| Artist Statement | ||
As a fine artist I transform autobiographical experiences and motives from my social environment into an artistic context and create project performances and audio-visual mixed media spatial installations. In doing so I employ the media of video, super-8-film, photography and sound.
In my visual and audio works as well as in my mixed media spatial installations sensual perception – seeing and hearing, but also the touch of the material – is an important part of the means of expression. Examples of my work include the projects “still/silent” (2007 – ) and “B.O.D.Y.” (2000–2011). “still/silent” was conceived in collaboration with the composer and pianist Antonis Anissegos (up to 2009) and the sound engineer Niklas Schmincke and was continued from 2010 onward with the composer and bassist Chris Dahlgren. Within the project entitled B.O.D.Y. there is a wall installation that consists of sounds and photographies of skin and body parts. The sound is audible as a synthesized rhythm of the body via headphones, which intensifies the auditive impression and connects it to the optical perception of the piece.
An important part of my work is “uniqueness” – in my performances as well as in the live art of location specific installations – for every encounter with a space or location is a unique event that arises from the divers possibilities of the elements such that a new perpective on the works and the context in which they stand is created.
With my audiovisual works I challenge the norms of photography, of video or film respectively and of sound; I use these media in my performances as well as in my live art and connect them in mixed media spatial installations. The photographies and drawings on super-8-film are digitally finished to create an experimental video. By using a kinetic language I create abstract moving images and thus point to the half forgotten often unnoticed interspaces in my environment.
The core of the spatial installation is the artistic ordering of the imaginary and the symbolic, this order is created by the context of the project and the artistic arrangement of the material and the sounds and audio phenomena in the respective space. Photography also plays a very important role for me and in my works, I often examine the method formalism.
Methodically I examine classical as well as traditional and japanese Modern art, the insights I gain from this I transpose to my contemporary artistic work and thereby transport them into todays society. Currently I am working on the projects “still/silent”- yu , “B.O.D.Y. – hidden codes” 2012 , "Les coloris", "I-ARUIWA" and “three rooms” that will all be continued in 2012/2013.
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.) |