Amelia Prazak

MA Fine Art 2014

Chelsea College of Arts

DESCRIPTION

Sisters From Another Mister was formed in 2010 by; Amelia Prazak, Milda Lembertaitė and Michelle Houston through various collaborations while studying Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins and are now about to graduate from Chelsea College of Art with an MA in Fine Arts.

We have an inter-disciplinary practice, which embraces humor and absurdity and has primarily focused on the mapping and claiming of space. Our practice is born out of detritus of discourse, of both collective and individual lived experience. The choice of working in collaboration derives from a mutual rejection of formalism in theatre, yet it is the theatrical quality that is now the foundation of our work. We feel theatre allows for makeshift associative structures constructed from ‘performativity objects’ referring to the “I am many” of the virtual age. We facilitate that to happen by creating narrative dressed up as a process. Our work occupies the boundaries between popular culture and entertainment set within a conceptual framework. It embodies contemporary codes of subject/object relations and self-expression through personal narratives that lie between fiction and reality. An image happens in the gap between private dreams and public scenes. Yet outside of our thoughts, the image, in whatever medium or shape, launches a journey in the area between subject and collective.

Art is how we live; it’s our love affair with life. It is how we relate to life[1].

Through ‘restaging’ situations, stills images we come across and fragments from movies or music videos in order to deliver a whispering comment on the art world that surrounds us. The impact of the Internet and digital environment leads to exploring the imperceptible line between tangible and topical space of fantasy, in human and objects affairs. Our current interest is in showing video in daylight; in an attempt to turn away from the space of illusion, but turning art back to the viewer by making them aware of their body. We are in the time of transitory, near and far, ready- to-go, detachment, juxtaposition and the editing process of history and knowledge of over 2000 years. We live in a fragmented, post- flicker reality, in pixels and bytes, teleported by screen savers. What is it to be a physical screen and not just a surface?

以上信息源自伦敦艺术大学，仅作资讯分享。