The Fulcrum Incubator connects midcareer artists with Southern California’s preeminent laboratories and scientific institutions to mine new areas of research, innovate new methods of artmaking, and inspire new ways of bringing science to public audiences.
Current
Marcos Lutyens and Rana Adhikari
As part of the Simons Foundation’s Open Interval program, artist Marcos Lutyens and experimental physicist Rana Adhikari will embark on a 7-month research project exploring the various concepts of “symmetry.” This collaboration is supported by the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division. Marcos Lutyens’ artistic practice targets the psychic and emotional well-being of his audiences by skillfully leading participants…
Recent
Marie-Luce Nadal
Fulcrum Arts welcomes artist Marie-Luce Nadal as a 2023 Fulcrum Incubator Artist-in-Residence. Nadal will conduct research with scientist Dr. Joshua Fischer at Chapman University. Her project S.O.S (The Skin Of the Sky) attempts to find a protective armor for the planet, based on the study of lightning and thunderstorms, which have now become increasingly common. Nadal’s residency is presented in partnership with Grand…
Maja Godlewska + Marek Ranis
Fulcrum Arts welcomes artists Maja Godlewska + Marek Ranis as 2023 Fulcrum Incubator Artists-in-Residence. Godlewska + Ranis will collaborate with scientist Dr. Joleah Lamb at the Marine Biodiversity Lab at UC Irvine on Mare Liberum, Reimagined, an art project that highlights and celebrates existing environmental networks in Southern California and Orange County and their interest in kelp and ocean conservancy. The…
Marcos Lutyens
Fulcrum Arts welcomes artist Marcos Lutyens as a 2023 Fulcrum Incubator Artist-in-Residence. Lutyens will conduct research toward reimagining what could become of the oil rigs off the coast of Southern California as they officially move towards their decommissioning. His work will be supported by Dr. Milton Love and Dr. Ann Bull of the UCSB Marine Science Institute. The results of…
Leslie Garcia
Fulcrum Arts welcomes artist Leslie Garcia as a 2023 Fulcrum Incubator Artist-in-Residence.Garcia will conduct research at UC San Diego with Miller Puckette, the creator of Max and Pure Data, and at UCLA with neuroscientist Dr. Mark S. Cohen, who is an early pioneer of functional brain imaging. Garcia’s project, Transient Hypofrontality Tools, advances a line of inquiry whereby she explores the…
About
Fulcrum Incubator recognizes the critical need for support for artists to conduct deep research in collaboration with established laboratories and scientific research institutions. The initiative is designed as an open-ended research residency to help artists develop possibilities to work in new ways through access to processes and approaches normally out-of-reach in the studio setting. Simultaneously, the residencies help the scientific community realize new concepts for interpretation and visualization of data, creative thinking, and public communication within and beyond their field.
Fulcrum Incubator is currently by nomination/invitation only, and host institutions vary from year to year.
The Fulcrum Incubator has been made possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Perenchio Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Pasadena Art Alliance.
Past Residents
Julia Christensen
Fulcrum Arts welcomes artist and writer Julia Christensen as AxS Incubator resident in dialogue with NASA/JPL. Christensen explores themes of technology, time, change, and memory in her work. Her recent project delves into the concept of planned obsolescence in her book Upgrade Available (Dancing Foxes), a long-term art/research project that delves into “upgrade culture” and its impacts on everything…
Sarah Rara
Fulcrum Arts welcomes Los Angeles artist Sarah Rara for a three-month residency at Caltech. Sarah Rara is a Los Angeles-based artist working with video, sound, and performance. She is a contributing member of the ongoing project Lucky Dragons. Her work focuses on human-technology relationships, observation and time, and the overlap between lyrical and empirical structures.…
Lawrence English
Fulcrum Arts welcomes Australian artist and composer Lawrence English for a special AxS Incubator residency and workshop. Lawrence English is composer, artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including visceral…
Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand
Fulcrum Arts welcomes artists Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand (Amsterdam), and guest-curator Isabel de Sena (Berlin), as our first participants in the AxS Incubator. Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Current findings, particularly regarding wave phenomena, are employed by the artists to investigate questions of perception and…
Christopher O’Leary
Over ten days in the summer of 2016, Christopher O’Leary traveled to the Atacama desert in Chile to complete the Carnegie Observatory’s first artist in residence. The Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) is the historic campus which holds the twin Magellan telescopes, and is the future location of the Giant Magellan Telescope. These powerful ground-based…