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Principal Investigators: Irvin Manuel Gonzalez (Dance) • Alfonso Cervera (Dance) 

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Principal Investigators: Michelle Franco (Knowlton School of Architecture) • Erica Levin (History of Art)

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Principal Investigators: Amy Youngs (Art) • Emma Kline (Art and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology) • Doo-Sung Yoo (Art)

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Principal Investigators: Joni Boyd Acuff (AAEP) • Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Dance)

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Principal Investigators: Illya Mousavijad (Art) • Jeremy Patterson (ACCAD)

La Sape: Transgression or Assimilation
Principal Investigators: Kathryn Logan (Dance) • Momar Ndiaye (Dance)

Micro-Residency Program
Principal Investigators: Tanya Berger-Wolf (TDAI) • Kelly Kivland (Wexner Center for the Arts) • Kris Paulsen (History of Art) • Amy Youngs (Art) 

Monuments of Scioto Valley
Principal Investigators: Beth Blostein (Architecture) • Jacob Boswell (Architecture) • John Low (Comparative Studies) • Bart Overly (Architecture) • Justin Parscher (Architecture)

Exhibition and Education Lab at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art
Principal Investigator: Kris Paulsen (History of Art)

Into the Void
Project Description: Through partnership with a local Columbus orchestra, Ohio State student musicians, and the McConnell Arts Center in Worthington, Tom Dugdale (Department of Theatre), Paul Sutter (Department of Astronomy), and local composer, Jacob Reed, will create a new interdisciplinary journey into that most enigmatic of astronomical phenomena: black holes. Into the Void will combine astronomy, orchestral music, and elements of theatrical design in a performance that is educational and artistically compelling. Imagine the kind of presentation you and your children might have seen before in a science museum, but with the dramatic arc of a play and the emotional weight of a symphony. The interdisciplinary nature of the performance will embody the shared roles art and science play in how we understand the universe and our place within it.

Principal Investigators: Tom Dugdale (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Paul Sutter (Columbus-based Composer)

#MentalHealthDance2U
Project Description: This project will create cross-disciplinary community dialogue of the interconnectedness of mental illness and dance utilizing American-Jewish choreographer Anna Sokolow’s masterwork Rooms as a platform for campus-wide discussion about mental health. We will collaborate with students to reconstruct sections of Rooms, one of the iconic modern dance works of the 20th century. The sections entitled “Alone,” “Escape,” “Desire,“Panic,” “DayDream,” and “The End?” emulate, through movement, the often first signs of mental illness: personality changes, agitation, withdrawn behavior, poor self-care, and hopelessness.

Principal  Investigators
Nena Couch (Thompson Library Special Collections) • Valarie Williams (Dance)

Executive Sponsors
Damon Jaggars (Vice Provost and Director University Libraries) • Bernadette Melnyk (Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Dean and Professor College of Nursing)

Internationally-Recognized Visiting Artists
Lorry May • Kirsten McKinney (Anna Sokolow Dance Foundation)

Performing Afghanistan
Project Description: Afghanistan stands at a critical juncture. For the first time in the 18-year American-led war, real prospects exist for a peace deal. The U.S. and (separately) Russia are openly negotiating with the Taliban, trying to chart a possible end to the war. This project offers an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and the Columbus community to engage with one of the most critical issues of our time--women’s voices and the refugee crisis--through witnessing a range of performance events grounded in Afghan experience. This will create a unique learning opportunity that will be maximized by faculty in a number of departments.  Other featured artistic practices --photography and film --provide a sense of the layered, nuanced ways one can view and come to understand other cultures. While wars do not define Afghanistan, they are critical for understanding the country today, and for connecting to Afghan history.  The art events that inform this project explore these experiences through theatre making: scripted plays and immersive theatre. The Middle East Studies Center will interpret plays for students and the public by hosting discussions on politics, culture, and global issues related to war. 

Principal Investigators
Lesley Ferris (Theatre) • Kevin McClatchy (Theatre) • Janet Parrott (Theatre) • Alam Payind (Middle East Studies Center)

Principal Investigators: Leslie Ferris (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Kevin McClatchy (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Janet Parrott (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) • Alam Payind (Theatre, Film and Media Arts)

Weather Reports You
Principal Investigators: Daniel Roberts (History) • Jeanine Thompson (Theatre, Film and Media Arts) 

The Woods 
Project Description: The Woods’ is a mixed-reality, interactive installation that will address the perils of social isolation by promoting connections between people and actively engaging them through play. The narrative of ‘The Woods’ revolves around an elderly grandmother reaching out to her teenage grandchild through a telephone call. Together, the digital migrant and the digital native struggle to maintain their relationship which is crippled by the same technology designed to enable it. Using augmented reality (AR) apps and smartphones, players are joined by a virtual tether that visually connects their phones to one another, and serves as a metaphor of their own connectedness and to encourage collaboration. Throughout the experience, players are tasked with supporting the verbal exchange between the grandmother and grandchild while also avoiding distractions that are intended to sever the bond between them. The game culminates in a successful completion of the telephone call. By prompting an examination of human connectivity through the lens of contemporary technology, our artwork aligns with Global Arts and Humanities focus areas Livability and Community.

Principal Investigator
Kyoung Lee Swearingen (Design)

Collaborators
Marc Ainger (Music) • Scott Swearingen (Design) • Rosalie Yu (Columbia University) • Skylar Wurster (Undergraduate Student Researcher, Engineering)