According to Adorno, "The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.” As a female artist, Anne Tismer was inspired by two female figures, female physicist Lisa and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Taiwan, Hsueh-Hung Hsieh.
Through Lisa Randall, a professor at Harvard University, Anne Tismer found that nothing in the quantum world is determined and began considering the possibilities of alternate realities.
This led to her considering an alternate reality for Hsueh-Hung Hsieh , one in which Hsueh-Hung Hsieh fled to the south in 1957 to escape political persecution. In Anne Tismer’s parallel universe, Hsueh-Hung Hsieh not only found her socialist ideals, but also identified her suffering from adult male oppression. She also found the power of healing. In this way, "Drifting Journey" renders how Hsueh-Hung Hsieh should and could have been.
"Drifting Journey" shows the life of Hsueh-Hung Hsieh in the minority community of the Mosuo. The reason Anne Tismer selected the art of the Mosuo people lies in her interest in ecological art, weaving, and materials such as bamboo, wood and cardboard. The exhibition not only reproduces the life of Hsueh-Hung Hsieh at Lugu Lake, but also contains elements of environmental awareness.
08/01(THU)-09/01(SUN) 13:00-19:00 (Tuesday to Sunday )
Taipei Artist Village, Barry room
Free entrance
Anne Tismer
Anne Tismer is a performance and visual artist. She was born in France and is now working and living mainly in Togo, Africa. She has worked for many years with the German visual artist John Bock. Since 2003 Anne Tismer has created, amoung others, the following performance actions: Gutestun 1.3 (to do good) - also shown at Taiwan International Festival of Arts in National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center; Bei Mir ( to me); Bongani ; Anne-ka; TE falls on earth; Hitlerine; and Woyzickine. In 2006, the productions of Nora and Wunschkonzert which she played the main roles had been performed in Taipei.Her latest performance Non-Tutta(Not All) is invited by 2013 Avignon Festival.
In 2008 she started to work in Togo where she has performed with Togolese artists in: La fiancée (The bride); Judith Loméeeeiah!; Lomé En Couleurs Fluantes et Comme Marshmellow (Lome in Fluantes Colors and Like Marshmallow; Le Paradis Discret du Mille Pattes (The Discrete Paradise of Centipedes).
In 2010 she exhibited her first solo exhibition in NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) : Körperzentralhaltestelle (Body Central Station).
In 2009 she was the first foreign artist to receive the Belgian prix special de la critique (special critics award).
Her artwork has documentary and pseudoscientific character; sometimes like a lecture, sometimes childish. Tismer uses everyday materials including plastic, wool, old newspaper, cardboard and chainlink in her representations.
Artist Anne Tismer
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