Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Artist Talk in HUMlab: Iris Piers and Ola Lindefelt

In collaboration with Moonshake:

Together with sound artist Ola Lindefelt, Iris Piers will give a lecture on her most recent collaborative art work.

The next day, on the 17th, Iris and Ola are going to perform at the Moonshake event “Art’s Birthday” showing their live cinema performance.

http://www.irispiers.com/


http://www.myspace.com/moonshakeclub

Biography
Iris Piers, born in 1983, is an experimental filmmaker who creates film installations, live cinema performances, music videos and sound art. From 2001-2006 she studied Fine Arts in Berlin, Rotterdam and New York City, during and after her studies she has set up exhibitions, screenings and performances in many places around the world, for example at the Transmediale in Berlin, Full Pull in Malmö, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, LMAK Projects in New York and SDLX in Tokyo. Her work has been nominated at various film festivals and in 2007 the short film ’Casimiration or the Beginning of Dreaming’ won the award for Best Online Film at the national Dutch Film Festival. Her main focus in 2008/2009 is collaboration and the developing of new film and sound installations.

When:
This Friday, 5 pm
at HUMlab Umeå University (Under the UB)

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