{"id":5252,"date":"2017-01-12T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T01:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:56:48","slug":"susan-silton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/susan-silton\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Silton"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_881\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5252-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilton.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilton.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilton.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_5255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5255\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5255\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Silton_portrait1.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"s1\">Susan Silton, performing with The Crowing Hens<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Susan Silton resides in Los Angeles. Her multi-disciplinary projects engage multiple aesthetic strategies to mine the complexities of subjectivity and subject positions, often through poetic combinations of humor, discomfort, subterfuge and unabashed beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Silton\u2019s work takes form in performative and participatory-based projects, photography, video, installation, text\/audio works, and print-based projects, and presents in diverse contexts such as public sites, social network platforms, and traditional galleries and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been exhibited\/presented nationally and internationally at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; LA&gt;&lt;ART, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum; ICA\/ Philadelphia; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, among others. Projects include the commissioned installation, <em>In everything there is the trace<\/em> at USC Fisher Museum, the book project, <em>Who&#8217;s in a Name?<\/em> (both 2013), and the site-specific opera, <em>A Sublime Madness in the Soul<\/em> (composed by Juliana Snapper, 2015), which presented through the windows of the artist\u2019s then-studio in downtown Los Angeles. In November, 2015, Silton\u2019s <em>Whistling Project<\/em> was included in SITE Santa Fe\u2019s year-long series of exhibitions, <em>SITE 20 Years\/20 Shows<\/em>, which included a commissioned performance by Silton\u2019s women\u2019s whistling group, The Crowing Hens.<\/p>\n<p>She has received fellowships and awards from the Getty\/California Community Foundation, Art Matters, Center for Cultural Innovation, Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, The MacDowell Colony, Banff Centre for the Arts, Durfee Foundation, The Shifting Foundation, and most recently, Fellows of Contemporary Art. Silton\u2019s work has been featured in numerous publications including <em>Artforum<\/em>, <em>Art21<\/em>, KCET\u2019s <em>Artbound<\/em>, <em>Art in America<\/em>, <em>X-TRA<\/em>, <em>ArtLies<\/em>, <em>Flash Art<\/em>, and <em>Cabinet<\/em>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/151587191\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>A Sublime Madness in the Soul<\/i>, 2015 (composed by Juliana Snapper). Excerpt from operatic work presented through the windows of Silton\u2019s studio, visible and audible from the 6th Street Bridge, Downtown Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/12040493\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Susan Silton and The Crowing Hens<\/i>, 2010. Documentation from performance at LA&gt;&lt;ART, 2010. Performers: Erin Barnes, Jessica Basta, Carole Anne Kaufman, Laura Loftsgaarden, Kathryn Nockels, Susan Silton. Musicians: Joe Berardi, Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/199253100\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Turn the Beat Around<\/i>, 2016. Videowork produced in the aftermath of Orlando nightclub attack, June, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilton.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listSusan Silton resides in Los Angeles. 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