Introducing Winter Residents and their work, presenting current and past projects with projected image, video and reading. Arrive beginning 5:30pm for refreshments and to meet the artists and writer. Presentations begin at 6:00pm.
KELLI RAE ADAMS – installation, sculpture - North Adams, Massachusetts
DANIEL MELO MORALES – photography, sound - San Francisco, California
SAIBA VARMA, PhD – nonfiction - San Diego, California
KELLI RAE ADAMS
North Adams, Massachusetts – 2nd Floor Studio
Kelli Rae Adams creates installation-based works that examine prevailing economic systems and probe our existing relationships to labor, currency, and value. With an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Visual Arts and Spanish from Duke University, Kelli studied ceramics intensively in Japan, where she apprenticed over a period of five years with Tetsuro Hatabe, a master potter in the Karatsu tradition. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including MASS MoCA, the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University and the Museum of International Ceramic Art (Denmark).
During her time at 100W, Kelli intends to develop a new project addressing wage disparities and wealth inequality following an intensive period of research during 2023. She will also continue work on a long-term project, Forever in Your Debt, a multiyear endeavor visualizing the student debt crisis. The time will be one of open-ended experimentation and exploration in the studio as well. kelliraeadams.com
kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, Mass MOCA 2023-2024.
DANIEL MELO MORALES
San Francisco, California – 3rd Floor Studio
Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist whose works reveal phantasmatic and material relationships embedded among architectural signifiers, acoustic systems, and microhistories. Exploring the complexities of site, including its stored, spectral, and community-based elements, he uncovers relationships through their numerous reverberations. Daniel received an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. An experimental and self-taught multi-instrumentalist as well as a photographer, his practice has involved myriad performances and interventions. In 2023, he was a Community Action Fellow at Blue Sky Center, where he created an interactive sound-map using open-source software with sounds recorded by community members.
While in Corsicana, Daniel will engage in site-specific research of sound, acoustics, light, and micro-histories to make new works in the domains of constructed photographs, photo-sculptures, and sound. danielmelo.com
Daniel Melo Morales: constructed photograph, hand-sewn on cotton, 99” x 88” x 11” University of Rochester 2023.
SAIBA VARMA, PhD
San Diego, California – Writing Studio
Saiba Varma is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. Her first book, The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir won the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the American Anthropological Association. She is also the co-editor of Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing and Liberation, under contract with Bloomsbury Press. Saiba received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University and has conducted ethnographic research in Kashmir for more than fifteen years and published dozens of academic articles in major peer-reviewed journals in anthropology and related disciplines. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Nation, Al Jazeera, Salon, Truthout, The Millions, Scroll.in, and The Wire.
In Corsicana, Saiba will be completing work on a nonfiction book titled This Information May Kill You, which describes the ambient yet terrorizing effects of psychological warfare (psyops) on populations that are its putative targets. anthropology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/saiba-varma