GROUP PROJECT
projects members
Solvej Andersen Tirdad Zolghadr Patricia Nydegger Peter Stoffel Andrew Hieronymi

Personal Statement
screen/window
box/camera
Plan on the other side
Born:

1966, Switzerland

Education:
1997, art & film diploma from the Superior School of Visual Arts (ESAV), Geneva, Switzerland

Recent shows:
Video performances in Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, Geneva and Lausanne with the Swiss-German artists groups Fumutvzak and Contreplongee - 1993-96

Video projection at the Center for Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France (Arc en Rêve) for the exhibition "Maison X " - manifest for better houses in the periurban context - 1998

Artist in residence at VIPER’98 (International Film, Video and Multimedia Festival), Lucerne - live videomix and direct making of short videos for internet - 1998

Live videomix on giant screen with the Peter Scherers multimediales Klanglabor at the opening of the new Centre of Culture and Congress in Lucerne, architect: Jean Nouvel - 1998

Video projection at the Architectural Forum Zurich - 1998

Video installation at the Center for Contemporary Art (CAN) in Neuchâtel for Modulations, international festival of electronic music, performances, videos and films - 1999

Video installation at the Federal Art Award, Basel, Switzerland - 1999

Artist in residence at Kykart IV, International art and performance festival, Emergency Gallery, Pushking, St-Peterburg, Russia - multiscreen work in progress - 1999

Works (selection):
BY US, short documentary, 16mm, 1992 - about worker's class housing and mutancy

CUT, short experimental fiction, 16mm, 1993 - about art and shady business

LA SORTIE DU CINEMA, short video-essai - 1995 - about film history and today's cinemas

PLAN ON THE OTHER SIDE, doc-fiction (80 minutes) - 1997 - reflexion about men-women relationships resulting from the organisation of space mixed with doc-statements by architects

HOUSE X, short video-essai - 1998 - about periurban housing

VIP SPONSORSHIIP / PANORAMA 360° / GAMECULTURE - video triptych - 1998 - about art itself

AN.ALOGICAL CLIPS, loops - 1999 - music through analogical manipulations

shown in festivals in Switzerland, Austria, France, Israel, Romania, Germany, Netherlands, England

Awards:
Fonds Cantonal de Décoration et d'Art Visuel, Geneva (1997)

Foundation Carlo Leone Montandon, Sierre (1998)