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‘Aliens are temporary,’ exhibition, Berlin

June 4, 2022
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“The Tunnel of Fun emerges from a curatorial proposal to author Siouxzi Connor: to write a fictional text inspired by the works of the artists who begin the project and the first mutation in order to estrange the curatorial voice, counteracting its supposed objectivity, omniscience and uniformity. Siouxzi Connor welcomes this invitation and begins her writing process with a dream she herself had months ago. In this dream, “as if Ursula K Le Guin had […]

The WØMB: 2018

June 27, 2018
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2018 / The WØMB

After a long hiatus while busily working on other independent projects, I’m back with updates! For the most part of 2018 so far, I have been dedicating a lot of my time to the organisation I co-founded The WØMB. The WØMB is a non-profit association empowering female, non-binary and female-identifying creatives and entrepreneurs in the creative industries. We hold bi-annual symposiums with workshops, masterclasses, roundtables and panels led by industry professionals from all over the world. […]

Transgressive Cultures Conference, Paris

November 14, 2017
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2017 / In the dark, dark room (2017) / Our Little Wooden House in the Forest / siouxzi mernagh: pictures | exhibitions

I was so happy to be back in Paris last week – I fell in love with the city all over again! I was there to present my book Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing) for the first time in France. I was invited by the Transgressive Cultures Conference, held at the University of Chicago, to read several extracts from the book – Just tumult everywhere endlessly, Leda in Glass and several vignettes from my novel. […]

Reading & Screening in Paris

November 8, 2017
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2017 / In the dark, dark room (2017) / Our Little Wooden House in the Forest / siouxzi mernagh: pictures | exhibitions

I’m in Paris right now to present my book and film for the first time in France. I was invited to present the works at the Transgressive Cultures Conference at the University of Chicago, Paris, organized by Jack Sargeant. I will be reading from the book and screening the film at tomorrow’s panel on Transgressive Film and Literature. I’ll also be happy to take questions from the audience. Still in love with this city!   […]

Residency at the Library of Water, Iceland

October 13, 2017
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2018 / femininity and nature / residencies

I’m very happy to announce my writer’s residency in Iceland next summer. In August 2018 I’ll follow in the footsteps of some of my favourites – Anne Carson, Roni Horn, Rebecca Solnit – for a residency at the Vatnasafn – Library of Water in Iceland. I’ll be using the time there for concentrated research and writing for my new project on femininity and nature and its representations in several key texts and films. The focus […]

New film

September 22, 2017
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2017 / In the dark, dark room (2017) / Our Little Wooden House in the Forest / siouxzi mernagh: pictures | exhibitions

‘We, all of us creatures, can feel when the new season is coming and it means the same thing in our bones to all of us…’ ‘In the dark, dark room’ explores what happens to the psyche when we are isolated in nature – what rituals, fears and desires take over? The film was shot by Siouxzi Connor and Uferlos Studios in the dark winter of 2016 in the depths of an ancient Finnish forest […]

New artists-in-residence

November 23, 2016
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2016 / Our Little Wooden House in the Forest / siouxzi mernagh: words | 'in the dark dark room' 2013

As featured on @Mustarinda’s Facebook page: New artists-in-residence ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ November 2016 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SIOUXZI CONNOR Siouxzi Connor is a Sydney-born writer and artist based in Berlin. A former research fellow of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Siouxzi brings together experimental narrative work in literature and film, exploring ritual, tradition, ecology and female sexuality. She works for Little Sun, the solar energy project of Danish-Icelandic artist Studio Olafur Eliasson, and is an artist with Uferlos […]