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Are you an artist, arts organization or venue?: artist

What town do you live in?: Holyoke

In which disciplines do you work or exhibit?: Photography, Digital Media, Sculpture, Installation, Performance, Sound/Music

Artist Statement/Bio: As a culturally-nomadic artist, I am continuously exposed to new circumstances as I geographically and disciplinarily relocate myself and pull myself out of spaces that are characterized by my knowledge of the language spoken and my familiarity with the surroundings. My art work emerges out of an interplay with the various cultural settings in which it takes place and is subject to ongoing negotiation and reflection. The fluidity caused by these interactions leads to translucency being pivotal for my work. This approach impacts on how modes of sense-making, from an ever shifting point of view, materialise in my art. My curiosity and social interaction with those around me direct me to different materials. Lately, I have fallen in love with paper, hair and resin. Shifting perspectives allows for an attentiveness to and understanding of both individual and societal notions of reality and real. Very often my art work is not made to last; time will change it and will take over the narration.

Since 2009, I work under the name of Aimée Xenou. Having been located in Germany, I spend the spring term 2010 at the Department of Art - Studio at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, US as a visiting artist. The performative installation ‘Transatlantic Transformations’ accompanies my journey to the US and included events in Germany and Iceland in January 2010, as well as Nova Scotia, Canada in the early summer 2010. Having been trained in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, I was also a visiting artist at the Cyprus College of Art in Limassol (now in Larnaca) in 2004 and Lempa in 2005, Cyprus as well as at the First International Women’s University (ifu) in Hannover,Germany in 2000. I have furthermore been an invited speaker at art/science interface events such as the Unnatural Selection Darwin Summer Symposium in Shrewsbury, UK in 2006. My teaching experience includes Feminist Art History, Art and the Body, as well as the Art/Science Interface. I have recently contributed a chapter to an anthology titled ‘Der intersektionelle Raum. Geschlechter-forschung und Medienkunst an den Achsen der Ungleichheit einer Stadt’ (The Intersectional Space. Gender Studies and Media Art on the Axes of a City's Inequalities).