stefanie seibold/ about

Stefanie Seibold is an artist working in performance, installation and video art, and sounds. Her work has been shown at various venues including De Appel, Amsterdam; Salzburger Kunstverein; and Akademie der Künste, Berlin. She teaches Performance and Gender at the Art University in Linz and curates shows and spaces in Vienna, resulting in the book "Performance in Vienna since the 1960s" (together with Carola Dertnig) Dea-Verlag, 2006.

My work bears a significant interest in the idea of staging, by which I mean a play with objects, gestures, meanings, as well as language, movements connectable to performance and the theatrical. I am producing and collecting various elements such as printed matter, drawings, video and sounds that belong to a heterogenous "archive" whose elements - in the moment of a specific choice for a given situation in a certain medium - are then combined to put meaning into a play of performativity. For these various forms of "staging" I am frequently appropriating techniques, texts and ideas of past avantgardes as well as positions of their marginalised critics since I am interested in putting into focus these utopian ideas and values today, oftentimes transpositioning the original contextual use into a contemporary art arena.