Buffy Sienna (she/her) is an artist and writer producing work about living horrors and dying beauties. Buffy’s fixation on living horrors and dying beauties is an inverted obsession with life. She produces art to unravel how we live through this world’s horrors, always with a retaliatory affirmation of beauty and its heartbreaking ephemerality. Her work slips promiscuously between sensuousness and severity: erotic live performance and its documents, stark technical design for stage and screen, unrelenting electronic music, and volatile choreographies that turn bodies inside-out. Her performances live in the gothic, gore-geous, and grotesque spaces between sex work, burlesque, drag, synthesized sound, tragic theater, and histories of transsexual futurity. She composes discordant music from open-source software, performance scores from metabolic memories implanted by medicalized technologies, operatic theater from the social engine of queer nightlife, dance from the felt dimensions of her synthetic biology’s chronic pains, and rapturous events where audiences converge for exhilarating, unsettling, and transformative intimacies.
This residency is made possible by the Jerome Foundation.
