College of Fine Arts Research Profile

Address:
College of Fine Arts
University of Florida
PO Box 115801
101 FAC
Gainesville FL 32611


Research Interests:
Performance, audience interaction, online social networks, narratives

Research Biography:
Sheila Bishop's transmedia performance and writing practice blends the highly conceptual with the highly emotional, never in equal measures, delights in cutting “pure” high art and theory with low and vulgar and bawdy impurities, stages a tug of war between the scripted and the improvisational and strives for a seriously-tongue-in-check-serious-tongue and an earnestly-ironic-ironically-earnest-rhetoric. Her current work uses Bishop Bishop, a character she developed through a variety of performance platforms, to explore social, political, religious and academic/theoretical issues and to plumb the question of how performance made using digital technologies shape the collective subjectivities of audiences and performers.

Degrees:
B.A., Humanities, New College of Florida

Key Professional Appointments:
WARPhaus Gallery Coordinator

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record

Presentations:
Two Vermons to save the whole wide world and little old you, October 2009
Video in Progress 3: Performance for Video, Kino Siska, Ljubljana, Slovenia
http://www.kolektiva.org/archives/16

Reaching out to some ones, some wheres, some hows, August 2009
Low Lives, curated by Jorge Rojas,
online streaming performance event projected in three galleries
http://www.labontanica.org/pressrelease_current.html

Saving you from the save old same old, July to September 2009
FloCAS Juried Show, Juried by Libby Lumpkin
Florida State Musuem, Tallahassee, FL

A little Vanitas, July 2009
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

my uncle swore, November 2007 to January 2008
New Media, Redux Art, Charleston, SC