Internationally acclaimed performance artist in first major solo exhibition in Sydney.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 23, 2010 -- 'The world is made up of unfinished stories' looks at the relationship between performance and the everyday and reflects upon the significance and beauty of commonplace activities and spaces. Some works simply capture a moment while others show socially based interventions.

Join us on the opening night from 6-8 pm for a special performance of Boots for rising waters, originally performed on the steps of the Dom Cathedral, Cologne in 2007.

Sylvia's interventions involve local participants and take place in cities and landscapes as diverse as Sydney, Saigon and Cologne. The artist seeks out volunteers who are not actors; ordinary folk who generally do not go to galleries or museums and who are from different social and cultural backgrounds.

She directs on a platform of fun and lightheartedness and choreographs to stimulate experiences that create awareness of important social issues for the performers and by-standers. Issues can range from sense of self and community to matters as diverse as climate change and prostitution. All the performances and interventions have outcomes in a variety of media: as the performances themselves and as video, photographs, text, installation or sculpture.

Sylvia's single channel DVD The workers' lift was recently selected by Andrew Frost for acquisition by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery as part of the Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize.

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