Faye Driscoll

Faye Driscoll is a performance maker and artist based between New York and Los Angeles. She has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times. She creates work from an alchemy of bodies, voices, objects and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. She won an Obie Award for her newest performance-sculpture, Weathering, which is currently touring internationally. She has been presented at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, and Festival Dias da Dança (Porto) among many others. Select awards include the Doris Duke Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie, and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award. She believes live art is radical and necessary in this over mediated time. 

Alchemy Work Death Fear Mystery 
“ We will experiment with performance as a shapeshifting energetic practice. As we loosen our perceptual, physical, expressive, and vocal rigidity, we will commit, feel to excess, practice rigorous play, death-ness, pleasure, becoming nobody and everybody, going towards our fears, and most importantly being together. Let’s grope around in the abyss, throw punches in the dark, howl, and get lost and found again. How do we allow all that we are into the room and let the choreography be made out of the condition of us? How do we stay in our permeability and vulnerability? How is the act of imagining a kind of ongoing choreography that is constantly altering our bodies? ”