balsamic practices.
2019-present
collaborative improvising convenings with musicians Suki O’Kane, Kevin Corcoran, Edward Schocker, and Rae Diamond
the balsamic moon is the waning crescent moon on the verge of the dark of the moon, the reflection point of what’s been, and the rest/ferment/foment in the bright-dark in-betweenness precursing the new.
in these surreptitious performances for accidental audiences we are conversant with land, time and each other.
Summer Winter Spring
2016-2018
In this collaborative work led by media artist Ian Winters, I made a choreography (Summer) for objects, color and humans responding to our precarity and grasps at safety in late-stage capitalism.
Lead Artist: Ian Winters
Choreographers: Mary Armentrout, Daiane Lopes da Silva, paige starling sorvillo / blindsight,
Composers: Heather Frasch and Evelyn Ficarra
With: Live percussion by Suki O’Kane, Performance by Norman Gee, Film performances by Vanessa Norton, Steven Trull and others.
anonym.
2018 - this work centers on the state of presence generated in/by absence[s].
“the true and false unfreedom of having to answer to a name” - from an article by Hannah Black on the abstract individual subject as a product of gendered and racialised capitalism
"If there is no sequential order except for what we engender to make us safe in the world, then maybe it is possible, what, to cross from one nameless state to another, except that it clearly isn't." - Don DeLillo
"Actions go on in us, nothing else goes on." - Anne Carson
Choreography and Performance, sorvillo
Sound Collaborators, Aurora Josephson & Kanoko Nishi
