| Sean Griffin | A native Los Angeles composer and director, Griffin’s performance and musical works are animated by dense rhythmic structuring and improvisation. They range from instrumental works to immersive operas, extended choral techniques, installation, rhythmic games and devised movement patterns. Griffin’s productions, recordings, performances, and designs have been featured at MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, RedCat, and LACMA.Photo: Sean Griffin, The Naming Scene from Act 2 of Sean Griffin’s production of George Lewis’s Afterword at the Jiří Myron Theatre, Ostrava Days, The Czech Republic, 2015. Photo by the artist. |
| Simon Leung | Leung was born in Hong Kong and raised both there and in California. Internationally, his work has been presented at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Guangzhou Triennial (2008). A Guggenheim Fellow, Leung’s projects in various media include an opera, a live/video performance, and a theater works project. He has been Professor of Art at UC Irvine since 2001.Photo: Simon Leung, Time Museum Time, 2010 |
| Susan Silton | Silton’s work has been exhibited/presented nationally and internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and the Hammer Museum. A Los Angeles artist, Silton’s work takes form in performative and participatory-based projects, photography, video, installation, text/audio works, and print-based projects.Photo: Susan Silton, A Sublime Madness in the Soul, 2015. Documentation still from opera sited on 6th Street Bridge, downtown Los Angeles. Composed by Juliana Snapper. Photo: Alex Brown |