Performance
Sara O'Keefe
(from
Auk Theatre)
Stephanie Barber
Clarina Bezzola
Wendell Cooper &
Mathew Heggem
R. Erica Doyle &
Torkwase Dyson
clyde forth
Mark Greenwood
The Institute for
Infinitely Small Things
The Kingpins
Metalux
Occasional Detroit
Ric Royer
Film & Video
Nancy Andrews
Martha Colburn
Jennie Livingston
Karen Yasinsky
Joanna Raczynska
Festival MCs
Kristen Anchor &
Rahne Alexander
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>>> R. Erica Doyle & Torkwase Dyson
 R.
Erica Doyle is a writer and teacher of Trinidadian descent
who was born in Brooklyn, New York. She has published work in
various journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry
2001, Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam Anthology, Role Call:
An Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art,
and Gumbo: Fiction by Black Writers, Callaloo and Ploughshares.
This summer she will be appearing at the Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta and the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica,
WI.
Torkwase Dyson is a painter and digital media artist based in
Brooklyn, New York. Her work in media performance spans a variety
of subjects such as gender identity, crud futurism and memory.
Her most recent work “its about small things” is a
multi-screen, performance installation comprised of three speculative
narratives engaging politics of queer identity, violence and media
representations of cultural gender norms. She has presented her
performances nationally and internationally. Most notably she
returns yearly to Taller Portobelo in Portobelo, Panama as a media
and performance artists and curator. She has recently mounted
a solo exhibit in Atlanta, GA and is an invited guest performer
at Columbia Universities African American Studies Institute, spring
2006. 
Torkwase earned her MFA from Yale University in 2003 and
is currently a guest lectures at Spelman College in Atlanta. She
is the recipient of the Berry Cohen Scholarship award for artists
working in New York and the Paul Harper Residency at Vermont Studio
Center Prize, given for excellence in painting. Her most recent
nominations include the 2005 Louis T. Comfort Tiffany Biennial
and the 2005 Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Art Fellowship. |
