19 artists, one shoreline practice

A multimedia visual artist, writer, academic and producer based in Berlin. Born in Portugal in 1978, she has lived in New York, London, Lisbon, Western Australia and Norway. She holds Master’s degrees in Theater and in Cultural Studies, and is a PhD candidate at the Cultural Analysis & Theory Department at Stony Brook University in New York. Her theoretical and artistic research focuses on living bodies, scientific culture, biology, geography and biopolitics. Her artwork is conceptual, participatory and collaborative, with projects spanning video, choreography, painting, installation, text and conversation pieces.

Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design, an India China Institute Fellow 2010–2012, and director of the BS Urban Design Program — the first undergraduate urban design program in an art and design school in the nation. Her scholarly focus linking urban design, drawing and ecology is present in her teaching as well as TILL, a Newark based landscape architecture and urban design practice she founded in 2002. She is a member of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Urban Design Working Group, a Long Term Ecological Research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Born and raised in New Delhi, Nandini Sikand is an Odissi dancer, anthropologist and independent filmmaker. She is the co-founder and co-director of Sakshi Productions, a neo-classical and contemporary dance company. Her work has been funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Asian American Arts Alliance and Joyce Soho, and combines film imagery, live music and elements unique to Indian theatre and performance. She is an Assistant Professor of film and media studies at Lafayette College, PA.

An Italian-American poet and translator, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the chairperson of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Fashion Institute of Technology of S.U.N.Y. in Manhattan, and holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from Columbia University. His recent books include the English translation (with Bertoletti and Casson) of Paolo Virno’s Multitude: Between Innovation and Negation, and a collection of his own poetry, respite. He serves on PEN’s International Committee on Translation and Linguistic Rights.

A philosopher at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, educated at Wesleyan University, Kings College London, and Trinity College Cambridge, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on Hegel. After 18 years teaching at universities in Sydney, she returned to New York. She was a Director of the Performance Space, Sydney, and a ‘player’ in Tino Sehgal’s ‘This Situation’ at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

Professor of English and Gay Studies at the University of California, Davis. An accomplished pianist, vocal coach, and choral and orchestral conductor, he made his television musical debut at seven. He writes widely on American culture and is the author of Emerson’s Epistemology and The Queening of America, and editor of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales.

A life artist entering the second half of her centennial life cycle, having studied the natural sciences and the arts, traveled widely to all the continents, practiced medicine, creative writing and photography. She was spiritually drawn to the theater’s ritualistic performances along rivers and skies.

A studio artist working in sewing thread, fibers, tea, sugar, turmeric and water drawn from a nearby river. She arranges these things into accurate representations of the events occurring in her life, then follows them, as if diagrams, learning about her original situation from the inherent behaviors of her chosen materials.

A theatre artist, painter and writer with a concentration in the arts and Women’s Studies from Sarah Lawrence College. She has performed in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis and as Artemis in Hippolytus at Barnard College, and first worked with Harmattan Theater in Dreamscapes in the summer of 2010. She loves ensemble based experimental work.

Sculptor, painter and designer.

A poet and fiction writer who believes strongly in the transformative power of the creative arts. Her work has been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Belinda and Her Friends was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009 Poetry Award. She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island.

A young actor and model in New York City. His training includes a classical education at the Manhattan School of Music under Neil Rosenshein, stagework at Brown University, Horton Technique at the Ailey School and mentorship from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Argentinian born Martin Gak is a philosopher and Tango accordion player with a PhD from the New School. Gak composed the original arrangement for Harmattan Theater’s Henry Hudson’s Forgotten Maps at the FIGMENT festival on Governors Island, 2009. He teaches Continental Philosophy at Pratt Institute.

A poet, editor of Bowery Books, an independent poetry press, and publisher and editor of The Mom Egg. Her manuscript The Important Thing Is… won the inaugural Firewheel Chapbook Award. She produced Bowery Women: Shoot the Poem! and her videopoems have been shown at the Howl Festival of East Village Art.

A trained Carnatic classical vocalist who sings light music in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam. She teaches Carnatic classical basics, performs on stage, and does voice-overs, including radio commercials for a South Asian radio station.

A jazz trained guitarist living in New York City, involved in several projects as a leader, sideman, and composer. As a solo musician, Gavin plays numerous pieces from his own composed ideas linked through improvisation, allowing for freedom and growth from the surrounding energy.

An award-winning Art Director and Graphic Designer, internationally exhibited fine artist, media theorist, and DJ with a reputation for genre-spanning sets. Scott’s interest in the indeterminate relationship between personal and cultural memories resurfaces throughout his diverse portfolio.

Shares his blend of original stories, songs, dances, cirque performance and harp, piano and electronic music throughout New York City, nationally and internationally. He has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The New York Irish Arts Center, Abrons Arts Center, House of Yes, Dixon Place and with The Chelsea Symphony. He holds a degree in music from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music.