Annie Saunders is a multidisciplinary director and live artist, and the founding artistic
director of site-specific performance company Wilderness. Her installation The
Home for Domestic Violence Awareness Month won the UK APA awards for Best Experiential
Campaign and Best Use of Technology for Good in 2020. Irish composer and vocalist Emma O’Halloran freely
intertwines acoustic and electronic music, writing for folk musicians, chamber ensembles,
turntables, laptop orchestra, symphony orchestra, film and theatre. Wild Up, the
popular Los Angeles-based new music ensemble under the direction of Christopher Rountree,
has been called “…a raucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant…fun-loving, exceptionally
virtuosic family,” by The New York Times. While in residence with CAP UCLA,
Saunders, O’Halloran, Rountree and the members of Wild Up will be
developing Rest, an interactive performance installation that looks at
multi-sensory experience, the nature of consciousness, the suggestibility of the mind, ‘dopamine
fasting’ and sensory deprivation. The piece gives a visceral opportunity to feel and consider
what rest means in the modern world. Development and research will include interviews with
consciousness experts to conversations with everyday folks talking about their earliest sense
memories and their relationships with their smartphones.
wildup.org/project/rest
about.me/anniesaunders
emma-ohalloran.com
This residency is in partnership with Ucross Foundation. ucrossfoundation.org
Eiko Otake is a movement–based, interdisciplinary artist. She worked for more than 40 years as half
of the internationally acclaimed Eiko & Koma, but since 2014 has been performing her own solo
project, A Body in Places. Eiko & Koma created 46 performance works, two career
exhibitions, and numerous media works. Always performing their own choreography, Eiko & Koma
usually designed and handcrafted all aspects of their works including sets, costumes and sound. They
presented their works numerous times at American Dance Festival, the Walker Art Center and five
seasons at BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Eiko & Koma were honored with the first United States
Artists Fellowship (2006) and Doris Duke Artist Awards (2012). They are the first collaborative pair
to share a MacArthur Fellowship (1996), two Guggenheim Fellowships (1984), the first Asian choreographers to receive the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award (2004) and
a Dance Magazine
Award (2006). Eiko’s solo activities earned her a Special Bessie citation, and the Anonymous
Was a Woman Award. She visited post-nuclear meltdown Fukushima several times with photographer and
historian William Johnston. Documentation of these visits led to the creation of A Body in
Fukushima, a variable photo and video exhibition that has been shown in many cities. In
2017, Eiko launched her multi-year Duet Project: Distance is Malleable. In this project,
collaborating with a diverse range of artists living and dead, Eiko explores ways to maximize the
potentials of selected artist-to-artist encounters.
eikoandkoma.org
CAP UCLA commissioned Eiko Otake in partnership with Cyprian Films to develop a filmed program at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming.
This residency is in partnership with Ucross Foundation. ucrossfoundation.org
Edgar Arceneaux investigates historical patterns through drawings, installations and multimedia
events, such as the reenactment of Ben Vereen’s tragically misunderstood blackface performance
at Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Inaugural Gala. In the artist’s work, linear logic is abandoned
in favor of wordplay and visual associations, revealing how language, technology, and how systems
produce reality as much as describe them. Seemingly disparate elements—such as science fiction,
civil rights era speeches, techno music, and the crumbling architecture of Detroit—find a new
synchronicity in the artist’s hands, ultimately pointing to larger historical forces such as
the rise of the surveillance state. Arceneaux’s installations have taken the form of
labyrinths, libraries, multi-channel videos, and drawn landscapes that change over the course of an
exhibition, only ever offering a partial view of the whole at any given moment. This fragmentation
extends to the artist’s use of historical research in his work, such as FBI documents
concerning civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., where redacted passages are presented on
mirrors that reflect the viewer’s curious gaze.
studioedgararceneaux.com
Producer, composer, choreographer, writer, saxophonist, dancer, actor and director Dan Froot has been a professor with the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance since 2006. Dan’s music concerts, theater pieces, and performance events have been presented by leading art centers across the U.S., Europe, Africa and South America.
While in residency at CAP UCLA he will be developing "Arms Around America," a community-based performance project. It will culminate in a season of podcast episodes and an evening
of three short plays based on the oral histories of families around the country whose lives have been shaped by guns. The goal is to foster dialogue among diverse community members
about the role of guns in American society.
danfroot.com