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 written and published essays about my art projects and teaching experience, as well as about diverse topics such as Black Metal music, Czech poetry, fashion shows, and Art/Life boundaries. My publishing record includes peer-reviewed cultural research journals, and I served as a peer reviewer for the Oxford University Press andThe International Journal of Art and Design Education.

Selected Publications

2016        
Art show review, “Heresy Becomes Habit," Inspissations: Jakub Kalousek, Cricket Engine Studios and Gallery, Oakland, California

2015         
Introductory essay “Pussy Willow Sighs,” for book Flares, Conflagrations, Refulgence, Coruscation: Victor Bruxi, trans. Hela Fchunce, Lamar Annex

2014        
Essay, “Ease on Down the Runway,” for Art Academy University Graduation Fashion Show book, event documentation, Boron Publishing

Drawing, “Is there Love in the Telematic Embrace?” selected for essay “Melt With Us,” duskin drum and Sarah Lewison, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 9, Summer 2014, 
www.joaap.org/issue9/drumlewison.htm

Curatorial statement, WA(i)STED: New Work by Jakub Kalousek & Scott MacLeod, Cricket Engine Studios and Gallery, Oakland, California

2013      
Essay, “Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment,” Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory, Issue 1: Incipit, Punctum Books, Winter 2013

2012 
Essay, "Brancusi's Wet Dream​" image-text piece for MotoMachine: Motorcycle and Repair Service, San Rafael, California, 2012

2011        
Essay, “Pedagogy of Failure in the Global Art Market,” The International  Journal of Art and Design Education, 30.1, Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. 115, February 2011

Essay, “From Life-Art to Hijab," Stretcher: visual culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, October 2011, stretcher.org/features/from_life_art_to_hijab (note: as of 2015, Stretcher no longer exists)

2009
Fictional interview, “Self-Appointed Victory,” in conjunction with street performance at Pulgas Water Temple, Woodside, California

1999        
Essay, “Educating the Third Mind,” Afterimage, 27: November-December 1999: 4

Essay, “Public Space and Intimacy: Investing the landscape with history through the use of the telephone," UCLA History of Art and Computing Graduate Seminar, Victoria Vesna
         
1998        
Essay, “Local 411: Private Conversations in Public Space,” Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology 31:4, MIT Press 1998
    
Essay, “Local 411: Private Conversations in Public Space," Words on Works, editor, Judy Malloy

Essay, “Intimacy, Concept, Interaction: Artistic Potential of Voice Mail and the Telephone,” Public Culture, Duke University Press, 26/1998, 10 (3): 609–616, https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-3-609

1997        
Text-based interview, “A Conversation with Ian Pollock and Janet Silk,” Arts Wire Interactive Art Conference, editor, Anna Couey, May-November 1997
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