an interactive system
for diversity research
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about
Kate Burgener (CH/UK) works as an artist on gender, terrorism
and cultural studies issues in multimedia projects like the chic-o-mat, in videoworks
like beheaded hostage (2005), Gender Watch (2004), Bitch, Bride and Bones (2000)
and in digital image processing like chit-chats (2010/2011), Vanderford King
(2005), a parent (2004), and likeness (2001).
Graduated in 2005 as "Executive Master of Cultural & Gender Studies
in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts. Master's thesis:
poses of terror, analysis and criticism of media productions
Since 2006 lecturer in Visual Arts and Art Education IVP NMS University of Education
Berne.
Since April 2010 Art workspace in PROGR - as a sponsoring award by the city
of Berne for four years. PROGR is a centre for cultural production.
The experience of being a foreigner belongs to my own biography, the experience
of being confronted with a foreign country and language as adolescent interacts
the thematic fields of my artistic work.
" En étrange pays dans mon
pays lui-même." Louis Aragon
Aragon:
La Diane française suivi de En étrange pays dans mon pays lui-même.
Paris: Éditions Seghers, 1962