Emmanuelle Waeckerle’s interdisciplinary practice evolves between sound language and the body, exploring their performative intersections.
The idea of fluidity and flux in identity and space has been central to modernity and has always found its way into her art practice – Perhaps due to her own experience of a mixed cultural background (from Morocco to France to England, her home for 21 years).
Each WORK has a site-specific public outcome and may involve one or more of the following; a live performance, a video, an installation, a series of drawings or photographs, an artist book or an audio CD.
She is currently exploring the possibilities of a vocal yet non-verbal communication; rediscovering some of the possibilities of the human voice, trying to go beyond the word, both aurally and visually,exploring the body as language “ Research funded so far by London Arts / Arts Council and UCCA Farnham ( formely Surrey Institute of Art and Design).
As Derrida says of what he calls undecidables, the neither/nor, She, as a constant outsider, not even a cultural other, always being in between, (countries, communities, languages, minds, moods and mediums), is an undecidable
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Emanuelle Waeckerle was born and grew up in Morrocco. She has been living and working in London for the past 21 years. She studied Photography and passed her DADS diploma in 1991 with Mick Williamson at Sir John Cass (now metropolitan University). She then completed an MA in Fin e Art Media at the Slade school of Art in 1996 under Stuart Brisley. After a few years of part time lecturing on the Photography degree and the FineAart MA course at Kent Institute of Art and design she was apointed as a senior lecturer (fractional post) in Visual communication at UCCA Farnham in the photography department run by Anna Fox. She belongs to PBPPrn ( Photography the Book and the Printed Page research network at UCCA Farnham with Anna Fox, Karen Knorr, Richard Sawdon-Smith and Martin Pover) for which she is curating a display of artists books ( from members and past students) for the annual LAB book fair at the ICA.
Selected exhibitons and performances 2005 – VINST installation at EXPO966 Sonic art network festival in June 2005 in Scarborough 2004 – birth of VINST for Performance: Strategy and Process a program of events around ADRIAN PIPER’s Talk & Screening. Toynbee studio theatre – Nov 2004, London.. 2003 – ‘Fallen’ series of drawings – for “10 years 1993-2003” of Art Projects International , SOHO, New York. 2002 – Slow March and Roadwork video installation – Field studies – ESSOR gallery – London 2000 – Road work installation for ‘Look out’, touring exhibition and catalogue curated by Peter Kennard, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London, Wolverhampton city gallery,Blue coat Gallery, Liverpool 1995 ‘Carry me along oh roads’, Arts Projects International, Soho – in collaboraton with Paddy Hamilton New York, USA with Lecture/presentation at N.Y.U.
Selected reviews / articles / catalogues – VINST1 (or Vinstenstein in Performance Research volume 9 no. 2, June 2004, “on the page“ issue. – “10 years 1993-2003” of Art Projects International catalogue / book. – ‘Look out’ catalogue published by Art circuit, September 2000 – Contemporary Visual Art, April 97, Joanna Lawry reviews ‘ I confess ‘ -’Engendering the city’, NEXUS publication, sept 96, Marsha Maskimmon reviews ‘ Roadwork ‘
For further information visit www.ewaeckerle.com
