Jonathan Berger,

New York, NY, worked on the completion of Prologues, Epilogues, and Thresholds, to be presented at the Grimm-Rosenfeld Gallery in 2007.

Adam Chapman,

Brooklyn, NY, completed two generative video installations: Legible Nature: Fate Is an Afterthought and Diagram of the Dynamics of the Physical Embodiment of Desire.

Uday Dhar,

New York, NY, embarked on a series of large abstract paintings linked to the idea of mourning. They will be exhibited in Mumbai, India, and New York.

Yehuda Duenyas,

New York, NY, continued work on 00:07 SEC., a new theatre piece based on Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink. His work has been premiered in New York and Europe, and his adaptations for theatre and film include works by Samuel Beckett, George Saunders, and Jonathan Lethem.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez,

Bronx, NY, worked on a series of 32 letters, one per tooth, as a personal account of a fictitious S&M relationship between himself and one of his three dentists. The letters and a group of drawings will be part of a book to be published in 2007 at the Center for Book

Arts in New York.

Peter Garfield,

Brooklyn, NY, completed works on paper to be shown at Freight + Volume in New York. These are showing along with his three-channel video installation Deep Space 1, which was recently nominated for a Tiger Award in Short Film at the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival.

Christy Georg,

East Boston, MA, constructed Punctuation, a kinetic sound sculpture for an exhibition at Indiana University in 2006. She also made 34 audio recordings for a future sound installation that will commemorate the legacy of The MacDowell Colony.

Gene Gort,

Collinsville, CT continued his collaboration with composer Ken Steen on a “parallel media” project, Reliquary of Labor, performed in 2006 at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT. The project uses a construction site as the inspiration for revealing the simplicity and beauty of the banal during the building process.

Yvan Greenberg,

Brooklyn, NY, worked on new material in collaboration with Corey Dargel and Honor Molloy for Murphy, a new experimental music-theatre piece. His Brooklyn theatre company, Laboratory Theater, will premiere his Magic Monkey Dance Company, a piece about dancing orangutans in therapy, in 2006

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Sean Griffin,

Torrance, CA, developed compositional and interdisciplinary methodologies positioned at the intersection of sound and performance, creating large and small-scale concert works, collaborative sound and video installations, and film scores.

Lourdes Grobet,  

Mexico City, Mexico, worked on a project entitled Equilibrium and Resistance, a contra–culture action that will involve physically crossing the Bering Strait where she will get an art piece.

Gaelen Hanson,

Seattle, WA, began work on a new solo dance and an adaptation of a work by post-modern dance pioneer Deborah Hay. She will perform Hay’s work at various West Coast performance venues in 2007.

Keith Hennessy,

San Francisco, CA, completed writing performance texts for Sol niger, a hybrid circus/performance to premiere in Lyon, France, in 2007. Choreographed by Hennessy and created in collaboration with Circo Zero, Sol niger filters contemporary political realities through the alchemical metaphor of the black sun.

Megan Michalak,

Brooklyn, NY, did research and drawings for a work in progress called Uchronia. She anticipates showing this project, which was partially funded by a Finishing Fund grant from the Experimental Television Center, at the Bronx Museum in 2007.

Sara Smith,

Portland, ME, developed sound, video, and movement material for a new dance performance piece.

Ken Steen,

Glastonbury, CT, worked on Reliquary of Labor, a multimedia performance work with collaborator Gene Gort. He also completed three songs, each part of his song cycle Each to Each for soprano and mixed ensemble.

Basil Twist,

New York, NY, did developmental design drawings for Behind the Lid, a play/installation with Lee Nogrin, and The Nutcracker, an abstract retelling of the ballet with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Behind the Lid will premiere at the Silver Whale Gallery in New York in 2007.

Jeni Wightman,

Ithaca, NY, installed a surveillance camera on the Colony Hall fruit bowl as a trial in the  technology for her International SoapBox project. She also started a series of landscape and portrait paintings of scientific discoveries and has been commissioned to install these at Cornell University in 2007.

Sherri Wood,

Durham, NC completed a how–to video for Prayer Banner: REPENT, a communal mourning project about the war in Iraq. She also launched a Web site, www.mantratrailer.com, and will be traveling the Mantra Trailer across the country, recording and broadcasting mantras.