Barbara Visser (NL) | Last Lecture

SYNOPSIS

In Lecture with Actress (1997), an actress performs a lecture on stage, and is introduced as the artist Barbara Visser. With no prior knowledge about the work of Barbara Visser, she repeats the words prompted to her by the artist from backstage. In Lecture on Lecture with Actress (2004) a second actress is again instructed to repeat the words of the artist, this time reflecting on the previous event, illustrated with images. Finally, Last Lecture (Museum De Paviljoens Almere, during the exhibition Vertaalde Werken/ Translated Works, Barbara Visser 1990 – 2006 on April 12, 2007) is the closing performance. Here a black shadow speaks the words of the second actress shown life-size on video without sound.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

Barbara Visser was born in 1966 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. She studied at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and in Cooper Union in New York U.S.A. Her work is inclueded in the Manifesta 7 in Trento, Italy, in Extra City in Antwerp, in ICA in London and at the Cuvée Biennale in Linz.

FILMOGRAPHY

• Transformation House, 2006, computer generated animation, 5'39"
• Last Lecture, 2006, MiniDV, 19'30"
• Twee Projecties/Two Projections, 2005, slide projections, 30'00"
• Lecture on Lecture with Actress, 2004, MiniDV, 18'06"
• Actor and Liar, 2003, DVcam, 13'45"
• Mikro-Video, 2003, MiniDV, 1'37"
• Watersnoodramp Zeeland 1953/ Japan 2001, 2001, Mini DV, 12'10"
• De Kunstberg, 2000, Betacam, 14'20"
• Decorealism, 1999, DVcam, 10'14" loop
• Philippa, 1998, MiniDV, 14'05"
• Boom-Box, 1998, 16mm, 3'26" loop
• Medium Girl, 1996, MiniDV, 6x30"
• Crossing, 1996, 16mm, 37'00"
• True Lies, 1995, MiniDV, 133'45"
• Hercules, 1995, Betacam, 14'00"
• Gimines, 1995, betacam, 00'55" loop
• Exchange-Datsja-Ninotchka, 1994, Hi8, 5'25"
• Interview met Duiker, 1994, Hi8, 12'49"
• Hilton Piece, 1994, Hi8, 8'00"
• XM, 1994, Hi8, 2'10"
• Ars Futura, 1994, Hi8, loop
• Museumstuk/Museumpiece, 1992, Betacam, loop