sister sylvester "The Eagle and The Tortoise"

"Genuinely subversive"  - Time Out NY

The Eagle and the Tortoise invites the audience into a live sound and video installation where they collectively read a hand-made book. The book tells the story of a young student from Turkey who became an icon of leftist resistance, an armed militant, a political prisoner, and finally, a proxy soldier in an American war. This visual essay traces the history of the aerial view-in art, mythology, journalism, and warfare-to make the case for other ways of looking.

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"A complex, deeply reflective work that weaves together strands of the personal, political, and mythological with deft subtlety."
- Culturebot

"This always intriguing company continues to create unexpected, challenging work that approaches story and ideas from multiple angles and generates a thrill with unusual juxtapositions."
- AMERICAN THEATER

The piece stands as a more somber companion to lighthearted experiments by the likes of Forced Entertainment and Gob Squad [...] This is a work that succeeds as it fails, speaking most eloquently when it admits that it can't tell the story it wanted to tell, that its maps can't plot the shape of a human life.
- New York Times (about an earlier iteration of this piece, then called 'Maps for a War Tourist).

sister sylvester makes visual essays across live-performance, film and new media. Her work has been presented at festivals and venues including the Venice Film Festival, Onassis Stegi, Public Theater NYC, Internationaal Theater of Amsterdam, IDFA, CPH:DOX and Museum of the Moving Image.

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