Liza Sylvestre
Music from Christopher, Don’t Change Me Now, 2019. Cochlear implant, YouTube playlist, graphite, and paper, 11 × 17 inches.
Flashlight Project, 2020, live performance in Oakland, CA in collaboration with Christopher Jones, performance duration is 1 hour.
Flashlight Project [FP] addresses a need to reconfigure conversation models in order to consider individuals with differing levels of sensory ability. A participatory performance, FP is interested in how exploring the intersection of learned systems of body and language disrupts systems of normatively.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1983
Resides: Champaign, Illinois
Education: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (M.F.A., 2019); University of Minnesota (B.F.A., 2006).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 “asweetsea”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom.
2019 “Third Space”, New Genres Art Space, Rockford Illinois.
“Third Space”, The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota.
2018 “Captioned”, Granary Arts, Ephraim, Utah.
2017 “Interference”, Soo VAC, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2015 “Meridians”, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, AND PERFORMANCES
2022 “Flashlight Project”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom.
“Flashlight Project”, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“On the Edge – Body and Screen”, Ox Warehouse/EXiM, Macau, China.
“This Set of Actions is a Mirror. Conversations at the Edge”, Gene Siskel Film Center and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
2021 “Crip Time”, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany.
“Activating Captions”, ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium.
2020 “Many Voices All of Them Loved”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom.
“Flashlight Project for Heavy Breathing”, Land and Sea Gallery, Oakland, California.
2019 “The Film and Video Poetry Symposium at Cinema Kosmos”, Moscow Russia.
“The Other Four”, The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Davidson, Michael, Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error, New York University Press.
2021 Bailey, Stephanie. “Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme Activate New Possibilities in Art,” Ocula Magazine (May).
Crashaw, Gill. “Activating Captions: An Absorbing Demonstration of Caption Culture from Argos Arts,” disabilityarts.online (May).
Romero-Fresco, Pablo. “Creativity in Media Accessibility: A Political Issue,” cultusjournal.com.
2020 Watlington, Emily, “Critical Creative Correct Cacophonous Comical: Closed Captions”, White Chapel Gallery, in Health, ed. Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz. MIT Press.
2019 Hamilton, Anthony. “Captioned: An Interview with Liza Sylvestre,” sixtyinchesfromcenter.com (September 13).
Nguyen, Minh, “First Look”, Art in America (September).