{"id":2411,"date":"2015-11-16T06:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T11:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2018-05-06T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T21:56:53","slug":"barbara-steppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/barbara-steppe\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Steppe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8533\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2411-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/barbarasteppe.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/barbarasteppe.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/barbarasteppe.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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbarasteppe.de\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2490 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/portrait.jpg?resize=300%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"portrait\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/portrait.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/portrait.jpg?resize=1024%2C773&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/portrait.jpg?resize=624%2C471&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/portrait.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/portrait.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Barbara Steppe<\/a> studied Painting at the Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste in Karlsruhe,\u00a0Germany and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received an MFA\u00a0in1988.\u00a0Barbara Steppe lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been exhibited in Institutions and Galleries in Germany, USA and France, such as the Drawing Center New York, Galerie Barbara Weiss Berlin, Galerie Vincenz Sala Paris\/Berlin. She received national and international Grants and Fellowships. In the early 90\u00b4s she worked with the Dance Company Sasha Waltz + Guests on Stage Design and Performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time, Timemanagement, elapsing time, consumed time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her work Barbara Steppe portrays individuals or groups of people, by analyzing and transforming information about their use of time in day-to-day live.\u00a0It is a collaboration between the portrayed person and the artist.<\/p>\n<p>Each participant needs to document minutely how they spend their day-to-day lives and what activities they engaged in. Based in these miniature empirical studies, Steppe then determines which activities are central, including recurring habits, and designs equivalent parameters of shaping with proportional relations, and an allotted color scheme. The artist thereby makes use of diverse creative choices, ranging from painting through textiles and objects, to sound compositions and performances.<\/p>\n<p>Besides individual portraits she works on larger projects with specifically assembled groups of people, whether this could be a group of personal friends, or various inhabitants of a certain city, or people from specific occupational fields.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2491\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2491 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg?resize=625%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"photo1\" width=\"625\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg?resize=1024%2C692&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg?resize=624%2C422&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo1.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Routines 2014, 40 min., performed at the Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Choreography: Lindy Annis + Barbara Steppe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>25 professionals in the art world, participated in this project. All participants were asked to minutely record their activities for 24 hours on a working day in November 2013, quoting the exact times, also thoughts and notes were to be included in the protocol.<\/p>\n<p>During the performance, each author was reading out the own daily routine. A manipulated clock, running through the 24 hours of a day in just 40 minutes, gave the impulse for the recital and determined the cue for the specific sentences from the time-bound journals. The diaries were read synchronously. In parts, this made for a spoken chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The dramaturgy of the piece was determined by the rhythm of the journals, with dense phases of the day in which most participants were active, and quieter moments.<\/p>\n<p>Participants:<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Buschmann \/curator, Kerstin Drechsel \/artist, Arnold Dreyblatt \/artist, Birgit Effinger \/art historian, Thomas Fischer \/gallerist, Heiner Franzen \/artist, Peter Funken \/curator, Asta Gr\u00f6ting \/artist, Leiko Ikemura \/artist, Veronika Kellndorfer \/artist, Nina Koidl \/gallerist, Hannah Kruse \/art historian, K\u00e4the Kruse \/artist, Nicola Kuhn \/art critic, Adrian Lohm\u00fcller \/artist, Hanne Loreck \/art historian, Christiane Meixner \/art critic, Matt Mullican \/artist, Ursula Sax \/artist, Britta Schmitz \/curator, Daniel Schreiber \/author, Valerie Smith \/curator, Sassa Tr\u00fclz\u00adsch \/gallerist, Marco Poloni \/artist, Ivo Wessel collector.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2492\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2492\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-2.jpg?resize=624%2C902&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bild 017\" width=\"624\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-2.jpg?resize=708%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 708w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-2.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-2.jpg?resize=624%2C902&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-2.jpg?w=1322&amp;ssl=1 1322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">routines, 2012, acrylic, jute\/Polyesterribbons, wood, aluminum, 2engines. Installation ca. 340 x 550 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For this work, five people provided records of the course of their days. The coloring of the ribbons produced as loops, correspond to the chronological sequences of their activities within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Each individual activity is assigned a color of it s own. The length of the segments stand for the respective time spent on the activity. Two motors are moving the ribbons slowly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2493\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2493 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-3.jpg?resize=625%2C520&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"625\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C852&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-3.jpg?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-3.jpg?resize=624%2C519&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-3.jpg?w=1772&amp;ssl=1 1772w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/photo-3.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view broken balls 2015, ceramic, watercolor, different sizes,\u00a0ceramic casts of found, old and busted balls, revealing lesions, dirt und abrasions, worn out by time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>See more on the following videos-<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/145525244\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Routines II<\/strong> 2015, Audio (Ausschnitt) <\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/145525125\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Routines<\/strong> 2014, Performance NBK (Ausschnitt)<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/145096061\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tag 24<\/strong>: Performance (Ausschnitt)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/barbarasteppe.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listBarbara Steppe studied Painting at the Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste in Karlsruhe,\u00a0Germany and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received an MFA\u00a0in1988.\u00a0Barbara Steppe lives and works in Berlin. 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