PERFORMANCE

GIRL PROBLEMS (2017)

Performative lecture given at University of California, Santa Cruz’s Graduate Research Salon; features video and sound collage.

 

PHASE II: Jeux des Lunes (2013)

The second video in the PHASE Series in collaboration with Erin Gigl. Features Alex Frank. Filmed in Marseilles.

 

Oneironautics at the Gates of Horn and Ivory: A Talk on Dreams (2013)

Performative lecture, featuring sound and video collage. Given at Molasses Books in Brooklyn, New York.

AVALON SPEECH (2012)

Documentation of talk/reading given at MoMa PS1 for Peradam Press book launch.

 

PHASE (2011)

A ongoing video/peformance project with artist, Erin Gigl. PHASE is inspired by theories of dreams, the intersection between fiction and nonfiction, the unconscious and reality, and the immaterial and material worlds. Score written and performed by Jessica Calvanico.

GESTURE (2011)

Ethnographic video footage of interview with Joanna van Rensselear and Gwyneth Anderson. The original interview looks at Joanna van Rensselear’s nail polish collection and chronicles the three participants doing their nails. The subsequent video looks at the gestural affects of homosocial space. Music courtesy of Coughs “Fright Makes Right” from album, Fright Makes Right, on Load Records, 2005.