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Artist Information:
Britta Jager
London,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Oct 2004

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Artist Statement:
ART IS A PARASITE. ART IS
MISINTERPRETED DATA. ART IS
TERROR: My work gives insights
into different form of
territories, data, dolls and
robotics interacting within
the urban spaces and urban
life. Believing strongly and
deeply in my artwork as a host
for an emancipated audience,
the source of my work is a
voluptuous engagement with
scientific thin-king,
autobiographic momentum and
development of gender
robotics. Replenishing the
feminist strategies of the
past which transformed
dynamically into an ‘equality
of differences’ my interest
prolongs from body data
observations to social
critical interactive urban
data. My installations
approach the spectators with
questions about data
movements, strategies in
social behaviour and future
progress of urban interaction.
ART IS BIOCHEMICAL. ART IS A
PARASITE: The host system is
the human body. Art exists as
a parasite in the mind of the
viewer. My interest in art is
the effect to operate like a
hallucination: to appear and
to disappear like a mirage in
the brain. My investigations
concern’s is to manufacture
‘disappearances’ provoking a
moment of data transfer. I
toggle between inner and outer
worlds. My concern in art is
to escort these forms of
hallucinatory processes, to
set up fresh wounds ...

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18 - 24 Feb 2008
WEEKLY TOP TEN ARTIST chosen
by Ana Finel Honigman

'Germaine Greer might believe
that 'the woman who displays
her own body as her artwork
seems to me to be travelling
in the tracks of an outworn
tradition that spirals
downward and inward ...

Further Information
Collections:
Coming Soon!
Commissions:
Carsten Nagels, Frankfurt...

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Exhibitions for Britta Jager:



2009 WESTMINSTER ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION, SW1 Gallery, London, UK
2008 WESTMINSTER ARTS OPEN EXHIBITION, SW1 Gallery, London, UK
2006 THE PEACE CAMP hosted by Bob and Roberta Smith, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2006 DIGITAL SHOW, Part of the independent Liverpool Biennal Festival of Contemporary Art
2006 ART IN MIND 10, ADI Project Space, London
2005 GRAFT, Gallery La Viande, London,
2003 GOLDSMITHS MA DEGREE SHOW, Goldsmiths College of Art, London
2002 KLASSE RABINOVITCH ZU GAST BEI ANNELIE BRUSTEN, Gallery Pavilion, Wuppertal, Germany
2002 RUNDAGANG, Annual Show at Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany
2001 SHOW Finanzkaufhaus Duesseldorf, Germanyu
2000 RUNDAGANG, Annual Show at Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany
1993 PERFORMANCE DÜSSELDORF, Faculty of Architecture

SCREENINGS
2005 EXTRAVAGANZA, Portobello Film Festival, London, UK
2004 SHORTWAVE VIDEO FESTIVAL, 93 Feet East, London, UK
2003 MACHINISTA, International Art and Technology Festival, Art from the machine Glasgow, UK
2002 SCHRÄGSPUR 03, Video festival, KHM, Villa Jauss e.V. Oberstdorf, Germany

AWARDS
2001 AWARD FOR EMERGING ARTISTS, Academy in conjunction with guilt, Duesseldorf, Germany

ACADEMIC EDUCATION
2003 GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE, Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, London
1999 - 2002 KUNSTAKADEMIE DÜSSELDORF, Studies Fine Art, Germany
1996 TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DÜSSELDORF, Faculty Architecture, Master of Science Interior Design, Germany

PROJECTS
commissions: Illustration, paintings
worked in Film industry


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