ABOUT ASTA D.
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I write, I do vocal and sound poetry performances, happenings, visual art, zines and artist books. Mostly. Sometimes I do other things.
I like to get inspired by the poetry of incompleteness and sometimes continue the story perhaps in another media, perhaps years later.
I like to combine and transform things.
To me, everything is naturally and organically connected.
Asta D. is a Danish performer, visual artist and archaeologist living in Berlin. Over the years she has worked as an actress, butoh dancer and director. She has composed vocal and sound poetry performances often in collaboration with various musicians and sound artists. As a visual artist she works with collage, photographs, video, zine and artist books. Her work is characterized by a poetic touch often added humor and operates in the borderland between personal history and archaeological studies of humans and our way of behaving. The concept of HOME and the concept of TIME are often repeated in her work and represented in different art forms. NATURE also continuously plays a role like the current study of the BOTANICAL WORLD. Her artistic methods involve improvisational practices as well as preparatory studies defined by each project.
Asta D. is trained as stage performer (actress, performer, butoh dancer) at the international School of Stage Arts by the performance theatre group, Cantabile 2. She also became part of the teacher staff at the school for some years. In addition she holds a master’s degree in Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Copenhagen.
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I want to inspire people to find their own way without being dependent on dominant discourses
I want people to be aware of the controlling power from institutions in terms of marketing strategies, profit and defined measurements of success that dominates the art world in a capitalist society. I hope to inspire people to be a poetic artist of their own life. Just do it!
Grundsatz-erklärung
Make room
DIY
Deconstruct
Make room
Verfremdung
DIY
Make room
Deconstruct
I wrote the principle declaration above somewhere in the 1980s
It involves the statement of Walter Benjamin “Make room” from his article “The Deconstructive Character” which together with the DIY approach was very much in vogue at the time. One must deconstruct existing discourses and expectations in order to make room for one's own creations. I combine this approach with the alienation effect (Verfremdung) of Bertolt Brecht. Any artistic performance is not solely a romantic and emotional act. It is also important to analyze the artistic practice in relation to the socio-economic situation of the artist and the society she lives in.