Choreographer Leslie Cuyjet is in residence in the EMPAC Theater venue to refine theatrical elements for her solo performance, With Marion, originally commissioned by The Kitchen (NYC) for an open-plan loft space.
Main Image: Leslie Cuyjet, With Marion, The Kitchen, 2023. Courtesy of artist. Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk.
Experimental musicians and turntablists Victoria Shen and Mariam Rezaei are in residence in Studio 1—Goodman to rehearse and record new music developed over the last year, to debut in their April 2025 performance.
Main Image: Mariam Rezaei, Victoria Shen. Courtesy the artists and Météo Festival. Photo: Alicia Gardès.
In the EMPAC Concert Hall, renowned violinist and violist Marco Fusi records viola excerpts and pieces by composers Timothy McCormack, Pierluigi Billone, and others, to be published in a volume of contemporary viola and viola d'amore playing from Bärenreiter Verlag.
Main Image: Marco Fusi, Courtesy the artist. Photo: Alex Matthews.
Claudia Pagès is in residence in Studio 1—Goodman.
Main Image: Aljubs i Grups, 2024 Commssioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana and with the support of Ammodo and Index - The Swedish Contemporary ArtFoundation, with the collaboration of MACBA, IVAM, La Caldera and Hangar. Photo Pol Massip. Courtesy àngels barcelona.
P. Staff’s residency in Studio 1—Goodman asks how we record the excesses of a body. Working with a thermal camera, Lidar, and audio recording designed to capture the body’s sonic impact on a space’s acoustics, Staff generates video documentation organized on principles of scanning.
Main Image: P. Staff, In Ekstase, 2023, installation view, in: P. Staff, In Ekstase, Kunsthalle Basel, 2023, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
Being & Becoming, a quartet of creative improvisors featuring Peter Evans on trumpet, vibraphonist and synth player Joel Ross, bassist and bass synth player Nick Joz, and drummer Michael Shekwoaga Ode, are in residence in EMPAC Studio 2 writing and recording new music.
Main Image: Being & Becoming. Pictured (l-r): Michael Shekwoaga Ode, Peter Evans, Nick Joz, Joel Ross. Courtesy the artists.
Korakrit Arunanondchai, along with Alex Gvojic and Aaron David Ross, is in residence in Studio 1—Goodman to develop a live work of immersive cinema. The project involves the use of atmospherics, projection, and new footage and recordings from an in-progress film Arunanondchai has been developing around a decaying cinema in Thailand.
Main Image: Installation view of Korakrit Arunanondchai, Sing Dance Cry Breathe | as their world collides on to the screen, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, 2024. Courtesy of artist, Bangkok CityCity Gallery (Bangkok), Kukje Gallery (Seoul/Busan), Carlos/Ishikawa (London), and C L E A R I N G (New York/Los Angeles).
Jack Ferver and Jeremy Jacob are in residence in the EMPAC Theater to develop new material for the commissioned work My Town. Across two residencies, they develop scenography and lighting, and integrate Ferver’s choreography with projected video developed by Jacob. The residencies also support experimentation with the work’s dramaturgy.
Main Image: Performance photo of Jack Ferver in their work, IS GLOBAL WARMING CAMP, and other forms of theatrical distance for the end of the world. Mass MoCA, September 2022
In his residency in Studio 1—Goodman, DeForrest Brown Jr. tests and records material for a new album project Rhythmanalytics. Brown is developing virtual instruments and building out a sonic toolkit for the album. His process orients itself towards capturing sound’s motion within the studio, using the venue itself as part of his instrumentation.
Main Image: Deforrest Brown, 2022. Photo: EMPAC / Michael Valiquette.
During a residency in the EMPAC Theater, composer Natacha Diels and JACK Quartet create new video documentation for Diels’s multimedia work Beautiful Trouble (2024).
Main Image: Video still, Beautiful Trouble, 2024. Roulette Intermedium. Courtesy the artists.
Beautiful Trouble at Roulette in 2024.