Sidsel Ditlev Christensen
PhD Artistic Research Fellow
research interests: visual art, perfomative lectures, new media art, Installation Art
affiliation: The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, at University of Bergen
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Sidsel Christensen is a visual artist and currently Ph.D research fellow at the Department of Fine Art at KMD in Bergen, Norway. She maintains a crossdisciplinarity focus, that traverses the artistic areas of New Media and Installation, and engages spatial, textual and performative practices.
Throughout, she explores how interactive and relational mechanisms can shed light on the formation and reproduction of various identity constructions. Specifically, looking at possibilities for the imagination to transform the perceived reality for an individual or group.
Currently, this approach is manifested in the arena of “performative installations”, consisting of bigger audio / visual installations in the gallery, that create a framework for performative gestures and interactions.
The focus has been on capturing a somewhat idealised ‘space’ in between the artist and the subject/audience, where creative input and framing on both sides creates the work. Initially this is a space of potential, power struggle and friction. The tension also lies between a factual / didactic language and more fictive, poetic modes. In this border-space, Sidsel wishes to give a voice to experiences that normally seems unarticulated or invisible.
