Peachy the Magazine Summer 2016 | Page 45

ART + ARCHITECTURE to have such a caring and generous artist calling Los Angeles home. In addition to the $75,000 award, the chosen artists participate in a weeklong residency at CalArts, where they share their experiences with some of the brightest and most committed arts students in the country. During the course of the 22-year program, some notable recipients include: Ann Carlson—Dance (1995) Video excerpts from Doggie Hamlet. Dancer/choreographer/performance artist Carlson’s work has been seen in theaters, galleries and museums, as well as in hotels, swimming pools and landscapes throughout the US, Europe and Mexico. Her recent work, Doggie Hamlet, is a full-length outdoor performance spectacle that weaves dance, music, visual and theatrical elements with aspects from competitive sheep herding trials. Four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50 foot fenced field perform the work.  Paul Chan—Film/Video (2009) From a performance of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, November 2007. A multidisciplinary artist who is difficult to define, Chan’s work engages with fundamental themes including politics, poetry, war and death. His project Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, which took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, was an act of art defeating SUMMER 2016 43