ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE AT GRACE SPACE:
with PERFORMANCES AT DIXON PLACE: DIXON PLACE 161A CHRYSTIE STREET (between Rivington and Delancey)
every friday and Saturday in January @ 9.30pm
SISTER SYLVESTER creates original performances which question behavior between people and people, and people and the world. We aim to strip away habitual notions of character and relationship to explore the basic experience of seeing and being seen.
The Ventriloquist Circle
When legendary porn star The Milkman (played by Hugh Cox) is killed on the set of his latest film, two hard-boiled dicks are charged with the investigation--and they soon discover that when it comes to porn, nobody's hands are clean. Also featuring The Lonely Housewife, The Girl Next Door, The Horse, and The Lumberjack.
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//HIDEOUTS FOR TIME, OR THE WHALE
HIDEOUTS FOR TIME, OR THE WHALE is a multimedia piece; a collaboration between video artist Peter Clough and director Kathryn Hamilton. It takes its title from a phrase Robert Smithson used to describe entropy in art��Concealed surfaces, a certain vanishing, or a series of motionless intervals��and the iconic American whaling novel by Herman Melville.
Coming Winter 2012
SISTER SYLVESTER:
SISTER SYLVESTER creates original performances which question behavior between people and people, and people and the world. We aim to strip away habitual notions of character and relationship to explore the basic experience of seeing and being seen.
We search for difference and difficulty and dissonance. We believe in a skeptical anarchism of the spirit, and find beauty in the thrifty, the discarded and the everyday.
- SISTER SYLVESTER is
Kathryn Hamilton has directed projects with SISTER SYLVESTER, most recently, Play America and The Box Man. She studied for her MFA at Columbia University, and directed Jean Genet's The Screens as her thesis project. She has directed work and taught workshops in the US, UK, Nepal and India. Outside of SISTER SYLVESTER she has assisted Anne Bogart at the annual SITI training in Saratoga, and Gavin Quinn, director of Dublin based company Pan Pan on Playing the Dane. She read for her B.A. at Cambridge University. She has studied in Japan on Min Tanaka�s Body Weather Farm and at Natana Kairali in Kerala, India with G. Venu. She has been an artist in residence at Flux Factory, New York.
Peter Clough received a BA in Studio Art Practice from Grinnell College and an MFA in Studio Art Practice from NYU. Clough has presented gallery installations at Peres Projects in Berlin (2008) and Southfirst Gallery in Brooklyn (2009). Clough has performed at the Sculpture Center (2009) and at the Emily Harvey Foundation (2010) in New York, and presented video at the Korea Experimental Arts Festival in Seoul (2010). Clough also works as an independent curator, and has presented the group exhibitions < > at the Commons Gallery at NYU (2008) and One and Three Quarters of an Inch at St. Cecilia�s Convent, Brooklyn (2010).
Arienne Pelletier has been working in theatre production for 10 years. Arienne has worked with such companies as Hourglass Group, Packawallop Productions, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Arts For All. She has primarily worked as a stage manager, but as a producer she has recently worked on Blue Before Morning (terraNOVA Collective) , The Man with the Newspaper Hat (Many Tracks), Be a Hero Benefit (Arts For All). She is also the Staff Producer with Theatre of the Expendable.
Damon Pelletier was chosen to present his designs for the opera Dead Man Walking as part of the Director Designer Showcase at this year�s Opera America Conference. He recently designed for the world premier of I Tre Compagni for ENCOMPASS NEW OPERA THEATRE, directed by Nancy Rhodes. Damon frequently works as set and prop coordinator for various opera performances at Manhattan School of Music, assisting designers Christine Jones (American Idiot) and George Tsypin (Spiderman). He also does freelance design and fabrication for events and advertising campaigns. Damon holds an MFA in stage design from the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Bruce Steinberg�s lighting designs have been seen in venues ranging from a Soho laundromat to Italian concert halls � and even an occasional theatre. Recent work includes: Les Mamelles de Tir�sias (Emma Griffin, The Juilliard School), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Daniel Fish, University of Rochester), wonder (Rachel Chavkin, NYU TSOA Graduate Acting Department), Art of Memory (Tanya Calamoneri at 3LD), The Screens (Kathryn Hamilton, Riverside Theatre), and Blue Before Morning (Gia Forakis, the D�R�2). He received his MFA from New York University's TSOA, Department of Design for Stage & Film. Bruce was also a founding board member of Salem Art Works, a new art colony and sculpture park, where he lit Mark di Suvero's For Euler (1997) and Double Tetrahedron (2004) for July 4th 2005 and 2006. Other visual art installations include Keren Cytter's Mysterious Serious (2009) at X-Initiative. As terraNOVA Collective's Resident Lighting Designer, Bruce has collaborated on their soloNOVA festival from 2007 thru 2009 and was awarded the New York Innovative Theater's Outstanding Lighting Design Award for his work on Kate McGovern's Blue Before Morning.
Matt Wilson is a graduate of Columbia University�s MFA Playwriting program, under the instruction of Charles Mee. He has been the writer for several SISTER SYLVESTER projects, including One Fat Day in Babylon, The Box Man, Tuna Fingers with Walt and Mary, and Play America (Life is Short, Wear Your Party Pants).
ABOUT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
182 AVENUE C NEW YORK, NY 10009
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GRACE:
Grace, n. - simple elegance or refinement of movement
Grace Period - an extended period granted as a special favor
The Three Graces (Greek Mythology) - charm, grace, and beauty
Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006.
Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art Space IRS tax-exempt 501(c)3 status in 2015.
Grace Exhibition Space follows the We Have a Voice Collectives Code of Conduct to Promote Safe(r) Workplaces in the Performing Arts For more information and resources, visit: www.wehavevoice.org