JANET SILK
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  • 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
  • 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
I have a background in installation, sound art, and creative writing; recent projects have focused on performance. Exhibition and show venues include local, national and international sites such as SOMarts Cultural Center, Mission Cultural Center, The Lab, New Langton Arts, Intersection for the Arts, ATA Gallery, Anti-Matter Gallery, Fort Mason Center, the Prelinger Library, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Works/San José, MACLA, Pro Arts, Gallery 400 in Chicago, and The Physics Room in New Zealand. ​


Selected Projects
2022
Drawings, “Nazars," installation, DE@50: Celebrating 50 years DE Artists Live/Work Community, November 5–6, San Francisco

2020    
Performance, “Munny Bunny & The Helpers,” in collaboration with Rosa De Anda, tani hasegawa, Mitzi Pederson,  for Center Altar, 29th Annual Virtual Festival of Altars, Día de los Muertos, Marigold Project, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco

2014-2020     
Founder, Artistic Director, and Choreographer, Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project

2019         
Performance, “Munny Bunny,” 4Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole, SOMarts Cultural Center, San Francisco

Performance, “Action in the Stacks," Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project in collaboration with electronic duo Klooj, Prelinger Library, San Francisco

2018         
Performance, “Action in the Stacks," Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project with Klooj, Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco

Performance, “Tales from Hunter's Point Shipyard,” Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project with Klooj, Peacock Lounge, San Francisco

Performance, “Action in the Stacks,” Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project in collaboration with Klooj, “Bier on Books," Friends of Public Library event, Radhaus, San Francisco

2017      
Costume Designer, “Munkey in the City,” web series

Costume and Prop Designer, “You Make Me Dance,” Laura LaRue music video
                
Performance, “birdbrain shuffle,” Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project, Pro Arts, Oakland, California

Performance,“Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?" Si-Si Dance and Performance Art Project, The New Situationists, Pro Arts, Oakland, California

Art installation, “Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?" San José State University Art and Art History Department, Art Building, Case F
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