CONSTANCE HOCKADAY & FAYE DRISCOLL

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Since we are stuck in our choices, this is how we are counting the things we have and what got us here. Tiny face performances. Cultivated daily and stored and cherished. A technified echo location between two people who are just meeting who had no idea they would someday be quarantined together making a video for 1000 years from now. 

Constance Hockaday is a queer Chilean-American from the US/Mexico Border. She is a director and visual artist who creates immersive social sculptures on urban waterways that confront issues surrounding public space, political voice, and belonging.  In 2001, she began  making work with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual wanderers who sailed around the world in handmade vessels.  She has collaborated with Swoon’s Swimming Cities projects, sailing floating sculptures along the Hudson, Mississippi, and the Adriatic Sea (2006-09). In 2011, she created the Boatel, a floating art hotel in NYC’s Far Rockaways made of refurbished salvaged boats-- an effort to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterfront. The project attracted 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us--as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.”  Hockaday holds and MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution.  Her work has been supported by Map Fund, YBCA, Mills College Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, The Untitled Art Fair, and Flux Factory. She is a Senior TED Fellow and an artist in residence at UCLA Center for the Art of Performance.  http://www.constancehockaday.com/

Born in Venice Beach, California Faye Driscoll is a NYC based Bessie Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” (Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times) and “a postmillenium postmodern wild woman” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice).  Her work has been presented nationally at Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, MCA Chicago and BAM/Brooklyn Academy of Music, and internationally at La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens and Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires. Her most recent performance, Space, was the final live work in her Thank You for Coming trilogy. Space is a moving requiem on art, the body, loss and human connectivity, and was celebrated as “an exhilaratingly personal culmination of the series” (Miram Felton-Dansky, Artforum).   Her first-ever solo museum exhibition, Come On In, opened at Walker Art Center in February offering gallery-goers an experience of six distinct audio-guided experiences called Guided Choreographies for the Living and The Dead.  Following covid-19 related closures, an online adaptation has been made available at walkerart.org.  When she isn’t making performance worlds of sensorial complexity in which viewers feel their own culpability as co-creators, she is choreographing for plays and films, including the Broadway production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, and Josephine Decker’s award-winning feature film Madeline’s Madeline. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a winner of the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award.  https://www.fayedriscoll.com/

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