Birgit R. Deubner
Birgit Deubner
I make multimedia installations, performances and drawings

Female
30 years old
Liverpool / London / Cologne, Northwest
United Kingdom



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I make multidisciplinary installations and performances. Allegorical syntheses of traditional and new media; folk tale, parable and contemporary culture; drawing and dance performance..

You can come and visit me at the 'Royal Standard' in Liverpool where I have my studio (http://www.the-royal-standard.com/).






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(above : "DUNGBEETLE AND SISYPHUS", my most recent project, a performance in public spaces.)

Commissioned for the exhibition 'The Baltic Frame' / Independent Liverpool Biennial,
curated by Tony Smith for Arena Gallery, 25th September to 9th of October 2008

Group exhibition with: Birgit Deubner, Nick Fox, Britta Bogers, Claus Dieter Geissler, Tine Wille, Andrew Bracey, Nick Sykes,
Bernard Georgeson, Susie Macmurray, Lesley Halliwell, Anna Ketskemety, Dagmar Schmidt






(above) "Through the Forest with Virgil"; commissioned for the exhibition 'Meet me at Sunset' / Independent Biennial Liverpool, curated by Nicole Bartos / 18th October to 30 November 2008


'In the forest with Virgil''In the forest with Virgil'
(above) 'In the forest with Virgil'
(Mysore, India, 2007. materials: bamboo installation, dimensions variable, suitable for outdoor and indoor)


"Through the Forest with Virgil" - a fragile ascent...

an outline:
From Babylonian times man has striven to reach the skies, to equal or rival divinity. So we continue to climb today still. Be it to reach goodness in life, be it in arrogance in the belief of our individual or collective supremacy (political for example, also see Babel as a reference…), be it in the hope that things will improve from bad to better or good to greater. We may seek love or status in society, godly/ divine blessing. The aim is always upwards, ascent. The ladder describes an unstable, un-secured journey, the higher one reaches on it, the more risky, the more treacherous the fall, a journey, also, that at it's end may lead to nothing… or to the heavens… this is open to interpretation. The ladder is the most immediate vehicle to ascent and in the way that I use it I also think of it as signifying the growth of trees, I make the ladder the tree in a forest which is created throughout our lives. (…) To achieve an abstracted folk tale/ dreamlike/ readable but non-direct narrative with references to today's society's focal points as well as to those of past times.



Birgit Deubner's Axis artist profile this green button is a link to my Axisweb profile



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Last big Adventure / Project:
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"DUNGBEETLE AND SISYPHUS" “Searching for inherent and interpreted purpose in daily activities.” A project in two parts to coincide with the Liverpool Independents Biennial.

The Artist uses Mythological Characters, insect life and Folk Tale Protagonists and brings them together in a place they have never met before. This could be a conversation, a play, a dialogue or monologue, but Birgit Deubner creates an unusual performance for the public realm, for an unsuspecting audience; and a film for exhibition in gallery contexts as well as waiting rooms and all manner of public spaces that are frequented and lingered in.

In this instalment of the project the setting was the architecturally and heritage rich part of old Liverpool. Private View: 25th September. 4 Jordan Street, Liverpool. Curated by Tony Smith.

Part two was performed and filmed in rural Germany. Curated and commissioned by Vanessa Bartlett, for exhibition at RED WIRE Liverpool.
Private View: 14th November 2008.

A great thank you to LEON SETH for the camera work on both project parts and for his project development support !!!

(Sisyphus : punished in Hades for his misdeeds in life by being condemned to the eternal, futile, hopeless task of rolling a large stone to the top of a hill, from which it always rolled down again.)



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Current project/Research-Project :
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2009/Summer

Repatriation Program for Parakeets & A New Media Gallery for Birds




Recent project/Research-Project:
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2009/06 'In or Out with Parakeets' a performance intervention, Richmond and Richmond Hill Hotel, London
2009/05 'In or Out with Parakeets' a performance intervention, Bereznitsky Galerie Berlin

2008/01 Research-Journey

Departure by train on the 1st of january, traveling to Istanbul via Cologne, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia.
En Route: drawings, sound-collections, photograph.. Seeking artists/ galleries, storytellers and buyers along the way. Return to England: 31 days later.




Exhibitions (edited):
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2009

2009/05 Reliquaries of Empires Dust, Museum Man hosted by the BEREZNITSKY GALLERY Berlin
2009/05 Devotional Choreography I and II (re-edited), at QUAD in Derby
2009/05 Pause and Eject, at the Rag Factory, Brick Lane, London
2009/02 BBC Screen, daily for the entire month, every 30 to 60 minutes: 3 minute sections from "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus I", Liverpool
2009/02 'Fear and Optimism', curated by Josh Tennant, exhibiting Dungbeetle and Sisyphus I & II ; Workstation & Block Gallery, Sheffield
Touring group exhibition curated by Red Wire/ Josh Tennant


2008

2008/11 'Slowness' curated by Vanessa Bartlett, "Dungbeetle & Sisyphus II", Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool Independents Biennial
2008/10 "Through the Forest with Virgil", Nicole Bartos's Gallery, Independent Biennale, Liverpool
2008/09 'The Baltic Frame' curated by Tony Smith, "Dungbeetle & Sisyphus I", Arena Studios Gallery, Liverpool Independents Biennial
2008/06 "Big Hope", Hope University, invited to show "Devotional Choreography / Khoreia", 5 channel video installation.
2008/06 'The Liar, the Witch and the Wardrobe' group exhibition, curated by Vanessa Bartlett, showing "Devotional Choreography", 2 screen- cine-film installation, Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool
2008/06 "The Watchers / 7 Giants", Installation in St.Luke's church/warmemorial, Liverpool


2007

2007/09 “Journey with Virgil”, large installations in public space in Mysore, India
2007/09 “Questions about the fall of Icarus”, poster action in Mysore, India
2007/05 “Devotional Choreography/ Khoreia” 5-screen cine film installation,
Anglican Cathedral Liverpool, solo show.
2007 /03 “Babel”, public installation of a Bruegel like clustered arrangement of staircase sculptures, with light, Mysore, State Karnataka, India


2006

2006/11 “Devotional Choreography I” (digital film), 3-channel video display/ installation. Presented by ‘Mercy’. Liverpool Independents Biennial.
(http://showmercy.co.uk/bracketthis/)
2006/11 ‘Grizedale Open Salon’, “Journey with Restraints”, film, during the Independent Biennial, A-Foundation, Greenland Street, Liverpool
2006/10 “Journey with Restraints”, public performances of journeys wearing wings of lead, during the Liverpool Independent Biennial.

(2003-2006 sale of drawings, on commission.)
2002/06 “Requiem for a Dream”, John Moores University, degree show installation
2001/04 Exhibition of drawings at the Unity Theatre
2000/07 “And all is Always now”, Victoria Buildings, Liverpool University, installation with performances.




Events (recent):
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2009/03 Taxed / presentation at the A Foundation Greenland Street.
"The Other Xeno-epistemic (taxed off Sarat Maharaj’s workshop at Test Site, Rooseum, Malmö in 2002) is the second in the series, TAXED, regular events for, and by, Liverpool based artists. This session involves a sideways reading of the Rhizome chapter from Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus, with participants each being assigned a footnote to research in advance. On 20th March, participants will gather at A Foundation to assemble and discuss their collected findings, notes and ideas, generating what Maharaj describes as “the kind of crazy-paving reading that makes [artists] ‘dodgy’ from the ‘doctoral’ point of view".

2009/02 Taxed / Slip & Slide Slam, talk at the A Foundation; http://www.afoundation.org.uk/afoundation/news.php

2008 working with singer Steve Boyland on "Khoreia/ Devotional Choreography"

2007 Collaboration with “Lost Voices” (3 classical and improvisation musicians: Steve Boyland, Jonathan Raisin and Ray Dickaty) with events in May and November, in the Anglican Cathedral; St Bride’s Church and The View Two Gallery, Venues in Liverpool.

2006 “drawing practice”, at a Fracture event (improvised orchestra); with Cellist Adam and live projection of waveform directed by myself.



Sales/ Commissions/Fees:
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please contact me if you are interested in any of my work current commissions include illustrations for a children's book and related printmaking. Prices for work are negotiable and I work for the daily artist rate as set by the Arts Board of England, I am flexible for longer term projects or interesting projects that lack funding.




Collections:
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Currently private collections in England and Switzerland.



Publications:
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2009/02 BBC Radio Merseyside / interview with Claire Hamilton
2009 / BBC Big Screen Zine; http://www.brenocallaghan.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/screenzine_12.pdf , page 6
2008 Routledge: ‘City and Gender’, front cover (‘Journey with Restraints’) http://www.routledge.com/books/Cities-and-Gender-isbn9780415415705
2007 Frieze; photograph for artist. http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/focus_marcus_coates/
2006 Liverpool Independent Biennial Catalogue (back page)
2006 ‘Bracket This III’, Exhibition Catalogue



Education & other Training:
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2009 MFA Goldsmiths University 1998-2002 BA/ Fine Art, Liverpool Art School
1995-1997 Physical Theatre training and performances. (England, Germany and Poland)




Work:
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2008-2008 Unity Theater, Front of House staff, Liverpool
2002-2006 Art Handling Technician, Tate Gallery Liverpool
2002-2003 Book Administrator, Tate Gallery Bookshop
2000- now Running Drawing Workshops and Classes: from my studio
1997-2005 ‘Unity Theatre’, Front of house staff, Liverpool
1996-2006 Urban Strawberry Lunch, Liverpool. (Workshop leading, music based community workshops, also employed as Assistant Artistic Director, when required.)



Travel:
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2008 Research Journey through Europe by train. Destination Istanbul; where East and West meet.
2007 India, Jan-March (initially to practice Ashtanga Yoga with its original teacher then I started to make some work:) ‘Babel’
2007 India, July- September making of ‘ Journey with Virgil’& studying Traditional Indian Painting with a local artist.
2006 Cambodia / Angkor Wat Photography Festival
2004 Morocco / making installations
2003 Morocco
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Stills from a Film Installation I made for QUAD / Derby's Public Contemporary Art Gallery
(on show 4 screens, available for exhibition 5-7 screens)
QUAD screen 2f QUAD screen 2d QUAD screen 2

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MusicJohn Cage
BooksThe Glass Palace / Amitav Ghosh
Rainer Maria Rilke
Heroes*Gandhi
*Anyone who has dreams and is brave and lives them....
*...and people with backbone.


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'In or Out with Parakeets?' Images from a performance intervention in Richmond/London. June 1st 2009
In or Out with Parakeets?
In or Out with Parakeets?


'In or Out with Parakeets?' images from a performance intervention @ Bereznitzky Gallery Berlin,
invited by Museum Man, May 1st 2009
In or Out with Parakeets @ Bereznitsky Gallery/Museum Man / Berlin
In or Out with Parakeets @ Bereznitsky Gallery/Museum Man / Berlin
In or Out with Parakeets @ Bereznitsky Gallery/Museum Man / Berlin
In or Out with Parakeets @ Bereznitsky Gallery/Museum Man / Berlin



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Dungbeetle and Sisyphus II from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo.







..below: the start of the performance of Dungbeetle and Sisyphus, october 2008

Dungbeetle and Sisyphus 1 from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo.

..half way through the performance..

Dungbeetle and Sisyphus 9 from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo.



"Dungbeetle and Sisyphus" - rough edit, of the end of a 3 hour 'performance' through Liverpool City. (September 2008. For exhibition in "The Baltic Frame" curated by Tony Smith, during the Independent Biennial Liverpool. Camera work: thanks to to Leon Seth !)




this clip is of "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus", about 2/3rd into the performance.
Location: Crosshall Street / Victoria Street, Liverpool, UK.
Camera: Leon Seth.



...The work below is documentation of a part of a project I did during the Liverpool Independent Biennial 2006. Strapped to my back on a walk through the city are a pair of wings made from lead.. this was the 2nd of 2 performances

PHOTOGRAPHY BY PETER HAGGERTY

..about the fall of Icarus..

november 11th




............................................. ABOUT THE ARTIST BY CRESSIDA KOCIENSKI :.....................................

"Birgit Deubner creates rich multidisciplinary installations and performances that explore notions of mythology and folklore, and the concepts of drawing and choreographed movement as parallel languages. She has spent many years in the exploration of an expanded notion of drawing which includes the mapping of dance through choreographic notation, and the visualisation of sound through the live projection of soundwaves. She has collaborated with members of the Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra and professional dancers, and has worked on projects in Morocco, India and Cambodia.

Birgit's film works eschew the convenience of the digital format for the sensuous flicker of cinefilm, often using silhouettes projected onto sculptural objects or environments – cities, forests and staircases in whose shadowy world exist these dreamlike signifiers of human fears or desires. She works consciously with sculptural materials which are haptic: the permeating smell of beeswax, the chill of ice, and the sombre weight of lead are absorbed into her rich language of signification, which has much in common with the totemic use of icon(ic)-materials of Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys.

Although she is aware of her relationship to this bicephalus paterfamilias of German Art, her exploration of Devotional Choreography has perhaps wealthier resonances with Goethe's Weltliteratur. Like Goethe she seeks to promote empathy and mutual understanding through documenting the ways in which people from different faiths use repeated movement in their relationship to the Divine. She seeks the personal in the universal, but hers is not a biographical gaze – their distillation from the greater cultural context allows each faith to resonate with the visual poetry of those around it.

We are asked gently to consider the evolution and transmission of these gestures of devoted submission, which move through generations and across continents. Faiths wander and diverge with populations, but are rooted to each other and their own history in these 'dances'.

Their inscriptions are impermanent, but become timeless through their constant reinscription."


Journey with Restraints from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo.

performance in Liverpool 2006
a part of the Independents Biennial exhibition strand

This is a short excerpt from the 20 minute film which was made for exhibition at several galleries.

(i.e. the Grizedale Open Saloon at A-Foundation Greenland Street)

materials: lead wings & the artist


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Below is an installation that I made in India in march 2007.
my artwork

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slideshow of images related to the "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus" public performance project

Who I'd like to meet:


thinkers
idealists
explorers
philosophers
architects
writers
dancers
performers




some screen grabs from the film "Dungbeetle and Sisyphus",
exhibited in the Liverpool Independent Biennial.
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below are still from : "Devotional Choreography" 2007
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buddhist, muslim, judaism


Devotional Choreography 2006 from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo.



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Jun 25 2009 11:45 PM

love the drawings. Hope you are well and happy.

William.xxx
Birgit Deubner





Jun 14 2009 4:01 PM

A Tale from Birgit Deubner on Vimeo.

and still not the final cut, but getting closer..



(viewing copy)



I was invited by the A Foundation to respond to a footnote of the Rhizome chapter of Deleuze and Guatari. This was for their second TAXED event, a series of events stolen from other events..



..after reading Deleuze and having had cause to consider rhizomes, dipoles, arborescent forms.. formal thought and more...



I thought about translation, as I tried to translate this text into something that resonates, I thought about a tale I have long wanted to tell and about images that I have for a long time wanted to make into a film reminiscent of La Jetee.



Dipoles seemed to describe the relationship I see between these images and the tale. A dictionary definition of dipoles is this: a pair of equal and oppositely charged or magnetized poles separated by a dista

PacoVolume *First EP out Now*





May 20 2009 12:45 PM

thanks Birgit!
Michelle Marie Macnamara





Apr 29 2009 2:24 PM

Hi Birgit
Thanks for the add
I really enjoyed the footage of your 'Dungbeetle' performances.
Keep it up.
Maybe I'll see you about
Michelle
Soul of Istanbul





Apr 15 2009 6:05 PM

..

ISTANBUL, THE MEETINGPOINT OF CULTURES AND RELIGIONS

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Apr 11 2009 5:08 PM

Hope you are enjoying the holidays.
William.
x
GENI





Apr 6 2009 7:01 PM

I agree with the nice person below xxx
Marimbas of the World/N.M. Marimba B./STEVE CHAVEZ





Apr 6 2009 6:56 PM

I LOVE IT ALL! VERY CREATIVE AND EVEN FUNNY! KEEP THINKING BECAUSE YOUR MIND IS A TREASURE!
Soul of Istanbul





Mar 21 2009 7:17 PM

Have a wonderful weekend!!
GENI





Mar 11 2009 5:17 AM

hello, my names Geni and I live in San Francisco- you must come and visit sometime...please encourage the doctor to come visit soon ;-)

xxxxxxxxxx
Joe ST





Feb 28 2009 1:47 AM

Ooh.
How do you place an order for a dozen, ready purged? x
igor hax





Feb 27 2009 2:35 PM

greetingzzz from the northwest.
how is thingzzz going? best wishes!!
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Feb 17 2009 9:58 PM


What? What Fuckin Art? from William Esdale on Vimeo.


Further work and reading:
http://esdaleva. wordpress. com/

Love,
William.x

PS: This is only meant to be research but it is a fun piece of work...

I hope you are enjoying loads of Coffee?
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Feb 10 2009 2:46 PM

and this is how they do it at the (very posh) Montreux Palace Hotel x

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Feb 8 2009 6:52 PM

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Love,
William.
x
GENI





Feb 2 2009 11:05 PM

they are wishing they were watching the BBC screen:

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xx
Houdini Nation





Jan 19 2009 10:39 PM

Moin Moin! Leben mit Jesus war sehr angenehm. Kann ich für die Dauer von 50 Tagen nur empfehlen. Angenehmer wahrscheinlich, als Flügel aus Blei ... Really good work that!
Nova Scotia





Jan 14 2009 8:35 AM

Thx, hope to see you there.
Rick.
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Jan 9 2009 5:03 PM

Soul of Istanbul wishes u a Happy Year 2009!

Thanx alot for ur friendship and support.....

Love & Peace

Municipale Balcanica ... nu world music





Jan 7 2009 9:06 AM

ciao :)...



il 29 settembre è uscito "Road to Damascus"
"Road to Damascus" released on 29 september...
Yeti





Jan 6 2009 8:40 PM

You did a great job finding me, so I could really enjoy watching your crazy performances! I love it!
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Dec 26 2008 9:21 PM

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((( Merci ,,,
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Oct 29 2008 6:17 AM

Roo!
Love,
Kai





Oct 24 2008 7:51 PM

lovely new works... seems like you are discovering new heights... and masses... The Dungbeetle/Sisyphus concept is excellent... keep me posted on videos!
MAXIMILIEN





Oct 23 2008 12:35 PM

thanks for adding me, love your art, if you have time check my pics
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