Black Hole Hollow L3C is registered as a Vermont “Low Profit LLC” focused on educational and charitable goals of offering land-based learning, healing, & creative practice committed to intersectional environmental justice and regenerative agriculture.
Nicole Daunic
Collaborative program designer & facilitator
Nicole (she/her) is an independent scholar, dancer and mother who weaves together movement and sacred plant medicine in order to explore and unsettle ways of being in the world that embody the logics of extractive capitalism, human exceptionalism, colonial violence that have given shape to our relationships with our more-than-human kin in ultimately devastating ways. As part of this work, she initiated another audience, a residency that invites performance-based artists to fathom an audience beyond the human gaze that is sentient, alive and performative by giving a performance to the land. Nicole has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University where her research encompassed the fields of performance theory, critical dance studies, and contemporary dance, with a focus on the labor, knowledge production, corporeal intelligence, and creative experimentation of dancers. In addition to performing in New York City and abroad with choreographers such as Luciana Achugar, Walter Dundervill, Mårten Spångberg, and Gillian Walsh, Daunic has served as co-editor of Movement Research’s online publication Critical Correspondence in 2012 and was a recipient of the Corrigan Fellowship in 2008. She has taught as a visiting faculty member at Bennington College and NYU. She studied herbalism and plant spirit medicine with Sage Mauer at The Gaia School of Healing.
Rhys Daunic
Collaborative program designer, facilitator & media maker
Rhys specializes in facilitating collaborative media productions, and developing project-based media literacy experiences with educators, organizations, and artists throughout the country and abroad.
As founder of The Media Spot, Rhys specializes in involving participants in decoding their own knowledge and experiences, then thinking critically about their choices and power as media makers trying to have a mindful impact on our heavily mediated world.
He has been visiting faculty at Columbia University Teachers College, The Summer Institute in Digital Literacy (University of Rhode Island), and the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. He has collaborated on environmental education initiatives with Columbia Earth Institute and NASA, and the Elk Coast Institute, and helped his parents establish The Generation Connection, a non-profit intergenerational summer camp focusing on media literacy and the environment.
iki nakagawa
Researcher, Steward
iki nakagawa is an artist who practices videography as a means of witnessing, embodying, processing, and transporting ideas, actions, and situations in which they thrive. She uses videography to learn care practices and transcorporeal embodiment––between human bodies, water bodies, watersheds, and more than human species–in the context of the climate crisis (thoughts for tomorrow and movements for today 2019-Current), explores ways to activate archival recordings on material and on bodies through multi-media installations and performances (work environmental 2023-Current, Watershed Activation* 2024-Current, Alien Affairs** 2019-2023, Arena Triptych** 2016, and Edit Sessions 2016), produced nine documentaries on sustainable models of productions and distributions (Hyenalife 2010-2013), explored various methods of collaborative filmmaking as a communication and conflict resolution (Out of Synch, 2008-2009, On The Table, 2000-2003, Cinem-a-Crobatic 1997-1999, Double Portrait 1997)iki’s works have been shown at institutions and organizations including LMCC, FEED Media Art Center, Storefront Arts and Architecture, Graduate Center at City University of New York, Nature of Cities Festival, MuseumofAmericabooks, Panoply Performance Laboratory, the Vermont Public Television, the Kitchen, Harvestwsorks, Asia Society and Museum of Chinese in America.
*Collaboration with Nora Almeida. **Collaboration with walter dundervill
