"Investigating Deep, Psychological Phenomena"
Gretta Louw [BERLIN]
Angela Washko [NYC]
Ann Hirsch [NYC]
We welcome three artists, creating an evening of diverse works, exploring the deep psychological phenomenas: Gretta Louw and Angela Washko are Artists-in-Residence at The Flux Factory, where we first saw Ann Hirsch performing, and we're excited to have a bit of Flux Factory tonight!
www.fluxfactory.org ~ We're thrilled!
GRETTA LOUW [BERLIN, GERMANY]
Gretta Louw is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice seeks to explore the potential of art as a means of investigating individual, cultural and universal psychological phenomena. Often drawing on current and historical theories of psychological functioning, the artist seeks to test the boundaries and peculiarities of the human psyche and particularly its unconscious elements, plumbing the depths of her own unconscious with durational performances, formulating participatory actions replicating established tests of psychological functioning in a fine art context, comparing culturally informed differences in psychological functioning between groups, and creating installations and art objects that form a basis for self-analysis and exploration.
Louw was born in South Africa but grew up in Australia; she received an Honours Degree from the University of Western Australia in 2002, subsequently living in Japan and New Zealand before settling in Berlin. She has exhibited at a number of the German capital's premier alternative art spaces and received two recent grants from German institutions for participatory and performance art pieces. A member of the Berlin-based WerkStadt artist collective, Louw has been an artist in residence at Glasshouse in Tel Aviv and the Flux Factory in New York City in 2011.
ANN HIRSCH {NEW YORK CITY, NY]
Ann Hirsch is an amateur social scientist, professional microfamer but mainly a performance artist whose recent projects include The Scandalishious Project in which she paraded as a college freshman on YouTube. With over 1.8 million hits on her videos she gained Internet notoriety as a faux hipster (www.youtube.com/user/scandalishious and scandalishious.com).
Hirsch's newest performance can currently be viewed online at Vh1.com as a contestant on the reality dating series Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement Affair. She has recently completed residences at the Contemporary Artist's Center in Troy, New York, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York. Hirsch received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from Syracuse University.
ANGELA WASHKO [NEW YORK CITY, NY]]
Through an interdisciplinary practice spanning performance, video, and installation, Angela Washko investigates the effects of consumerism and materialism in creating the foundations of American lifestyle. Washko frequently utilizes imagery reminiscent of the French Rococo to question the era�s notion of a beauty achieved through the excessive accumulation of frivolous objects and draws parallels to contemporary American society�s emphasis on breasts in the media. A backlash against planned obsolescence, her often vibrantly colored video sets, performance stages, and installations are constructed with items recovered from dumpsters and Dollar-Store materials marketed as disposable. Ultimately Washko's works are a call-to-action, demanding a drastic attitude change in our collective consciousness.
Washko is a current artist-in-residence at Flux Factory and has recently completed residencies at Gullkistan in Iceland, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside in Troy, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including most recently at LUMEN in NYC, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Garage Gallery in San Diego, Carnival of e-Creativity in New Dehli, Videopolis in Barcelona, and The Budapest Short Film Festival.
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