Suzie Silver

Suzie Silver has been creating queer performance and video art for more than two decades. Her well-known early videos, "Freebird" and "A Spy" emerged from her involvement with the performance art scene in Chicago in the late '80s and early '90s. Her later videos employ digital collage to meld together appropriated images and music, recorded performance and animated sequences into irreverent celebrations of exoticism, ecstasy and camp. Her current projects include Trans-Q Television — a playful and provocative, collaboratively created, video variety show celebrating the multiplicities of genders and sexualities; and with Hilary Harp, Fairy Fantastic!, a fairy and folk tale video series for queers of all ages (and their friends, too). All of Silver’s work alludes to the capacity for desire to disrupt social boundaries and imagine new futures.