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Elida Silvey is a self taught Mexican-American writer, editor and artist living in London. Her writing is concerned with post-internet visual theory as it relates to the concepts of reality, time and 'the self’ as experienced through (collective) memory. She regularly writes about this topic on her Substack, Through the Eye of a Needle.

She is the assistant editor for Montez Press and is 1/2 of Dream Sequence an experimental film club. 

To keep up to date with her work, performances and workshops visit her Instagram @elida.silvey.

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‘Canela Nacar #666-240’(Wasafiri, Latinx Issue), UPCOMING

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Shoo Shoes! Why Ugly Shoes Repel the Male Gaze, Essay, 11-025

Polyester Zine, digital and in print

This essay chronicles the rise of the ‘ugly’ shoe—from Margiela’s infamous red-painted footprints in 1989, to the current trend of lowbrow Vibram 5-Finger or couture’s Matieres Fecales’ skin heels—as an exploration of the feminist urge to oppose the male gaze. Taking a look at what unique silhouettes have since de-throned the tabi from its spot as fashion's favorite feminist shoe. 

This article pinpoints fashion’s shapeshifting footprint, parallel to the rise in foot fetishes, to uncover just how someone may rebel against the patriarchal norms of beauty with an ‘ugly’ or unusual pair of shoes.

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You Won’t Believe What This Woman Did After the Cameras Stopped!, Text Work, 09-025

Rich Text: Clickbait, print

You Won’t Believe… criticizes the sensationalism inherent with a lot of click-bait pop culture “news” stories.  By removing the context provided by paparazzi and spectator images, and repurposing them as ALT-text—a written description of an image that is embedded into the HTML code of a webpage—the dehumanization that is experienced by these people is turned outward onto the culture that breeds it. I set out trying to understand: what does internet-led, click-bait crazed culture do to individual people? What would we picture if we only read/hear about it without the contextual bias of an image? Would this be the same as everyone else?

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Wetland-ing: Terrains for Collaboration, Experimental Essay, 07-025

Digitally on Are.na and in print
‘This publication acts as land to roam. It functions as a carrier bag of reflections, sources, processes, outputs and archives. These were collected using the wetlands as both a point of departure, and as metaphor.’ 

Written non-linearity to explore the three dimensionality of Are.na as a research platform, while contextualizing the work of 12 artists in relation to the metaphor of wetland-ing. At the centre of this essay-archive is Colombo, Sri Lanka—a mosaic of wetlands. The piece requires you to experience the work by roaming through the website to read it as originally intended, and coaxes you to get lost and form your own connections.  

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Chemotaxis on a Zebra Crossing, Short Story, 04-025

The Interjection Calendar 011-04, Montez Press, print

Inside the mind of a stranger.

When Racheal Crowther, the guest editor of IC011, mentioned that the theme of the issue would be ‘scent’ I instantly asked myself: as a person riddled with anxieties, is there a way someone could become anxious about their ability to smell? How much space would that anxiety take up inside someone’s head?

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Reflections on Refractions: Liverpool Street, Poetic Score, 02-025

Build Hollywood, digital

Alisa took us through the city, near Liverpool Street Station and asked us to perform a series of tasks to connect with the reflections around us.for Alisa Oleva’s walking performances, 09: on reflections

I wrote this 06 part (interlude, 01-05) poem as a score of the performance, the physical representations of reflecting about our mental-reflections and the refracting thoughts that branched out from the mirror image.

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Nosedive through time with Sarah Charlesworth’s ‘Stills,’ Essay, 01-025

Worms Magazine, digital

I saw Sarah Charlesworth’s series Stills in the bookshop at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm end of 2024. I wanted to understand the emotions these images engendered. 

Why did I feel so comforted by the image of someone pummeling to an (almost) certain death? Was this a form of time-travel? Could the emotional weight of an image act similarly to the gravitational pull of a planet? Are bodies (planets) like other bodies (beings)?

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Through the Eye of a Needle, Substack, 024-025

Personal blog 

Here I think, on my way to thinking, as Anne Carson said in her lecture ‘Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind.’

Through the Eye of a Needle dives into post-internet visual theory as it relates to the concepts of reality, time and 'the self,’ as experienced through (collective) memory. This is a space where the interiority of the mind intersects with the (public) interiority of the internet in an array of experimental formats to ask:

How does thinking out loud look like? Can interiority (mind/thoughts/anxiety) touch the web?

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American Martyr, Prose-Poem, 10-024

Research Files n.1: The Scar as Archive, S.T.I.G.M.A.T.A Publishing, print

Since living in the UK I’ve seen the dark side of America’s moon. A lot of the anxieties I felt but couldn’t quite pin-point resurfaced when I felt their absence in London. With this poem I set out to find what ties us, as Americans, together? What is the inherent cornerstone of our culture and what does that do to people if left unchecked?

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Imagined Self, Prose-Poem, 07-024

Same Faces Collective, Solar Flare Issue, digital

Imagined Self on the surface is about a woman coming to terms with the fact that her mind is hers to own, and as a result, so is her ability to write as she pleases. Below this realization lie the mechanisms of thought. In this prose-poem I wanted to know: how do you represent the mental oscillating that is inherent to the act of ‘realization’? And how can I represent the visual nature of these mental-spaces if the mind does not stay long enough for multiple thoughts (sentences) to fully form?

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Films (2024- ___) 

‘Baby Bird’ feminist video collage made from clips of ads targeted towards women, cartoons, film and music videos overdubbed with a fictional story about a bird. 
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PR/INTERVIEWS (2021-___)

‘Worms Reader with Elida Silvey, Kita Ward and CA Conrad’ (Worms Podcast), August 2024

‘Everyone is a Girl Launch Review’ (idontwanttomessthisup), April 2024

‘Tracks Rebait with Jasmine Kahlia’ (Resonance FM), March 2024

‘Writing Is A Vulnerable Act: In Conversation with Elida Silvey’ (Fetch Magazine), November 2023

‘A Moment Bathed In Light That Is Yours Alone with Elida Silvey’ (God’s Asshole Radio), October 2023

‘Elida Silvey’s Compost Heap’ (Worms Mag), September 2023

‘The Writers Experimenting With Form’ (The Literary Platform), July 2021