Pipilotti Rist
Encyclopedia
Elisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist (born June 21, 1962, Grabs
, Canton of St. Gallen
, Switzerland
), is a visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections.
, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland
. Since her childhood she has been nickname
d Pipilotti. The name refers to the novel Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
. Her younger brother Tammo Tipi Rist is also a well known artist in Scandinavia. He has contributed to the Venice Biennale in 2003 and is a initiator behind the The United Transnational Republic.
Rist studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
in Vienna, through 1986. She later studied video at the School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung) in Basel
, Switzerland. In 1997, her work was first featured in the Venice Biennial, where she was awarded the Premio 2000 Prize. From 1988 through 1994, she was member of the music band
and performance
group Les Reines Prochaines. From 2002 to 2003, she was invited by Professor Paul McCarthy
to teach at UCLA as a visiting faculty member.
Pipilotti Rist currently lives with her common law partner Balz Roth, with whom she has a son, named Himalaya.
From 2005 to 2009 she worked on her first feature film
, Pepperminta.
films. Her works generally last only a few minutes, and contained alterations in their colors, speed, and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender
, sexuality
, and the human body
.
In contrast to those of many other conceptual art
ists, her colorful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness
and simplicity
. Rist's work is regarded as feminist by some art critics. Her works are held by many important art collections worldwide.
In I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986) Rist dances before a camera in a black dress with uncovered breasts. The images are often monochromatic and fuzzy
. Rists repeatedly sings "I'm not the girl who misses much," a reference to the first line of the song
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun
" by the Beatles
. As the video approaches its end, the image becomes increasingly blue and fuzzy and the sound stops.
Rist achieved notoriety with Pickelporno (Pimple porno) (1992), a work about the female body and the sexual excitation. The fisheye
camera moves over the bodies of a couple. The images are charged by intense colors, and are simultaneously strange, sensual, and ambiguous.
Ever is Over All (1997) shows in slow-motion a young woman walks along a city street, smashing the windows of parked cars with a large hammer in the shape of a tropical flower. At one point a police officer greets her. The audio video installation has been purchased by the Museum of Modern Art
in New York City
.
Rist's nine video segments titled Open My Glade were played once every hour on a screen at Times Square
in New York City, an project of the Messages to the Public program, which was founded in 1980.
Grabs
Grabs is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.-History:Grabs is first mentioned in 841 as Quaravedes. In 979 it was mentioned as Quadravedes, then in 1235 as Grabdis and in 1253 as Graps.-Geography:Grabs has an area, , of...
, Canton of St. Gallen
Canton of St. Gallen
The Canton of St. Gallen is a canton of Switzerland. St. Gallen is located in the north east of Switzerland. It covers an area of 2,026 km², and has a population of . , the population included 97,461 foreigners, or about 20.9% of the total population. The capital is St. Gallen. Spelling...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
), is a visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections.
Life and career
Rist was born in 1962 in GrabsGrabs
Grabs is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.-History:Grabs is first mentioned in 841 as Quaravedes. In 979 it was mentioned as Quadravedes, then in 1235 as Grabdis and in 1253 as Graps.-Geography:Grabs has an area, , of...
, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. Since her childhood she has been nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
d Pipilotti. The name refers to the novel Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series...
by Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...
. Her younger brother Tammo Tipi Rist is also a well known artist in Scandinavia. He has contributed to the Venice Biennale in 2003 and is a initiator behind the The United Transnational Republic.
Rist studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
University of Applied Arts Vienna
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university status since 1970.-History:...
in Vienna, through 1986. She later studied video at the School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung) in Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, Switzerland. In 1997, her work was first featured in the Venice Biennial, where she was awarded the Premio 2000 Prize. From 1988 through 1994, she was member of the music band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
and performance
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
group Les Reines Prochaines. From 2002 to 2003, she was invited by Professor Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...
to teach at UCLA as a visiting faculty member.
Pipilotti Rist currently lives with her common law partner Balz Roth, with whom she has a son, named Himalaya.
From 2005 to 2009 she worked on her first feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
, Pepperminta.
Works
During her studies Pipilotti Rist began making super 8Super 8 mm film
Super 8 mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format....
films. Her works generally last only a few minutes, and contained alterations in their colors, speed, and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
, sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
, and the human body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...
.
In contrast to those of many other conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
ists, her colorful and musical works transmit a sense of happiness
Happiness
Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources....
and simplicity
Simplicity
Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple. It usually relates to the burden which a thing puts on someone trying to explain or understand it. Something which is easy to understand or explain is simple, in contrast to something complicated...
. Rist's work is regarded as feminist by some art critics. Her works are held by many important art collections worldwide.
In I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986) Rist dances before a camera in a black dress with uncovered breasts. The images are often monochromatic and fuzzy
Focus (optics)
In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is the point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blur circle. This non-ideal focusing may be caused by...
. Rists repeatedly sings "I'm not the girl who misses much," a reference to the first line of the song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is a song by The Beatles, featured on the eponymous double-disc album The Beatles, also known as The White Album...
" by the Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
. As the video approaches its end, the image becomes increasingly blue and fuzzy and the sound stops.
Rist achieved notoriety with Pickelporno (Pimple porno) (1992), a work about the female body and the sexual excitation. The fisheye
Fisheye lens
In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in a broad, panoramic and hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in meteorology to study cloud formation and called "whole-sky lenses", fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted...
camera moves over the bodies of a couple. The images are charged by intense colors, and are simultaneously strange, sensual, and ambiguous.
Ever is Over All (1997) shows in slow-motion a young woman walks along a city street, smashing the windows of parked cars with a large hammer in the shape of a tropical flower. At one point a police officer greets her. The audio video installation has been purchased by 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...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Rist's nine video segments titled Open My Glade were played once every hour on a screen at Times Square
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...
in New York City, an project of the Messages to the Public program, which was founded in 1980.
Video and Audio Installation
- Enlight My Space
, video installation, 2008 - The Blue Fairy in the Valley, video installation, 2007
- Die gelbe Fee in der Allee
, video installation, 2007 - Ginas Mobile
- Tyngdkraft, var min vän
, audio video installation, 2007 - A la belle étoile
, audio video installation, 2007 - Deine Raumkapsel
, audio video installation, 2006 - Celle selbst zu zweit, audio video installation by Gutararist aka Gudrun Gut & Pipilotti Rist, 2006
- Despierta
, audio video installation, 2001/2005 - A Liberty Statue for Löndön
, audio video installation, 2005 - Daggrystimer i naboens hus
, audio video and light installation, 2005 - Homo Sapiens Sapiens, audio video installation in San Stae church Venice, 2005
- Du erneuerst Dich (in Japanese)
, audio video installation as an instant temple, 2004 - Herz aufwühlen Herz ausspülen
, audio video installation, 2004 - Apple Tree Innocent On Diamond Hill
, video installation, 2003 - The Cake is in Flames
, audio video installation, 2002 - Related Legs (Yokohama Dandelions)
, audio video installation, 2001 - Expecting (Installation in/for Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Bovenkapel: When I Run I Use My Feet, Benedenkapel: One Jesus in Nature, One At The Doctor, One In The Hotel), audio video installation, 2001
- Supersubjektiv
, audio video installation, 2000/2001 - Kleines Vorstadthirn
- Open My Glade (Flatten) <Öffne meine Lichtung>, video installation, 2000 video
- Closet Circuit, video installation by Pipilotti Rist in collaboration with the toilet visitor, 2000
- Himalaya’s Sister’s Living Room, audio video installation, 2000
- Himalaya Goldsteins Stube
, audio video installation, 1999 - I Couldn’t Agree With You More, audio video installatio, 1999
- Vorstadthirn
, audio video installation, 1999 - Cintia, audio video installation, 1994/99
- Regenfrau (I Am Called A Plant)
, audio video installation, 1999 - Extremitäten (weich, weich)
, audio video installation, 1999 - Zeittunnel
- Atmosphäre & Instinkt
, audio video installation, 1998 - Rote Bar
, video installation by Pipilotti Rist, © with Gabrielle Hächler (architecture), 1997 - My Boy, My Horse, My Dog, audio video slide installation, 1997
- Ever Is Over All, audio video installation, 1997
- Mutaflor, video installation, 1996
- Shooting Divas, audio video installation, 1996
- Sip My Ocean
, audio video installation, 1996 - Search Wolken / Such Clouds (elektronischer Heiratsantrag)
, audio video installation, 1995 - Fliegendes Zimmer
, video installation, 1995 - Das Zimmer
, video installation, 1994/2000/2007 - Yoghurt On Skin - Velvet On TV, audio video installation, 1994
- Selbstlos im Lavabad
, video installation, 1994 - Eindrücke verdauen
, video installation, 1993 - Schminktischlein mit Feedback
, audio video installatio, 1993 - TV-Lüster
, audio video installation, 1993 - Eine Spitze in den Westen – ein Blick in den Osten (bzw. N-S) , audio video installation, 1992/1999
Movie and video
- Pepperminta, long feature movie, 2009 - trailer website IMDB
- To See How You See or a Portrait of Cornelia Providoli, video by Pipilotti Rist, produced for the Video Anthology of Blick Productions NY, sound by Anders Guggisberg & Pipilotti Rist, 5', 2003
- Aujourd’hui (I Couldn’t Agree With You More, version chaise longue), video, Edition bdv, Paris, 9', 1999
- I’m a Victim Of This Song
, video by Pipilotti Rist, music after ”Wicked Games” written by Chris Isaak, interpreted & performed by Anders Guggisberg & Pipilotti Rist, 5’9’’, 1995 - Blutclip
, video by Pipilotti Rist, music “Yeah Yeah Yeah” by Sophisticated Boom Boom/Netz Maeschi, 2'27, 1993 video - Als der Bruder meiner Mutter geboren wurde, duftete es nach wilden Birnenblüten vor dem braungebrannten Sims
, video by Pipilotti Rist, sound by Heinz Rohrer & Pipilotti Rist, 3’48’’, 1992 video - Pickelporno
, video, 12’06’’, 1992 video - You Called Me Jacky
, video by Pipilotti Rist, music “Edna & Jacky” by Kevin Coyne, 4’02’’, 1990 video - (Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler <(Absolutions) Pipilotti’s Mistakes>, video by Pipilotti Rist. Multiple parts. Two pieces by Hans Feigenwinter, in one he plays a cover of ”Lost In Space”, one part “Bist Du klein
” by Les Reines Prochaines inclusive Pipilotti Rist, rest by Pipilotti Rist, 12’24’’, 1988 video - Sexy Sad I
, video by Pipilotti Rist, sound with Lori Hersberger after the song “Sexy Sadie” by Lennon/Mc Cartney, 4’30’’, 1987 video - I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much
, video, 5’02, 1986 video
Prizes
- 2010 - best architects 11 Award, best architects Award
- 2010 - Cutting the Edge Award, 27th Annual Miami International Film Festival
- 2009 - Best Exhibition Of Digital, Video, or Film: "Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" at Museum of Modern Art, New York. 26th annual awards, The International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
- 2009 - President of the Jury’s EXTRAORDINARY AWARD (Nicolas RoegNicolas RoegNicolas Jack Roeg, CBE, BSC is an English film director and cinematographer.-Life and career:Roeg was born in London, the son of Mabel Gertrude and Jack Nicolas Roeg...
), Seville European Film Festival '09 - 2009 - Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
Prize, BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... - 2007 - St. Galler Kulturpreis der St. Gallischen Kulturstiftung
- 2006 - Guggenheim Museums Young Collector's Council Annual Artist's Ball honouring Pipilotti Rist
- 2003 - 01 award and Honorary Professorship of the Universität der Künste, Berlin
- 2001 - Art Prize of the City of ZurichZürichZurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
- 1999 - Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis
- 1998 - Nomination for the Hugo Boss PrizeHugo Boss PrizeThe Hugo Boss Prize is awarded every other year to an artist working in any medium, anywhere in the world. Since its establishment in 1996, it has distinguished itself from other art awards because it has no restrictions on nationality or age...
- 1997 - Renta Preis of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg
- 1997 - Premio 2000 of the Biennale di VeneziaVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
- 1997 - Kwangju Biennale Award
- 1995 - Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange ServiceGerman Academic Exchange ServiceThe German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....
(DAAD) - 1994 - Video Art Prize of the Swiss Bank CorporationSwiss Bank CorporationSwiss Bank Corporation was a large integrated financial services company located in Switzerland...
- 1994 - Prix d’art contemporain de la Banque Cantonale Geneva
- 1994 - Manor-Prize, Sankt GallenSt. GallenSt. Gallen is the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration and represents the center of eastern Switzerland. The town mainly relies on the service sector for its economic...
- 1993 - Förderungspreis der Jubiläumstiftung der SBG
- 1993 - Eidgenössisches Kunststipendium
- 1992 - Zürcher Filmpreis
- 1991 - Swiss Federal Arts Scholarship
- 1989 - VIPER Lucerne
- 1988 - Prize of the FeminaleFeminaleThe Feminale in Cologne is Germany's oldest feminist film festival. It is held annually since 1984.The Feminale was founded by students of film theory from the University of Cologne. Participating films must be made by females. They cover a broad spectrum of film genres, including experimental...
CologneCologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the... - 1987 - Film- und Videotage Basel
Publications
- Morsiani, Paola/ Hanor, Stephanie/Harris, Mark/Morales, René/Yablonsky, Linda: "Wishing for Synchronicity: Works by Pipilotti Rist", Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, 2009 [engl. version] (ISBN-978-1-933619-17-0)
- Kempers, Paul/Schreuder, Catrien/Slyce, John/Wennekes, Emilie: Elixir: the video organism of Pipilotti Rist, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2009. (exh. cat.) [engl. & Dutch version] (ISBN 978-90-6918-237-7)
- Rist, Pipilotti/Hara Museum of Contemporary ArtHara Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the oldest museums of contemporary art in Japan. The museum is in The Roppongi district, in the Akasaka area of Tokyo. It's street address is: 4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Tokyo 140-0001....
(ed.): Karakaracan, Tokyo/Zürich, 2007. (Artist publication by the Hara Museum of Contemporary ArtHara Museum of Contemporary ArtThe Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the oldest museums of contemporary art in Japan. The museum is in The Roppongi district, in the Akasaka area of Tokyo. It's street address is: 4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Tokyo 140-0001....
Tokyo accompanying the exhibition "Karakara" at the Hara Museum. Designed by Thomas Rhyner.) - Magasin 3 (ed.): Pipilotti Rist - Congratulations!, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, 2007 (exh. cat.) [engl., German & Swedish version] (ISBN 978-3-03778-108-1)
- Rist, Pipilotti: Pepperminta Homo sapiens sapiens – boxa ludens, Lars Müller Publishers, Wettingen, 2005. (Artist publication edited by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture accompanying the exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Designed by Thomas Rhyner.) (ISBN 3-03778-051-7)
- Söll, Änne: Pipilotti Rist, Artists Monographs, Vol. 3, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Dumont, Köln, 2005. [engl. & German version] (ISBN 3-83217-578-4)
- MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon: Soundtracks de las video instalaciones de Pipilotti Rist, 2005. (CD and booklet, contains music of the major installations by Pipilotti Rist, music by and with Anders Guggisberg, Peter Bräker, Les Reines Prochaines, Heinz Rohrer, Roland Widmer, Saadet Türköz, Cintia Buonomo, Gruss vom Walensee, Pipilotti Rist.)
- Kempker, Birgit/Rist, Pipilotti: Jestem swoja wlasna obca swinia
, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, 2004. (This artist book with a wild text of the German writer Birgit Kempker comes in Polish, German and English. Designed by Maciej Buszewicz.) (ISBN 83-88277-13-8) - Rist, Pipilotti: Apricots Along The Street, Scalo Zürich/Berlin/New York, 2001. (This is another freestyle artist book also designed by/with Thomas Rhyner with some gadgets. English with only the difficult words translated into Spanish and German.) (ISBN 3-908247-50-0)
- Phelan, Peggy/Obrist, Hans Ulrich/Bronfen, Elisabeth: Pipilotti Rist, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2001. (This is an informative monography with text and interviews by and with Peggy Phelan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elisabeth Bronfen and others.) (ISBN 0-7148-3965-5)
- Rist, Pipilotti: Himalaya, Pipilotti Rist 50 kg, Oktagon Verlag Köln, 1998. This artist’s book [designed by Thomas Rhyner] including the music CD 'we can't' realised with Anders Guggisberg. It’s actually sold out but there are some copies left in national distribution centres like the one of Switzerland or USA.) (ISBN 3-89611-072-1)
About Pipilotti Rist
- Saltz, Jerry: Re View, in: Monopol, Berlin, 3, 2009. (pp. 106-109)
- Schjedal, Peter: Critic’s Notebook: Tune In, Turn On, in: New Yorker, New York, January 5, 2009.
- Saltz, Jerry: “MoMA’s Sex Change: The museum’s Pipilotti Rist show cheekily feminizes a bastion of masculinity”, December 28, 2008
- Beccaria, Marcella: Pipilotti Rist, in: Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art: The Castle, The Collection, Skira, Milano, 2008. (pp. 446–449, exh. cat.)
- Searle, Adrian: The gleeful anarchist, in: The Guardian, London, July 2, 2008.
- Sanders, Mark: Pipilotti Rist, in: Another Magazine, London, No. 11, Autumn/Winter 2006. (pp. 426–439)
- Söll, Änne: Arbeit am Körper. Videos und Videoinstallationen von Pipilotti Rist, Verlag Silke Schreiber, München, 2004. (ISBN 3-88960-069-7)
- Baker, Kenneth: Stir Heart, Rinse Heart: Pipilotti Rist, in: San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, March 2004. (pp. E1-E2)
- Steiner, Rochelle (ed.): Wonderland, The Saint Louis Art Museum, 2000. (Interview pp. 90–95, exh. cat.)
- Allen, Jennifer: Pipilotti Rist. Dans la peau de l'image, in: Parachute, Montréal, April/June 2000. (pp. 4–17)
- Blase, Christoph: Pipilotti Rist, in: Art at the turn of the millennium. Ausblick auf das Jahrtausend, Benedikt Taschen Verlag Gmbh, Köln, 1999. (pp. 426–429)
- Anderson, Laurie: Laurie Anderson and Pipilotti Rist Meet Up in the Lobby of a Hotel in Berlin on September 9, 1996, in: Parkett, Zürich/New York, No. 48, 1996. (pp. 114–119)
- Elizabeth Janus: "Pipilotti Rist, video artist", Art Forum, Summer 1996
- Colombo, Paolo: Shooting Divas, in: Parkett, Zürich/New York, No. 48, 1996. (pp. 109–113)
- Spector, Nancy: The Mechanics of Fluids, in: Parkett, Zürich/New York, No. 48, 1996. (pp. 83–91)
- Ursprung, Philip: Pipilotti Rists Fliegendes Zimmer, in: Parkett, Zürich/New York, No. 48, 1996. (pp. 94–98)
- Änne Söll: "Der Traum vom Fliegen – Dienstleistung und Geschlecht in Pipilotti Rists 'Pamela'" (PDF)
External links
- pipilottirist.net - Official Website
- Pipilotti Rist in SIKART (Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft)
- Website Galerie Hauser&Wirth - Pipilotti Rist
- Pepperminta
- Current exhibitions and connection to galleries at Artfacts.Net
Videos
- Compilation of 14 videos at UbuWeb
- Works available at pipilottirist.net
- Objekt: Der TV-Lüster (1993)
- telemaquetime.free.fr: Many still images
- newmedia-art.org - Various works (Real Video, QuickTimeQuickTimeQuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
) - Rist gives a tour through SFMOMA's exhibit
- Pipilotti Rist at the Goetz Collection, ZKM (QuickTimeQuickTimeQuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
) - A look at Pipilotti Rist's recent exhibition Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)
- An interview with Pipilotti Rist about the 'Elixir' exhibition
Interviews
- Behind the Scenes with Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters), MoMA
- Elixir: The Video Organism of Pipilotti Rist on Arttube (Boijmans)
- Interview on kfunigraz.ac.at (German)
- Interview in Jungle World, 15. April 1998 (German)
- Interview in Afterimages 11/2000
- Interview in Contemporary, May 2007
- Interview in KultureFlash, August 2008