E|MERGE

E|MERGE 2019

April 9 - April 20, 2019

official E|MERGE 2019 archive (please click & open new window)

The E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency is a two-week long creative residency at Earthdance. Curated participants from many different disciplines come together to explore new modes of creation and collective decision-making processes. 

Through structures that allow for risk-taking and alternate methods for creation, (horizontal organization, collective decision-making, cross-disciplinary collaboration, nonlinear process), E|MERGE provides a fertile space for pushing the boundaries of collaboration and leadership, undoing assumptions about creative processes, and exploring how creative practices transform our relationships.

Through the course of the residency, participants engage in one of the following ways:

Project Director: Lead collaborators in a proposed interdisciplinary project that would benefit from the collaborative influence of E|MERGE.

Collaborator: Be a dedicated collaborator in a project proposed by a Project Director. 

Collaborative Pool: Join a group that collectively decides project content, leadership structures, and modes of creation upon arrival or prior to the residency.

Free Agent: Dedicate time to your own individual project work as well as having the option to support other projects.

Something We Haven't Thought Of: Is there another way you can imagine interacting with this residency?

Participants share access to Earthdance's beautiful dance studios, alternate on-site locations for installations and performances, as well as engage with the extended hilltown creative community and over 125 acres of (snow-covered) meadow and forest. Participants stay in communal-style housing and work together to prepare meals and care for the space.

The residency culminates in a final weekend of performances, panel discussions, writing, research, and other modes of expression called E|MERGE Presents.

E|MERGE 2019 is produced by: Cory Neale & Y. E. Torres

Earthdance, in producing E|MERGE, recognizes that we, collectively and individually, exist within a society of interlocking forces of oppression: racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, settler privilege, and species privilege. These forces of oppression live inside of us. Thus, we strive to create spaces in which we can all bring awareness to the way they manifest in us and our creative work. By experimenting with the way these forces, and we ourselves, enter into our creative processes, we aim to move towards greater equity & liberation.

How can we bring attention and intention to: the positions of privilege and oppression we each inhabit; what voices & perspectives are valued, when and why; how power gets distributed within a group; and the implications of our creative process over a wide spectrum of cultures, histories, and experiences?

E|MERGE Presents
A weekend of public performances, talks, shared creative practices, and exhibitions featuring works developed through the E|MERGE: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency. During this culminating weekend, the entire Earthdance grounds - indoors and outdoors - are transformed into a spectacle of artistic works.

E|MERGE 2019 artistic residents

Dylan Bark
Mira Treatman
Oracle aka Chris Miller
Marina Shterenberg
Jodie Judy Lu YingChu
Caitlin Green
Armelle Devigon
Diana Yourke
Pablo Muñoz
Floor Grootenhuis

Collaborator & Producer: Cory Neale