Festival Year: 2022

Kathryn Hamilton

Roles: Director

Kathryn Hamilton, aka Sister Sylvester, is an artist and self-taught microbiologist making work in New York and Istanbul. As Sister Sylvester she creates essayistic performances that use first-hand research, found documents, animals, and technology to make cross-species collaborations and cyborg theater. She teaches a bio-hacking performance class, The School of Genetically Modified Theater, and has taught that and other classes at Colorado College, Princeton, UCCS, Columbia University, Bogazici, Istanbul, and MIT. Her work has been reviewed by Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Performance Art Journal, Telerama.

 

Festival Year: 2022