In October 2019 we received generous funding from The Studio for Creative Inquiry’s Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier — an endowment to encourage the creation of innovative artworks by the faculty, staff and students of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The goal of this fund is for the STUDIO to develop a cache of groundbreaking projects created at CMU, works that can be described as "thinking at the edges" of the intersection of disciplines.
After receiving funding, in November 2019, we were artists-in-residence with the STUDIO working on our upcoming project TRANSMISSION scheduled to debut at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) in May 2020.
TRANSMISSION is a project committed to interrogating, challenging, and works to dismantle systemic racism, sexism and heteropatriarchy in America. For this performance in relationship with CMU and KST, we will create actions that honor those impacted by the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting and the senseless murder of black people at the hands of police in Pittsburgh, including Antwon Rose II. We will work with environmentalists and Water Protectors to learn more about the confluence of Pittsburgh's rivers — Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio – waters that have brought people together for centuries. Landscape of the city is vital to our work. We always endeavor to bring the outside in and center our work in the place where it will live.