Wednesday, November 6th at 7:30PM

Collective Reading and Conversation with sister sylvester

Join sister sylvester for a collective reading from handmade books that are part of the artist’s performance The Eagle and the Tortoise. The Eagle and the Tortoise tells the story of a young student from Turkey who became an icon of leftist resistance, an armed militant, a political prisoner, and finally, a proxy soldier in an American war. It traces the history of the aerial view—in art, mythology, journalism, and warfare—to make the case for other ways of looking. Collective reading will feature one chapter from the book, and open into a conversation with sister sylvester facilitated by undoxx curators on censorship the artist and collaborators encountered in presenting The Eagle and the Tortoise.

Artist talk with sister sylvester to follow Collective Reading.

Audio describers and readers will be available to make this event accessible to low vision and blind attendees.

About the artist

sister sylvester is a multimedia artist based in New York and Istanbul. In collaboration with Deniz Tortum she created the VR documentary Shadowtime (’23), which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and continues to tour to festivals including IDFA, GIFF, Thessaloniki Film Festival, and SXSW; and the film Our Ark which premiered at IDFA (’21) and has screened at festivals internationally. In her live work she creates visual essays and books that become performances as well as spatial narratives that play with spoken and written text to create communal reading experiences. Her work has been called ‘genuinely subversive’ by Time Out NY; ‘imaginative and original’ by New York Times; ‘pulse-raising’ by Exeunt Magazine, ‘perplexing’ by Theaterscene, ‘apocalyptic’ by artforum, and ‘otherworldly, intimate, off-kilter, queer artistic orgasm’ by Life Magazine, Greece.