CO–RESIDENCY has selected 11 artists from around the globe to be a part of Cohort 1 and craft a response to our current crisis: COVID-19.
STAV PALTI NEGEV
PLAYWRIGHT
STAV PALTI NEGEV (She/ Her) is an NYC-based Israeli writer. Her play “Salim Salim,” received the Best Play award at the 2014 Israel Fringe Theater Festival and ran for two years at Tmuna Theater in Tel-Aviv. Stav’s work has been developed through The Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, MacDowell Colony, The Flea Theater, New York Live Arts, and NYFA among others. She is a member of the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab at The Lark. Stav holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch
KEITH S. WILSON
POET
Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award, and has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. His book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon), was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry.
YEJI YEON
DANCER AND FILMMAKER
Yeji is a multi-disciplinary artist of music, dance, film and theatre. She was trained primarily in classical singing, ballet and theatre acting. A global citizen- much of her inspiration comes from the nature and travelling the world. She was born in South Korea, moved to England at young age; she is currently based in Seoul, Korea.
GABRIEL & FRANCISCO
VISUAL ARTIST & SCULPTOR
Gabriel Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro, BR), BFA Fine Art Practice at Chelsea School of Art and Design, MFA Sculpture at Lisbon Academy of Fine Arts, MAUMAUS Independent Study Program participant. Francisco Trêpa (Lisbon, PT) BFA Sculpture at Lisbon Academy of Fine Arts, MFA Multimedia Art at Lisbon Academy of Fine Art.
Both artists currently live and work in Lisbon, using both sculpture and video as mediums to explore themes surrounding humanity's relation to nature and the un-natural.
CAMILA SVENSON
VISUAL ARTIST
I'm a Brazilian visual artist based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, working with photography, video, collections and objects. In my work I am constantly looking at love, affection and fiction. My pieces often involve participative methods and I am interested in observe how encounters happen, and how the performativity of an encounter changes when mediated by a camera; questioning the fragility of the image as a document of proof and how the concept of fiction can be articulate inside visual narratives.
PEDRO FRAGUELA
AUDIOVISUAL ARTIST
His work focuses in the physical aspects involved in sound performance, time perception, and memory. He studied music composition at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina , and later at Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Spain.
He participated in workshops and festivals such as CEME 2017, Mixtur, Delian Academy for New Music, Muslab and Ecos Urbanos. He was resident artist of the SEGIB-Casa de Velázquez grant in 2019.
LORIN SOOKOOL
DANCER-CHOREOGRAPHER
Lorin Sookool is an independent South African dancer-choreographer and facilitator who draws inspiration from the South African socio-political landscape as well as matters relating to individual and collective spiritual growth. Since receiving a Bachelor of Music in Dance from the University of Cape Town in 2013, Sookool has performed both locally and internationally, had her own work tour local platforms and has been the recipient of local grants for her project facilitation work.
INNOT FUMBAN PHIRI
PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR
Fumban Innot Phiri Jnr. is an award-winning best Co-director and three times best playwright. He is a young dramatist, journalist, and theatre educator who has produced dramas and workshops for broadcast, stage, community, film, and schools. He is also a theatre producer, actor, director, writer at YDC Theatre. Off stage Fumban has worked widely in theatre super vision for community drama and theatre for development on social political issues. He has been involved in over 15 productions.
MADISON VANDER ARK
PAINTER
I am a visual artist currently working between studios in Boston, MA and Harrisburg, PA. Splitting my time between painting, sewing, and writing, I make work that engages with the ordinary architecture I encounter every day. By tapping into a spiritual world of the built environment, through story, painting, and installation, I leave myself and my viewer considering what might otherwise go unseen: a reminder of what was, a foreshadowing of what may come to be, and an invitation to imagine.
FABIAN MONGE
PAINTER
As an artist, Fabian is an explorer; as a human being, he’s an artist; as an animal, he realizes that communication is very important; as a citizen he has strong opinions; as a painter, he likes to allure the eyes of the audience; as a scientist he loves to make the best questions; as a brother, he used to be rude; as a selfish gene, he wants to live forever.
MARCIN RYCZEK
PHOTOGRAPHER
His photos were placed in newspapers from around the world (The Guardian, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, National Geographic…). The Huffington Post has recognized his photo as one of the 5 best photos in the world in 2013. His Photo “A man feeding swans in the snow” was admitted to the prestigious collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
In 2017, Marcin Ryczek’s photography was on the cover of the book 100 Great Street Photographs by David Gibson.