ARTISTS

Sandra Antelo-Suarez, Curator
Sandra Antelo-Suarez is the Founder/Director of TRANS>, an editor, an independant curator and most recently, the Curator of Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty. Sandra invited the artists to collaborate and conceptualized the interweaving of video, live music, and marionettes.

Dan Graham, Artist
Dan Graham's cultural involvement began in the 1960s as a rock critic. An innovative first-generation conceptual artist whose work has been exhibited in major art institutions around the world, Graham has broken significant ground as a theoretician and writer by introducing rock music into the discourse of art, criticism, and cultural theory, culminating in the 1992 publication, Rock My Religion, a book of essays edited by Bruce Wallis dealing with these themes. He has won numerous awards, including The French Vermeil Award (2001), The Skowhegan Medal for Mixed Media (1992), and the Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award (1992). His work is included in important collections domestically and abroad, and he has had recent solo shows at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2003), Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (2003), Kitayushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan (2003), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2002), and Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2001). Graham's work has also been presented in such notable group shows as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2004), Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain (2004), and the Venice Biennial, Italy (2004), among others.

Born in Urbana, Illinois in 1942, Dan Graham now lives and works in New York, where he is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery, as he is in Paris.

Tony Oursler, Artist
Tony Oursler was born in New York City in 1957. He graduated from the California Institute for the Arts with a BFA in 1979 and returned to New York, where he has continued to live and work. Oursler has specialized in installation, painting, sculpture, and video since the late1970s. His recent mixed media installations-in which theatrical objects such as puppets and dolls are layered with video projections and spoken text-are prefigured in the wildly inventive body of videotapes that he has produced over the past twenty years. Like Graham, Oursler's work has also considered the role of music in society; he has done projects with Sonic Youth as well as other music icons. His recent solo exhibitions include, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2005), Musee D'Orsay, Paris (2004), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (2003), Lisson Gallery, London, England (2003), Parallel Lines Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy (2002), Magasin 3, Stolkholm Kunsthall, Sweden (2002), Tony Oursler Drawings, Lehmann Maupin, New York (2001), Metro Pictures, New York (2001), and Institute Valencia D'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2001).Tony Oursler is represented by Metro Pictures and Lehmann Maupin in New York.

Rodney Graham, Artist
Born in 1947, Rodney Graham attended the University of British Columbia (1968-71) and lives and works in his hometown of Vancouver. While Rodney Graham is commonly described as a conceptual artist, the scope of his artistic and intellectual pursuits defies categorization. As an artist, writer, musician, and actor, he has made works that range across media and subject matter, inventing new approaches to landscape, literature, popular culture, music, and sound. His recent solo shows include 303 Gallery, New York (2004), "Rodney Graham: A Little Thought," Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (2004), Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (2003), Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (2003), and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (2002). His work has been featured in important recent group shows, including "Fast Forward," Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Munich, Germany (2003), "C'est Arrive Demien," Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (2003), and "Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Nueberger Berman Art Collection," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2002). Rodney Graham is represented by 303 Gallery in New York.

Laurent P. Berger, Artist - Installation, Set and Light Designer
Laurent P. Berger, artist and set designer for theater & opera, lives and works in Paris. He creates videos, installations, performances, and photography. His stage credits include: Fragments Koltès, by Bernard-Marie Koltès (Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, 1999) with Catherine Marnas; Der Jasager by Kurt Weill (Opéra de Montpellier, 2002) with Giuseppe Frigeni; Le Chemin de Damas by August Strindberg (Théâtre National de la Colline, 2004) with Robert Cantarella; Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (Juneau-Alaska, 2001) with Peter Dubois; and Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner (Deutsches Nationaltheater of Wiemar, 2003) with Dame Gwyneth Jones. Since 1998, he has collaborated in various projects with Robert Wilson among them: Winterreise by Franz Schubert (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 2001), Aïda by Guiseppe Verdi (Théâtre de La Monnaie, 2002 Bruxelles; Covent Garden, London, 2003; Théâtre de La Monnaie, Bruxelles, 2004), and Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Théâtre de La Monnaie, Bruxelles, 2004). Currently he is preparing the set design for Diptychon directed by Claudia Meyer at the Ruhr Festspiele in Germany and a solo exhibition Dancing allowed at the gallery Volume!, Rome.

Japanther, (Matt Reilly & Ian Vanek), Live Band
Japanther approaches music the way an artist might approach collage. By layering beats with organic drumming and heavily fuzzed bass guitar, the sound is made instanty distinct. To further their aesthetic, the band has even cutpay phones from booths and wires them as vocal mikes. Using distinct vocal harmonies in an organic, collage approach to punk rock, Japanther has made leaps and bounds in its musical development.

For over three years this Brooklyn duo have toured the world while feverishly releasing records and making life long friends, with fun and friendship the core of their music. By setting foot in the forest time and time again, the duo has learned to tame the beast. Challenges and strange spaces have always interested Japanther, and they find Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty to be just that: strange and challenging.

Phillip Huber and the Huber Marionettes, Puppeteer
Phillip Huber, master puppeteer for Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty, is an internationally recognized "artist with marionettes," who is most widely known for his screen work as the marionette-animator played by John Cusack in the thrice nominated Academy Award film, Being John Malkovich. Huber's stage credits include Busker Alley, starring Tommy Tune, It's Magic, starring Harry Anderson, That's Christmas, starring Sandy Duncan, Christmas with Friends and Nabors, starring Jim Nabors, and The Road to Hollywood, with Tony Award-winning director Walter Bobby. Television appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Le Plus Grande Cabaret du Monde for French TV, Showbiz Today for CNN and numerous commercials, the most recent being Move Free for Weider Nutrition. Huber's nightclub performances include the Lido in Paris, Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco (including a Royal Command Performance for Prince Rainier), The Magic Castle in Hollywood, Rainbow & Stars in New York, as well as performances on first-class cruise ships around the world.

Köken Ergun, Assistant Producer
Born in Istanbul, Köken studied acting at the Istanbul University, prior to his first graduate study at King's College London, on Ancient Greek Drama. In 1998, he started to work with American theatre director Robert Wilson, and became his assistant director for projects like the Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III . Since 2001, he has been working in video and performance, with curators such as Vasif Kortun, Max Henry and Jens Hoffman. The most recent institutions he has exhibited include the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Platform Garanti Comteporary Art Center, Istanbull; The Sculpture Center, New York and the Istanbul Biennial. He holds a MA degree on Visual Communication Design from the Istanbul Bilgi University and is currently doing his PhD at the Istanbul University on Theatre. Köken is also the founding director of the !f Istanbul: Festival of Independent Films, and acted as the assistant director of the Istanbul Music Festival until 2006.

Eugene Tsai, Props designer
Eugene Tsai lives and works in New York as an art director and designer. He has collaborated with artists including Gaetano Pesce, Robert Wilson, and Urs Fisher. His furniture and fashion designs have been exhibited in the US, Europe and Japan. He is currently preparing for the ongoing project - "Video Portraits" with Robert Wilson and continuously thinking about 'little things' for Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty.

Bruce Odland, Sound Designer
Bruce Odland is a Sound Artist and Composer internationally known for his installations transforming city noise into harmonic music thus altering the emotional landscape of public space. His sound scores for Peter Sellars, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Andre Gregory have been heard in theatres throughout US and Europe. He also works extensively in film, radio, and museum exhibition. His "Sounds from the Vaults" for Field Museum won the Golden Muse award for interactivity. Currently he is working on an opera with Wooster Group.

Miguel Antonio Roca, Executive Producer
Miguel Antonio Roca lives in La Paz, Bolivia. Roca holds an engineering and MBA degree and has been a Project Manager in heavy construction.

Bozkurt Karazu, Production Manager
After graduating German High-School Istanbul in 1990 Bozkurt Karasu started working as a crew-member of the Istanbul Festivals organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. He later became the production manager of the same foundation while continuing to work as free-lance production/stage manager and production designer for several theater companies, bands and venues. In 2003, he joined The Wooster Group as a production manager and moved to NYC. Later in 2005, he became the co-founder of Organizma Productions Istanbul. Bozkurt Karasu is currently living and working in NYC and Istanbul.

Ryan Graves, Production Manager
J. Ryan Graves recently joined DTAOT. In New York, Ryan just opened 'Five Streams' with Ibrahim Quraishi and company at The Asia Society, aside with opening Pick Up Performance Company(s) dance/theatre production of 'The Birds'. He has resided at Danspace Project on dozens of modern dance productions, working with David Neumann, Eiko & Koma, Savion Glover, Meredith Monk, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Kitt Johnson & Elizabeth Streb. Last fall Ryan Production Managed for the multi-media motion-capture development and debut of Bebe Miller Company's 'landing | place' and the continued widely successful five month U.S. tour. With Mabou Mines' theatre company, credit
includes: video design for 'Cara Lucia' (NYC), touring video for 'Animal Magnetism' (Poznan) and original technical development & production work for the adaptation of Ibsen's Dollhouse.

Matt Tierney, Stage Manager
Matt Tierney is a composer and sound designer currently working as Musical Director for Ridge Theater. He was the recipient of a 2001 OBIE award in collaborative design for his work on Ridge Theater's Jennie Richee by Mac Wellman. Recent productions include: Harry Partch's opera Oedipus with NewBand; Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty with Tony Oursler and Dan Graham and at Art Basel (Miami); Decasia by Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison at St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn); Jennie Richee at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); The Kitchen (New York); St. Ann's Warehouse, Staatstheater Darmstadt (Germany); and John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House.

Norva Bennett, Stage Manager
Norva Bennett is very happy to be joining DTAOT. Her recent stage management experience includes Blues for Mister Charlie with Turtleshell Productions, The Home for Lost Boys with Ostara Group, and Once Upon a Mattress with The New Acting Group. She is thankful to everyone that has supported her in her quest to achieve her dream.

Joshua Thorson, Video editor
Joshua Thorson is a filmmaker and artist who lives in New York. His work has been shown at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. He is currently developing a script for his next video, a feature, and completing several new paintings on plexiglass.

Jon Okabayashi, Master Electrician
Jon is a stagehand and actor. He likes making theatre, flyfishing and scotch, not always in that order.

Carlos Soto, Costume Designer
Carlos Soto works in a variety of fields, encompassing performance, theory, fashion, and dramaturgy. He has worked closely with directors Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and Kameron Steele, among others.

Amy Goldrich, Legal Advisor
Amy Goldrich is a New York-based collector and lawyer whose practice focuses on the contemporary art world. A member of both the New York and California bars, she earned her LL.M. in Trade Regulation from New York University, and was a Dean Acheson Fellow and stagiare at the Court of First Instance of the European Community. She is co-chairperson of the New Group, the New Museum of Contemporary Art's association of younger collectors and supporters, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art (BICA), a new museum scheduled to open in 2007


CO-PRODUCERS

T-B A21
Founded in 2002, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation, under the leadership of Francesca von Habsburg, continues the fourth generation of the Thyssen family's passion of supporting the arts. As a result, within two years, T-B A21 has established a respected collection of more than 200 contemporary artworks from the 21st Century in the field of new media, including films, videos, light, photography, performance art, mixed-media and sound installations.

Foundation 20 21
Foundation 20 21, founded by Tim Nye, is a New York based arts organization and collecting entity with a mission to nourish exchanges among artists, writers, filmmakers, historians and philosophers as well as to present to a wider audience some of the most arresting work being produced in our increasingly complex visual culture. While assembling a collection with an aim to build bridges between key developments in 20th and 21st Century art, Foundation 20 21 will mount occasional exhibitions of overlooked or forgotten work from the past in order to bring to light its relevance to our times. Shows of recent acquisitions, unusual publishing projects, artist presentations, lectures, film and video screenings are also part of the program.

LAB/ VOOM
LAB is the world's first 24-hour channel devoted to experimentation and video art. The core of the channel is an outreach program that provides production support, including high-definition cameras and edit suites, to artists, directors and other creative talents. The intensely collaborative environment and total creative freedom offered by LAB has already directed some of the top artistic talent in the world. Participants include Robert Wilson, Zhang Huan, Winona Ryder, Brad Pitt, Robert Downey, Jr., Marianne Faithfull, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Juliette Binoche. During the course of 2005, LAB will announce partnerships with several major institutions that encompass the worlds of art, design, television, and academia. LAB launched in 2004 and is available in HDTV on the Voom direct broadcast satellite system.

Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center, a catalyst for the creative expression of artists across the disciplines and the active engagement of audiences, examines the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities. The Walker Art Center is now at a critical juncture in its history, with the construction of a major expansion by Herzog and de Meuron underway. The new Walker Art Center, nearly double in size and scheduled to open in April 2005, will include increased indoor and outdoor facilities, allowing us to share more of our resources-from objects in the permanent collection to books in our library to an inside view of the artist's own creative process-with our growing audience.