Returning Choreographic Fellow | August 27 - September 1
Archive Residency
Returning Choreographic Fellow Miguel Gutierrez came to MANCC as MANCC’s third Archive Residency Fellow in September 2023 and will be returning in Fall 2024 with his performance collaborators for the second of his two residencies as a Fellow. A pilot and singular initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation, this program offers artists who have accumulated considerable creative process documentation in the MANCC archives, through multiple residencies, the opportunity to work with these materials in ways they deem most useful for their current creative practice.
During Gutierrez’s two MANCC archive residencies, he and his collaborators are examining questions of archive, memory, and how context moves us into relation with ourselves and each other. How does the present re-shape our view of the past? How does the past tell us something about how bodies are changing? By toggling the lens of attention between the past and the present, this project serves as a form of research for Gutierrez into how both our perception of being together and our understanding of what bodies/people are and do is profoundly changing.
Kristen Juarez, an archivist and senior research specialist for the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute joined Gutierrez remotely in his first archive residency in Fall 2023 to review footage and images from his five MANCC residencies between 2006 – 2015 (each supporting the development of new work, four works in total). This work helped seed the planning for his second residency in Fall 2024 for Untitled, his new project. Untitled will engage performers from New York and Los Angeles - Justin Faircloth (NYC), Wendell Gray (NYC), Ajani Brannum (LA) and Evelyn Sanchez (LA) - in such questions that explore how the dynamics of previous processes appear with today’s lens, shaped as it is by current concerns of racial justice, climate crisis, and political division.