annekatrinbecher

In my work I am interested to combine art works with community activism and artistic interventions.
My goal is to create environmental actions and performances that bring people from different contexts and backgrounds together in order to discuss, imagine or reflect on the personal, inter-subjective or political. I have directed multiple art projects with communities, such as flash mob dances, city slow works, projects for people with special abilities, installations or open classes for dance improvisation.

My professional background in several fields helps me to open my view towards people’s struggle with the challenges of today’s world and to think about how to connect people to act, share thoughts and create collective environments. I have been working for many years as an occupational therapist with people with hearing and visual disabilities, as well as a pedagogical and theatre educator in Zurich (CH).

I am interested in social and socio-cultural issues, the functions and dysfunctions of organizational processes within institutions, cooperatives and collectives as well as in the broader political context. At the moment I am busy with building up a collective art community Merum at an industrial hall in the suburbs of Zurich, Switzerland.

I have been influenced by artists and performance makers such as Mette Edvardsen, Gerda Steiner & Rudolph Lenzinger, Anna Halprin, Valie Export, Ida Applebroog, Mette Invargtsen. I also draw on occupational therapeutic methods, ideas and frameworks which help me to construct, de-construct, reflect or imagine ways of coming together, sharing, caring and enabling people with different backgrounds and ages to participate in community. In my artistic practice and research I am interested in the use of collaborative approaches. I have been part of the artistic Konta collective and Holzke Collective.

Since 2009 I live and work in Zurich, Switzerland. I hold a BA in Education and Occupational therapy. I finished a 2 years study program (CAS) in theatre education (Zurich University of Arts, ZDHK) and hold a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Theatre, Performance and Contemporary Live Arts (Accademica Teatro Dimitri, SUPSI- Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana), Switzerland. I hold a BA in pedagogics.

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You can contact me here:

annekatrin_becher@yahoo.de

News

Work

Sorge tragen (2022)

Wolle, Packschnur, runder Tisch, vier Stühle

Das Private und das Öffentliche vermengt sich wieder in der Heimarbeit. Der soziale Raum wird neu gewoben. Was macht dies mit unseren sozialen Gefüge? Wieviel Raum und Individuelles braucht das Gemeinschaftliche, wieviel Gemeinschaftliches braucht das Individuum? Wie können wir auf Augenhöhe am “runden Tisch” begegnen?

Eine Versuchsanordnung.

What i would love to say, is (2022)

Wenn mich einer frage würde, hätte ich viel zu erzählen. Ich bereite den Raum vor. Tausende Menschen werden diesen Raum bewundern an diesen und an den nächsten Tagen. Wenn mich einer fragen würde, hätte ich viel zu erzählen.

in relation to my body (2021)

^{Zeichnungen/ Video/ Audio/ Text/ Schreibmappen/ japanischer Tuschestift}

performative Installation und Intervention im Rahmen einer Gruppenausstellung von Annekatrin Becher/ Antonia Krämer /Pia Huber/ Maya Ilunga im Off Space Merum Dietikon

Touché (2017)

^{Video/Audio/ performative Intervention}

performative Installation in der Ateliergemeinschaft/ Off Space HolZKE, Zürich

now_the future i am creating_now (2021)

stagnierendes verflüssigen (2017)

^{white plane/ water/ pipe/ diverse materials}

performative Intervention und Installation im Parco Teatro Dimitri in Verscio im Rahmen der Abschlussarbeit des CAS in theatre, performance and contemporary Live Arts an der SUPSI Verscio, Schweiz