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Michaela Zimmer
My performances are not shown in public. I build objects that are not sculptures and I use photography for documentation without a second thought.
My successful pieces always end up combining my experiences of dancing, my training as a sculptor and my work with photography. Usually the starting point is an object. It can be anything that attracts my attention and triggers the desire to connect with it. Sometimes I am fascinated simply by a material, sometimes I reconstruct found objects, sometimes I just use them as they are. The choreography that follows is improvised and ruled only by the attempt to gain the most effective physical and visual connection between the object and myself. During these 'private performances' the definition between subject and object gets blurred. Whose presence controls whose movements? It is an experiment, an indefinite play, telling various stories in a physical language. From the beginning the different stages of this process are documented. I prefer photography to capture the frozen moment, a glimpse of a unification that only exists for seconds. The photos function as end-results in shows, but – what is more important to me – they draw my attention to new possibilities. It is an ongoing process, one step leading to the next and above all a physical act. The intention of my...
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