“…highly sensitive, highly sensitive…”
Name
Sissy Schneider (This is my real name, not a short version for Elisabeth)
Profession
Visual Artist
Website
Who are you? What do you do?
I am a visual artist, working with different media as photography, drawing, painting, textile and sculptural material. I am exploring possible symbiotic relationships between them aswell.
Where are you from?
Cologne
Your style in 3 words?
logic-magic-material
Your weakness? Your strength?
highly sensitive, highly sensitive
What makes you different?
Different from what?
When did you decide to become an artist?
As a little child I wished to become an artist and I became one by not stopping to do the work.
What do you find most fascinating about your work?
After giving birth to a new work, i feel strangely separate towards it. My favorite part of creation is the idea-twisting, material-manipulating, intuition-following, research-dream-state.
A few words about your favourite creation?
The clash of hard purposed work and seemingly magical intuitive manifestations…
Someone else’s work that inspired or inspires you…
Thomas Albdorf, Rimma Arslanov, Joseph Beuys, Richard Billingham, Louise Bourgeois, Lucas Blalock, Susanne Britz, Thomas Demand, Richard Diebenkorn, Jean Dubuffet, Tracey Emin, Vali Export, Rebecca Horn, William Kentridge, Edward Kienholz, Jürgen Klauke, Carolina Kreusch, Annette Messager, Robert Motherwell, Katja Novistkova, Yoko Ono, Cornelia Parker, Peter Piller, Robert Rauschenberg, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Schmitten, Gedi Sibony, Amely Spötzl, Sophie Thun, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Angelika Trojnarski, Cy Twombly, Anna Vogel, Jorinde Voigt, Jeff Wall, Hannah Wilke, Joel Peter Witkin, Adolf Wölfli, Rose Wylie, Sati Zech, (…),
A new project coming up or an idea you want to work on?
Working …on the digital reflex and digital fossils.
on post photographic conditions.
on the indexicality of things.
Finish the sentence „More important than my career are…“
my loved ones.
2019: Where are we going?
Right to the core.
When the going gets tough…
a) depression
sleep, nap, talk to my mom, listen to all the episodes of „die drei ???“, hugging animals, staring at a white wall, visit my family, writing, sleeping again, eating chocolate, reading, drawing, watching stupid youtube videos to get distracted, overthinking, becoming a hermit
b) overwhelmed / stressed out by work
sleep, coffee, talk to my mom, make lists, check my calendar, writing emails, listen to all the episodes of „die drei ???“, becoming a hermit, eat crappy stuff, overthinking, nervous laying awake at night
Your city’s favourite spots?
Decksteiner Weiher
Do you have a vision?
Ask the unconscious.
What would you do if you could change the World?
We do that each day!
Tell us about your future plans…
Different stages of future: traveling to Georgia and Japan, exhibit my current work, create tons of new work, exhibit the new work, finishing my arts-degree, maybe starting a PhD program, making money with what I love, being with the people I love.
Last but not least: what is your favourite Song?
BuM BA zAckA . BuM BA zAckA . TwEep TwEep . BuM BA zAckA .
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