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It wasn't about the perfection of the harmony, but about the inner movement in view of the infinity outside of time. The intuitive realization of the fleeting of all reality led to look for that which was seemingly irreal.' - Lancelot Lengyel
I am
attracted to what is fleeting, what can't be captured, what is past before
it is even recognized. The viewer is placed into an intimate environment
- what does she/he take with her/him?
And that in itself is always an interpretation of the actual.
The inner landscape in the outside world - my work is less about what one sees then about the feeling that it leaves behind. My aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text, mixed media.
Born in Schaffhausen / Switzerland
Lives and works in New York / USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2017
Who Are You, a durational, participatory performance, See Djerba, Light Art Festival, Houmt Souk, Tunisia
Tenderizer, video and set-design for choreographer Sally Silvers evening Tenderizer, Roulette, Brooklyn
video projections for the Bulgarian Voice Trio, Confetti Machine Festival, Outpost, Ridgewood
video projections and set for Tenderizer by Sally Silvers, Roulette, Brooklyn
video projections and set for The Blue by Fiona Templeton, La Mama, New York
50-year-old Woman, durational performance, Sofia Underground Perforamnce Art Festival, Bulgaria
Stillstand, durational performance, Sofia Underground Perforamnce Art Festival, Bulgaria
Liz Gerring, Ursula Scherrer, Michael J. Schumacher; a dance, sound and video installation, Roulette, Brooklyn
performance with Byron Westbrook (music), Ursula Scherrer (live video); New Ear Festival, Fridman Gallery, New York
TheParallelShow; the Met Cloisters, New York
2016
Amourphous IV, a dance, sound and video performance with Kato Hideki, John King, Ursula Scherrer and Nana Tsuda, Roulette, Brooklyn
Discursive Ornaments, a durational performance with Tunisian poet Liliya Ben Romdhane, Interference Festival, Tunis
Urban Night Dialogue, a video and sound performance with Yael Acher (music), High Line, New York
Un-Wrapped, durational performance, Salisbury University, Maryland
Post-Monochrom, a public art event in collaboration with Flo Kaufmann, SHARED.museum, Bremen, Germany
2015
beyond, multi-media performance with musicians MV Carbon and Shelley Hirsch, Roulette, Brooklyn
afloat,durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Salisbury University, Maryland
afloat, durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Ideas City Festival, New Museum, New York
backwards, Infr'Action Venezia 3, Venice, Italy
Actual Size Plus, video and scenic design, choreography by Sally Silvers, 92nd St Y, New York
Terminals, live video projections for a composition by Ha-Yang Kim, Roulette, Brooklyn
afloat, durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Clocktower at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Drums & Drones, live video and live sound with Brian Chase, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
2014
Wrapped, durational performance, Guangzhou Live 5, Guangzhou, China
Just a Grain of Sand, durational performance, META – Chongqing Live Art 2014, Chongqing, China
Actual Size, video and scenic design, choreography by Sally Silvers, Roulette, Brooklyn
Drums & Drones, live video and live sound with Brian Chase, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Crossing, live video and movement performance, sound by Gu Tao, Yinzi, Chongqing, China
I know myself, and I don't
Solo exhibition
including a durational performance at the opening, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
live video performance with language poet Bruce Andrews
Ende Tymes IV, Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation, Brooklyn
Körper.Kon.Text
live writing performance in collaboration with choreographer Susanne Braun
Tanzfest 2014, Baden, Switzerland
100 Works on Paper
group exhibition
Kentler International Drawing Center, Red Hook
Confected Size
live video for the duet by Sally Silvers
University Settlement, New York
Drums & Drones
live video and live sound with Brian Chase
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Studio 10, Brooklyn
live video performance with singer Shelley Hirsch and language poet Bruce Andrews
OptoSonic Tea, Silent Barn, Brooklyn
live video performance with language poet Bruce Andrews
Outpost, Ridgewood
2013
scratching / kratzen
live mixed media performance in collaboration with Moritz Fehr, sound, as part of the project scratching / kratzen by Martin Zawadzki
after the butcher, Berlin
Narcomantic
an all night sound and video performance in collaboration with John Duncan for a sleeping, dreaming and waking audience
Friedenskirche, Cologne
mindPirates, Berlin, Germany
filigran, video and sound performance with Rike Kohlhepp, violine and voice, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany
Intimate Landscape, video installation, Firehouse, Brooklyn
Drums & Drones, video for the DVD by Brian Chase
ALGA, installation in collaboration with composer/singer Shelley Hirsch, Kunstraum Krems, Krems, Austria
Tastend, movement and sound performance with John Duncan, Gasometer, Liechtenstein
2012
Lines, Video for LED wall Seoul Square, Seoul Square, Seoul, South Korea
Narcomantic, an all night sound and video performance in collaboration with composer John Duncan for a waking, dreaming and sleeping audience, Raum, Bologna, Italy
re_write, Installation (text, clay, glass, video, blood and sound), with a performance at the opening, LACE, Los Angeles
Irisiyawa, site specific video and sound installation and performance in collaboration with Flo Kaufmann | artMuse, Gdansk, Poland
Flows, with Marika Blossfeldt (choreography/dance) and Citra Krista Joonas (music) | 20 Years of Independent Dance in the Baltics, Tallinn University, No99 Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia
M in M (Motion in Music / Music in Motion), with Susanne Braun (dance) and Christoph Gallio (music) | Kultour 2012, Tiefgarage Manor, Baden, Switzerland
Anarchist Art Festival, Multi-channel video and sound performance w/ musicians Shelley Hirsch and Andrew Lafkas | The Living Theater, New York
Video- and sound performance w/ musician David Watson | Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn
Multi-channel video and sound performance w/ musician Valerio Tricoli | Liebig12, Berlin
Video and sound performance w/ musicians Flo Kaufmann and Sebastian Rotzler | Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn
States of M(eye)nd #2, with the musicians Brian Chase and David First | La Sala, Brooklyn
2011
Lichtung/Clearing, live video and set design, choreography by Liz Gerring, music by Michael J. Schumacher | Fall for Dance Festival, City Center, New York
Corrugated Corridor, with Kurt Laurenz Theinert (Visual Piano) and several musicians | Bring to Light, Nuit Blanche New York
Spinnerei , in collaboration with Flo Kaufmann | artMuse, Bocholt, Germany
Wildwuchs, with Kurt Laurenz Theinert (Visual Piano) and several musicians | Lichtströme. Bundesgartenschau, Koblenz, Germany
New Museum — Re-Configured, a site specific multichannel video installation/performance | Festival of Ideas for the New City. New Museum, New York
Neither Beginning Nor End, multi-channel video and sound performance w/ musicians Valerio Tricoli and Domenico Sciajno | N.K., Berlin
Lichtung/Clearing, live video and set design, choreography by Liz Gerring, music by Michael J. Schumacher | University of Maryland, Baltimore
2010
camp10, Internationales Festival für Klang und Lichtkunst | ZKM, Karlsruhe
Slash, multi-channel video and sound installation w/ musician Kato Hideki | Diapason, New York
Lichtung/Clearing , live Video Set Design, Choreography by Liz Gerring, music by Michael J. Schumacher | Baryschnikov Art Center|BAC, New York
Amidst, multi-channel video and sound installation w/ musician Flo Kaufmann, including live performances with Shelley Hirsch and Fred Frith | The LAB, San Francsico
2009
Fragmentierte Architektur, multi-channel video and sound performance w/ musicians Ludger Hennig and Markus Markowski | .move – new european media art. Halle, Germany
Unflächen , multi-channel video and sound performance w/ musician Albert Dambeck | 4in1, Passau, Germany
camp09, Internationales Festival für Klang und Lichtkunst | Württemburgischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Nowhere You! Everywhere The Electric! , Ursula Scherrer (projections), Alan Licht, Grey Gersten (guitar), Kato Hideki (bass) | The Stone, NY
OptoSonic Tea Barcelona, live performance with Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) and musicians/composers Barbara Held and Anne Welllmer | Espai Ubú, Barcelona
Live Performance with Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) and musicians/composers Barbara Held and Phill Niblock | Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida,
Long Ago, a multi-media performance with light artist Laurenz Theinert, composer Flo Kaufmann and dancers/choreographers Susanne Braun and Susanne Mueller- Nelson | m.a.studio, Baden, Switzerland
A Dream Within A Dream, multi-channel video and sound performance w/ musician Kato Hideki | Experimental Intermedia, NY
Video and Sound Performance, performance with vocalist/composer/storyteller Shelley Hirsch | Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Elevator 55, video and sound installation in an elevator with composer Kato Hideki | d.u.m.b.o. Art under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn NY
mittel-land, multi-channel video and sound performance w/ sound artist Flo Kaufmann | Tresor, Raum für flüchtige Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany
Fades, multi-channel video and sound performance with composer Domenico Sciajno | Associazione Culturale Malaussène, Palermo, Italy
zwischen-land, multi-channel video and sound performance and installation on, under and above the water w/ sound artist Flo Kaufmann | video_tank, Zürich, Switzerland
mittel-land, multi-channel video and sound performance w/ sound artist Flo Kaufmann | m.a. studio, Baden, Switzerland
Imagescape:Soundscape:Landscape, multi-channel video and sound performance installation w/ composer Michelle Nagai | New Genre XV, Living Arts, Tulsa OK
Video and Sound Performance, multichannel video and sound performance w/ Ben Manley | Flow at Monkeytown, Brooklyn NY
2007
Video and Sound Performance, live video and sound performance w/ composer Andrea Valle | iXem Festival, Palermo, Italy
Video and Sound Performance, live video and sound performance w/ composer Kato Hideki | Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
Glades, audio and video installation | O’artoteca, Milan, Italy
Video and Sound Performance, multichannel video and sound performance w/ video artist Katherine Liberovskaya and composer Phill Niblock including musicians Giuseppe Ielasi and Renato Rinaldi | Spacio O’, Milan, Italy
Imagescape - Le Petit Versailles, multi-projection outdoor video installation w/ composer Michelle Nagai | Le Petit Versailles community garden, New York NY
BIWAK kocht, Aktion with the artist group BIWAK | Kunsthalle Wattwil, Switzerland
Video and Sound Performance, multichannel video and sound performance w/ video artist Katherine Liberovskaya and composer Anne Wellmer | Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria
Video and Sound Performance, multichannel video and sound performance w/ video artist Katherine Liberovskaya and composer Anne Wellmer | Lietne Dielne 07, Bratislava, Slovakia
Video and Sound Performance, multichannel video and sound performance w/ sound artist Monya Pletsch | Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
Video and Sound Performance, multichannel video and sound performance w/ video artist Katherine Liberovskaya and composer Marina Rosenfeld | OptoSonic Tonic at Experimental Intermedia, New York NY
Synthetic Hand Holding, v.1 and v.2, multi-channel sound and video, with composer Michelle Nagai | Roulette, New York NY & Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
BIWAK kocht, Aktion with the artist group BIWAK | Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2006
Video and Sound Performance, live video and sound performance w/ composer Brian Moran | Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
Auf der Suche nach der Grünen Katze, live video and sound performance w/ musicians Martin Amstutz und Stefano Tisato | Point Jaune museum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Imagescape IPR, outdoor video installation | IIssue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
2005
Imagescape Estonia – New York, outdoor multiprojection video installation | Green Oasis Community Garden, New York NY
Estonian Walks, outdoor video installation | Polli Talu Art Center, Estonia
2004
Oscillations, video and sound performance w/ composer Michael J. Schumacher | Roulette, New York NY
2003
Video and Sound Performance, live video and sound performance w/ composer Michael J. Schumacher | Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY
2002
Video and Sound Installation, two sound installations with video w/ composer Tetsu Inoue | Diapason, New York NY
2001
Schritte, video installation. Experimental Intermedia Gent, Belgium
Video and sound performance | Trans 004 Festival, Chicago IL
2000
ALiiMix, video and sound performance, w/ video artist Jung Hee Choi and composer Michael J. Schumacher | GAIe Gates etal., Brooklyn NY
1999
Room Piece 28, video and sound installation for multiple video monitors w/ composer Michael J. Schumacher | Metropolitan State University, St. Paul MN
Composition Trio, video for Composition Trio of composer Michael J. Schumacher | Warmer by the Stove, New York NY
1998
Inside, an image and sound environment w/ composer Michael J. Schumacher | Studio Five Beekmen, New York NY
Eyes, a video installation. Pixel shutter eye | Context, New York NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
I know myself, and I don't, text and photo installation, including a durational performance at the opening, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2010
Slash, multi-channel video and sound installation w/ musician Kato Hideki | Diapason, New York
2008
Imagescape:Soundscape:Landscape, multi-channel video and sound installation w/ composer Michelle Nagai | New Genre XV, Living Arts, Tulsa OK
2003
Looking into the Dark, an exhibition of photographs | Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY
1997
A Photographic Exhibition | Studio Five Beekman, New York NY
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2011 UG, with music by Kato Hideki. Screen Composition, Experimental Intermedia, New York
2010 A Dream Within A Dream, music by Kato Hideki - SanctionedArray at White Box, New York
- BITT Festival for the Arts 2010, South Korea
2009 Prager Manifest, by Ji?í Tolvårige and Ursula Scherrer, Manifestival, Acud, Berlin
Distillation:Tulsa, with music by Michelle Nagai. Loop Festival, Espai Ubú, Barcelona
UG, with music by Kato Hideki. Loop Festival, Espai Ubú, Barcelona
London Heathrow, with music by Michael J. Schumacher. Loop Festival, Espai Ubú, Barcelona
2008 Oscillations (excerpt) with music by Michael J. Schumacher. Köln
2007 Workspace Projects: Harvestworks Kassel, Germany
Oscillations (excerpt) w/ music by Michael J. Schumacher. Soil Digital Media Suite, Regina, Canada
Global Warning 59 sec. Festival. Munich, Napoli, Aarau, Zürich, Innsbruck, Yekaterinburg, Chicago
2006 Workspace Projects: Harvestworks Tesla, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Haferkamp, Cologne, Germany
2005 London Heathrow w/ music by Michael J. Schumacher. video_dumbo, Brooklyn NY
Workspace Projects: Harvestworks 3-Legged Dog, NY NY; The Silk Mill, Union City NJ; Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria
Oscillations (excerpt) w/ music by Michael J. Schumacher. Experimental Intermedia, New York NY
2004 Workspace Projects: Harvestworks The Chelsea Art Museum, New York NY
kitchen w/ music by Michael J. Schumacher. - New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater
- Virginia Film Fest
- Gallery Café de Asis, Panam City, Panama
2003 murmeln w/ music by Michael J. Schumacher. - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
- Clark University, Massachusetts
2002 - Dissonanze Festival, Rome, Italy
- MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
2001 vertical / horizontal w/ music by Michael J. Schumacher, Diapason, New York NY
FESTIVALS
2014 Ende Tymes IV, Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation, Brooklyn
2014 Tanzfest 2014, Baden, Switzerland
2012 artMuse, Gdansk
2012 Kultour 2012, Baden, Switzerland
2012 Anarchist Art Festival, New York
2011 Fall for Dance, City Center, New York
2011 Bring To Light, Nuit Blanche New York
2011 artMuse, Bocholt
2011 Lichtströme, Bundesgartenschau, Koblenz
2011 Festival of Ideas for the New City, New Museum, New York
2010 Lichtrouten, Lüdenscheid, Germany
2010 Camp10, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009 Camp09, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2009 Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2008 d.u.m.b.o. Art under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn NY
New Genre Festival, Tulsa OK
2007 iXem Festival, Palermo, Italy
2005 video_dumbo Festival, Brooklyn NY
2004 New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York NY
Virginia Film Fest
2003 SwissSpeaks Festival, New York NY
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
2002 Dissonanze Festival, Rome, Italy
BAC 36th International Film- and Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
9e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Trans 004 Festival, Chicago IL
1999 Strange Attractors II, 2nd International Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art, St. Paul MN
DANCE COLLABORATIONS
2014 Körper.Kon.Text, live writing performance in collaboration with choreographer Susanne Braun, Tanzfest 2014, Baden, Switzerland
2014 Confected Size, live video for the duet by Sally Silvers, University Settlement, New York
2012 Flows, with Choreographer Marika Blossfeldt, No99 Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 M in M, with dancer Susanne Braun and musican Christoph Gallio, Kultour, Baden, Switzerland
2012 Live video and dance improvisation with Rachel Cohen, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn
2011 Lichtung/Clearing, live video set design, choreography by Liz Gerring, City Center, New York
2010 Lichtung/Clearing, live video set design, choreography by Liz Gerring, BAC, New York
2004 Tonight Clearing, Tomorrow Clear live video, choreography by Liz Gerring, Connelly Theatre, New York
2002 Video for Low Light choreograpy by Liz Gerring, Engine 27, New York NY
2001 Video for Sliding Out of Reverse, choreography Liz Gerring, Diapason, New York NY
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2014 Residency at Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2012 Support from ProHelvetia forlive performance with Valerio Tricoli , Liebig12, Berlin
2011 Support from ProHelvetia for Spinnerei, artMuse, Bocholt
2011 Support from ProHelvetia for Neither beginning nor end, Berlin
2010 Support from swissnex San Francisco and ProHelvetia for Amidst, The Lab, San Francisco
2009 Support from ProHelvetia for Fragmentierte Architektur, .move, Hallle
2009 Support from ProHelvetia for Unflächen, 4in1, Passau
2009 Support from ProHelvetia and the Consulat Géneral de Suisse for OptoSonic Tea Barcelona, Espai Ubú
2008 Support from ProHelvetia for mittel-land, Tresor, Stuttgart
2008 mediaThe grant for Imagescape:Soundscape:Landscape, Living Arts of Tulsa OK
2007 Residency at O’artoteca, Milan, Italy
2006 ETC (Experimental Television Center) Presentation Fund
2005 Residency at Polli Talu Art Center, Estonia
CEC ArtsLink grant
2003 Residency at Polli Talu Art Center, Estonia
1994 ‘Honorable Mention’ International Photography Contest, Austin TX
1992 Swiss Center Foundation
1991 Swiss Center Foundation
CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
2006 - present OptoSonic Tea - series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound. Curated by Ursula Scherrer and Katherine Liberovskaya
Presented artists include: Steina Vasulka, Caspar Stracke, Luke Dubois, LoVid, Jennifer Reeves, Leah Singer, Kurt Ralske, Janine Higgins, Kurt Hentschlager, Angie Eng, Ikue Mori, Andy Guhl, Phill Niblock, Domenico Sciajno, Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Pamela Z, Kit Fitzgerald, Gerd Stern, Text of Light, Kjell Bjørgeengen, George Stadnik
2007 An evening of video/film works in dialogue with new music by women, curated by Ursula Scherrer and Katherine Liberovskaya. Artists include: Sandra Gibson, Chika Iljima, Betsey Biggs, Nathalie Bujold among others. Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
EDUCATION
1983 – 88 Dance education in Ballet, Folk Dance, Modern Dance, Jazz Dance and Fencing, Theatertanzschule St. Gallen, Switzerland
1988 – 96 further studies in Modern Dance (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and Jennifer Muller) in New York
1988 – 91 Dance Composition with Nurit Cohen, New York
CHOREOGRAPHIES
1992
Where Pureness Meets Reality, Perspectives at the Cunningham Studio, New York
Suche, Dance Space Inc., New York
Creed, with a poem by Haydee Liz Segui, Dance Space Inc., New York
1991
From Where Do You Come, …viewpoints…, Rapp Arts Center, New York
Angst v. 2, Fiorello Dance Festival, New York
Angst v. 1, Washington Square Church, New York
Missa in Tempore Belli (in collaboration with Anke Juliane Menzel), Washington Square Church
1990
Die Bettelkönigin (Missa in Tempore Belli), Washington Square Church, Joffrey Bellet School and 92nd Street Y
3 + 1 (Tschaikowsky Songs transposed to Jazz Music), West Side Dance Project and Peridance Center
Tschaikowsky Songs, Peridance Center
1989
Motet, Peridance Center
Der Panther, Peridance Center
Passacaglia, Peridance Center
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