Congratulations to our new residents recently accepted in to our Cuts and Burns Residency Program: Elodie Lauten and Olga Kravets!
Elodie Lauten is a composer, performer and media artist. As a leading exponent of post-minimalism, she was listed among the most influential composers of the last three decades (Sequenza 21). Her music was heard at Lincoln Center Festival, the New York City Opera, The Whitney Museum, throughout America with performances and university residencies, and in Canada and Europe, notably at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. About her multimedia work shown as part of the Women Forward movement, James Baldwin Cohen said: “Her highly sophisticated use of today’s advanced technology has opened a new dimension in the art world.”
Olga Kravets was born in Moscow in 1984. She started working as a journalist in 2002, working in print, online and radio. In 2006 she joined the BBC Moscow bureau as a radio producer, and in 2007 she left to go freelance as a photojournalist. Her work has appeared in a number of international publications: El Pais Magazine (Spain), Financial Times Deutschland, Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Rear View Mirror (Italy), The Globe and Mail (Canada), The New York Times, and The Observer (UK), among others. She has been awarded the Chevening Scholarship, a Rory Peck Trust Bursary, several Reuters Foundation scholarships, was a nominee of the Joop Swart Masterclass 2011, and finalist of the Aftermath Project 2010 and Manuel Rivera-Ortiz prize 2011.
