Alice Anderson
For the last fifteen years, Anderson has been performing with the strength and intelligence of her body, alone and collectively, dancing with objects and spaces.
These intuitive, gestural "Technological Dances" in which the performer poetically reactivates the strong link between the human and the non-human, huge paintings and sculptures are created, memorising the objects and places of our Anthropocene era.
Anderson begins her performances by observing technological objects. She then ritually applies paint to these objects.
Anderson does not paint with a brush but directly with an object coated with paint. These computers, drones, batteries, virtual reality masks (etc...) will then be seized by the artist, who will then paint them.
In a dance, the artist strikes the canvas, a committed and poetic gesture is created. Striking the ground as a request to open up to an animist dimension of our environment and matter.
In Anderson's practice, the technological objects memorised on the canvas by the paint are then assembled and crystallised by copper wire (a material symbolising neural and technological connections) to become sculptures. Anderson speaks of crystallisation or memorisation to describe the gesture of wrapping an object with
yarns. As she dialogues with the object, Anderson weaves, memorises and crystallises the relationship with it.