2012 VISITING SCHOLARS

TBA

TEACHERS

Matthew Goulish co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and Every house has a door in 2008. His 39 Microlectures in proximity of performance was published by Routledge in 2000, and Small Acts of Repair - Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, which he co-edited with Stephen Bottoms, in 2007. He was awarded USA Ziporyn United States Artist Fellowship in Dance, 2009. He was also awarded a Lannan Foundation Writers Residency in 2004, and in 2007 he received an honorary Ph.D. from Dartington College of Arts, University of Plymouth. Goulish is Provocations editor for The Drama Review, and he teaches in the MFA and BFA Writing Programs of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lin Hixson co-founded Goat Island in 1987, and Every house has a door in 2008. She is full Professor of Performance at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded USA Ziporyn United States Artist Fellowship in Dance, 2009 and received an honorary doctorate from Dartington College in 2007. Goat Island created nine performance works and toured extensively in the US, England, Scotland, Wales, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, and Canada. Her writing on directing and performance has been published in the journals P-Form, TDR, Frakcija, Performance Research, Women and Performance, and Whitewalls; and included in the anthologies Small Acts of Repair � Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, LiveArt and Performance, Theatre in Crisis?, and the textbook Place and Placelessness in Performance. Hixson has directed two films, Daynightly They re-school you The Bears-Polka and It's Aching Like Birds, in collaboration with the artist Lucy Cash and Goat Island.

Mark Jeffery (B. 1973 Doveridge, UK) Performance / Installation Artist was a member of Goat Island Performance Group from 1996 - 2009. He created and performed in 5 of Goat Island's works, touring extensively across North America and Europe, and teaching a summer performance institute at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Goat Island completed touring its last performance work, The Lastmaker, in February 2009. Performances included PS122 (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Eurokaz Festival (Zagreb), and The House of World Cultures (Berlin). The company presented their penultimate work 'When Will the September Roses Bloom Last Night Was Only a Comedy' at the Venice Biennale in 2005.

Mark is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the Performance Department. He also curates the annual In>Time performance series hosted by the Chicago Cultural Center. He co-founded the Chicago Performance Network, a committee of curators, funders, and educators concerned with bringing innovative work to Chicago. Mark received his BA (Hons) in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts UK. He was awarded a Junior Fellowship in Live Art between the University of the West of England and Arnolfini Live. He has made collaborative and non-collaborative performance / installation work in numerous spaces and contexts including Interrupt Digital Arts Festival (Brown University), Kunsthalle Museum (Norway), Site Unseen (Chicago Cultural Centre), Nottdance (Nottingham), Taxi Gallery (Cambridge, UK), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), ICA (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Firstsite (Colchester), Green Room (Manchester), and Chapter (Cardiff).

PREVIOUS VISITING SCHOLARS

Daniel Sack, Five College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2013; English, Amherst College and University of Massachusetts
Rebecca Schneider, Brown University. Associate Professor. Chair, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Dr. Paul Clarke, GWR Fellow, Performing the Archive: The Future of the Past Bristol University, UK
Dr. Jane Blocker, Writer and Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Art History Department, University of Minnesota