Commissions
A main focus of the EMPAC program is the development and production of new works in the performing and media arts. EMPAC commissions projects that span all domains of time-based arts, including music/sound, dance, theater, time-based visual art, and moving image. These projects optimally utilize the EMPAC media infrastructure to pursue new ideas at the intersection of technology, media, and the performing and visual arts. Some commissions are site-specific to EMPAC and find their premiere here, while others, especially co-commissions with outside institutions, are developed for presentation at other national and international venues.
2018
- ELENA DEMYANENKO and ERIKA MIJLIN / echo/archive
- MARIA HASSABI (Cyprus) / SlowMeDown
- MOVED BY THE MOTION / Sudden Rise
- YARA TRAVIESO / Sagittarius A.
2017
- MARY ARMENTROUT / Listening Creates an Opening
- Boudry/Lorenz / Telepathic Improvisation
- Enno Poppe, Yarn/Wire / Feld
- Laure Prouvost, Sam Belinfante, and Pierre Droulers / They are Waiting for You
- Andrew Schneider / AFTER
- Martine Syms / An Evening with Queen White
2016
- Martine Syms / An Evening with Queen White
- Patricia L Boyd / Operator
- Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener / Tesseract
2015
- Tarek Atoui / WITHIN
- Rosa Barba / White Museum
- Mark Fell / Recursive Frame Analysis
- Ant Hampton / The Extra People
- Tim Hecker, MFO / Love Streams
- France Jobin / 4.35 - RO - 413
- Lucy Raven / Tales of Love and Fear
2014
- Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener / Tesseract
- Seline Baumgartner / Nothing Else
- Rosa Barba / The Color Out of Space
- DD Dorvillier / Extra Shapes
- Alan Franco, Jörg Laue, Peter Stamer / 26 Letters to Deleuze
- Sabisha Friedberg / Strange Cloak--Sub-Flight Infinity
- Stavros Gasparatos / Expanded Piano
- Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon / Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon
- Germaine Kruip / A Possibility of an Abstraction
- Thomas Keenan / New Media, New Documents: On Images, Examples, and Evidence
- Aaron Landsman, Brent Green, Jim Findlay / Empathy School
- Sara Magenheimer, Michael Bell-Smith, Ben Vida / Bloopers #1
- Anthony Marcellini / Obsolescere: The Thing is Falling
- Isabelle Pauwels / ,000,
- Orit Ben-Shitrit / Ward of the Feral Horses
- Eve Sussman + Simon Lee / No food No money No jewels
- Temporary Distortion / My Voice Has An Echo In It
- Erika Vogt / The Artist Theater Program
2013
- Manuella Blackburn / Time Will Tell
- Ewa Borysiewicz / How a Sausage Dog Works
- Patricia L. Boyd / Carl dis/assembling w/ self
- Petra Cortright / Bridal Shower
- chameckilerner / Eskasizer & Samba #2
- Ellie Ga / Eureka, a lighthouse play
- Peter Gidal / CODA I + CODA II
- Dana Gingras / Chainreaction
- Gordon Hall / “Read me that part a-gain, where i disin-herit everybody”
- Ursula Heise / The Beautiful Violent Futures of J.G. Ballard
- Marianne Kim / Lost & Found
- Randy Martin / Dance and Finance — Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics
- Melvin Moti / The Vision Machine
- Flip Phillips / Deconstructing Perception
- Lucy Raven / Tales of Love and Fear
- Oraib Toukan, Ala Younis / From the impossibility of one page being like the other
- Erika Vogt / Darker Imposter
- Jeremy Xido / CABULA6 / The Angola Project
2012
- Thom Kubli / Black Hole Horizon
- Kurt Hentschläger / CLUSTER
- Kota Yamazaki / fluid hug hug: (glowing)
- Ralph Lemon / Four Walls
- Jennifer + Kevin McCoy / Index
- Nora Chipaumire / Miriam
- Dimitris Papaioannou / Primal Matter
- Ryan + Trevor Oakes / The Periphery of Perception
- Wally Cardona / TOOL IS LOOT
- Jem Cohen / We Have An Anchor
2011
- Phantom Limb / 69°S.
- Sarah Michelson, Joanna Quinn, Pete Drungle / Devotion Study #2
- Poor Dog Group / Dionysia
- Francis Farewell Starlight / Francis and the Lights
- Francisco López / Hyper-Rainforest
- Colin Gee, Erin Gee / In the First Place...
- Cayetana Vidal, Sofia Mazza / TAO
- Japanther / The Cake of the 3 Towers
2010
- Marites Carino / Hoop
- Alison Crocetta / A Circus of One
- Trouble / A Narrow Vehicle
- Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera / Abacus
- Wingspace Theatrical Design / Act Curtain
- Hans Tutschku / agitated slowness
- Miro Dance Theatre / Already Seen
- Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle / Amazingland in Troy EMagicPac
- Nuria Fragoso / Anatomy of Melancholy
- Jen DeNike / Another Circle
- Sean Griffin / Cold Spring
- Danièle Wilmouth / Fanfare for Marching Band
- Paulo Fernandez / Fauna
- Marie Sester / Fear
- Thom Kubli / FLOAT!: Think Tank 21
- Francisco Lopez / Hyper Rainforest
- Wally Cardona / Intervention #2
- Volkmar Klien / Kristallgatsch/Strahlung
- Chris Doyle / Method Air
- Kasumi / MO-SO
- Paul Abacus / Paul Abacus
- Rajendra Serber / Quince Missing
- Michael Schumacher / Room Pieces Troy 2010
- SUE-C, Laetitia Sonami / Sheepspace
- Pooh Kaye / Spring Cleaning
- Valeria Valenzuela / The closer one gets, the less one sees
- NTUSA / The Golden Veil: A Cautionary Entertainment
- OpenEnded Group / Upending
- MTAA / You Don't Know What You're Talking About
- Chris Doyle / Your Love Keeps Lifting Me
2009
- Sophie Kahn, Lisa Parra / Body/Traces
- Patrick Daughters / Eyes Nose Mouth
- Roberta Marques / Looking Forward-Man and Woman
- Kriota Willberg / Sunscreen Serenade
- Mads Lynnerup / Take a Day for Yourself
- Steven Connor / The Chronopher
- Cathy Weis / The Sea Around Us or A Muse, Me Pisces & The Bottom Fell out of the Tub
- Workspace Unlimited / They Watch
2008
- Joby Emmons / Kino-Eye
- Jennifer Tipton / Light Above the Hudson
- Alla Kovgan, David Hinton / Nora
- David Farias, Carla Schillagi, Maria Vallejos / PH Propiedad Horizontal
- The Wooster Group / THERE IS STILL TIME..BROTHER
- Margaret Williams / Veterans
2007
- The Light Surgeons / True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore
2005
- Benton-C Bainbridge, Ethel, Pierre-Alain Hubert, Flyaway Projections, Stephan Moore / EMPAC 360: On Site + Sound
Main Image: Charles Atlas' Tesseract.