Performance

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Spoken Word Artist, Writer, Librettist, and Cultural Strategist
Marc Bamuthi Joseph was a Visiting Writer Panel Participant at the Situated: A Rite to Heal Symposium at the Arts Research Center on October 10, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022,...

Sean San José

Writer, Director, Performer, and Co-Founder of Campo Santo
Sean San José was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Chavez Ravine Conference and Performances at the Arts Research Center on March 4, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sean San José is a writer, director, performer, and co-founder of Campo Santo, a new performance group for People of Color in San Francisco. Founded in 1996, Campo Santo is committed to developing new performance and to nurturing People of Color centered new audiences and has premiered over 100 new pieces. For 15 years, he was the Program...

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Paul Ramírez Jonas gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to...

Kurt Johannessen

Artist in Performance, Video, Books, and Installations
Kurt Johannessen was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Born 1960 in Norway, Kurt Johannessen works within performance artist's books video and installations since the early eighties. His work is minimalist and poetic, and at times with a touch of humour. He is his own publisher and has produced more than 50 books, many of them translated into English. The books vary from just one sentence to short...

Blossom Johnson

2024 ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency AIR, Diné playwright, Screenwriter and Dramaturg
Blossom Johnson was the ARC Indigenous Performing Arts Residency's first-ever artist-in-residence (2024). If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Blossom Johnson is a Diné storyteller, playwright, teaching artist and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her maternal grandfather is from the Deeshchíí’nii (Start of the Red Streak People) clan.

She was raised by her grandmother on the very top of Dził Yijiin (Black Mesa), AZ and she’s always been surrounded by stories. When she opens...

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

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...

Identity X

UC Berkeley Competitive Dance Team
Identity X gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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

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...

Megan Hoetger

Performance Researcher, Curator, and Historian
Megan Hoetger gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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,...

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

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,...