DIVERSITY FELLOWS! is a critical camp collaborative interested in interrogating aspects of (their) Americanness. Aimed at blurring the lines between performance, politics, and the presentation of self in every-day life, the FELLOWS use race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and more as both lenses and performed identities to produce genre-blurring pieces that refer to pop-cultural tropes, critical theory, and queer performance tactics, creating chaotic environments out of seemingly simplistic interactive structures: Green card interviews, diversity workshops, make-up appointments, karaoke. The FELLOWS, Marc Boucai and Reya Sehgal, are grounded in performance training from L’Ecole Internationale de Jacques le Coq and the American Conservatory Theater, and educated in queer theory, postcolonial theory, performance studies, and public humanities from UC Berkeley and Brown University. They unite theory, politics, and physical performance in their collaborative work. The DIVERSITY FELLOWS! have performed at conferences and performance festivals in the Bay Area, Detroit, New York City, and produce political performance variety shows in Providence, RI. The FELLOWS are based in Brooklyn and Providence.
SHOWS
2018 TRAINING DAY, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, February
2017 TRAINING DAY, RISD, March
Inter(racial)mezzo, RISD Museum, March
re_volt_ing: an art show in protest, Distillery Gallery, Boston, January
2016 Yeah Shame?!: An Evening of Queer Alt Performance and Punk, AS220, June
TRAINING DAY, AS220, April-May
TRAINING DAY, Community College of Rhode Island, April
FROM SCRATCH: A Works in Process Night, AS220, April
LUNA LOBA parte dos: For the Worm Moon, AS220, March
2015 The 2015 Show, AS220, December
Songs for a Queer Millennium: A Live Art Mixtape, Performancy Forum Quinquennial, Panoply
Performance Lab, October
The 9/11 Show, AS220, September
DIVERSITY FELLOWS // Benjamin Lundberg: Works-in-Process, 603 at the Silent Barn, August
Not Just 1001 Nights: A Performance Cabaret by the Arab American Critical Performance Initiative,
DIWAN 6: A Forum for the Arts, Arab American National Museum, May
TODO BAJO CONTROL | VERNAL EQUINOX, Providence, RI, March
The Empire Revue Presents: The Literature Show!, AS220, March
2014 The Un-United States of America: Artists Confronting Racism, AS220, December
FANCY : PANTSY, HO_SE, Brooklyn, March
2012 THE STIGMATIZATION ACT, The Rec Center, Oakland, May
THE STIGMATIZATION ACT, Queer (In)Security conference, UC Davis, May
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2018
Rhode Island School of Design, 2016-2017
Sedona Summer Colony, 2016
TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2018 Performing Social Praxis: an Artist Talk, Lecture, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, February
2017 Performing Social Praxis: an Artist Talk, Lecture, RISD Museum, March
Art As Service symposium, CUE Art Foundation, January
You Are Your Work: Defining Identity, Lecture + Workshop, RISD, January
2016 Decentering the Crit, Workshop, RISD, November
The Other Canons: Syllabus Edit-a-Thon, Workshop, RISD, November
Diversity Decathlon, Workshop, RISD, October
MLK Series: Issues-based Investigations of Culture and Community, Workshop, RISD, October
Theatre as Social Activism, Lecture, Community College of Rhode Island, April