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Nicole Prutsch
In her work, Nicole Prutsch sets in motion processes of transmission, whereby she transfers scientific methodology to her artistic practice. Using photo and video installations often based on anthropological archival material, she subjects the picture material to processes such as automation, repetition, fragmentation, and chance. In this way, Prutsch questions the idea of truth and the generation of knowledge in the western cultural tradition, but she also investigates untapped potential in conceptualisation and picture production.00The cut is the central element in Nicole Prutsch?s (b. Austria, 1980; lives and works in Boston and Vienna) work. The artist harnesses historic materials from the archives of anthropology, subjecting them to processes of fragmentation, defamiliarization, and automation as well as repetition. Analyzing anthropological researchers? methods and the...
