Artist Statement
As a fine artist who works with video, film, photography and sound media, I examine my environment in the artistic context of an audiovisual performance and/or mixed-media installation. In addition, I collaborate with various international artists as part of my work on other art projects.
The senses of seeing, hearing and feeling (material) are important components of the expressive form of both my visual and audio work, as well as my mixed media installations. Examples of my work include the projects “still/silent” (2007-2009) in collaboration with the composer and pianist Antonis Anissegos and continued in 2010 together with the composer and instrumentalist Chris Dahlgren, and “B.O.D.Y.” (2000-2011), a piece of work consisting of a wall installation with sound and photographs of skin and body parts. Through haedphones, the audio can be heard as a synthesised sound of the body’s rhythm. This boosts both the intensity of the audio and stimulates the visual perception. For the performance in the site-specific installation, “uniqueness” is an important component of the work since every encounter is a unique incident which holds the possibility of capturing a new perspective.
My audiovisual work challenges photographic, video and audio norms, mixing them into one organic, improvised performance within the installation. A variety of synthetic photographs and drawings on Super 8 will be used with digital tools to create an experimental video, construct abstract moving images through kinetic language and reveal other half forgotten, often unseen spaces in my surroundings.
According to Nelson Goodman’s thesis, the aim and purpose of art and science is the same: cognisance, i.e. insight as the (selecting, sorting, construing) organisation of knowledge. In this sense, the essence of science and art is equally “cognitive”, its quality “cognitive excellence”. (Franz Koppe: Kunst als entäußerte Weise, die Welt zu sehen. Zu Nelson Goodman und Arthur C. Danto in weitergehender Absicht. In: Franz Koppe (Ed.) Perspektiven der Kunstphilosophie. Texte und Diskussionen; Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, 1993.)
As a fine artist who works with video, film, photography and sound media, I examine my environment in the artistic context of an audiovisual performance and/or mixed-media installation. In addition, I collaborate with various international artists as part of my work on other art projects.
The senses of seeing, hearing and feeling (material) are important components of the expressive form of both my visual and audio work, as well as my mixed media installations. Examples of my work include the projects “still/silent” (2007-2009) in collaboration with the composer and pianist Antonis Anissegos and continued in 2010 together with the composer and instrumentalist Chris Dahlgren, and “B.O.D.Y.” (2000-2011), a piece of work consisting of a wall installation with sound and photographs of skin and body parts. Through haedphones, the audio can be heard as a synthesised sound of the body’s rhythm. This boosts both the intensity of the audio and stimulates the visual perception. For the performance in the site-specific installation, “uniqueness” is an important component of the work since every encounter is a unique incident which holds the possibility of capturing a new perspective.
My audiovisual work challenges photographic, video and audio norms, mixing them into one organic, improvised performance within the installation. A variety of synthetic photographs and drawings on Super 8 will be used with digital tools to create an experimental video, construct abstract moving images through kinetic language and reveal other half forgotten, often unseen spaces in my surroundings.
According to Nelson Goodman’s thesis, the aim and purpose of art and science is the same: cognisance, i.e. insight as the (selecting, sorting, construing) organisation of knowledge. In this sense, the essence of science and art is equally “cognitive”, its quality “cognitive excellence”. (Franz Koppe: Kunst als entäußerte Weise, die Welt zu sehen. Zu Nelson Goodman und Arthur C. Danto in weitergehender Absicht. In: Franz Koppe (Ed.) Perspektiven der Kunstphilosophie. Texte und Diskussionen; Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, 1993.)
B.O.D.Y. 2000-2011
The “B.O.D.Y.” consists of pictures and recorded sounds of different people, nationalites, gender and age groups, as well as a part of myself.
My audiovisual concept on the subject of the body comprises both feelings of closeness and distance.
I try to create a virtual world of sensitive touch which interacts with the shared senses of others.
B.O.D.Y -wall Installation (Sound/Photography)
Dimension of exhibition: 590-875x100cm, 7 sounds (7 MP3 player + 7 binaura headphones)
Exhibition: 2011
- solo Exhibiton „B.O.D.Y.“ - hidden codes 2000-2011, curated by Natasha Bordiglia, 7.9 - 28.9 2011, Diip - L’Associazione culturale Diip, Venice, Italy
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound - the Wall Installation, the Exhibition "Sophia" 15.5 - 21.8.2011 at Frauenmuseum Bonn (Womenmuseum Bonn), curated by Julitta Franke and Marianne Pitzen
Exhibition: 2010
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound - the Wall Installation, the Exhibition GEDOK Berlin 1960-2010 Positionen der Gegenwart (GEDOK Berlin 1960-2010 Positions of today), 22.10 - 28.11.2010 im Kunstraum Bethanien, Positionen 50 Jahre GEDOK Berlin (positions 50 years GEDOK Berlin), curated by Dr. Birgit Möckel, Berlin
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound - the Wall Installation, the Exhibition at the das foto image factory, 27.9 - 15.10 2010, Berlin
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Online Exhibition "ZWISCHENRAUM für KUNST & MIGRATION" by theHeinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Heinrich-Böll-Foundation), September
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – draft - the Exhibition " We are the islands" at the Projektraum/Bethanien in Berlin, 25.7 - 28.7 2010
Exhibition: 2009
- „B.O.D.Y.“ - SPACE IS STRUCTURATION OF BODIES IN TIME“ #01 and #02 - Videoperformance/Mixed Media Installation, the Exhibition „o.T.- Wer die Wahl hat“, curated by Karin Scheel and GEDOK Berlin at das verborgene Museum and Pyramide Hellersdorf
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound for the wall installation, the Exhibition „unbeschreiblich weiblich“(indescribably feminine), curated by GEDOK Berlin and Hamburg at the Kunstforum of GEDOK Hamburg
The “B.O.D.Y.” consists of pictures and recorded sounds of different people, nationalites, gender and age groups, as well as a part of myself.
My audiovisual concept on the subject of the body comprises both feelings of closeness and distance.
I try to create a virtual world of sensitive touch which interacts with the shared senses of others.
B.O.D.Y -wall Installation (Sound/Photography)
Dimension of exhibition: 590-875x100cm, 7 sounds (7 MP3 player + 7 binaura headphones)
Exhibition: 2011
- solo Exhibiton „B.O.D.Y.“ - hidden codes 2000-2011, curated by Natasha Bordiglia, 7.9 - 28.9 2011, Diip - L’Associazione culturale Diip, Venice, Italy
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound - the Wall Installation, the Exhibition "Sophia" 15.5 - 21.8.2011 at Frauenmuseum Bonn (Womenmuseum Bonn), curated by Julitta Franke and Marianne Pitzen
Exhibition: 2010
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound - the Wall Installation, the Exhibition GEDOK Berlin 1960-2010 Positionen der Gegenwart (GEDOK Berlin 1960-2010 Positions of today), 22.10 - 28.11.2010 im Kunstraum Bethanien, Positionen 50 Jahre GEDOK Berlin (positions 50 years GEDOK Berlin), curated by Dr. Birgit Möckel, Berlin
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound - the Wall Installation, the Exhibition at the das foto image factory, 27.9 - 15.10 2010, Berlin
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Online Exhibition "ZWISCHENRAUM für KUNST & MIGRATION" by theHeinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Heinrich-Böll-Foundation), September
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – draft - the Exhibition " We are the islands" at the Projektraum/Bethanien in Berlin, 25.7 - 28.7 2010
Exhibition: 2009
- „B.O.D.Y.“ - SPACE IS STRUCTURATION OF BODIES IN TIME“ #01 and #02 - Videoperformance/Mixed Media Installation, the Exhibition „o.T.- Wer die Wahl hat“, curated by Karin Scheel and GEDOK Berlin at das verborgene Museum and Pyramide Hellersdorf
- „B.O.D.Y.“ – Mixed Media/Photography/Sound for the wall installation, the Exhibition „unbeschreiblich weiblich“(indescribably feminine), curated by GEDOK Berlin and Hamburg at the Kunstforum of GEDOK Hamburg
still/silent 2010
Audiovisual Performance in the Installation "still/silent" 2010, the Project by OIO EXPAND (Chris Dahlgren and Erika Matsunami)
Installation : 10x silk fabrics, petri dishes and whitewash on the floor (the room ca.216m2 at the Ostrale-centre for contemporary arts)
Chris Dahlgren (composer/instrumentalist) – D/USA: contrabass and live electronics
Erika Matsunami (Visual Artist) – D/JP: live videofilm, electroacoustic sound and installation
10.9.2010 in Dresden, Germany
Video Performance still/silent 2010:
http://www.vimeo.com/16847366
Sound for the 6 ch mono discrete Installation still/silent 2007:
http://www.vimeo.com/26223722
http://www.vimeo.com/26223444
Audiovisual Performance in the Installation "still/silent" 2010, the Project by OIO EXPAND (Chris Dahlgren and Erika Matsunami)
Installation : 10x silk fabrics, petri dishes and whitewash on the floor (the room ca.216m2 at the Ostrale-centre for contemporary arts)
Chris Dahlgren (composer/instrumentalist) – D/USA: contrabass and live electronics
Erika Matsunami (Visual Artist) – D/JP: live videofilm, electroacoustic sound and installation
10.9.2010 in Dresden, Germany
Video Performance still/silent 2010:
http://www.vimeo.com/16847366
Sound for the 6 ch mono discrete Installation still/silent 2007:
http://www.vimeo.com/26223722
http://www.vimeo.com/26223444
re/cycle "I am also there"
audiovisual and spatial installation, 2011
Exhibition:
26.6 - 26.8.2011 at the Galerie M, Marzahn-Berlin, Germany
http://www.galerie-mh.de
Video:
http://www.vimeo.com/25923205
audiovisual and spatial installation, 2011
Exhibition:
26.6 - 26.8.2011 at the Galerie M, Marzahn-Berlin, Germany
http://www.galerie-mh.de
Video:
http://www.vimeo.com/25923205
B.O.D.Y.
wall installation (Sound/Photography)
Exhibition:
"Sophia" 15.5 - 21.8.2011 at the Frauenmuseum Bonn (Womenmuseum Bonn)
wall installation (Sound/Photography)
Exhibition:
"Sophia" 15.5 - 21.8.2011 at the Frauenmuseum Bonn (Womenmuseum Bonn)
