CV Marie Thams (education, exhibitions, publications): (click here)
Contact:
E-mail: marie [at] mariethams [dot] com
Phone: +45 22 75 55 61
Selection of work
This web site is meant as a platform and showcase for my work and activities. You can here find a selection of my projects and artistic practice, and follow my activities in news.
Currently
Live and work in Copenhagen, DK.
Recently finished a MFA in Art Theory & Communication at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art.
Vice chairperson in UKK's committee (Young Art Workers / Unge Kunstnere og Kunstformidlere).
Interdisciplinary practice
I consider my practice interdisciplinary as I operate on different platforms by working in installation, photography, sculpture (among other medias), and also in text: exploring my interests in writing. Further I enjoy organizing events such as seminars and debates, with the intention of joining different fields and disciplines in dynamic meetings and thereby challenging the individual professions and opening up discussion about art's nature as a visual, performative, scientific and research based sphere and gesture.
I find that working in different disciplines creates the most challenging situations. And I wish to link, mutually pollute, and challenge both the visual, sonic and practical aspects with the theoretical and philosophical in artistic production. These relations does not always happen visually or make a clear statement. My goal is rather to investigate the latent, subterranean connections, which constantly happens between art production's versatile aspects.
Object or event?
My work often moves between sculpture/installation and props, and I aim for this because of the opening it creates: the work moving from being mere object towards being an actual event. My aim is to create work that exists as a vehicle for experiencing both the given interest area, which the work departs from, and for looking into the very mechanisms of the nature of art.
I have a strong interest in theatrical and performative set up, methods and visuals. I see visual art (like theatre) as a space for possible reconstruction of lived experience; the staging of reality invites one to take a critical view on this (the real being already a construction perhaps). The performative element suggests action and time. Theatre addresses temporality.
I attempt through the sculpture or installation to invite into an experience of the self within the arena/scenario. I am very concerned about how to create artwork, which operates as a platform for the spectator, questioning the relationship between object, person and space.
Other sites
See my profile on www.kunstdk.dk, a digital archive presenting Danish contemporary visual artists, operated by the Visual Arts Centre in the Danish Arts Agency.