Ulrike Rosenbach, Frauenkultur – Kontaktversuch, artist"s talk, 2009. re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Ulrike Rosenbach
Frauenkultur – Kontaktversuch

Ulrike Rosenbach (*1943, Germany), one of the first and most influential German video and performance artists, never understood video as merely a tool for documentation. Instead, she used it as an experimental and artistic medium. Rosenbach studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts from 1964 to 1970 before creating her first video works in 1971. She taught feminist and media art in California and founded the School for Creative Feminism in Cologne, after her return to Germany. Already in 1972 she began introducing videotapes as “documents of an inner life” with herself as the object and focus of her actions. In her so-called video live actions, she uncovers the structures of female identity while developing strategies for self-determination. She deconstructs femininity as a ”state of image-being” by drawing on traditional imagery of women from the context of visual arts, the media, advertising and cinema. Her sites of action are often marked with materials charged with ritual and symbolism.

artist's website: www.ulrike-rosenbach.de

Frauenkultur – Kontaktversuch was originally the title of a live video performance piece that I did in 1977. At that time I had been working as an artist for almost ten years during which I focused on artistic themes of women’s art. Already in 1969 I had meet women artists who were part of the women’s art movement– mainly American artists and groups in Los Angeles and New York. In 1976 I founded the "School of Creative Feminism" (Schule für kreativen Feminismus) as a collective which studied and discussed the cultural history of women and women’s art.
Format
Audio Document

Document media
Artist's Talk

Issue date
2009

To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 23.1.2009 / 6:20 pm

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