Artist Statement
For the past few years my work has focused on interventions and collaborations in various locations; museums, art halls, a theatre, galleries, a bus terminal, a city square, an abandoned factory, a military base, a living room, a kitchen, a restaurant, a cinema.
The process of directing, acting and negotiating with people participating in my work becomes the work of art itself and the work of art itself takes a variety of forms; films, stagings and performances. Small shifts and interferences in gesture and site will transform weakness into power, human into doll and theatre into reality. This is a way to navigate through systems, stories, visions and tales. To stay attentive to the multiple perspectives arising from one situation is the power and key.
Katarina Nitsch, October 2008