Procession & Seduction | Biographies

Anita de la rosa de Berrizbeitia is an internationally recognized landscape theorist, teacher and author. She plays an integral role in the renewed visibility of landscape architecture as a cultural practice. In studying the many forms of hybridity involved in place making, her work fosters an understanding of historical antecedents as they influence contemporary practices. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture to study "The Ecology of Formal Systems in the Italian Landscape and Garden.” She is the editor of the forthcoming book Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes.

Dorothy Dunn is Director of Visitor Experience at the Philip Johnson Glass House. She designed the public tour experience as well as programs, strategic partnerships and products to position the Glass House as a catalyst for inspiration and innovation. She is project director for Glass House Conversations and the Glass House Oral History Project.

Dunn was the recipient of the inaugural Smithsonian Education Achievement Award in 2004 in recognition of her leadership as Education Director for Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. While at the Smithsonian, from 1989 through 2004, she envisioned and directed the signature programs A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging School and Community, Summer Design Institute, and Design Directions. She planned numerous international conferences, retreats and tours, including Icons of Modernism: LA and Palm Springs; Architecture of Landscape and Light; Designing for the Senses; and Craft and Design: Hand, Mind and the Creative Process. As Program Director for AIGA, the professional association for design, she repositioned the International Design Conference at Aspen, now the Aspen Design Summit.

RoseLee Goldberg founded PERFORMA in 2004, a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts organization for the research, development, and presentation of visual art performance. She launched New York’s first performance biennial, PERFORMA 05, offering a three-week program of live performances, exhibitions, installations, film screenings, and symposia by more than ninety international artists throughout New York City. PERFORMA 07 focused on the act of making rather than the act of consuming, asking more of both artists and audiences and delivering a series that “…presented art as a visceral experience to be absorbed with all five senses and carried away through memory and inspiration.”

Goldberg is an art historian, critic, curator and author whose book Performance Art from Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, pioneered the study of performance art. She was director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London and curator at The Kitchen in New York, where her innovative programming, including the creation of an exhibition space and performance series helped establish The Kitchen as one of the foremost multi-media institutions worldwide. There, she presented works by Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass, Peter Gordon, Meredith Monk, and Robert Wilson and curated the first solo exhibitions of Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, David Salle, and Cindy Sherman, among others.

In 1990, Goldberg organized Six Evenings of Performance as part of the acclaimed exhibition High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture at the Museum of Modern Art. Author of Performance: Live Art Since 1960 and Laurie Anderson, she is a frequent contributor to Artforum and other magazines. In 2001-02, Goldberg originated and produced Logic of Birds, a full length multimedia production by Iranian born artist Shirin Neshat in collaboration with singer Sussan Deyhim, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival.

Like a system of crop rotation, Fritz Haeg works between his architecture and design practice Fritz Haeg Studio (though the currently preferred clients are animals), the happenings and gatherings of Sundown Salon (now schoolhouse), the ecology initiatives of Gardenlab (including Edible Estates), and other various combinations of building, designing, gardening, exhibiting, dancing, organizing and talking. His most recent series of on-going projects Animal Estates, debuted at the 2008 Whitney Biennial with commissioned performances and installations in front of the museum. It is followed by six other editions in 2008, commissioned by museums and art institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His first book, Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, was published by Metropolis Books and distributed by D.A.P. in spring 2008. The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive will be released in 2009 by Evil Twin Publications. Haeg has produced projects and exhibited work at Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Casco Office of Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Mass MoCA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the MAK Center, Los Angeles, among other institutions.

Haeg studied architecture in Italy at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his B. Arch. He has variously taught in architecture, design, and fine art programs at CalArts, Art Center College of Design, Parsons, and the University of Southern California. In 2006 he initiated Sundown Schoolhouse, the self-organized educational environment originally based in his geodesic dome in Los Angeles. Now that he is often on the road for projects, exhibitions and talks, it continues as an itinerant companion to his various initiatives.

Christy MacLear is the Executive Director of the Philip Johnson Glass House. She was brought to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to develop the strategy, hire all staff and prepare the site and Visitor Center to open to the public in June 2007. With the goal to "reshape the historic house museum model", Christy and the staff team of the Glass House have sold out tours through 2009, completed a survey of 90+ modern homes in New Canaan, structured a "Center for Modernism" to co-lead the National Trust's investment in Modernist preservation, managed the NTHP board approval to purchase adjacent properties to preserve the Glass House view in perpetuity, and developed the "conversations" series to continue the legacy of new ideas through diverse leaders on-site.

Christy is known for her ability to conceive of and lead large scale projects through opening and on-going operations. She was the Manager of Strategy for the Walt Disney Company's new town project called Celebration, was the Director of the Museum Campus in Chicago where she represented 3 museum boards through the movement of Lake Shore Drive and the creation of a lakefront park, and was an independent consultant in Strategy & Visitor Experience to such clients as the Field Museum, the Cleveland Clinic and the leaders of the UAE. She has a degree in Urban Design from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton in Real Estate Finance where she received a Barnes fellowship. She has been a professor in the graduate program of Arts Administration for the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and has served on the boards of Chicago's Three Arts Club, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Steppingstones Museum for Children.

Juliette Mapp is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in New York City. She has danced for many choreographers, including John Jasperse (with whom she received a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for outstanding performance), Vicky Shick, Deborah Hay, Jennifer Monson, Irene Hultman, Neil Greenberg and Stephanie Skura. Mapp has taught and performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, South America and the United States. She is on the faculty of Movement Research at Judson Church and has taught at George Washington University, Hunter College and Fordham University. Her teaching is influenced by her study of Kinetic Awareness, Skinner Releasing, Body-Mind Centering and The Alexander Technique. Mapp’s own dances have been presented in NYC, including Danspace project, The Brooklyn Museum, Galapagos Arts Center, P.S. 122, Starr St. Productions, and Movement Research, as well as in Korea, Italy and Ireland. Last year, Mapp received her second “Bessie” for her evening-length piece Anna, Ikea, and I.

Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in New York. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. Miller's first collection of essays, Rhythm Science, was published by MIT Press in 2004. Sound Unbound, a collection of writing about sound art, digital media, and contemporary composition edited by Miller, was released by MIT Press in 2008. Miller's work as a media artist has appeared in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); The Venice Biennial of Art 2007 (Africa Pavilion), the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; and The Andy Warhol Museum.

Miller’s 2004 solo show at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, Path Is Prologue, echoed his live music/theater/film performance, DJ Spooky's Rebirth of A Nation, which ran simultaneously at the Lincoln Center Festival after premieres in Vienna and at Spoleto USA in Charleston, SC and continues to tour globally. Over the past year, Miller has worked with Robert Wilson, produced the first chapter of his installation piece Link City with students and faculty at the Art Institute of Chicago, and traveled to Antarctica to conduct research for his new, large-scale multimedia performance piece, Terra Nova: Sinfornia Antarctica.

Chef Nils Norén is the Vice President of Culinary Arts of The French Culinary Institute and The Italian Culinary Academy, both of which reside in New York City’s International Culinary Center. Chef Nils is the embodiment of the new international chef: disciplined in the classic sensibilities and driven by immense creativity.

Previously he served as Executive Chef for Aquavit. During his tenure there, Chef Nils helped to demonstrate to the world the fine tastes and techniques of Swedish cooking. Prior to joining Aquavit, Chef Nils worked in Stockholm as Executive Chef at Restaurant Riche, which features a fine dining room, tapas bar and bistro; and as Chef de Cuisine at Restaurant KB, one of the country’s classic Swedish restaurants in the center of town. a graduate of Culinary School in Gävle, Sweden, Chef Nils also coordinated cooking classes for Restaurant Akademin.

Alice Rawsthorn is the Design Critic of the International Herald Tribune. Her weekly Design column is syndicated to other newspapers and magazines worldwide. A prominent public speaker and broadcaster on design and contemporary culture, Rawsthron writes the Object Lesson column for the New York Times Magazine. She is a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and a member of the board of Arts Council England and of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council for Design. Rawsthorn was director of the Design Museum in London from 2001 to 2006.

An honorary senior fellow of the Royal College of Art, Rawsthorn has served on numerous arts juries including the Turner Prize for contemporary art, the Stirling Prize for architecture, the British Council's selection panel for the Venice Architecture Biennale, the PEN History Book Prize and the BAFTA film and television awards. She was chair of the British Council's Design Advisory Group, and a member of the Design Council's board. She has contributed essays to a number of books. She has also published an acclaimed biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and a monograph of the work of the designer Marc Newson.

Kevin Slavin is the Managing Director and co-founder of Area/Code. Founded in 2005, Area/Code creates cross-media games and entertainment for clients including Nokia, CBS, Disney Imagineering, MTV, Discovery Networks, A&E Networks, Nike, Puma, EA, the UK's Department for Transport, and Busch Entertainment.

Area/Code builds on the landscape of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment. They have built mobile games with invisible characters that move through real-world spaces, online games synchronized to live television broadcasts, and videogames in which virtual sharks are controlled by real-world sharks with GPS receivers stapled to their fins. Their Facebook game "Parking Wars" is on target to serve over 1.5 billion pages in 2008. Area/Code's work has received awards from the Clios, the One Club, Creativity, and many others, and the co-founders were recently named to the Creativity 50 and the Gamasutra 20.

Before founding Area/Code, Slavin spent over 12 years in ad agencies including DDB, TBWAChiatDay and SS+K, focused primarily on technology, networks, and community. His work has been recognized through many industry awards, press and exhibitions.

Chris Taylor is Director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech. Land Arts of the American West is an interdisciplinary field program expanding the definition of land art through direct experience with the full range of human interventions in the landscape, from the inscriptions of pictographs and petrogylphs to the construction of roads, dwellings, and monuments. Each year Land Arts travels more than 8,000 miles to live and work for over fifty days in the landscape while visiting sites such as Chaco Canyon and Roden Crater, the Grand Canyon and Double Negative, the Wendover Complex of the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Spiral Jetty, Marfa, and The Lightning Field.

Taylor teaches in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech. He has also taught within the interdisciplinary design program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and in architecture programs at the Universities of Arizona, North Dakota State, and Florida. He explores the interstitial forces creating landscape through his practice, the Architecture Workers Combine, which has built work in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Through his investment in the mechanics of construction and collaboration he has translated renga, an ancient form of Japanese communal poetry, into an operative model for building that pivots on excellence without requiring consensus.

Taylor studied architecture at the University of Florida and received his Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. In 1998 he was awarded the Steedman Traveling Fellowship by Washington University and spent a year in Venice Italy mapping the spatial character of the city’s relationship between water and sky.

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