Elisabeth
Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist (born June 21, 1962),
is a visual artist who works with video, film, and moving images
which are often displayed as projections.
Rist
was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen,
in Switzerland. Since her childhood she has
been nicknamed Pipilotti. The name refers to the novelPippi
Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.
Rist
studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Vienna,
through 1986. She later studied video at the School of Design (Schule
für Gestaltung) in Basel, Switzerland. In 1997, her work was
first featured in the Venice Biennial, where she was awarded the
Premio 2000 Prize. From 1988 through 1994, she was member of the
music band and performance group Les Reines
Prochaines. From 2002 to 2003, she was invited by Professor Paul
McCarthy to teach at UCLA as a visiting faculty
member.
Pipilotti
Rist currently lives with her common law partner Balz Roth, with whom
she has a son, named Himalaya.
From
2005 to 2009, she worked on her first feature film, Pepperminta.
During
her studies Pipilotti Rist began making super 8 films. Her
works generally last only a few minutes, and contained alterations in
their colors, speed, and sound. Her works generally treat issues
related to gender, sexuality, and the human body.
Her
colorful and musical works transmit a sense
of happiness and simplicity. Rist's work is regarded
as feminist by some art critics. Her works are held by
many important art collectionsworldwide.
In I'm
Not The Girl Who Misses Much (1986) Rist dances before a camera
in a black dress with uncovered breasts. The images are
often monochromatic and fuzzy. Rists repeatedly sings
"I'm not the girl who misses much," a reference to the
first line of the song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
by the Beatles. As the video approaches its end, the image
becomes increasingly blue and fuzzy and the sound stops.
Rist
achieved notoriety with Pickelporno (Pimple porno) (1992),
a work about the female body and sexual excitation.
The fisheye camera moves over the bodies of a couple. The
images are charged by intense colors, and are simultaneously strange,
sensual, and ambiguous.
Ever
is Over All (1997) shows in slow-motion a young woman
walks along a city street, smashing the windows of parked cars with a
large hammer in the shape of a tropical flower. At one point a police
officer greets her. The audio video installation has been purchased
by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Rist's
nine video segments titled Open My Glade were played once
every hour on a screen at Times Square in New York City, a
project of the Messages to the Public program, which was
founded in 1980.
Pour
Your Body Out was a commissioned multimedia installation
organized by Klaus Biesenbach and installed in the atrium
of the Museum of Modern Art in early 2009. In an interview
with Phong Bui published in The Brooklyn Rail, Rist
said she chose the atrium for the installation "because it
reminds me of a church’s interior where you’re constantly
reminded that the spirit is good and the body is bad. This spirit
goes up in space but the body remains on the ground. This piece is
really about bringing those two differences together.
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