i was 33. i had just left a relationship with the nice man who is a brilliant sculptor with a generous spirit but not a huge intellect. he is the person who told me: "artists marry women in the health professions." said that to me in all sincerity, his big brown eyes unblinking; and in a flash, i…

Fleetstreet Residency Program

The next application time limit expires on 30 April 2013

Dear collegues, dear friends,

Since 1 January 2011 the Fleetstreet Theatre sets up a residence program for artists groups working across all genres by means of performance arts, visual arts, film and/or music.

The Fleetstreet Residency Program is designed to support young groups which put up productions with reasonable means which are suitable for…

MAY 2013: BERLIN OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE WORLD OF PERFORMANCE ART!



>> PROGRAMME



The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART is a 31 day citywide platform supporting, celebrating and presenting BERLIN’s independent, contemporary and experimental performance art scene.



MPA–B is not a festival; it has neither…

two young directors in a directing class cast me in their direction cuttings yesterday. i had not auditioned for a long time, maybe 5 or 6 years.…

'Body considering its pains' is being re-staged as part of First Fortnight Festival exhibition, Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland, 4-12 January 2013

As I ventured into my first experience of creating, developing and performing my first solo piece I can not deny that the responsibility of "making it work" filled me with complete dread. I had had the initial idea for the piece in the Summer of 2011 and was confident that this was a good concept and moreso something individually my own reflecting aspects of my own personality without appearing narcissistic.

With further development; ideas disgarded and kept.The piece almost…

MEDIA CIRCUS

Volunteers needed!

Nov.19-21st(set-up) + Nov. 23-25th (festival)

Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th St, NY, NY



Build your resumé, get fed + dranked, get a weekend pass to Media Circus, do something fun and interesting!



What we need: Hands, Brains + Hearts to help us execute a most excellent Media Circus, actual duties will include:



-problem solving

-stage set up

-cabling

-lifting…

TYFTB (thank you from the bottom) Storyboard, Version Four - November 1, 2012

from Sylvia Toy on Vimeo.

my performance art movie in progress. using dramatic improv to create this story, its characters and its world. one day i'll be watching a…

Magmart, International Videoart Festival, is celebrating the 50th year of video art: "Magmart | video under volcano VIII edition start in 2012 and will end in 2013, conventionally considered the fiftieth anniversary of videoart. ... So, this edition is very important for us, and especially for videoart. We hope that artists' participation will grow again and again, for amount and for quality. ... We hope that videoart can become really 'adult' along this year: its time!" (…

that's an easy answer: when she finds her throughline.

very happy to have discovered the inciting incident of my story - which gives my central character a throughline + motivation, and my pivotal character/antagonist a reason to be in the story besides looking like a 21st century samurai pimp.

this particular study needs a lot of technical development, but i have mastered a major hurdle in developing TYFTB (thank you from…

as we all know, art is a lot of hard work. it took me 5 hours to do all the things i needed to shoot short entreactes for my new live-action storyboard TYFTB. there is a character, either fantastical or supernatural TBD, who haunts the hallway in the middle of the night at a mental hospital  - the setting of the movie.

i used to be a sculptor. some of my wood figures were so big that i would work on one side all day and i would have to wait…

Grace Exhibition Space wants to keep initiating discussions around Performance Art.

The term "Performance Art" has come to mean many different things, with an interpretations and uses as wide and vast as the oceans.

How do you differentiate the vastness of the various Performance Art meanings? It can mean the perfornativity of a Mercedes to the performativity of a pinky . . . .

To us, the meaning is specific to a particular art form that we live and present on a regular…

commitment. the word that came to mind when i started watching this Kool: Dancing in My Mind, Robert Wilson's homage to Japanese dancer and choreographer, Suzushi Hanayagi. it also came to mind what the best people who have taught me all said - when you move, move like you mean it and know why you mean it and where you came from. 

when i…

i am having an email discussion with an artist friend about artist statements. she is a good writer and communicates really well about others' work, but when she brought up the issue of summary/synopsis and i responded "artist statement," things got pretty interesting:

some days of grief are worse than others - today is pretty bad: today i finished my movie, Indigo Lady A Performance Art Movie (except for tweaking sound) and Mama is not going to see it. i think she would have liked it - she weirdly seemed to have the gene for "getting" avant…

Indigo Lady by Sylvia Toy - The End from Sylvia Toy on Vimeo.

onward . . .

i am taking a bit of a break today. getting burned out on art when you do it every day is like living in an NYC efficiency with your Siamese twin.

the downside of art getting easier is it's more like a relationship; and walking out of the room only starts a fight.

so glad there's so much…