Genesis Project
Genesis Project is a collaborative, artist’s residency catering to artists whose practice exists between disciplines and works with and through the body. The project is modeled after Genesis, Dublin, Ireland, which began in 2004 when dance artists Julie Lockett and Ella Clarke, in conversation with seminal post-modern choreographer Deborah Hay, asked the question 'as an artist, what do I need?'
The mission of Genesis Project is to support artists in accessing space in which to work and fortify a practice and a community from which to act globally. By asking artists to commit to regular inquiry without focus on a final product, Genesis aims to heighten productivity of the collective at work in the project and to sharpen the potency of each artist’s daily practice. Genesis facilitates an environment wherein creativity is the act of investigation rather than what is produced from it. As was evident in the Dublin incarnations of Genesis, this model yields a unique environment for experimentation and the creation of innovative body-based work.
Genesis Project is meant to be spawned in as many places as possible.