UDINE BROD
Visual Artist
Exhibited:
Iron Idol
On participating in Vagina Festival 2007:
I am participating in the festival because I am a woman and the theme is relevant to my thinking and being.
About Undine Brod:
My work explores themes of identity. I use animal, human, and childhood forms within the framework of dreams, fantasy, wonder, and loss. I work to manipulate and expand the viewer's notion of identity. I often include found objects and images of domestic origin (door knobs, dolls, clothes, chairs, etc.). These existing parts bring an innate history to each sculpture. The found elements often provide the viewer with an entryway into the work through their own connection to and experience with the incorporated objects. The found objects' existing histories are also integrated into the content of my work and these recovered parts are brought "back to life" in new contexts. By combining old parts into new forms I attempt to bridge the gap from past to present, from real to imagined, and from individual to communal.
My work is both improvisatory and narrative. I develop elements that are playful, whimsical, and ominous through an explorative combining of divergent parts. Rather than start from preliminary two-dimensional drawings, I direct my ideas and impulses immediately into the manipulation process. The improvisatory nature of the work parallels the child-like behavior of imaginative play. Each work tells a story with no clearly defined answers or direction. The viewer's subjective ideas often determine each works possible conclusion for which there often is no clear answer.
Contact:
undinebrod@hotmail.com
Websites:
www.undinebrod.com
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VAGINA FESTIVAL 2007
took place on FEB. 16-18
at
AGNI GALLERY, NYC
Proceeds were donated to V-Day. We were honored to present two performances of The Vagina Monologues.
About Vagina Festival 2007 >
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN >
At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions.
V-Day's 2007 theme Reclaiming Peace seeks to make the connection between the worldwide anti-violence work of V-Day activists with our collective desire for peace and an end to armed conflicts. “We are saying that if a government supports the use of force, weapons, violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license to the same kind of behavior at home,” stated V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler.
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