Dana Sederowsky works with videoperformance and photography.
As an artist she works solely with herself and her own body.
The development of her artistic practice takes place in real time involving her bodily ageing and the ageing of her face.
Her videoperformancework is based on own manuscripts which forms the monolgues. She never samples material, manipulate or use existing image or texts. Nothing in her work is accidental. It it calculated and strictly directed.
Sederowsky who comes from a photographic background, wants to create "speaking photographs", using the videocamera as if it is a stillcamera with sound.
She investigates language through linguistic excercises, speech-acts and fonological experiments, focusing on the process of using speech and how words are delivered directly in the face of the viewer.
She investigates language not simply as a means of communication but also as a poetic and formal device.
Sederowsky has been concentrating on two ongoing projects:
Special Announcements , started in 2006 and Dana Aid , started in 1998.
They revolve around Sederowsky´s questioning of authorities and autocratic ways: the identification of proclaimers of truths and their
(non-) reliability as proclaimers of truth.
Sederowsky is the writer of the texts, the actor performing in both the videowork and photographs and the director of the camera.
Sederowsky has had several soloexhibitions and exhibited internationally, including:
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow and Ekaterinburg, Russia
International Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Los Angeles International Art Biennal,l U.S.A
Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
The Prague Contemporary Art Festival
WRO 09, Wroclaw, Poland
