Big Congratulations to Grisha Coleman, Professor in Art + Design / Theater, for receiving a Performing Arts Technologies Lab Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation for her project The Movement Undercommons: Technology as Resistance | Future Archives!

The Doris Duke Foundation announced the 20 pioneering artists, technologists, and arts organizations that will receive grants through the inaugural Performing Arts Technologies Lab, a first-of-its-kind accelerator for projects seeking to explore innovative uses of digital technology in the performing arts. The Movement Undercommons: Technology as Resistance | Future Archives brings custom built, mobile, motion capture technology out of the lab and into the field to look at choreographies of labor. By centering vernacular movement, this project raises questions, which ways of life are “carried along” through expressions of the body. Which vernaculars persist? Which are vanishing?

“These aren’t just technology projects. They are ambitious proposals to radically innovate in the performing arts—how they are made, how we experience them and who they are for,” said Sam Gill, president and CEO of the Doris Duke Foundation.