pronouns
they / them / their / y'all
sair götz (they/them) approaches word & art smithing as embodied spell-casting. They believe that through honed language, fantastical channeling, typographic rituals, and sweaty sports, they can compost trash timelines into nourishing futures. They are a technological dumpster diver, finding divine inspiration in obsolete innovations in fields such as silent film, letterpress illustration, and lemon husbandry. These playful and devotional endeavors manifest in all time- and test-based media: video, books, essays, performances, music, software, and signage. Conversations about drag, legibility, and vocal expression are sure to quicken their heart.
sair received their MFA from the Ohio State University in 2017 and their BA in Visual and Media Studies, Arts of the Moving Image, and Documentary Studies from Duke University in 2011. In 2017-2018 sair was awarded the Dedalus Foundation post-MFA fellowship. sair has shown their work in the US and Europe and has completed several residencies across the US & UK: Battersea Arts Center, London, England; SPACE, Portland, ME; ACRE, Stuben, WI; Little Paper Planes @ Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Weir Farm, Wilson, CT; Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ (with fourfor collective); Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC. While in the Bay Area, sair was a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective and Open Windows Cooperative. sair’s studio is currently in Boston, Massachusetts.
They are also the Collections Programming Manager at Letterform Archive.