ARTFORMS
Installation / performance / / videos / texts
MATERIALS / MEDIA
works on paper / Objects / screens / photography / mixed media ..
GUIDING INTERESTS
Her aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography,video, text, mixed media and performance art.
EXHIBITIONS Selection
2017
Who Are You, a durational, participatory performance, See Djerba, Light Art Festival, Houmt Souk, Tunisia
Tenderizer, video and set-design for choreographer Sally Silvers evening Tenderizer, Roulette, Brooklyn
video projections for the Bulgarian Voice Trio, Confetti Machine Festival, Outpost, Ridgewood
video projections and set for Tenderizer by Sally Silvers, Roulette, Brooklyn
video projections and set for The Blue by Fiona Templeton, La Mama, New York
50-year-old Woman, durational performance, Sofia Underground Perforamnce Art Festival, Bulgaria
Stillstand, durational performance, Sofia Underground Perforamnce Art Festival, Bulgaria
Liz Gerring, Ursula Scherrer, Michael J. Schumacher; a dance, sound and video installation, Roulette, Brooklyn
performance with Byron Westbrook (music), Ursula Scherrer (live video); New Ear Festival, Fridman Gallery, New York
TheParallelShow; the Met Cloisters, New York
2016
Amourphous IV, a dance, sound and video performance with Kato Hideki, John King, Ursula Scherrer and Nana Tsuda, Roulette, Brooklyn
Discursive Ornaments, a durational performance with Tunisian poet Liliya Ben Romdhane, Interference Festival, Tunis
Urban Night Dialogue, a video and sound performance with Yael Acher (music), High Line, New York
Un-Wrapped, durational performance, Salisbury University, Maryland
Post-Monochrom, a public art event in collaboration with Flo Kaufmann, SHARED.museum, Bremen, Germany
2015
beyond, multi-media performance with musicians MV Carbon and Shelley Hirsch, Roulette, Brooklyn
afloat,durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Salisbury University, Maryland
afloat, durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Ideas City Festival, New Museum, New York
backwards, Infr’Action Venezia 3, Venice, Italy
Actual Size Plus, video and scenic design, choreography by Sally Silvers, 92nd St Y, New York
Terminals, live video projections for a composition by Ha-Yang Kim, Roulette, Brooklyn
afloat, durational video and sound performance, music by Brian Chase and Kato Hideki, Clocktower at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Drums & Drones, live video and live sound with Brian Chase, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing
2014
Wrapped, durational performance, Guangzhou Live 5, Guangzhou, China
Just a Grain of Sand, durational performance, META – Chongqing Live Art 2014, Chongqing, China
Actual Size, video and scenic design, choreography by Sally Silvers, Roulette, Brooklyn
Drums & Drones, live video and live sound with Brian Chase, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Crossing, live video and movement performance, sound by Gu Tao, Yinzi, Chongqing, China
I know myself, and I don’t
Solo exhibition
including a durational performance at the opening, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
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EDUCATION
1983 – 88 Dance education in Ballet, Folk Dance, Modern Dance, Jazz Dance and Fencing, Theatertanzschule St. Gallen, Switzerland
1988 – 96 further studies in Modern Dance (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and Jennifer Muller) in New York
1988 – 91 Dance Composition with Nurit Cohen, New York
BIO
Lives and works in New York.usa
Born in Schaffhausen.sw
LINKS
http://ursulascherrer.com/upcoming.html
https://www.facebook.com/people/Ursula-Scherrer/100005972746169
TEXTS
https://roulette.org/event/ursula-scherrer-with-marcia-bassett-time_untime/
https://roulette.org/event/sally-silvers-tenderizer-3/
https://roulette.org/event/ursula-scherrer-michael-schumacher-2/
VIDEO
URSULA SCHERRER from Outer Seed Shadow on Vimeo.
QUOTES
“I am attracted to what is fleeting, what can’t be captured, what is past before it is even recognized. The viewer is placed into an intimate environment – what does she/he take with her/him?
And that in itself is always an interpretation of the actual.
The inner landscape in the outside world – my work is less about what one sees then about the feeling that it leaves behind. My aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text, mixed media.”
AUTHOR
Chiraz Mosbah / Mahfoudhi Sana