Heidi Voet Belgium
International Collaborated Artist Lives and works in Brussels and Taipei.
Heidi Voet’s multidisciplinary practice is informed by her transcultural experience of both residing in Europe and Asia and offers a critical approach on cultural conventions and belief systems, modes of production in consumer society, and the ubiquitous experience of time. Her works are infused with a wry humour that plays between material properties of everyday objects and the connotations they carry. The central concern of Heidi Voet’s oeuvre is the contrasting registers of time that shape the present. The immediacy and fleeting nature of popular culture and everyday commodities – plastic watches, magazines, fruit and vegetables – that are among her unexpected media, place her work in a critical relationship with today’s globalized culture. Combined in assemblages that draw on arts, crafts, historical artefacts and myths from diverse cultures, Voet nimbly folds the past into the present. The apparent simplicity of their form belies their highly crafted, and often labour intensive, production – a further register of relative time and value – recurs throughout her practice. Acutely aware of her works historical and cultural context, Heidi Voet places the materials and processes within an intricate network of associations in her “thoughts turned form”. Through this playful approach, she directs our attention to pressing issues of social inequity, imperialism, and other affects under globalization. Favouring conundrum, absurdity and contradiction as its means, Heidi Voet consistently provokes a reappraisal of today’s complex and relative social conditions. Her work has been exhibited in Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (B), S.M.A.K., Ghent (B), The Shanghai Biennale (CN), CHAT, Hong Kong, The Center of Contemporary Art Vilnius (LT), among numerous other venues. Related Link
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Organizer/ Tjimur Dance Theatre
Supervisors/ Ministry of Culture
Sponsor/
National Culture Arts Foundation
Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation
Pintung Culture Foundation
Office of Maolin National Scenic Area Management
Sandimen Townshop Office
Pintung County Government
Co-organizer/
IMCCI at Taipei National University of the Arts X USR Hi-Five Plus: 從北投平埔族群到屏東原住民的國際藝術對話
Supervisors/ Ministry of Culture
Sponsor/
National Culture Arts Foundation
Indigenous Peoples Cultural Foundation
Pintung Culture Foundation
Office of Maolin National Scenic Area Management
Sandimen Townshop Office
Pintung County Government
Co-organizer/
IMCCI at Taipei National University of the Arts X USR Hi-Five Plus: 從北投平埔族群到屏東原住民的國際藝術對話