Statement #06 | Anna Vasof — Useless Machine

Statement #06
Anna Vasof — Useless Machine
Performance and screening, July 4, 2019, 5–8 pm

Today, the development of digital technologies, and devices and software we call “smart” or “intelligent”, is influencing our everyday lives more than ever. The fusion of analogue and digital realities and the associated hopes for a society that is thoroughly interconnected and therefore, or nonetheless, open is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Anna Vasof engages with this theme by creating innovative apparatuses and installations that generate critical narrative actions. The artist uses humor to make her works universally accessible, as a way to confront herself and her viewers with social paradoxes while suddenly showing us the world we think we know from a different perspective, that of Anna Vasof. Vasof’s artistic practice is based on exploring and experimenting with the mechanisms of time-based art and of movement as parameters determining kinetic processes. Interaction with the viewer is a vital element of her oeuvre.

Anna Vasof (b. 1985 in Greece) lives and works in Vienna.
www.annavasof.net