Awardee Events

Sister Sylvester: Constantinopoliad

February 19-22, 2026

Kinderhook Knitting Mill
8 Hudson Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106

A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, Sister Sylvester’s (2025 Creative Capital Awardee) Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. The work is Inspired by the blank and torn-out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic,” the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

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Sister Sylvester Sister Sylvester creates visual essays and expanded documentaries, at the place where technology and science meet politics and history. She works across performance, film, and new media.

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