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Britta Jager

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ART IS A PARASITE. ART IS MISINTERPRETED DATA. ART IS TERROR: My work gives insights into different form of territories, data, dolls and robotics interacting within the urban spaces and urban life. Believing strongly and deeply in my artwork as a host for an emancipated audience, the source of my work is a voluptuous engagement with scientific thin-king, autobiographic momentum and development of gender robotics. Replenishing the feminist strategies of the past which transformed dynamically into an ‘equality of differences’ my interest prolongs from body data observations to social critical interactive urban data. My installations approach the spectators with questions about data movements, strategies in social behaviour and future progress of urban interaction. ART IS BIOCHEMICAL. ART IS A PARASITE: The host system is the human body. Art exists as a parasite in the mind of the viewer. My interest in art is the effect to operate like a hallucination: to appear and to disappear like a mirage in the brain. My investigations concern’s is to manufacture ‘disappearances’ provoking a moment of data transfer. I toggle between inner and outer worlds. My concern in art is to escort these forms of hallucinatory processes, to set up fresh wounds where a new form of madness emerges. ART IS TERROR: When the artwork has terrorised the spectator entering in the sphere of his brain, my work is completed. As main focus remains to initiating the confusion of the brain parts. ART IS MISINTERPRETED DATA: The Freedom of art is to function as a platform on which it accumulates versions of perceptions which differ.

Britta Jager

1968 born in Saarloius, Germany

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Education

2003 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, College of Art, London, UK
1999-2002 Undergraduate Studies Fine Art, Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany, Penck / Rabinovitch
1996 Master Degree Interior Design, Technical University Fachhochschule Duesseldorf, Germany

Grants

2001 Award for emerging artists Guild and Art Academy Duesseldorf Duesseldorf, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2008 Westminster Arts Open Exhibtion SW1 London
2006 Digital Show - Online Exhibition of International Independents strand of the Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool
2006 Peace Camp, Bob & Roberta Smith, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2006 Art in Mind 10, ADI Project Space , London
2005 Extravaganza, Portobello Film Festival, London
2005 Tavistock Shortfilm Festival, London, UK
2005 'graft', Gallery La Viande, London
2004 Machinista Art and Technology festiva Glasgowl, www.machinista.org
2004 Shortwave Filmfestival, 93 Feet East, London
2003 Spzilman Award Participation, Berlin
2003 Degree show, Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London
2002 Schraegspur 03 Video Film Festival, KHM, Villa Jauss Oberstdorf
2002 Klasse Rabinovitch, Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal, Germany
2000 Anual show, Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany
1999 Anual show, Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany

Bibliography

2008 Ana Finel Honigman, saatchi online Magazine,
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/Weekly_Image_Archive.php?pa ge=11
2005 John Park Fringe Report http://www.fringereport.com/exhib0511graft.shtml

Britta Jager

67 Inverness Terrace
W23JT London

+44 7790 272861
brittajager@hotmail.co.uk
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