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And the MacArthur Genius Award goes to.... Fecal Violence
2008-02-23 9:31AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
The Creative Capital deadline is coming up and more than a few artists have been asking me for help. You guys! I don't really know anything about grants. I just apply for a lot of them and some come back to me.
It's nice when people think you have the magic touch. But really, it's just perseverance. I've written many many many grants. And I get turned down for a lot. Grants are like auditions, except there is more logic in who gets them-- but like auditions, it's also random who gets them.
I think I'm losing it. I'm tired of the haul it takes to get work as an artist. (Have I not mentioned this a hundred thousand times?) I'm sitting on a grant panel in two weeks and am getting a nice stipend to sit on the panel. But then I got the grant binders from the foundation! Whoa! There are like over a hundred applications in a stack that's 8 inches thick! I have to read each and every page of this! Blech. My stipend is well earned.
Today the REDCAT Now Festival application was due. I started it late last night and decided to use it as an opportunity for creativity. I'm tired of trying to prove my post-post modernism and how I'll save the world in one fell performative swoop, I decided to enjoy writing every word of this application.
From now on, I'm writing grant applications that are fun to write and read!
Here's a sneak peak at choice bits and pieces from today's REDCAT proposal narrative for the presentation of my new work--- "CAT LADY!"
"'Cat Lady' is a 20 minute performance piece intersecting the personas and rituals of cat ladies and male pick-up artists to create surreal moments of human isolation."
"...cat sculptures that are spoken to throughout the piece like old familiar lovers."
"My first golden shower..."
"I frantically sniffed all the cushions in the house..."
"As I slowly forfeited to Oliver's fecal violence..."
"dangling hairy lymph nodes..."
"The cat lady. Was that mythical persona of the unmarried woman living in the lonely world of filthy catdom becoming my reality?"
"...an animal psychic who came well recommended by our lesbian friends."
"...my set as a menagerie of cat sculptures made of newspaper and felt..."
"...i speak to them, dance with them, and enact my own obsessive compulsive thoughts..."
"...life alone..."
"...attempt real connections with the audiences and my cats..."
"...concurrent to Oliver's urinary woes..."
"...struck by his boyish eagerness..."
"...post-modern gold..."
For all you artists who keep asking me to send copies of my proposal or grant applications to you, feel free to plagiarize all of the above!
THE END.
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The Great Purge: The 100 item challenge!
2008-11-24 9:23AM (4 個評論)
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Where the hell are you Kristina?
2008-11-23 2:21AM
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Yes, we did.
2008-11-06 2:27AM (2 個評論)
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And now.... The wait....
2008-11-05 12:34AM (3 個評論)
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It's like a test but there are no grades...
2008-11-04 3:27PM (1 個評論)
统计信息
- Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Described by the East Bay Express as "brutal but hilarious.....Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Described by the East Bay Express as "brutal but hilarious... a woman who takes life's absurdities very seriously," her body of performance work includes short and full-length solo performance works, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations, and plays and sketch comedy. She was awarded the Creative Capital Award in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to create her third full length solo show, "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" exploring the remarkably high incidence of mental illness among Asian American women in a world that’s more nuts than we are. Cuckoo's Nest has shown in dozens of cities in spaces that include the Kirk Theater in New York City, the Painted Bride in Phildaelphia, La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley and numerous universities around the country. Kristina was recently selected to write and perform in the 2008 CBS Multicultural Comedy Showcase. Her show "Free?" was also featured earlier this year at the South Beach Comedy Festival in Miami. She is also completing a novel started with the PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. She is also a freelance contributor to anthologies and magazines that include Playgirl Magazine. Her spoof mail order bride website is www.bigbadchinesemama.com.
Past Performance Highlights-- Partial list
South Beach Comedy Festival, Miami, FL
NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival at the Public Theater
Bay Area Hip Hop Theater Festival
Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
National Asian American Theater Festival, New York City
TeAda New Works Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Off-Centre, Austin, TX
Jumpstart Performance Company, San Antonio, TX
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Mark Taper Forum at the Ivy Substation, Los Angeles
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan State University, East Lansing
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
The Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, CA
University of Virginia at Charlottesville (ECAASU)
La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
Asia Society, San Francisco
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Single File Festival, Chicago, IL
DeAnza College Cupertino, CA
University of Florida, Gainesille
National Asian American Students Conference at USC, Los Angeles
The Fake Gallery, Hollywood
Wet Daddy Literary Festival, Altadena, CA
Split ID Space, Hollywood, CA
David Henry Hwang Theater, Los Angeles
University of Texas, Austin
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Wellesley College, MA
University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
DePaul University, Chicago
New Chinatown Barber Shop Gallery, Los Angeles
SOMARTS, San Francisco
UC San Diego
Guest Lectures/ Demonstrations/ Keynotes/ Panels
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michigan State University, East Lansing
University of Illinois, Chicago
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Mercy High School, San Francisco
St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
University of Southern California
California Polytechnic University, Pomona
San Francisco State University
Los Angeles City College; University of California, Irvine
University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
Wellesley College, MA
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
California State University, Northridge
University of California, Santa Barbara
Asia Society, San Francisco
SOMARTS, San Francisco
California State University, Fullerton
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Awards and Recognitions
Creative Capital Award in Theater
Creation Fund from the National Performance Network
NEA Grant- Artist in “Community Action Series” La Pena Cultural Center
DBD Scholarship, Rachel Rosenthal Company
American Delegate, Korea Multi-Cultural Leadership Program
Davis-Putter O'Connor Scholar Award
Durfee Artist Resource for Completion Grant
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Artist in Residence Grant
Rosenthal PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship
TeAda New Works Development Lab, Selected Core Artist
15 Minutes of Fem, Winner "Best of-- Night"
Poets and Writers' Grant
Visual Communications' "Armed with A Camera" Fellowship
Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theater Workshop Performance Commission
Guest-in-Residence, Unit One Allen Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
UCLA HOTHOUSE Program: A Residency for the Creation of New Work
East West Players Conservatory Scholarship
Finalist, San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards
Jean Irwin Dance Memorial Scholarship
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