JANET SILK
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    • Heresy Becomes Habit (review)
    • Pussy Willow Sighs (essay)
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    • Brancusi's Wet Dream (Article)
    • Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment (essay)
    • Pedagogy of Failure in the Global Art Market (essay)
    • From Life-Art to Hijab (essay)
    • Self-Appointed Victory: An imaginary conversation with Camille Paglia on February 26, 2009 (creative writing/performance)
  • Projects
    • Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project
    • Munkey in the City (web series)
    • Open a Vein (installation)
    • 2D
  • Home
  • About
    • Bio
  • Writing
    • Heresy Becomes Habit (review)
    • Pussy Willow Sighs (essay)
    • Ease on Down the Runway (essay)
    • WA(i)STED (curatorial statement)
    • Brancusi's Wet Dream (Article)
    • Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment (essay)
    • Pedagogy of Failure in the Global Art Market (essay)
    • From Life-Art to Hijab (essay)
    • Self-Appointed Victory: An imaginary conversation with Camille Paglia on February 26, 2009 (creative writing/performance)
  • Projects
    • Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project
    • Munkey in the City (web series)
    • Open a Vein (installation)
    • 2D
More Projects

2016   
      
Three part street performance, “Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?" Si-Si Dance and Performance Art Project: July 23 @ San Francisco Civic Center Plaza; September 23 @ Twitter HQ, San Francisco; November 25 @ Google HQ, Embarcadero, San Francisco

2015         
Street performance,“Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?" Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

2014          
Performance, “Evil I Skater,” Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project, Church of 8 Wheels, San Francisco

Performance, “Mona Moana,” Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project, Studio #222 Soiree, Developing Environments, San Francisco

Sculpture installation,“Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” Baker’s Beach, San Francisco

Project, “Shaved Bald: Hair Memorial II,” San Francisco

Sculpture installation, “Minimalist Evil Eye,” Baker’s Beach, San Francisco

Street performance, “Pinky,” Los Angeles, California
    
2012         
Art installation, “Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment,” Open Studios, Developing Environments, San Francisco

2011        
Art installation, “Creatures,” Open Studios, Developing Environments

2010        
Art installation, “Nikki’s World,” collaboration with Gabrielle Thormann, Open Studios, Developing Environments

2009        
Art installation, performance, “The Art Flea Market,” with Michael Peppe, Open Studios, Developing Environments

Street performance, “Self-Appointed Victory,” at Pulgas Water Temple, Woodside, California

2008           
Art project, “We Love California,” in collaboration with Gabrielle Thormann, We Are California History, Oakland Art Gallery

2007        
Sculptures, “Monkey Skulls,” I Love Independent: A Designer Shopping Event, Jillian’s at the Metreon, San Francisco

Art installation, “Vacuum,” collaboration with Gabrielle Thormann and J.P. Morgan, Developing Environments
     
Performance video, “Mashi,” collaboration with Dina Danish, CCA MFA Video Screening with Adrian Paci, New Langton, San Francisco

2006        
Art project, “Stars, Gold, Glitter,” Post-Post Card 10, The Lab, San Francisco

2002-03     
Group exhibition, “URValue.com,” Faculty: 2003, Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz
     
Art installation,“Detroit, I Feel Good,” Entre La Luz y La Muerte se encuentra la vida Day of the Dead  Exhibition, SOMarts, San Francisco

2001        
Art installation, “Roll Call,” City of Miracles/Ciudad de Los Milagros, SOMarts, San Francisco

2000        
Sound installation, “The Shock” Seismic Girl Re-Mix CD, Christchurch, New Zealand

1999        
Sound installation, “Departure Lounge” Nightfall, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery

Sound installation, “Dead Air,” Corporeal Sky, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
 
Sound and art installation, “Phantom Line,” Sinusoidal…a sound art show, Art Gallery, San Francisco State University
    
Sound and web project, “gardenofeternaltime.com,” The Hybrid Festival, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley

1998        
Art installation, “Among the Missing,” Offering Light to the Shadow, New College, San Francisco

Sound and art installation, “Phantom Line,” Labyrinths for the Dead, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Sound and web installation, “Phantom Line and gardenofeternaltime.com,” MFA UCB Exhibition 1998, Berkeley Art Museum
        
Art installation, “Phreak Boxez,” The Box Show, Works/San José
         
Web art installation, “gardenofeternaltime.com,” Work in Progress, 2nd Space Gallery, San Francisco

1997        
Art installation, “Among the Missing,” Labyrinth of the Dead, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco

Sound installation, “Ballad of Expansion,” Operation Calm, Venue 9, San Francisco

Olfactory painting,“Transcendental Yellow Rose,” Soft, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley

Web art installation, “Bouquet-online,” fahrenheit 451, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery

Telephonic art installation, “Museum of the Future,” Earart, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California

Art installation,“Bouquet,” and “Zip Gun,” Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, Florida

Telephonic art installation,“Local 411,” Yerba Buena Redevelopment Zone, San Francisco

1996       
Sound and telephonic art installation, “50 Stars,” Bridges: Annual Artists Committee Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco

Sound art, “Ballad of Expansion,” Inter-Galactic… 4 Walls Gallery, San Francisco

Sculpture, “Discards,” Secession Gallery, San Francisco

Sound art, “Museum of the Future,” SoundCulture '96, International Sound Festival, San Francisco

1995         
Art installation, “The Morgue,” Offerings To Remember/Offrendas Del  Recuerdo, New College, San Francisco

Art installation, “At the Gate,” Exploration City Site, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery

Sound and art installation, “Two Stories,” Bay Area Awards, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
     
Sound and art installation, “Variety is the Spice of Life,” Artists Respond to Prop 187, New College, San Francisco

Art installation, “Bouquet,” & “ Zip Gun,” Arrested Images, Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois

Sound and art installation, “0 seconds, 12 minutes, 2 hours, 20 days,” Latent August, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Sound and art installation, “Variety is the Spice of Life,” Artists Respond to Prop 187, MACLA, San José

Sound and art installation, “RAW,” Rice, Works/San José

1994         
Sound and art installation, “Dead Air,” Rooms for the Dead V, Yerba Buena  Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Telephonic sound art, “Area Code,” Summer Sound Lab, The Lab, San Francisco

Sculpture, “Commodities,” Secession, Haynes Gallery, San Francisco

1993  
Art installation, “Cartesian Luminaire,” ATA Gallery, San Francisco

Sculpture, “Throne,” Corazon del Barrio, Mission Cultural Center, San  Francisco

Street art installation, “Sail Cats,” 1807 Divisadero Street, San Francisco

Sculpture, “Zip Gun,” Object Show, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
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Art donation, “The Song of the Shirt,” One of A Kind, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco

1992         
Art installation, “Bouquet,” Rooms for the Dead III, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco
         
Performance, “365°,” The Lab, San Francisco
         
Performance, “Eat the Louvre,” Anti-Matter Gallery, San Francisco
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