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Photo Courtesy of the artist
Joe Silovsky
Activity Session:
Creating Analog Simulations/
how to build a bomb
3:00-4:00pm | Segal Theatre
Joe is currently creating a piece about Sacco and Vanzetti, two anarchist immigrants convicted and executed for a violent payroll robbery in the 1920s. Joe will be working with audience members to build cardboard replicas of the infamous Gimbel's mail bombs from that era. As they build, audience members will also be learning about the various ways Joe has used the materials of his craft from jack-in-the-box suitcases and hand crafted card-board cut outs to motorized robots and wireless cameras projecting images of tiny model people moving through 1:1 scaled miniature landscapes. The workshop will be an unveiling of how Joe uses a mixture of analog and digital technologies to create distractable, irreverent and sometimes destructive simulations of the histories his performances explore.
Photo courtesy of the artist
Joe Silovsky is an object-oriented performance artist. In the act of the live performance he combines his passions for construction, history and theory. He builds machines, contraptions, puppets and puppet stages out of everything from cardboard to hacked electronics. He uses those machines and puppets to tell stories of obscure, historical figures and the minutiae surrounding them. Joe's work has been presented by Performance Space 122, Labapalooza at St Anne’s Warehouse, Tonic’s Little Theater, Kananahk Performance Art Festival in Estonia, Randolph St Gallery, in Chicago, The Stable in DUMBO, Chashama, Ontological/Hysteric Theater, and Link’s Hall. He has also worked as a collaborator on various projects with The Builders Association, Radiohole, Tutto and the Ragman, HMS and Lucky Pierre. www.silovsky.com
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