Djerassi.org Website Review

Each year, artists from around the world are awarded the gift of time + space—a one-month residency on our 583-acre ranch in northern California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. Photo Credit: Chris Schmauch The region is world-famous for technological innovation. We believe that art must also innovate, disrupt, inspire, challenge and change lives. The work undertaken here shapes the world’s culture. Photo Credit: Robert Buelteman We enjoy a mythical renown among artists—many of whom talk about the Djeras*i “magic.” Here, in a setting of extraordinary natural beauty, artists can just BE—to dream, dare, collaborate and create. Photo Credit: Eva Davidova There are no small dreams and no small dreamers here. In their studios, choreographers imagine dances, writers generate words, composers see notes and visual artists create images. Photo Credit: Jordan Reznick Ideas are shared around the dinner table. Collaborations erupt organically. Work that couldn’t have existed any other way takes shape, catches fire, and becomes real. Photo Credit: Minoosh Zomorodinia Wendell Cooper aka Mx. Oops is a transmedia artist with a focus on multimedia performance, urban dance, and queer mysticism.. ALTOGETHER WILD: CELEBRATION AND TRANSFORMATION AT DJERAS*I. Daniel Eduvijes Carrera (2017 Artist-in-Residence) is a media artist from Los Angeles, CA. He was the 2017 San Francisco Film Screenwriting “Djeras*i does a particularly good job of choosing cohesive, sympatico groups of residents. I know this from attending Djeras*i events and seeing that it wasn’t just my group that was exceptionally wonderful. But in fact my group was exceptionally wonderful. We writers, filmmakers, painters, composers, playwrights, and dancers shared our excitement about our work, but we also felt comfortable enough with each other—after a week or two, anyway—to be honest about the full range of feelings around doing creative work, work that is so often not supported in other parts of our lives.”