Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – performance

Ilona Granet

Discipline: Interdisciplinary Art – performance
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011, 2016

Ilona Granet has been working with DISBAND to create new songs with political and social themes. DISBAND is an all-girl performance group whose work began in the late 1970s, was resurrected thanks to the WACK! show where they opened for the show at PS1/MOMA, and then were invited to the South Korean International Women's Biennale in 2009. It was then and there they decided to expand their repertoire and mission. Ilona continues to work on street signs for women's safety, war, etc., and is going back to work on her urns addressing the same subject matter.

Studios

Star

Ilona Granet worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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