• Heather Sincavage | Performance Artist & Feminist Art Researcher
  • current performance work
    • he hath couered my soul inwarde
    • The Baptism of Wounds and Scars
    • Inescapable Presence
    • to my small hearth, his fire came
    • Monstrous and Terrible to Behold
    • threshold unraveled
    • a brittleness
    • the dividing line [shifts]
    • a cutting in
    • 2375
    • to have, to hold
    • pangs of
    • the burden of this
    • Every day is the last time.
    • the plea series
    • a measure of you
    • memorial
    • a transfiguration of longing
    • the weight of these decisions
    • surrogate: a measure of your absence
  • archive
    • the rise and fall
    • the length of my infinite love
    • an archive of breaths held
    • bearing witness
    • a necessary threshing
    • transplant
    • a place to call my own
    • the sentinels
    • foal
    • ode to sentinels
    • I, more than all others
    • reluctance of breath
    • alchemy of sulfur
    • her coronation of the places between
    • a history of errors
    • this time will be perfect
    • reflecting pool
    • widdershins
    • to define one from the other
  • curatorial projects
    • David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, & Friendship
    • Brutal Beauty: The Transformation of Women in Mythology | Martha Posner
    • Loud Silence: Expressions of Activism
    • 15 Minutes: From Image to Icon | Andy Warhol
    • This Too Shall Pass | Mirandah Akeley & Corbett Fogue
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heather sincavage

  • Heather Sincavage | Performance Artist & Feminist Art Researcher
  • current performance work
    • he hath couered my soul inwarde
    • The Baptism of Wounds and Scars
    • Inescapable Presence
    • to my small hearth, his fire came
    • Monstrous and Terrible to Behold
    • threshold unraveled
    • a brittleness
    • the dividing line [shifts]
    • a cutting in
    • 2375
    • to have, to hold
    • pangs of
    • the burden of this
    • Every day is the last time.
    • the plea series
    • a measure of you
    • memorial
    • a transfiguration of longing
    • the weight of these decisions
    • surrogate: a measure of your absence
  • archive
    • the rise and fall
    • the length of my infinite love
    • an archive of breaths held
    • bearing witness
    • a necessary threshing
    • transplant
    • a place to call my own
    • the sentinels
    • foal
    • ode to sentinels
    • I, more than all others
    • reluctance of breath
    • alchemy of sulfur
    • her coronation of the places between
    • a history of errors
    • this time will be perfect
    • reflecting pool
    • widdershins
    • to define one from the other
  • curatorial projects
    • David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, & Friendship
    • Brutal Beauty: The Transformation of Women in Mythology | Martha Posner
    • Loud Silence: Expressions of Activism
    • 15 Minutes: From Image to Icon | Andy Warhol
    • This Too Shall Pass | Mirandah Akeley & Corbett Fogue
    • portfolio
  • press
  • about
    • artist statement
    • bio
    • curriculum vitae
    • about
  • connect
    • upcoming events
    • social media
    • contact
    • connect
  • store
 
 

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View fullsize I’ve sooooo mentally bogged down and have needed a bit of a creative outlet. I e spent the morning playing around with images and Morse code. These are little sketches, studies, something I’m playing with. 
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Morse code is a go-to for m
View fullsize #OTD in 2017, I performed #theburdenofthis for the very first time at the Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival. This was the first official public performance I ever did (others had been casual closed types of events) and although it was quite the int
View fullsize I usually reserve my IG feed for my performance practice but my “day job” is as a faculty member and gallery director at Wilkes University.
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This year I headed up a project (entitled @yearofthevote) that commemorates the centennial of
View fullsize I’ve shown this piece a number of times. This is 2375 performed at the @imrccenter this past Fall. Important to this performance is the garment I am wearing by @marthaposner 
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Martha completed a series of these garments over these past years
View fullsize New work here is honestly at a stand still as I am swamped with my day job tasks but I thought I’d share a little bit about these two moments. 
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‘A cutting in’ (slide one) focuses on the impact of trauma and how that subconscious
View fullsize Throwing it back to a piece I did in 2013 locked alone in my bedroom in the wilds of Northern Iceland.  I hadn’t really claimed that I had a performance practice as of yet but this is what could be considered a runway piece to that. 
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Been t
View fullsize Last week, a piece I wrote for Line Body Bridge journal, a publication out of Toronto on experimental process, somatics, and performance, entitled ‘The Burden of This’ came out. The whole journal is on view at linebridgebody.com however i
View fullsize So I’ve been fighting my computer for days now. Heather: 0, Computer: 1. .
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I was looking forward to sharing a new piece for the launch of @linebridgebody, an international journal on performance and somatics, but it looks like it will be impo
View fullsize Currently struggling with pretty everything. Trying to be productive when the world feels as it does makes all other deadlines feel pointless. I’ve been trying to push through however it just feels impossible. .
I hope you are ok. I hope that w
View fullsize Another morning of filming and another morning of frustration. Here’s a “sketch” though that I’m fooling around with this afternoon as I review video and reflect. .
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#heathersincavage #performance #performanceartists #perfo
View fullsize Working on something new which is coming along slowly and begrudgingly but it’s based on some of the work I did late in my #30daysofperformancegestures around the ideas of physical-emotional isolation and the politics of communication. Hope to
View fullsize My submission for the #ILYSM4Artists x @arthoecollective Grant. Follow @ilysm.jpg & @arthoecollective & support #4CreativesByCreatives #ILYSM4ArtistsWeek9 #ILYSMArt
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Image one: ‘a cutting in’ performance, duration: 2.
View fullsize I am 100% floating aimless these past few days (weeks?). I have lots to do but hardly the mental bandwidth. Today I had to go in and pick things up at my office which was absolutely eerie. It was like I entered a strangers house who just passed away.
View fullsize 30/30: 30 days of performance gestures
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Not where I thought I’d end up and after today going as it has, definitely not where I thought I would be even this morning. There’s lots to take in and process. I’m truly hoping some of th
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These days I’m kind of mentally worn out. I’m not feeling at all focused. During this time home, I’ve definitely ebbed and flowed with clarity of purpose when it comes to this exercise. I e
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View fullsize 26/30: 30 days of performance gestures
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Nothing of today’s posts went as planned. It’s been raining for what feels like forever. I decided to work with it but of course, in doing so it helps to turn on the camera. I sat in the rain for