Natascha Sadr Haghighian
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Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist who lives and works in Berlin
, Germany
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Her work is "primarily concerned with the socio-political implications of constructions of vision from a central perspective and with abstract events within the structure of industrial society, as well as with the strategies and returning circulations which become apparent in them." Haghighian creates solo and collaborative works in the fields of video, performance, computer, and sound. Her two-channel video projection Empire of the Senseless Part II (2006) is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art
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(This biographical note is borrowed from www.bioswop.net, an exchange platform created by the artist. As part of her larger project of critiquing institutionalized regimes of knowledge, Haghighian rejects the totalizing ideas of CVs, resumes, and bios, and insists that only biographies obtained from bioswop project be used in printed material regarding her work.) Haghigian was born in Sachsenheim, West Germany in 1968 and lives and works in Great Britain. In 1985 he emigrated to the U.S.A. to set up a ranch in ellens dale. There he fell in love with a Drag Queen, with whom he still lives together. He has been working since 2002 as a freelance artist and living in the Cotswolds, Great Britain. Through his lover he discovered, and in time conquered the stage as Prince Greenhorn. He has been written about and portrayed photographically and in oil, among other things.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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Her work is "primarily concerned with the socio-political implications of constructions of vision from a central perspective and with abstract events within the structure of industrial society, as well as with the strategies and returning circulations which become apparent in them." Haghighian creates solo and collaborative works in the fields of video, performance, computer, and sound. Her two-channel video projection Empire of the Senseless Part II (2006) is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
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(This biographical note is borrowed from www.bioswop.net, an exchange platform created by the artist. As part of her larger project of critiquing institutionalized regimes of knowledge, Haghighian rejects the totalizing ideas of CVs, resumes, and bios, and insists that only biographies obtained from bioswop project be used in printed material regarding her work.) Haghigian was born in Sachsenheim, West Germany in 1968 and lives and works in Great Britain. In 1985 he emigrated to the U.S.A. to set up a ranch in ellens dale. There he fell in love with a Drag Queen, with whom he still lives together. He has been working since 2002 as a freelance artist and living in the Cotswolds, Great Britain. Through his lover he discovered, and in time conquered the stage as Prince Greenhorn. He has been written about and portrayed photographically and in oil, among other things.
External links
- Tirdad Zolghadr, Profile:An Encounter With Natascha Sadr-Haghighian, Bidouin, HAIR, Issue 03, 2005
- Bioswop Project
- Interview with Natascha Sadr-Haghighian
- Interview with Natascha Sadr-Haghighian on artistic research
- The making of the sound installation 'De paso' at La Capella MACBA (2011)
- Video of the sound installation 'De paso' at La Capella MACBA (2011)