Jamison
Edgar is a
queer southerner working between Los Angeles and Atlanta. Their work entangles
painterly abstraction, devised performance, video installation, and creative
nonfiction to share stories of flourishing, joy, and exuberance within the US
American south and beyond. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (MFA) and
The University of Georgia (BFA), Jamison is often covered in glitter, and they
collaborate with filmmakers, historians, archivists, data scientists, and
performance makers to abstract historical records and sculpt cultural memories.
They have shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States as
well as London, Berlin, Singapore, and Budapest. They have been invited to
participate in the Pilotenkueche International Arts Program (Leipzig, Germany),
and the D’Clinic Residency (Budapest, Hungary) and are the recipient of the
Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier, The Carnegie Mellon
Interdisciplinary Project Grant, and the New Works Artist Fellowship at the
Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh). Their writing has been published by the Miller Institute for
Contemporary Art and Contemporary
Performance, and they are currently writing a counter history of Bermuda grass
that will be part of the Estonian pavilion at the The
59th Venice Biennale.
Wesleigh
Gates (they/them) is a
performance maker, writer, and researcher based in Los Angeles. In
performance, they deploy queer, choreographic, and participatory strategies to
create structures of connection and care that imagine and realize collective
spaces. As a researcher, they attend to the embodied experience of
navigating urban space, investigating the everyday choreographies imposed by
state and corporate power, as well as counter-choreographies of resistance
created by artists and activists. Wesleigh’s work as a creator and director has
been seen in New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, and Prague, and has
been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Frank-Ratchye
Fund for Art at the Frontier. They have been published by Gulf Coast Journal,
PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, and Contemporary Performance,
and were writer-in-residence at the 2019 zürich moves! festival. Wesleigh holds
an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently a PhD
student in Culture and Performance at UCLA.
