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Sullivan, Catherine
Catherine Sullivan has worked in a variety of media, but she is best known for her theatre and video work exploring the conventions of performance and role-playing. Sullivan uses a wide range of historical and cultural references – including film noir, avantgarde cinema, classical drama, romantic adventure stories, musical scores, literature, contemporary art, and the history of theatre. Through fragmentation, dislocation, and repeated appearances in varying guises, she investigates the tensions and arrangements between performers, their roles, their corporeality and their audience: ‘The actor’s task is to be transformed by the affectations that have currency within a given stylistic economy’. With the grammar of the theatre, she succeeds in freeing culturally anchored codes of gestures and certain definitive patterns of behaviour.
She was born in 1968 in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works. Initially trained as an actress, Sullivan received a BFA in 1992 from the California Institute of the Arts and her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in 1997.
beteiligt an › Mobile Academy in Warsaw: “Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms, and the Places Where They Live”
Catherine Sullivan has worked in a variety of media, but she is best known for her theatre and video work exploring the conventions of performance and role-playing. Sullivan uses a wide range of historical and cultural references – including film noir, avantgarde cinema, classical drama, romantic adventure stories, musical scores, literature, contemporary art, and the history of theatre. Through fragmentation, dislocation, and repeated appearances in varying guises, she investigates the tensions and arrangements between performers, their roles, their corporeality and their audience: ‘The actor’s task is to be transformed by the affectations that have currency within a given stylistic economy’. With the grammar of the theatre, she succeeds in freeing culturally anchored codes of gestures and certain definitive patterns of behaviour.
She was born in 1968 in Los Angeles, where she currently lives and works. Initially trained as an actress, Sullivan received a BFA in 1992 from the California Institute of the Arts and her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in 1997.
beteiligt an › Mobile Academy in Warsaw: “Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms, and the Places Where They Live”
