Exhibition on Display: March 3 - March 18, 2023 | Works by Iris Dittler
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Iris Dittler´s work can be located at the point of intersection between contemporary
dance and visual art practices. She investigates physical states in various media like
drawing, installation, performance and video.
The focus lies on the perception of the body, sentient felt configurations of tensions
and tactile – kinesthetic experiences. She is interested in what can be found there in
latency as an internal physical and psychological architecture. Her drawings can be seen
as seismographic notations of those internal processes. The objects are manifestations
of physical states in collision with the material of the everyday world.
Her installations are choreographed situations. Groups of objects are set into spatial
relations and frequently presented in combination with live performances. She is
interested in how a sequence of gestures can create a body and reflect upon what it
actually means to make a sculpture.
Her projects are process-oriented and demand an active confrontation with the given
architectural space. She oscillates between galleries and theatre spaces, creating
site-specific installations for the audience to be drawn back to their own physical
constitution in the very presence
ARTIST BIO
Iris Dittler, born 1985, is a visual artist and performer based in Vienna (AT). She
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Gunter Damisch and at the École
nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris with Anne Rochette. Her art installations
as well as her performances are transdisciplinary. They create an interplay between
contemporary dance and fine art developing an artistic vocabulary that is unique to
Dittler’s approach. At the center of her work is a thorough investigation of our
physical-psychological existence.
Iris Dittler had solo exhibitions at international venues, such as APNOE at Roussin in
Paris (FR) FROM WHICH / WHAT / WHO DID THIS / YOU DERIVE ? at Fünfzigzwanzig gallery in
Salzburg (AT), Issir- at 3 bis f in Aix-en-Provence (FR), The Incommensurable Movement
of Spacing at Inner Space Gallery in Dallas (US), Incongruent Sites at MUSA in Vienna
(AT), and abita sotto la lingua at Palazzo Bottigella Gandini in Pavia (IT). Her
performances were staged throughout Europe, such as at Centquatre-Paris, Tanzquartier
Wien (AT), as well as at Théâtre de l’Étoile du Nord and Marcelle Alix Gallery in Paris (FR).
In 2013 Iris Dittler participated in the Advanced Research Lab for Visual Arts with
Matt Mullican in Italy. She received a scholarship for the artist residency at the
Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2014. Iris Dittler also received the Austrian
State Scholarship for Fine Arts and the City of Vienna’s Grant for Emerging Artists in
2016. In 2018 Iris Dittler was awarded the prestigious Theodor Körner Price.
“Iris Dittler’s formal vocabulary moves back and forth between the body (her body),
thought (the object as idea), and the object (proper). The latter is born at a point
in the body, and sometimes takes the shape of a line or a posture. Its properties and
proportions are meticulously tested in the process. None of the pieces created by Iris
Dittler exist without having received the validation of the body. Composed of the
perfect equilibrium between contradicting qualities, such as straight and curved,
empty and full, transparent and opaque, her artworks are brimming with an organic
sensation. These bodily experiences immanent in Iris Dittler’s works are at once
their membrane, their envelope, their frame, and their skeleton.” (Diane Pigeau)
VIDEO WORKS PRESENTED:
THE BIRDS´DELIRIUM DOES NOT INTEREST THE TREES
produced by Iris Dittler and Nicolai Gütermann.
Video, Duration: 30 min
TRANSPOSITIONS (01 AND 02)
Objects, Choreography, Performance: Iris Dittler
Sound: Andreas Trobollowitsch
Camera, Editing: Nicolai Gütermann
Video, Duration: 13 min and 10 min
A_BODY CONSTRUCTION
Concept, Installation & Choreography: Iris Dittler
Choreography & Performances: Asher O´Gorman, Len Hanak-Hammerl, Klaus Kleinschuster, Monika Swoboda
Sound: Andreas Trobollowitsch
Camera & Video: Nicolai Gütermann
Production: D.ID Dance Identity
Video, Duration: 33 min
ENRICHING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH ART
Part of the mission of Arts Fort Worth is to provide a quality event, visual and
performing arts venue for all of the community. This historic and dynamic arts complex
boasts seven indoor galleries, an outdoor gallery, artist and performance studios, and
office suites for nonprofit arts organizations and is managed by Arts Fort Worth on
behalf of the City of Fort Worth.
Arts Fort Worth also provides educational programming, promotes experienced and emerging
artists. The three theater spaces hosts a wide-range of performances by local and
nationally known artists and organizations- the Hardy and Betty Sanders black box theater,
the traditional William Edrington Scott Theatre, and The Vault, which hosts Fort Worth
Fringe acts.
HISTORY
Located at 1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth Community Arts Center is part of the most
architecturally significant museum districts in the United States. The striking modern
Herbert Bayer building (with a later O'Neil Ford addition) opened to the public in 1954
as home to one of the most prestigious and oldest collecting organizations in the state
of Texas, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. When, in 2002, the Modern moved down the
street, the Fort Worth Community Arts Center opened. The building continues to exhibit
world class art and support the performing arts for more than half a century.
LOOKING FOR A UNIQUE SPACE FOR YOUR EVENT?
Arts Fort Worth provides versatile spaces to meet a variety of rental needs. Whether you
require well-lit exhibition areas, unique rooms for meetings, special events, or the
comforts of an accessible, professional-quality performance venue has a space that fits
your needs. This dynamic arts complex includes the black box Hardy and Betty Sanders
Theatre, the William Edrington Scott Theatre, seven galleries, and studio and office spaces,
including a conference room overlooking the Cultural District towards downtown. These
spaces are adaptable to a wide range of uses, including conventions, special events,
weddings, workshops, and theater productions. If you're interested in more details contact
us!
