Zierle & Carter

Artist Statement

Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter's collaborative work is interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and site and context responsive spanning from live art/performance art, happenings and interventions, to sound, video and installation. Through their practice, Zierle & Carter critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human both as individuals and as a collective entity. Their work addresses notions of belonging, cultural identity, the dynamics within relationships, harmony through conflict and the transformation of limitations.

Rooted in a fine art context their work adopts a simple yet rich visual aesthetic, which employs various approaches and guises. The work fundamentally explores societys conventions, traditions and rituals both old and new, often flipping them on their head, peeling them back, reversing orders and disrupting the norm. Zierle and Carter's work sites an embodied investigation into human interactions with their immediate environment and exemplifies a profound curiosity of the unknown, the void, of embodiment, and the now.

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Absent Engagement

You are invited on a journey into the dark of a cinema, led by torchlight. Here you will find what is not there and discover a way of communicating that doesn’t involve speech but requires your imagination to guide the dialogue.
The work is shaped by the audience’s interactions, each performance holds the key to the next journey and by the end of the evening the fragments delivered by each participant will tell an intimate story.

Biography

Zierle & Carter's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including MOMA, New York, US and Plymouth Arts Centre, UK as part of Marina Abramovics Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art and The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow. Their work has been shown at IMAF 2009, Odzaci, Serbia; Exit-ence and Exist in 08, Brisbane, Australia; Contaminate, Boston, US; Beyond the Abject, Collision 08 Festival, Area10 project space, London; Videophile, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton; Buenos Aires Zonadeartenacción - Foto y Video Acción 2007 and Bases and Conditions, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Transitions, Out of Bounds and Invigorate, The Exchange and Wastelands at Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance.

In 2006 Zierle & Carter received the Ferdinand Zweig Memorial Scholarship to produce new work in Patagonia, Argentina. As members of The Western Alliance we have presented To Good To Be True, URGENCY/AGENCY Residency exhibition with The Western Alliance and Turkish artists Iz Oztat and Volkan Aslan as part of the Visiting Arts Artists to Artist scheme, The Delfina Foundation, London, UK.

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