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PlatteForum’s
Creative Residencies!
Sheryl Oring
Brooklyn, New York
Visual Arts/Performing Arts
May 1 - May 26, 2006 |
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Sheryl’s work builds
on the installation “Writers Block” which
was originally displayed on the site of the Nazi book
burning in Berlin and has subsequently traveled to
Budapest, Boston and New York. In 2003, Sheryl returned
to the United States after 6 years working as a journalist
in Berlin and saw the country through different eyes.
She started her project “I wish to say”
as a way to document the diversity in the United States
and to offer people a chance to speak their minds
by drafting typewriter written letters to George W.
Bush. She dresses in costume, types the responses,
and sends the originals to the White House. Her performance-based
work has taken place in San Francisco in 2004, followed
by travels more than 4,000 miles through town squares,
Laundromats, and street fairs ending in Boston and
New York for the Democratic and Republican conventions.
For her residency, she will set up a portable “office”
complete with manual typewriter and ask people from
all walks of life questions that relate to one of
the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
She will complete several performances at various
locations and venues, and work with students in creating
works for the collective piece as well as their own
handmade artists books out of the cards (4’x5’
typed responses).
Sheryl has exhibited her installation
works in solo and group shows and performing on-site
Nationally and throughout Europe over the past 10
years. Her work has been covered in printed press,
notably The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and
San Francisco Chronicle as well as on television.
In 2004, Sheryl was featured as a “Person of
the Week” by Peter Jennings on ABC World News
Tonight. Further information about her projects can
be found on her website at www.iwishtosay.org.
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