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Faye Driscoll. Photo: ONEEVERYONE • Ann Hamilton The 2017-19 PeARL residency artist will be Faye Driscoll, a recipient of a 2016 Doris Duke Award. An artist whose notion of a show is "perceptual disorientation," she challenges her audience to accept the normality of blatant abnormality. Her newest work is the third segment of her "Thank You for Coming" trilogy, which includes "Play" (2016) and "Attendance" (2014), in which Driscoll considers multidisciplinary performance as a political act shared by performer and viewer, who co-create reality. Presenters must lean into gender inequity with a cultural call to arms and underwrite the brilliant individuals who imagine what performance will be before we see it ourselves. How thrilling to set in motion a new work that will find momentum through sustained interaction of artists, students and audiences … a perfect project for PeARL! Amy Beth Kirsten and Mark DeChiazza in rehearsal for "Quixote." Photo: Gennadi Novash "Without the physical space, support, infrastructure and especially the extended development time frame that the PeAR L residency afforded us, this adventure would not have been possible."—COMPOSER AMY BETH KIRSTEN FAYE DRISCOLL is a Bessie Award-winning performance maker who has been called a "startlingly original talent" by The New York Times. "Thank You for Coming" is the umbrella title for a series of works that Driscoll began creating in 2012 that will culminate in 2020. Each distinct work in the series desires to extend the sphere of influence of performance to create a communal space where the co-emergent social moment is questioned, heightened and palpable. Driscoll's work has been presented at venues such as the Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, Wesleyan University, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, American Dance Festival and many major international venues. Her work was exhibited in "Younger Than Jesus" at the New Museum and included in NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, the first biennial at the Museum of Arts and Design. Driscoll has collaborated with theater and performance artists such as Young Jean Lee, Cynthia Hopkins, Taylor Mac, Jennifer Miller and the National Theater of the United States of America. She recently choreographed for a new film by Josephine Decker. Driscoll has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital award, a NEFA National Dance Project, Production Residencies for Dance Grant, a French-U.S. Exchange in Dance Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant. She has also been funded by the MAP Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Greenwall Foundation and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is a grateful recipient of a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award and a 2016 USA Doris Duke Fellowship. CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT 43 Announcing the next artist in residence Faye Driscoll Photo: ONEEVERYONE • Ann Hamilton

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