What is What

"CreepMode"  AOW: REMIX  Dance Theater Workshop NYC photo: David Szlasa

Bill Shannon

Exhibitions and Commissions

Washington, DC, Kennedy Center – Derivative Composition (2008)
Short Film, The Departure
New York, NY, Douz and Mille Gallery – Work, Solo Exhibition (2008)
Anthology of Video work, new works produced:
Video Installation, Bench
Video Installation, Static
Video Sculpture, Elegy [Arrangement 1]
Video Sculpture, Work
Helsinki, Finland, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art –  First We Take Museums (2005)
Video Installation, Moment in Passing
Video Installation, Linoleum Sessions
Installation, Crutches Are For Dancing
Liverpool, UK, Tate Gallery Liverpool – Art, Lies and Videotape (2003)
Video Installation, Peripheral Fluctuation
Video Installation, Re: The Fall
New York, NY, Creative Time, What is What , street performances and website whatiswhat.com (2003)
Montreal, Canada, Creative Collaborator, Cirque du Soleil – Varekai (2001-02)
San Francisco, CA, Guest Choreographer, Axis Dance Company (1999)

Performance History (Selected 2000-2008)

Festival Goteborg, Sweden, This is Freestyle (2008)
Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium, Sketchy (2007)
Breakin’ Convention, London, UK, Spatial Theory (2007)
Sitelines 2007, New York, NY, Window (2007)
Forum Universal de las Culturas, Monterrey, Mexico, Sketchy (2007)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Traffic (Premiere)    (2006)
Contact Theater, Manchester, UK, Sketchy (2006)
The Kitchen, New York, NY, Sketchy (2005)
Teatro de la Ciudad, Monterrey, Mexico, Spatial Theory (2005)
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Window (Premiere) (2005)
Sydney Opera House/Studio Theater, Australia, Spatial Theory (2004)
Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia, Spatial Theory (2004)
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Sketchy (Premiere) (2004)
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, Site-Specific Street Performance (2004)
Dance Theater Workshop, N Y, NY, AOW: Remix (2003)   
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, Spatial Theory (2003)
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon, Spatial Theory (2003)
Hip-Hop Theater Festival, NY, NY, Solo Freestyle (2003)
Kennedy Center/Millennium Stage, Washington, DC, Spatial Theory (2002)
Central Park SummerStage, NYC, AOW: Remix (2002)
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, Old Rain (2001)
URB Festival, Helsinki, Finland, Spatial Theory (2001)
The Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Old Rain and Regarding the Fall (2001)
Performance Space 122, NY, NY, Old Rain and Regarding the Fall (2000)   
Exit Festival, Creteil, France, Art of Weightlessness (2000)
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Art of Weightlessness (2000)   
International Festival for Independent Theater, Amman, Jordan, Spatial Theory (2000)

Short Film

Raindance/Art of Weightlessness, in collaboration with D.B. Griffith, screened at:
Tensdansa Barcelona (2006)
-    EMPAC MOViES (2006)
-    Cut and Paste Skateboarding Film Festival (2003)
-    Chicago Underground Film Festival (2002)
Static: The Operation, Directed and Performed by Bill Shannon (1996)

Awards and Grants

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Project Grant and Strategic Opportunity Grant (2007)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grants for Arts in Public Spaces (2006)
The Harkness Foundation for Dance (2005)
New York Foundation for the Arts-Artist Fellowship (2004)
New York State Council of Arts (2004)
National Endowment for the Arts (2004, 2002 and 2001)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2003)
Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation (2003)
National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts (2004 and 2002)
Jerome Foundation (2001)
Arts International/Fund for US Artists at International Festivals (2003, 2001 and 2000)
Foundation for Contemporary (2000)
Downtown Arts/Colbert Foundation-Emerging Arts Award (2000)
James E. Robison Foundation (1999)
Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Fellowship (1998 and 1992)
Pennsylvania Disabilities Council Fellowship (1998)
James Nelson Raymond Fellowship (1996)

Residencies

The Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Spring 2007)
The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (Fall 2005)
South Lanarkshire Council, Scotland, UK (Summer 2005)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (1999)

Teaching/Workshops (selected list)

Artist-in-Residence - Gasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ● Workshop Teacher-Restless Gravity Festival, Wales, UK ● Workshop Teacher-Dance Alloy/Very Special Arts, Pittsburgh, PA ● Residency, Performing Arts Chicago

Speaking Engagements/Lectures (selected list)

Speaker – PopTech! 2007, Camden, ME ● Panelist - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Motion Studies/Street Performance/New Media ● Keynote Speaker - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ● Training and Performances on Art and Disability Culture, United States Information Agency ● Lecture – National Dance Association Conference, Boston, MA ● Lecture/Video/Performance - American Cultural Specialist Program-Education, Novgorod and Moscow

University Lectures/Performance (selected list)

Wheaton College, Norton, MA ● New York University, New York, NY ● Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY ● Eastern Connecticut State University ● Hampshire College, Amherst, MA ● Rice University, Houston, TX ● University of Oregon Arts and Accessibility Conference, Boston, MA ● University of Oregon, Eugene, OR ● Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA ● University of Iowa, Chicago, IL

Website

www.whatiswhat.com

Education

BFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996