Rehearsing & Performing the Everyday | 20 Questions for 20 Years

Much of DS4SI’s work is about both understanding the everyday as a political project and finding collective agency to reimagine the everyday. Many of our social interventions invite participants into rehearsing and performing otherwise. Grisha Coleman will bring their own artistic and political vision to why a critique and reimagining of the everyday is needed.

Grisha Coleman is an artist working through choreography, performance, experiential technology and sound composition. Her research explores tensions across our physiological, technological, and ecological systems; human movement, our machines, and the places we inhabit. I engage this exploration in interdisciplinary ways, centering presence and experience to counter conventional dichotomies of quantitative/qualitative thought. Working with time-based performance and technology began at the California Institute for the Arts in Music Composition and Integrated Media. As a Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, her work forged bridges among workers in the arts, human-centered computing, robotics and natural sciences. Ms. Coleman continued to build hybrid systems across applications of health, education, and the arts with teams of engineers and computer scientists as faculty in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and School of Dance at Arizona State University. Previous to this, she worked full time as an artist, notably founding and composing the music performance company HOTMOUTH, as well as a dancer with the acclaimed company the Urban Bush Women. She currently holds the position of Professor of Movement, Computation, and Digital Media in the in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University, and an affiliation with the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and the Center for Race and Democracy at Arizona State University.

Her work has been generously supported by The Doris Duke Foundation’s Performing Arts Technologies Lab, a Harvard-Radcliffe Fellowship, The National Endowment for the Arts in Media grants, the Rockefeller Multi-Arts Project [MAP] Fund, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, the Surdna Foundation Thriving Cultures Grant, the MacDowell Arts Colony, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Pioneer Works, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and Stanford University’s Mohr Visiting Artist Fellowship.

Ms. Coleman is a New York City native.

• Curatorial Conversation with Grisha Coleman | OCT 19, 2:30-4 PM
• Curatorial Conversation with Nato Thompson | OCT 19, 4:30-6PM
• Intervening in the Moment Curated by Nato Thompson | OCT 17-19
• Rehearsal for Everyday Life: a Choreographed Performance | OCT 18, 6:30-7:30 PM
• Mass Somatic Experience | OCT 19, 12:30-2 PM

The Hub Hours
Join us each weekend at Hibernian Hall from September 27 – October 19 for events as part of . The Hub is free and open to the public during the following hours:

• Thursdays & Fridays: 2–8 PM
• Saturdays: 12–10 PM
• Sundays: 12–6 PM

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