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Douglas Rosenberg
Rosenberg in 2024 by Mariah Moneda
Born(1956-12-21)December 21, 1956
San Rafael, CA, United States
EducationSir Francis Drake High School (Archie Williams High School); San Francisco Art Institute, MFA, 1985
Occupation(s)Artist, Author, and Professor
Websitehttps://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/

Douglas Rosenberg (born December 21, 1956) is an interdisciplinary American artist and theorist, working in performance, video, screendance, and installation[1] whose work has been exhibited internationally for over 30 years.[2] Additionally, he is well-known for his writing about art, specifically about screendance.[3][4] Rosenberg is based in Madison, WI,[1] where he is a Vilas Distinguished professor of Art[3] at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[4]

Douglas Rosenberg, Street Performance, 1982, Kassel, Germany

Early life and education

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Rosenberg grew up in San Anselmo, CA[5] in a Jewish family in the 1960s and 1970s.[6] Whilst attending Junior High School he was introduced to the possibilities of living a creative life by his first art teacher, Ted Allen.[7] It was here that he began to work in clay.[7] He subsequently attended Sir Francis Drake High School (now known as Archie Williams High School), where he was a part of an alternative program called "School Within A School" (SWAS).[7][8] This was an environment that was inspired by experimental learning communities of the 1970s, during the era of the Vietnam war.[7]

The beginning of Rosenberg's work in dance and installation also began in the late 1970s. It can be tied back to dance classes with a local choreographer at the time, June Watanabe.[5][9] In the early 1980s Rosenberg collaborated with a group of German artists associated with Joseph Beuys' Free International University.[10] In collaboration, Rosenberg created a series of performances in and around Kassel, Germany that coincided with the 1982 Documenta.[10][11]

In 1985 Rosenberg received an MFA in Performance and Video (New Genres) from San Francisco Art Institute.[12] There, he studied with Doug Hall, Paul Kos, Howard Fried, Linda Frye Burnham et al.[13][11]

Life and work

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Rosenberg lives in rural Wisconsin[2] with his wife, choreographer Li Chiao-Ping.[14][15] Rosenberg and Li have collaborated on projects with their son, Jacob Li Rosenberg,[16] an artist living in San Francisco.[17]

Rosenberg's work is largely tied to the seasonal landscape and for ten years he and Li hosted Summerwork at the Farm, a project that was designed around the idea of seasonal farm work and community.[18] It was a space for reflection, conversation, engagement, meditation on the landscape, art, and humanism.[18]

As an advocate for a greater understanding for Jewishness and the Arts, Rosenberg founded the Conney Project[19] on Jewish Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[20] The Conney Project was an initiative that included conferences and visionary cultural programming--events, exhibits, readings, and performances--to engage in and promote looking deeply at the contributions of Jewish artists and scholars to the narratives of 20th century art, literature, and culture.[19] Under Rosenberg's directorship, the Conney Project ran for 18 years.[19]

Rosenberg's time-based performative work has addressed topics including forgiveness,[21] identity,[22] care,[23] the transient nature of relationships,[24] and meditations on death, aging,[25] and the landscape around him.[26] Rosenberg has also addressed similar concerns in his book of collected essays on art, Staring at the Sky: Essays on Art and Culture (Bokförlaget Korpen, 2024). Composed as an ongoing commitment to remaining mindful of the field and the cultural upheaval of the period, the essays were written as a weekly practice over a five-year period from 2015 to 2020, during which time he served as Chair of the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[27]

 
Douglas Rosenberg, Song of Songs, installation view, 2021, FBAUL, Lisbon, Portugal

Screendance

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Rosenberg is well known for his work in screendance.[28] He has articulated the field both through his films and his theoretical writing.[29][30] Screendance is a type of interdisciplinary practice that sits at the intersection of media and bodies in motion, which has roots in the work of artists such as Maya Deren, Norman McLaren, and Amy Greenfield.[31] Rosenberg is a founding editor of the International Journal of Screendance.[32] He is the author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image[33] and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies,[34] which was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research in 2018.[35]

As a filmmaker, his work considers aging bodies, intimacy, community, and the specific site, in such work as, Song of Songs, 2021.[30] He has collaborated with choreographers including Molissa Fenley,[36][37] Sean Curran,[38][39] Ellen Bromberg[40], Joe Goode,[41] Li Chiao-Ping,[41] Eiko and Koma[42] and others. His film My Grandfather Dances[43] with choreographer Anna Halprin was awarded the Director’s Prize in 1999 at the International Jewish Video Competition in Berkeley, California.[44]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2012). Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image. Oxford University Press (published April 2012). ISBN 978-0199772629.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas, ed. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199981601.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2024). Staring at the Sky: Essays on Art and Culture. Korpen Press. ISBN 9789189401938.

Articles, chapters and essays

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Selected moving images

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Screendance

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  • Breathe, 1985[45]
  • Bardo (In Extremis), 1997[46]
  • My Grandfather Dances, 1998[43]
  • Periphery, 2000[47]
  • Grace, 2002[48]
  • Mel-Wong (Excerpt from documentary The Men's Project), 2002[49]
  • Residues, 2002[50]
  • 9 Variations For Hilary, 2003[51]
  • Hope, 2004[52]
  • Of the Heart, 2008[53]
  • Hallelujah with Annelise Charek, 2009[54]
  • Circling, 2012[55]
  • Here Now with Sally Gross, 2015[56]
  • A Very Small Cinematic Gesture, 2017
  • Song of Songs, 2021[57]

Video Art

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  • Tempters Challenge, 1984[58]
  • La Mecanique, 1987[59]
  • Aria, 1988[60]
  • The Solution, First Part: The Rhetoric of Power, 1993[61]
  • Meditation (Labor), 2015[62]

Selected exhibitions

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Video, Installation, and 2D Art

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Broadcast Television

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  • Three Dance Films About Place, Aroma and Terrain, Wisconsin Public Television, July 21, 2007.
  • Aroma, BravoFACT Presents, Citytv Toronto, A-Channel Barrie in London and Ottawa, A-Channel Victoria, 2007.
  • Seven Solos, Documentary, Wisconsin Public Television, numerous broadcasts, 2011-2012.
  • Director’s Cut, interview, Wisconsin Public Television, August 3, 2011 and subsequent re-broadcasts, 2011-2012.

Selected lectures and panels

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  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2008, April 9). Under the Skin [keynote speaker with Hope Mohr]. Medical Humanities Initiative, Susquehanna University.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2012, October). Witnessing dance: mediation and the technologies of representation [keynote speaker]. International Conference on Dance, Canada.
  • Rosenberg Douglas (2014). [workshop and keynote speaker]. Lightmoves Festival of Screendance, Limerick, Ireland.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2014, March 16). Inscribing the Ephemeral Image [lecture]. Cinedans festival, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2017). Surface Tensions: Screenic Bodies and the Sequential Moment [lecture as a visiting artist]. Yale School of Art.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2017). Hiding in Plain Site: Screendance Histories and the Expanded Imagination [inaugural lecture]. Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies, Stanford University.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2018, October 13-15). [keynote speaker]. Jews and the Jewishness in the Dance World conference, Arizona State University.

Selected awards and grants

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  • 1985 - SONY American Film Institute Award, National Video Festival.
  • 1994 - National Endowment for the Arts/Southeast Media Fellowship.
  • 1998 - Soros Foundation, Project on Death in America Fellowship, (co-recipient Ellen Bromberg).
  • 1998 - Isadora Duncan Award (IZZY) for Singing Myself a Lullaby, San Francisco Bay Area Dance Coalition.
  • 1999 - Director’s Prize, International Jewish Video Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.
  • 2001 - National Endowment for the Arts Creation Grant, for support of Venous Flow, with choreographer Li Chiao-Ping.
  • 2002 - James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and funded by the James D. Phelan Trust.
  • 2003 - EMMY Nomination: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Outstanding Achievement for Entertainment Program, Single Entertainment Program of Series.
  • 2005/2006 - BravoFACT (Canadian Television) production grant, in collaboration with Allen Kaeja, for new dance film, AROMA.
  • 2016/2017 - MAP Fund Grant, with choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MAP is an affiliate program of Creative Capital, New York, NY.
  • 2018 - Brocket Book Prize for Dance Research, awarded by the Dance Studies Association for “The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies.”
  • 2023 - Creative Arts Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of the Arts.
  • 2023/2024 - Honorary Award, Choreoscope, Barcelona Dance Film Festival.[63]

References

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  42. ^ Otake, Takashi Koma; Yamada, Eiko Otake; Rosenberg, Douglas; Kanopy (Firm), eds. (2014). Eiko and Koma/Land (1995). San Francisco, California, USA: Kanopy Streaming. OCLC 970024874.
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  52. ^ "Hope, 2004". Vimeo. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  53. ^ "Of The Heart, 2008". Vimeo. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  54. ^ "Hallelujah with Annelise Charek, 2009". Vimeo. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  55. ^ "Circling, 2012". Vimeo. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  56. ^ "Here Now with Sally Gross". Vimeo. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  57. ^ "Song Of Songs, 2021". Vimeo. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
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  63. ^ "Awards / History". Choreoscope. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
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