Skin(s) Artists
CORE ARTISTS – SKIN(S)
ELIZABETH DAY (Skin Frequencies filmmaker)
HEID E. ERDRICH (Skin Frequencies filmmaker and text contributor) is a collaborative artist and the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Cell Traffic from University of Arizona Press. Her curatorial work includes over a dozen exhibits in Minnesota. Heid’s poem films have been selected for screening at festivals internationally including ImagineNative, Co-Kisser, Native Film Festival, Vision Maker, and at the Santa Fe Indian Market film festival, Class-X. Her collaborative poem videos have won a Judges Award, a Best of Fest, and a Best Experimental Short awards in 2014 and 2015. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches the MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.
VALERIE OLIVEIRO (Lighting design and production managment) was born in Singapore and lives in Minneapolis, MN. As of this writing she has just walked in from the outside and is sitting in the theater of Intermedia Arts. It had rained last night and the light from the outside is diffused, very very soft. Red vest, paper and fabric walls, white socks, orange. He/Him, She/Her introductions. This is a practice.
FRANÇOIS RICHOMME (composer) is a musician, sound engineer and sound designer trained in contemporary dance. He creates the scores of numerous world-class choreographic productions. His work investigates mainly the question of sound considered as a space, movements of sounds using multiple speakers installations and explores how the body, dance and choreography can become a source language defining musical structure in composition. Some of the choreographers Richomme has collaborated with include: Ann Lheureux, Fadhel Jaïbi, Christian Zagaria & Khalid Benghrib, Marc Vincent, Emmanuel Grivet, and Atamira Dance Company. Richomme has also danced with Mathilde Monnier (Sursaut) and Anna Halprin (Spirit of Place).
ROSY SIMAS (choreographer) is Seneca, Heron clan. Her choreographic work as Director of Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) investigates how culture, history and identity are stored in the body and expressed in movement. For more than 20 years she has created work dealing with a wide range of political, social and cultural subject matter from a Native feminist perspective. Simas is a McKnight, First Peoples Fund, Guggenheim, and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation fellow. Her current works are supported by NEFA National Dance Project, National Performance Network, MAP Fund, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her solo work We Wait In The Darkness won a 2014 Sage Design Award and a 2014 City Pages Artist of the Year citation.
PERFORMERS
MINNEAPOLIS – Intermedia Arts:
HOLO LUE CHOY
SHARON PICASSO
LELA PIERCE
ROSY SIMAS
TAJA WILL