Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Arts Council England, Liverpool Biennial
Harry Meadley
Loosely emulating the career trajectory of a comedian, but with the artistic license of needing to neither be funny nor successful, Harry Meadley has gone from delivering an artist talk as one-hour stand-up comedy special, to hosting his own late night talk show, producing an eight episode video series, and has just started the weekly interview-based podcast Ey Up. He is concerned with what it means to be an artist, and concerned about being one.
Harry Meadley is based in Leeds, United Kingdom. He has exhibited work at Liverpool Biennial, 2016; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2015; and Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 2014, amongst others.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Harry Meadley and Antonia Low
January 30, 2018, 6:30–8pm
Harry Meadley, On the Bench (Episode 2), 2017, video, 14:54 min.
Harry Meadley, On the Bench (Episode 4), 2017, video, 17:06 min.
Harry Meadley, (Shhhhhhhhh), 2015, billboard poster, 117 × 235 in. (297.18 × 596.9 cm).
Harry Meadley, The Harry Meadley Show, 2017, late night talk show, 40:40 min.
Harry Meadley, Artists Talk, 2016, stand-up comedy special, 60 min.
Past Resident2018: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Sonia Louise Davis
Sonia Louise Davis engages improvisation across installation, writing, weaving and performance. In her practice, Davis creates experimental scores using an invented graphic notation. Her work is deeply informed by critical race and feminist theory as well as her training as a jazz vocalist.
Sonia Louise Davis was born and raised in New York City. In September 2016 her large-scale collaborative performance shake the stars with your song premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has exhibited work at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York City; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. This past spring her writing was published in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University and alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Sonia lives and works in Harlem.
Sonia Louise Davis, a score to keep time / a score to lose time / but never yourself, in it, 2017, installation with wall drawing, and hand-woven tapestry, dimensions variable.
Sonia Louise Davis, blue nile (for alice), detail, 2017, hand-woven textile, natural and synthetic fibers, electroluminescent wires, and battery packs, 72 × 22 × 2 in. (182.88 × 55.88 × 5.08 cm).
Sonia Louise Davis, blue black twill, 2017, hand-woven textile, natural and synthetic fibers, electroluminescent wire, and battery pack, 16 × 20 × 2 in. (40.64 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm).
Sonia Louise Davis, color is the sound an object makes when light strikes, 2016, installation, gloss enamel and liquid watercolor on glass, neon tubes, and transformers, dimensions variable.
Sonia Louise Davis, duet blue + green, grid; black solo, journal, 2015, 2016, liquid watercolor on cold press paper; liquid watercolor in soft bound notebook, 11x15 in. each and 144 pages.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Søren Thilo Funder
Søren Thilo Funder’s works are carefully crafted cinematic mash-ups of diverse cultural fields and social histories, integrating aspects of critical theory, literature, cinema, popular culture and counterculture. Through the use of cinematic narratives, mise en scène and video documents the artist aspire to propose new connections between historical, cultural and political matter and generate new potential spaces, third places, for political contemplation and counter-memory.
Søren Thilo Funder lives and works in Denmark. He has participated in international exhibitions at 19th Biennale of Sydney; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; 12th Istanbul Biennial; Turku Art Museum; Critical Distance, Toronto; amongst others.
Søren Thilo Funder, Swerve (You’re Gonna Die Up There), 2016, 3 channel HD video, 10 min.
Søren Thilo Funder, First Citizen (House of the Deaf Man), 2013, HD video, 12 min, 30 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, DOWN WITH DOMESTIC TRASH (Rubber Plant), 2016, HD video, 7 min, 45 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, The Vanishing Table, 2014, HD video, 14 min, 13 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, The Adaptation (No-thing me-lanch-oly ’bout us), 2014, 3 channel HD video, 15 min.
