Fellows in Residence

Architecture

Robert Hutchison

Architect, Affiliate Professor of Architecture, University of Washington – United States

Robert Hutchison is a practitioner, researcher, and educator whose interests and practice overlap the fields of architecture, art and photography. Hutchison is Principal of the Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the recipient of the 2017 Rome Prize, two Japan/US Friendship Creative Artists Fellowships, the 2009 Emerging Voices, and residencies at MacDowell and Loghaven.

At Bogliasco, Robert will be completing the final draft of his publication Memory Landscapes, which will be published by Zurich-based Park Books. The project explores the power of collective memory in designing for new futures following natural disaster. Focusing on eastern coastal Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the book will combine his own photographs and architectural proposals with interviews and contributions from Japanese architects and artists.

Dance

Annie Wang

Choreographer and Dancer – United States– Van Cleef & Arpels Fellow, Dance

Annie MingHao Wang (she/they) is a choreographer/dancer based in New York. Held Artist-In-Residencies at Movement Research, Topaz Arts, Marble House Project, Leimay, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Awarded grants by LMCC and Brooklyn Arts Council, their work has been presented by Pioneers Go East, Movement Research, Leimay, Five Myles, and the Exponential Festival. Annie also dances for Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Sugar Vendil, and Marie Lloyd Paspé.

In their newest work, Annie is building both dance phrases and textile objects in response to their research into Chinese textile histories and iconic garments like quilted jackets and qipao. The physical actions are inspired from the motions, sensations, and patterning logic of textile work. The objects will lead me into the final visual design while also driving choreographic inspiration. They're excited for the space and time at Bogliasco to resonate with dance and objects and envision them as a whole piece.

Film/Video

Mireya Martinez

Filmmaker, Writer, and Producer — Mexico/United States

Mireya Martinez is a Mexican-American filmmaker, writer, and producer. Her sole pursuit is to tell and support stories that make palpable the human experience in all of its tatteredness, fragility, magnitude, and joy. A MacDowell and Sundance Institute Fellow, her work has screened at festivals worldwide including San Sebastian, Sundance, True/False, New Directors/New Films and IFFR, amongst others. She holds an MFA in Film Direction from the California Institute of the Arts.

At Bogliasco, MIreya and collaborator Alisha Tejpal will continue to write their first feature length screenplay, For the Eyes Are Blind to the Stairwells (working title). Centering its exploration on themes of micro-violence and generational collective trauma, this film offers a glimpse into the complex social fabric of urban India. In an affluent Mumbai apartment complex , the lives of residents and staff intertwine as hidden desires, social tensions, and a mysterious death unravel their carefully maintained facades.

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Dance

jaamil olawale kosoko

Choreographer, Author, and Performance Artist — United States

jaamil olawale kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American choreographer, author, performance artist, and curator. jaamil’s interdisciplinary practice merges performance, video, sculpture, and poetry, exploring queer Black theory, emergence, and critical rest-care strategies. jaamil’s works — including The (chrysalis) Archives, Black Body Amnesia, Chameleon, Séancers, and Bessie Award-nominated #negrophobia — have toured to venues including EMPAC, Fusebox Festival, The Guggenheim Museum, ICA at VCU, Montréal Arts Interculturels, Museum of Arts and Design, New York Live Arts, and Wexner Center for the Arts, among others.

Shrouded//the End of Dances is an immersive performance installation and living sculpture that invites audiences to engage physically by moving through the space and mirroring the actions of the three metamorphosing performers onstage. In this work, the corporeal and the ephemeral coalesce as bodies draped in rich brown silks form a shifting veil, concealing and revealing complex new modes of witnessing the living archive of the body. Scattered across the space, these sculptures act as conduits for hidden bodily truths, prompting viewers to reflect on how their own physical forms archive emotions, memories, and the intricacies of human existence. Through choreography, materiality, and audience participation, the work expands traditional notions of time, presence, performance, and embodied storytelling.

Film/Video

Eva Weber

Filmmaker — Germany/United Kingdom

Eva Weber is an acclaimed filmmaker known for MERKEL (“A revealing portrait” – IndieWire), THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES (“One of the most absorbing documentaries of the year” – Observer), and BLACK OUT (“Eye-opening” – Hollywood Reporter). Her fiction short FIELD STUDY was nominated for a European Film Award. A recipient of the Sundance Global Filmmaking Award and Sundance Lab Fellow, her award-winning work has screened at 100+ festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, and IDFA.

GHOST WIVES tells the true story of Song Tiantang, a 53-year-old man who murdered six women to sell their bodies for ghost weddings —a traditional Chinese ritual of marrying the dead. Though banned under Mao, these ceremonies have resurged in rural areas like Shanxi, where mining deaths have fueled a black market for ghost brides. At its core, GHOST WIVES is a haunting reflection on the commodification of women and the forgotten lives at the margins of modern China.

Humanities Scholarship

Brian Hatcher

(History) — Professor of Theology, Tufts University — United States

Brian A. Hatcher, Packard Professor of Theology, Tufts University, is a scholar of religion and colonialism in South Asia whose monographs include Eclecticism and Modern Hindu Discourse (1999), Bourgeois Hinduism (2008), and Hinduism Before Reform (2020). He has also translated Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar’s Hindu Widow Marriage (2011) and Against High-Caste Polygamy (2023). He is currently researching the failure of colonial-era reformers to confront the problem of caste injustice in Bengal.

For his latest book project, Losing Caste, Brian asks how it is that India’s most celebrated agents of progressive change could be aware of caste as a social problem and yet lose sight of the issue when it came to their own reformist projects. Focusing on 19th and early 20th century Bengal, Brian seeks to offer an alternative history of the long nineteenth century, revealing how emancipatory theological and social initiatives remained bound by, or blind to, the strictures and exclusions of caste society.