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We’ll go on a journey, attempting with seriousness to build our own and overlapping worlds that we will be worldling. A playful, improvised journey. I’ll be your tour guide through the jungles of our minds. Discovering the Hohensalzburg Castle as an example of dream castle building, we will, through play, whirlwind through different impromptu, collaborative exercises in order to obtain a state of non-judgmental embodiment. From an intersectional queer feminist perspective, we will go by my personal motto: improve, improvise. Using our bodies and the space around us as a transformable pallet, you’ll discover and obtain hands-on tools for world-building and mythmaking. Sharing is caring. Every day, there will be a theme, which will likewise be generated by group input and needs. Quick and dirty, to hoard and stimulate new ideas and forms of expression, the hostess with the mostest will welcome you to camp* Mette.
* From Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp”… “the “purest” examples of camp must be dead serious, not attempt at camp, and in their failed seriousness become camp. Not every artistic failure can be camp, however; the art must attempt the wildly outlandish in order to succeed as the familiar ‘so-bad-its-good’ notion of camp.”
Mette Sterre’s creations escape fixed definitions. They exceed performance practice, installation, digital technologies, costume-making and sculpture – potentially expanding their territories without limits. Entering her work, we are cast into the materialization of her mind processes: an unpredictable participatory and sensorial experience.
Sterre’s work gives value to the devalued, both aesthetically and conceptually. The artist makes room for exploring and exploding the power structures that silently – though violently – regulate our lives.
Creatures that seem to be assembled into hybrid and chimeric formulations – partly machines, monsters or nonhumans – occupy the same space as us. Rather than being ego-centered actors within a system that still oppresses those that are ‘less than human,’ Sterre’s creations celebrate our variance through dissonance, in a dimension of both fear and ecstasy.
When approaching this tentacular entity, the binarisms speech/non-speech, human/monster, nature/cyborg, life/death, (wo)man/animal, dynamism/stasis are troubled and dismantled. Abjection and desire are at work in this moment to analyze our own preconceived understandings and perceptions of sexual desire and power dynamics.
Mette Sterre is a Rijksakademie van Beelden Kunsten alumnus (2021) and obtained her MA in Performance Design & Practice at Central Saint Martins in London. She has shown her work internationally at Manifesta 14 in Kosovo, Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Watermill Center in New York, Migros Museum in Zurich, Trienale Design Museum in Hamburg and Art15 in London. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dazed and Confused, El Pais, Berlin Art Link, and others.
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