The artist Vanessa Amoah Opoku is a guest in the class for Intermedia Photography and Time-based Media in the Artistic Field and talks about her practice, which moves between different media and technologies and includes curatorial and collective work.
Vanessa Amoah Opoku (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on history, technology and marginalized narratives within mixed realities. Her artistic practice explores how alliances between art, science and technology can change perceptions of the world, reality and our surroundings. In her artistic practice she mainly uses 3D scans, animation, sculpture, performance and sound.
Opoku is a member of the artist collective PARA. The collective works on interdisciplinary and site-specific installations and performative arts that explore themes such as chronopolitics, future heritage and speculative feelings. Since 2021, she has been the art curator of the Balance Club Culture Festival, a platform that explores the political significance of club culture, its role in different communities and its contribution to technological and cultural progress.
Date:
Tue, 02.07.24, 1pm
Online and on site in the class for Intermedia Photography, room 0322, Nordbau
Kunsthochschule Kassel, Menzelstraße 13, 34121 Kassel
The artist is connected online.
Link and access data:
By mail to holger.jenss[at]uni-kassel.de