Fellows in Residence
Spring 2025 (Group 2)
Dance
Sam Kim
Choreographer – United States
Sam Kim is an experimental choreographer, dancer and teacher who has been making and performing in dances for over two decades. She was born to Korean immigrants, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Sam has received multiple commissions from Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Zenon Dance Company, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Kitchen, PS122, New York Live Arts, Dance Theater Workshop and Highways Performance Space (LA), among many others, to make and present her body of work.
Sam looks forward to the premiere of her latest work, The Fall, at The Chocolate Factory Theater in fall 2025. Inspired by her recent works, Procession and Angle of Incidence, as well as American Ninja Warrior and The Olympics, The Fall will traffic in high-stakes athletic action and scrutiny to make visible the shape and force of human will.
Film/Video
Lynn Tomlinson
Director and animator, Associate Professor of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University – United States
Lynn Tomlinson is an internationally acclaimed animator based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her current work explores environmental themes, often imagining how non-human beings might view humanity's impact. Her films have screened at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery (USA), The Pompidou Center, and at international film festivals including Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival. She is Associate Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University (USA).
During her residency, Lynn Tomlinson will draw inspiration from the natural setting on the Italian coast to animate cyclical sequences for an ecological media artwork using colorful transforming visual imagery, music, and poetic lyrics. Animated cycles will create a musical canon-like composition of scenes that loop and build, imagining non-human perspectives, and evoking ecological empathy.
Humanities Scholarship
Carla Macchiavello
(Visual Arts Scholarship) – Associate Professor of Art History, Music and Art, CUNY – Chile/United States
Carla Macchiavello Cornejo is an art historian and educator whose research centers on Latin American contemporary art with a decolonial approach; networks of solidarity and resistance against fascist, patriarchal, and colonial systems of power; and creative practices and pedagogies aimed at social and environmental change. She is coeditor of the periodical Más allá del fin for the collective research practice Ensayos, and the books Turba Tol Hol-Hol and Dismantling the Nation. Contemporary Art in Chile.
Carla will be working on a monograph on the artistic production of Patricia Saavedra involving the defense of human rights during the military dictatorship in Chile and the creation of transnational networks of solidarity and environmental advocacy focused on Rapa Nui. She will be critically examining Saavedra’s work in tandem with the cultural revitalization movements of the island while reckoning with Chile’s fraught colonial history.
Landscape Architecture
Jeremy Mende
Designer and artist, Professor of Design at California College of the Arts – United States
Jeremy Mende is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in San Francisco. His work involves creating mirroring experiences: self-reflective events that focus attention on our individual responsibility for a collective world. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several permanent collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jeremy is a Professor of Design at California College of the Arts.
At Bogliasco, Jeremy will be developing a series of sculptures that will mark the pathway to an earthwork he is building in California. These sculptures will function as experiential ‘sign posts’ to focus visitors’ attention on three key aspects of the larger earthwork: 1) the visitors’ relative scale against the horizon, (2) their sense of immersion within the natural landscape, and (3) their awareness of being in the moment of self-perception.
Literature
Carine Doumit
Independent film editor and writer – Lebanon
Carine Doumit writes and edits films and video installations. She also writes short texts and short stories in French, Arabic, and English. Through these intertwined practices and the back and forth between languages, she explores ways to produce multiple voices within a textual, sonic or visual object, as well as the potential of a polyphonic apparatus to blur the frontiers between the real and the imagined. She is a member of The Camelia Committee - مجموعة في الكاميليا, a collective that explores the shape-shifting relations between image, text, voice and sound, through writing, filmmaking and film programming.
THE STORY OF MAß [THE 476 YEAR OLD CHILD] is the second chapter from the BOOK OF CHILDREN project. Maß is the daughter of Liwaa, a poet, playwright, and a dear friend of the author. One day, Doumit finds in a painting at the Pinacotheque de Brera the exact double of Maß. This triggers a series of speculations about both children, the one inside and the one outside the painting, and an epistolary exchange with Liwaa in search for the meaning behind this extraordinary finding.
Music
Daron Hagen
Composer / Filmmaker / Author – Founding Director of the New Mercury Collective – United States
Hagen’s debut in 1983 as the youngest composer ever premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra launched an international polymathic creative life as a celebrated composer, pianist, conductor, college professor, concert impresario, festival artistic director, foundation president, stage director and auteur operafilm-maker — all recounted in vivid detail in the 2019 “ruthlessly honest and beautifully written” memoir, Duet with the Past.
Hagen will be film-editing I Hear America Singing, the final installment in The Bardo Trilogy, a sequence of composer conceived, written, directed, and edited opera-films that include Orson Rehearsed (2018) and 9/10: Love Before the Fall (2023) devoted to the exploration of the liminal zone between life and art, and life and what comes after. He will also be working on a collection of first-person essays about the nascent opera-film genre, which will also include his libretti and screenplays.
Theater
Laura Sicignano
Writer and theater director – Italy
A writer and theater director, Laura Sicignano graduated with honors in Theater History from the Catholic University in Milan. In 1994, she founded the Teatro Cargo company, recognized by the Ministry of Culture from 1999 to 2017. From 2018 to 2022 she was Director of Teatro Stabile di Catania. She is currently consultant for Teatro Nazionale di Genova. She has received awards in Italy and abroad for her directing and dramaturgy. Her work addresses themes of History and Memory, Women's history, forgotten and defeated heroes, and journeys through space and time.
Running Women, a play written and directed by Laura Sicignano, will be produced by the National Theater of Genoa in late 2025. Running to achieve a goal. Running as an escape. Women’s movements allow a different point of view on reality. Is a dialogue between women from different cultures possible? Also starting from the intersection of different feminist thoughts, the theater experiments with a new idea of self and the world.
Visual Arts
Katharina Gruzei
Visual artist – Austria
Katharina Gruzei, born in 1983 in Klagenfurt, lives and works in Vienna and Linz, Austria. As an independent artist, she works in the media of photography, video, film, sound and installation. In her work, Katharina traces societal tendencies and addresses socio-cultural issues that range from gender-related topics to questions arising in urban surroundings. Another focus is feminist topics and her work in public space, which she mostly implements site-specifically.
Echoes of the Deep is a multimedia exploration of underwater ecosystems, intertwining visual and auditory elements to evoke its current metamorphosis through climate change. The project delves into ecological challenges while highlighting the ocean's historical significance in regard to wars and the conservation or containment of wrecks. The resulting video aims to spark conversations about humanity's profound impact on the ecological balance of our maritime world.