(Performance at 7 pm)

"the quality that we call… however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover… in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows to… ends.”
--junichiro tanizaki

current obsession: obsession

currently hearing: [ ]lackness and
[ ]lack noise and the [ ]lack body as it is queered, exhausted, eulogized, and conscripted into emotional bureaucracies & sonic discourses of the human, b

currently wearing: my mother's facial expressions & little else of note

last question: organ or apparatus?

sidony o’neal (b. 1988) is a writer, performance artist, and dramaturg based in Portland, OR. Her work is interdisciplinary— often synthesizing text, textiles, movement, installation, as well as sound and olfactory components. sidony has presented work in North America and West Africa. She has performed as a member of DEAD THOROUGHBRED, future death agency, and DELICTO. Her writing has appeared in Passages North, BATHHOUSE, and SPOOK among others. She is the translator of Prognosis: Descarga Poetica Decolonial (Quilomboarte 2014) and author of f a c e bowl (THE MINI CHAPBOOK PRESS 2013). sidony has held a Literary In(ter)ventions residency at the Banff Centre, Canada and was the co-recipient of two 2015 PICA Precipice Fund grants. In June 2016 she will participate in a residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland.