{"id":1649,"date":"2015-07-14T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:47:18","slug":"mathilde-ter-heijne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/mathilde-ter-heijne\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathilde ter Heijne"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5855\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1649-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mathildeterheijne.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mathildeterheijne.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mathildeterheijne.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1701 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MashekS.potr%C3%A4t.jpg?resize=255%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"MashekS.potr\u00e4t\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MashekS.potr%C3%A4t.jpg?resize=255%2C300&amp;ssl=1 255w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MashekS.potr%C3%A4t.jpg?resize=869%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 869w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MashekS.potr%C3%A4t.jpg?resize=624%2C736&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MashekS.potr%C3%A4t.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MashekS.potr%C3%A4t.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>Mathilde ter Heijne (born 1969 in Strasbourg, France) is a Berlin-based Dutch\u00a0conceptual\u00a0artist\u00a0primarily working within the mediums of video, performance, and installation\u00a0practices. \u00a0Since 2011, she has been\u00a0a professor of Visual Art, Performance, and Installation at the \u00a0Kunsthochschule Kassel.\u00a0Ter Heijne is a founding member of \u0192\u0192, an evolving and collaborative network of\u00a0international feminist artists who have produced major projects in Vienna (2012) and Berlin\u00a0(2013) and Warshaw (2014).<\/p>\n<p>Ter Heijne\u2019s research based practice is founded in intersectional feminism. Her video\u00a0art produced in the 1990\u2019s destabilized patriarchal tropes within literature and cinema\u00a0through elaborate re-stagings and role reversals.<\/p>\n<p>In her recent work (2005-present), ter Heijne shows an activist and radical approach to\u00a0art-making as a participatory process. In her on-going project Woman To Go, she collects\u00a0and writes biographies on woman writers and political figures who lived in the 19th century\u00a0and are being erased from collective memory. The 19th century was a time where\u00a0women spearheaded suffrage making women\u2019s rights possible today. Yet, these women\u00a0continue to fall into oblivion, which is perhaps a latent phenomena of patriarchy where\u00a0heroic men become icons but women\u2019s presence can only be felt through traces of dogma.<\/p>\n<p>By presenting and creating postcards that bear these women\u2019s names and biographies, she\u00a0ensures that these testimonies do not pass into darkness. \u00a0For ter Heijne, ritual and ceremony have been structures for continual artistic observation\u00a0and potential emancipation. The study of ancient ritual makes its way into her sculptural\u00a0ceramic practice as well as her performative one. Experimental Archeology, The\u00a0Space Beyond all Illusions is a video project documenting a four day ritual firing of clay\u00a0sculptures during a full-moon cycle. In the videos, you see participants guided through\u00a0shaman-led ayahuasca ceremonies bringing to life both figuratively and literally large\u00a0clay idol sculptures. The ritual, part-fiction, part-documentary, confuses the parameters of\u00a0reality and structures of belief. Under the affects of the ayahuasca plant, the camera traces\u00a0the movements of the participants who stradle the liminal zone between drug-induced\u00a0stupor and transcendental awakening.<\/p>\n<p>All of the video capturing devices invoke the analogue, which prefigures the digital. This\u00a0is perhaps an aesthetic illusionary motif of hearkening back to times that valued the\u00a0feminine as a source of power and tool for solidarity. The ritual worship in this case is\u00a0less about bringing a divine or spiritual body into the world and rather about constructing\u00a0the necessary circumstances for such a visitation to take place: a visitation that could\u00a0overshadow rather than forshadow a future patriarchal binary. For these reasons, the\u00a0camera obscures vision onto the performative scene in order to force the viewer into a\u00a0similar vulnerable and open position so that h\/she can feel the presence of the analogue\u00a0goddess through sensation. The viewer is, thus, invited to lay down and inside the geodesic\u00a0dome form where all of these captured images cascade upon a geometric dome made from\u00a0wooden triangles.<br \/>\nSince 2013, ter Heijne herself became connected to a Togolese vodou\u00a0community. \u00a0Within the rituals for certain deities, woman serves as decipher for oracles and a vehicle\u00a0for gods. The systems existing within this voodoo religion both question and overturn\u00a0patriarchy but also monotheistic power structures that have in turn reified female\u00a0oppression. Through a new documentary approach, ter Heijne shows a separate reality\u00a0from the Western context absent of monotheistic hierarchies and yet containing definitively\u00a0democratic aspects through ceremonial trance dances. The video documentation Pulling Matter from Unknown Sources serves as\u00a0both a window into a different but \u00a0nonetheless parallel reality but also a mirror whereby\u00a0the viewer can destabilize ingrained \u00a0notions of religion, dominance, and power.<\/p>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terheijne.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.terheijne.net<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1702\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1702 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58.png?resize=625%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58\" width=\"625\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58.png?resize=1024%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58.png?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58.png?resize=624%2C464&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TP4Cki3qqu0CaGMOZ__ZeT14SI5CRYxlr71CbfOQF58.png?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video Still, Experimental Archeology, The Space Beyond all Illusions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1704\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1704 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PastedGraphic-5.jpg?resize=625%2C936&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"PastedGraphic-5\" width=\"625\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PastedGraphic-5.jpg?resize=684%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PastedGraphic-5.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PastedGraphic-5.jpg?resize=624%2C935&amp;ssl=1 624w, 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