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Ursula Scherrer

ARTFORMS

Installation / performance / / videos / texts

MATERIALS / MEDIA

works on paper / Objects / screens / photography / mixed media ..

GUIDING INTERESTS

Her aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography,video, text, mixed media and performance art.

EXHIBITIONS Selection

2017
Who Are You, a durational, participatory performance, See Djerba, Light Art Festival, Houmt Souk, Tunisia

Tenderizer, video and set-design for choreographer Sally Silvers evening Tenderizer, Roulette, Brooklyn

video projections for the Bulgarian Voice Trio, Confetti Machine Festival, Outpost, Ridgewood

video projections and set for Tenderizer by Sally Silvers, Roulette, Brooklyn

video projections and set for The Blue by Fiona Templeton, La Mama, New York

50-year-old Woman, durational performance, Sofia Underground Perforamnce Art Festival, Bulgaria

Stillstand, durational performance, Sofia Underground Perforamnce Art Festival, Bulgaria

Liz Gerring, Ursula Scherrer, Michael J. Schumacher; a dance, sound and video installation, Roulette, Brooklyn

performance with Byron Westbrook (music), Ursula Scherrer (live video); New Ear Festival, Fridman Gallery, New York

TheParallelShow; the Met Cloisters, New York

2016

Amourphous IV, a dance, sound and video performance with Kato Hideki, John King, Ursula Scherrer and Nana Tsuda, Roulette, Brooklyn

Discursive Ornaments, a durational performance with Tunisian poet Liliya Ben Romdhane, Interference Festival, Tunis

Urban Night Dialogue, a video and sound performance with Yael Acher (music), High Line, New York

Un-Wrapped, durational performance, Salisbury University, Maryland

Post-Monochrom, a public art event in collaboration with Flo Kaufmann, SHARED.museum, Bremen, Germany

2015

beyond, multi-media performance with musicians MV Carbon and Shelley Hirsch, Roulette, Brooklyn

afloat,durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Salisbury University, Maryland

afloat, durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Ideas City Festival, New Museum, New York

backwards, Infr’Action Venezia 3, Venice, Italy

Actual Size Plus, video and scenic design, choreography by Sally Silvers, 92nd St Y, New York

Terminals, live video projections for a composition by Ha-Yang Kim, Roulette, Brooklyn

afloat, durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Clocktower at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn

Drums & Drones, live video and live sound with Brian Chase, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing

2014
Wrapped, durational performance, Guangzhou Live 5, Guangzhou, China

Just a Grain of Sand, durational performance, META – Chongqing Live Art 2014, Chongqing, China

Actual Size, video and scenic design, choreography by Sally Silvers, Roulette, Brooklyn

Drums & Drones, live video and live sound with Brian Chase, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Crossing, live video and movement performance, sound by Gu Tao, Yinzi, Chongqing, China

I know myself, and I don’t
Solo exhibition
including a durational performance at the opening, Organhaus, Chongqing, China

EDUCATION

1983 – 88 Dance education in Ballet, Folk Dance, Modern Dance, Jazz Dance and Fencing, Theatertanzschule St. Gallen, Switzerland

1988 – 96 further studies in Modern Dance (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and Jennifer Muller) in New York

1988 – 91 Dance Composition with Nurit Cohen, New York

BIO

Lives and works in New York.usa
Born in Schaffhausen.sw

LINKS

http://ursulascherrer.com/upcoming.html

https://www.facebook.com/people/Ursula-Scherrer/100005972746169

TEXTS

https://issueprojectroom.org/event/michael-morley-music-never-quartet-ursula-scherrer-michael-schumacher-exotica

https://roulette.org/event/ursula-scherrer-with-marcia-bassett-time_untime/

https://roulette.org/event/sally-silvers-tenderizer-3/

https://roulette.org/event/mixology-liz-gerring-dance-installation-with-michael-schumacher-leila-bordreuil-ursula-scherrer-mario-de-vega-installation/

https://roulette.org/event/ursula-scherrer-michael-schumacher-2/

VIDEO

URSULA SCHERRER from Outer Seed Shadow on Vimeo.

 

QUOTES

“I am attracted to what is fleeting, what can’t be captured, what is past before it is even recognized. The viewer is placed into an intimate environment – what does she/he take with her/him?
And that in itself is always an interpretation of the actual.
The inner landscape in the outside world – my work is less about what one sees then about the feeling that it leaves behind. My aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text, mixed media.”


AUTHOR

Chiraz Mosbah / Mahfoudhi Sana