2024 ARTISTS
Our team of artists come from across North Carolina from Asheville, to Winston Salem to Wilmington, NC. They will create a multi-sensory experience that uses the mediums of light, sound and movement to explore our relationships with our aquatic ecosystems.
Janice Lancaster
Dance / Movement
Janice Lancaster is a dancer, choreographer, educator and advocate. Her projects are a nexus for collaboration, research, and the generation of work that expands how and where dance is shared. She is inspired by dance’s power to both commune with the unknown and serve as a cultural artifact revealing performative perceptual modes. She has received commissions through Hubbard St. 2, VIA Dance Collaborative, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Bard Music Festival, Bessie Schönberg Choreographer’s Residency on the Yard, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Moog Music, and The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
Kimathi Moore
Sound
Kimathi Moore (Kima) was born in Paris, France in the 14th Arrondissement (District) to a family of writers and teachers. Although Kima went to music school for a rather small period in his life, his inclination to understand music and experiment with sound, texture remained constant. Later on, Kima ended up learning percussion professionally and has since returned to his primary love; electronics, computer technology, field recordings and found sound manipulation.
Gene A. Felice II
Light / Projection
Gene A. Felice II is an assistant professor in Digital Art within the department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He bridges his creative practice across art, science, education and design, developing a sustainable network of innovation, living systems, and emerging technologies. His hybrid practice grows at the intersection of nature and technology, developing coactive systems as arts science research/ His work has been featured nationally at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, internationally at Sussex University in the UK, at ISEA Hong Kong, and a 2018 American Arts Incubator/State Dept. funded exchange artist based in Alexandria Egypt.
Jeremy Roberts
Light / Projection
Jeremy Roberts Jeremy Roberts is a digital arts instructor at University of North Carolina Wilmington and at the University of South Alabama. A digital media specialist with experience in interactive live media and 2D/3D animation. He bases his research on time-based projects that concentrate on storytelling through hybrid reality environments and new technology including creative coding. His works in hybrid reality studies have been featured nationally at sound and rhetoric writing seminars in Nashville and Raleigh and recently his animated visuals have been featured internationally at the Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland for the Winter Lights Festival with his work with the Swedish artist team N.A.V.A.
Nicole dextras
Installation / Textiles / Film
Nicole Dextras is an award-winning environmental artist working in a multitude of media, having created art installations in Spain, Mongolia, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Dawson City-Yukon, Seattle-WA, Portland- OR, Albuquerque-NM and Fullerton-CA. She is also a graduate of the Emily Carr University of Art in Vancouver, BC Canada, where she was a sessional teacher from 2003 to 2013.
Karola Lüttringhaus
Dance / Movement
Karola Lüttringhaus, aka Alban Elved, was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany. They received a BFA in Choreography and Modern Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MFA (equivalent) in Scenic Design and Scenography from the Technische Universität Berlin. Karola earned an MA in Performance Studies from the University of California at Davis, where they are currently a PhD Candidate, researching meaning-making in choreography.
Maurice Moore
Drawing / Painting
Dr. Maurice Moore is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. They received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Performance Studies from the University of California-Davis, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Published by Versal Journal, and winner of their 2022 Amsterdam Open Book Prize, Maurice Moore’s newest book, Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol 1, is a text composed of visual poems that explore various types of queer mark-making.
GRANT STEWART
Sound
Grant Stewart is the creative mind behind the name subterrene. As subterrene, Grant Stewart meshes melodic drones with their own broken counterparts to realize textural soundscapes. Stewart has been a contributor to several experimental projects and is currently half of Clouds Without Water, with Angela Winter. Asked to describe his process, he responds that he “is fascinated by the intersection of noise and melody, where the sounds blend to become something else.” In his search for this hybridization, subterrene often evokes weightless spaces, or wavering visions, through a deft navigation of sound.
Chelsea Loew
Chelsea Loew is a composer, performer, and educator whose interests are rooted in emotion, vulnerability, humanity, nature, and interaction. Her compositions often explore the relationships (constructive and damaging) between language and intended expression. She has worked with groups and artists including Chór Narodowy Forum Muzyki, Yarn|Wire , Charleston Symphony Orchestra, members of Talea Ensemble, Popebama, Altered Sound Duo, Siroko Duo, Tony Arnold, and others.