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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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Artist Reviews:
SAATCHI ONLINE DAILY MAGAZINE: 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 ...
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Exhibitions for Britta Jager:
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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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