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Iris
Piers (Netherlands)
curator PAM
co-curators Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells
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Iris Piers, born in 1983, is a Dutch artist and director working with non-narrative
flm, video installations, live cinema performances and music videos. Piers studied
Fine Arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Kunsthochshule Berlin and the School
of Visual Arts in New York. Over the years she has set up exhibitions and given
lectures and performances at the Transmediale in Berlin, Malmö Konsthall,
the Berkeley Art Museum in California, LMAK Projects in New York, SDLX club
in Tokyo and Umeå University in Sweden, among others. Piers’ work has been
nominated at various film festivals and her short experimental flm Casimiration
or the Beginning of Dreaming won the award for Best Online Film at the national
Dutch film festival in 2007. Aer living in Berlin and New York, Piers has been
based in Sweden since 2008.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Group exh. at Studio 44, Stockholm, SE (group) / Selected works
at Music Doc New York, US (group) / Selected works at biograf Spegeln,
Malmö, SE (solo) / 2009 Casimiration at Centre of Contemporary Arts,
Plovdiv, BG (group) / 2008 The Land Under the Sea (installation)
at Full Pull 08, Malmö, SE (solo) / Smithereens with Nathaniel Wojtalik,
Berkeley Art Museum, US (group) / 2007 New Breed with Amelia Bearskin.
Scope Contemporary Art Fair, US (group) / TV Dinners at LMAK projects,
US (group) / 2006 Soon and Sleep, ZMF, Berlin, DE (solo)
Swarming Flocks of Light, 2010
digital video and vintage film, 720x576 PAL 4:3
FOT. I. Piers
SWARMING FLOCKS OF LIGHT is a short film that is made of various
layers of found footage and self recorded images. It portrays the utopian
ideas we have of our childhood, even though when looking back, we might
have been in worse situations at that time than we would have liked to have
been. The romantic memory of childhood can take over our everyday lives
and remind us of a world we once knew, whether bad or good. Swarming
Flocks of Light simulates the fragmentary element of memories and the
viewer is transported to a time without a modern day context.
Iris Piers