Ali Bramwell: Artist talk
Date: Wednesday, March 14, at 7PM

Ali Bramwell utilizes performative strategies as one critical tactic embedded within a mixed economy of discursive post-medium practices where materiality and context play equally crucial roles. Performance is understood as an activating or catalyzing tactic within the framework of an installation or sculpture event. Discussing a couple of work examples where kinetic potential is activated by body/ies as mechanic element/s within a larger structural or de-structural goal. Activated sculpture, built or broken, or both.

Ali Bramwell is a practicing artist born in Auckland New Zealand (1969), now living and working in Slovenia after enjoying a residency with Center for Contemporary Art Celje in 2011. She has been working in the fields of sculpture, installation and performance since 2000 producing regular exhibitions performances and public projects internationally. Projects include a permanent public sculpture work in Germany Schema 2005, Etwas verloren 2009 at Subdokumenta in Sarajevo, Attachment drawing 2011 at Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives in The Hague, Propositional architecture 2010 in Artisterium 3 in Tbilisi. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Dunedin School of Art, New Zealand in 2001 and is also active as a writer and independent curator. In 2011 she was awarded selectors merit in New Zealand's most prestigious biannual sculpture exhibition, “Sculpture on the Gulf.” Auckland, New Zealand.

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