ALPERT AWARDS ANNOUNCED PERFORMERS, COMPOSERS ELIGIBLE FOR CASH PRIZES.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. and the Herb Alpert Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB Foundation have announced the recipients of this year's Alpert Awards in the Arts. The winners are interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco Coco Fusco (1960-) is an artist from New York City, United States. Her interdisciplinary written, performative and curatorial works emphasize the visual culture of identity and hybridity, and the tensions between images and expectations. ; dancer and choreographer Rennie Harris; pianist, composer and improviser Vijay Iyer; photographer and CalArts alumna Catherine Opie Catherine Opie (born 1961) is an North American artist specializing in the photography of transgendered people. Most recently, she has turned to photographing architectural spaces (skyways and urban spaces) as well as landscapes (icehouses and surfers in the ocean). ; and playwright, poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux. Established in 1994, the Alpert Awards in the Arts are five $50,000 fellowships presented each year to early mid-career artists in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and the visual arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → - disciplines that correspond to five of the six schools at CalArts. Each fellowship includes a week-long residency at CalArts. ``The financial support attached to the Alpert Award should be a big help in allowing these artists to advance their extraordinary creative work,'' said CalArts President Steven D. Lavine. ``We are eagerly looking forward to their residencies at CalArts. It will be a terrific stimulus for our arts community, which has always valued cross-pollination among the different arts.'' Fusco, winner in the film/video category, is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose activities range from creating performance and video works to writing and curating. Her latest projects focus on the social impact of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation on disenfranchised peoples. Dancer and choreographer Harris balances what he calls `'the truth of hip-hop'' against ``the formality of the theater stage.'' A self-taught dancer who used to perform as `'Prince of the Ghetto,'' Harris has opened for the likes of Grandmaster Flash Joseph "Biggie Grand" Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is a American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. and Run-DMC. Pianist, composer and improviser Iyer has been hailed as one of the most original jazz artists working today. Rooted in experimental jazz and, in particular, the percussive per·cus·sive adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by percussion. per·cus  sive·ly adv. school of jazz piano, the New
York-based virtuoso also calls on the musical traditions of South Asia,
Africa and Europe to create a distinctive blend of symbolically charged
improvisation, musical narrative and sonic exploration.
Photographer Opie has created a unique body of work since receiving a master's degree from the CalArts School of Art in 1988. Working predominantly with large-format cameras, the Los Angeles-based artist has trained her lens on master-planned communities, freeways and mini-malls, and members of the gay and lesbian community. The work of Brooklyn-based writer and performer Rux dismantles the boundaries between contemporary and classical theater, between theater and performance poetry, and between jazz, dance and literature. Rux draws on influences that extend from Greek mythology to modernist poetry and hip-hop, with musicality of language forming the basis of his aesthetic vision. |
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