Me and my Monkey
Treptower Park
Treptow Belin Germany September 2010.
Location: http://g.co/maps/zdrzb
With the help of Lorna Pettifer and Anna Steele we journeyed to Treptower park at night, dug a large hole with a newly purchased shovel and buried what was left of the work that I had produced in Berlin since arriving in May.
Photographs: Anna Steele.
Der Wald (The Forest) Location: http://g.co/maps/zdrzb
With the help of Lorna Pettifer and Anna Steele we journeyed to Treptower park at night, dug a large hole with a newly purchased shovel and buried what was left of the work that I had produced in Berlin since arriving in May.
Photographs: Anna Steele.
Der Wald
is a spatially responsive, temporal object based installation in which
I constructed and reconfigured works and materials at Berlin Weekly
Gallery over a period of 2 weeks. I
used the forest as platform for the exploration of ideas central to my
practice, exploring it as an actual place and also investigating its
representation in history and fiction, especially as a metaphor for the
subconscious and a place of transformation that embodies the temporal
and impermanent nature of life. The work draws from my own personal and
psychological experiences of my time in Berlin. I aimed to create an
environment that evokes and articulates these experiences through
abstract sculptural assemblages and spatial interventions. The work is a
dialogue between controlled making and uncontrolled action. Central
to my practice is an investigation into processes of production that do
not merely represent these experiences superficially, but actually
embodies them. I sought to achieve this by engaging with temporal and
transformative processes that facilitated un-hinged juxtapositions and
encounters between materials, processes and ideas , generating
contradiction, opposition and tension.
http://www.stefanieseidl.com/berlinweeklycom/
Night Garden (Berlin)
TAKT Artist in Residence Studio Berlin, Friedrichshain Berlin Germany May/August 2010.
Studio Experiments.
The Slow Silence
TAKT Gallery, Friedrichshain Berlin Germany May/August 2010.
Gimme Shelter
Watermill Center Summer Residency, Long Island, New York, July 2010.
Gimme Shelter
was a performance/installation that I created for the Paradiso Gala
Benefit at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in the Hamptons, Long
Island, New York. The performance took place at the Gala Benefit
Evening on the 26th of July. The work was produced over a two week
period and was a collaboration with performers Christopher Ioan Roberts
(Australia), Christopher J Staley (America), and Sama Al Wasmi
(Kuwait). The theme of the benefit was Paradise and we aimed to
produce an impossible paradise garden in which the viewer could enter
but always remained an ineffective observer. Many thanks to Chris,
Chris and Sama, Adi Nachman, Robert Wilson and countless others for
such an amazing experience.
