Eva Wǒ
Eva Wǒ is a Chinese-New Mexican multimedia artist, curator, hustler, and sex magik worker. Her work casts spells of homoerotic cultural nourishment, liberation, and self-love set in a fantasy future dream for infinite gender/sexual self-determination. Currently she is co-curating Hot Bits, a touring queer sex-positive film and arts festival. Eva is also a recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award.
During Wǒ's residency, she created Welcome.
Yixuan Pan
Yixuan Pan is an artist who was born and raised in the land of fish and rice, Hunan, China.To deal with issues of translation and communication as well as reimagining the western hegemony through a global outlook, her anti-disciplinary practice merges multiple media and modes of presentation such as installation, video, performance, lollipop making, music therapy practicing, choral conducting, and more. By dislocating language from its context and form, Pan questions the linguistic structures people learn and unlearn in relation to comfort, temperature, transparency, hierarchy and power dynamics.
During Pan's residency, she created An Orchestra At Elsewhere.
Marie Alarcón
Marie Alarcón is a multi-medium artist with a focus on experimental non-fiction filmmaking and performance. Alarcón has worked as a community media educator and producer in Philadelphia since 2009 and is inspired by liminality, hybridity and the way that cinema functions as collective memory. Alarcón’s art focuses on the silent historical relationships embedded in geography through sound collage, movement, & performance and use digital manipulation and animation with an interest in developing a tactile relationship to the hyper-real. They currently perform and exhibits work both as a solo artist and in collaboration with various artists and institutions.
During Alarcón residency, they created Love You To Life.
Jesse Kudler
Jesse Kudler is a musician, composer, performer, and sound artist using improvisation, collaboration, and site-specificity to to examine authorship, intention, agency, ambiguous affects, and modes and practices of listening. He works with electronics, recordings, guitar, synthesizers, radios, tapes, keyboards, and text.
Kudler lives in Philadelphia, PA. Current and past projects include: solo organ performance; performance duo with dancer Christina Gesualdi; site-specific composition for church organ, guitar, and recordings, with Chris Forsyth; a commissioned sound piece for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program; live music with film; sound installation; and various improvised music duos. He has performed across the US and Canada and presented workshops at universities and community spaces.
During Kudler's residency, He created Voicing Elsewhere (#103 & 42).
Sosena Solomon
Sosena Solomon is an award winning social documentary film and multimedia visual artist from Ethiopia. Intuitively selecting subjects and stories, she is particularly interested in spaces of transition and change, acting as a cultural preservationist. Her work, whether presented as a film or an immersive 3-dimensional experience, explores cross sections of various subcultures and communities in flux, carefully teasing out cultural nuances and capturing personal narratives via arresting visual storytelling and cinéma vérité stylings.
During Solomon's residency, she created Untitled (Documentary).