festival Musica (Strasbourg, FR), Voix Nouvelles (Asnières-sur-Oise, FR), the...

Martha Redbone

Roots Music Singer
Martha Redbone facilitated a Songwriting Workshop offered as a collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist Fellow celebrated for her tasty gumbo of roots music. Drawing from the folk and mountain blues sounds of her Appalachian upbringing in Kentucky and the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Redbone...

Will Rawls

Contemporary Choreographer, Performance Artist, Curator, Writer, and Associate Professor in The Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA
Will Rawls gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on October 18, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Will Rawls is a New York-based choreographer, dancer, and writer whose work unfolds at the edges of sense when dance and language clash. His multi-disciplinary work exists at theaters, galleries and museums, and focuses on how black...

Drew Woodson, Playwright-in-Residence

April 14, 2025
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Drew Woodson Playwright-in-Residence April 14 – 18, 2025 Location/map to the Arts Research Center here

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

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 – 24, 2026

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A collaborative program by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the...

Raqs Media Collective

Multimedia Artist Collective
Raqs Media Collective gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 7, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Raqs Media Collective (* 1992, by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta). The word “raqs” in several languages denotes an intensification of awareness and presence attained by whirling, turning, being in a state of revolution. Raqs take this sense to mean ‘kinetic contemplation’ and a restless and energetic entanglement with the world, and with time. Raqs practices...

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-...