stefanie seibold/ about

Stefanie Seibold examines in her artistic work forms of social performativity and possibilities of its transformation and resignification. In live performances, video and sound pieces as well as (archival) installations Seibold rephrases influential rituals, gestures and speech acts that are applied to form subjects. She appropriates images and texts from the heterogeneous areas of the mainstream, subculture but also of the avant-garde and weaves them together in form of a subjective archive. Her interest aims at building spaces that question strategies of visibility as well as defer fixed areas of meaning in order to develop and provide new narrative structures. (Peggy Buth)

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.