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VISION RESIDENCY ARTIFACT APRIL 9 @ 6PM ET Conceived & Directed by raja feather kelly & EMILY WELLS Contributions by TOPU LYO, DAVID BALDWIN, JIM WELLS, XIMONE ROSE, LORELEI RAMIREZ & MORGAN BASSICHIS, TIMMY STRAW, TROY OGILVIE ARTIFACT APRIL 9 @ 6PM ET THE TEAM Conceived & Directed by raja feather kelly & EMILY WELLS Contributions by: Music TOPU LYO Music DAVID BALDWIN Music JIM WELLS Music XIMONE ROSE Collaborative Performance LORELEI RAMIREZ & MORGAN BASSICHIS Writing TIMMY STRAW Movement TROY OGILVIE SPECIAL THANKS Emily Wells would like to thank the collaborators for giving themselves over to the process and the songs. Ars Nova operates on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples on the island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape Homeland. We acknowledge the brutal history of this stolen land and the displacement and dispossession of its Indigenous people. We also acknowledge that after there were stolen lands, there were stolen people. We honor the generations of displaced and enslaved people that built, and continue to build, the country that we occupy today. We gathered together in virtual space to watch this performance. We encourage you to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technology and structures we use and to acknowledge its disproportionate impact on communities of color and Indigenous peoples worldwide. We invite you to join us in acknowledging all of this as well as our shared responsibility: to consider our way forward in reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism and allyship. We commit ourselves to the daily practice of pursuing this work. ABOUT THE ARTISTS EMILY WELLS (Creator, Director) “Quietly transfixing” composer/producer Wells is known for her varied use of classical and modern instrumentation, “a master of blending the worlds of classical and electronics” (NPR) and “dramatic, meticulous and gothic songs” (New York Times). On stage, Wells builds a “new instrument” out of acoustic and electronic drums, synth, violin and her evocative performances leave audiences equal parts dancing and grieving. Wells’ latest full-length record, This World is Too _____ For You, has been hailed by NPR as “breathtaking,” “mind-blowing” and “visionary.” The ten song album, arranged for chamber ensemble by composer Michi Wiancko, was commissioned by Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series and Metropolis Ensemble who performs on the album along with drummer/composer Shayna Dunkelman. Wells received the NYFA Women in music grant in 2020. She has toured internationally performing notably at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Guggenheim, MASS MoCA, Celebrate Brooklyn, The Getty and MoMA. She has lectured at The National Gallery of Art, Emory College, Treefort Music Festival and Arcosanti’s Convergence Festival. raja feather kelly (Creator, Director, Vision Resident) is an Obie-winning choreographer, director, artistic director of the feath3r theory and a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School. In 2020, Kelly made his directorial debut at New York City's Second Stage Theatre with We're Gonna Die. Since 2016, Raja has choreographed extensively for Off-Broadway theater in New York City, most notably for Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Horizons. Frequent collaborators include: Lileana Blain- Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson and Lila Neugebauer. Other theater credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (SohoRep), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), GURLS (Princeton University, Yale Repertory Theatre), Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop), Fireflies (Atlantic Theatre Company), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, nominated for the 2019 Lucille Lortel Award and the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography), The Good Swimmer (BAM) and Faust (Opera Omaha). Most recent work: Fairview (SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for choreography; Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA, and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), A Strange Loop (Obie Award winner and SDCF Callaway finalist for choreography; Playwrights Horizons, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). DAVID BALDWIN (Music) is a songwriter, singer and producer based in Los Angeles. In 2020, he released Tears of Joy, the debut EP from his new project Creature of Doom. On Tears of Joy, Creature of Doom perform a sort of musical alchemy, lending new emotional texture to our most self-sabotaging impulses. “The idea for Creature of Doom is all about not being able to get our of your own way,” says Baldwin. “It’s about being able to laugh at that and celebrate it, instead of just wallowing in it.” In bringing Tears of Joy to life, Baldwin recorded and produced every track on his own, mining inspiration from artists as eclectic as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gary Numan and Frank Sinatra. Mixed by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) the result is strangely exhilarating and endlessly unpredictable form of alt-pop, imbued with equal parts dramatic grandeur and raw emotional honesty. creatureofdoom.bandcamp.com | Insta: @_creatureofdoom MORGAN BASSICHIS (Collaborative Performance Contributor) is a performer who makes songs and jokes and shows at such places as Abrons Arts Center, the Kitchen and multiple bar mitzvahs. morganbassichis.com | Insta: @morgankindof TOPU LYO (Music) is a Korean American multidisciplinary cellist/composer/producer living in NYC. He has performed and toured worldwide in venues such as: the Guggenheim, MoMa, Celebrate Brooklyn, Kunsthalle (Seoul), Electronic Festival Sisal (Spain) and many others. He has collaborated and performed with artists: Henry Threadgill, Emily Wells, Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly. His electronic duo, Live Footage, has scored for HBO, BET, BMW, Volvo, Van Clef, Vice, etc. They have performed every Sunday at Apotheke in Chinatown, Manhattan since 2010. topu-lyo.com | Insta: @topu_Lyo TROY OGILVIE (Movement) (she/her) has danced for and collaborated with: choreographers Roy Assaf, Sidra Bell, Antonio Brown, Gabriel Forestieri, Itzik Galili, Shannon Gillen, Margie Gillis, Andrea Miller, Patricia Noworol, Zoe Scofield, Idan Sharabi and Nicole Wolcott; violinist Liv Heym; theater company Punchdrunk (as Lady Macbeth in Sleep No More NYC); and directors Sophie Bortolussi (McKittrick Masquerade parties), Susan Misner (Bend, FOSSE/VERDON), Kate Douglas (Extinct) and Peter Sellars (The Gospels According to the Other Mary, LA Philharmonic). She has also curated, produced and performed in solo shows RESET (2011), PRISM (2017 - with producer Ron Black) and BITE (2019). Troy teaches Emergent Improvisation and is on faculty at SPRINGBOARDX Skills + Process, Gibney, Peridance, The Joffrey Jazz & Contemporary Program, Limon, Adelphi University and The Performing Arts Project, and is a team member of The Dance Union Podcast. Most recently, Troy’s choreography has been performed by Bare Opera (Maria de Buenos Aires and Exercises on the Presence of Odradek with director Malena Dayen), and as a part of Met Live Arts (The Ninth Hour: A Beowulf Musical with director Kevin Newbury). She has participated in residency programs at The Marble House Project and Turkey Land Cove Foundation and was one of “Dance Magazine’s 2011 Top 25 to Watch.” Troy is also involved with KWTMA (Kensington - Windsor Terrace Mutual Aid), working towards ending food insecurity and houselessness (solidarity, not charity). Juilliard B.F.A. troyogilvie.squarespace.com | Insta: @troyanosaurus LORELEI RAMIREZ (Collaborative Performance Contributor) Comedian and writer Lorelei Ramirez’s work draws humor out of dark, absurdist situations, rooted in an interest in contemporary performance. Ramirez does stand up, directs videos and organizes variety shows that feature comedians and musicians in their community. Insta: @pileoftears XIMONE ROSE (she/her) is a performer/singer-songwriter from New Orleans. She is grateful to this pause in her regularly scheduled programming so she could finally focus on her music... and also religiously play Candy Crush. Stream her music on all platforms. Insta: @simonewithanx TIMMY STRAW (Music Contributor) is a writer, musician and translator (Russian), with an MFA in poetry forthcoming from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is a recent Fulbright fellow to Moscow. They are also the co-editor of the Iowa Prison Writing Project, which solicits and publishes the work of incarcerated writers and poets. Poems and essays of theirs have been published in Jacket2, Tin House, Volta and elsewhere. timmystraw.bandcamp.com JIM WELLS (Music) is a french hornist, composer and educator. He is also Emily’s dad. ABOUT THE VISION RESIDENCY Designed to foreground Ars Nova’s values through the creation of more equitable and power-sharing curatorial practices, the Vision Residency expands Ars Nova’s artistic vision by inviting seven artist-curators to populate our digital platform with their own work as well as work by artists they champion and admire. Each Resident is given broad support from Ars Nova’s full staff, and spends two months planning for one month of activity on Ars Nova Supra. Each Vision Resident is paid for their curation and administrative work, as well as allocated a program budget towards the creation, development and presentation of work during their curated month. Vision Residents are encouraged to invite other artists they feel inspired by, want