Ayla Pierrot Arendt

Ayla Pierrot Arendt , video and performance artist. Lives in Frankfurt am Main. Works nomadically, e.g. as Octopussy on Tour.

Creates hybrids in between video art, installation and performance. Aiming at an experiential approach to the theatre/concert situation, the space-specific, performance installations can include some interaction with the audience.

Collaborations with choreographers like Antje Velsinger, Émilia Giudicelli and sound artists like Filip Caranica, Samuel Fried, Fabian Gutscher and Fullruhm. Performance productions e.g. at Gessnerallee Zürich, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Kampnagel Hamburg.

Diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, with a focus on painting and analogue animation, class of Prof. Amelie von Wulffen. MA Choreography and Performance at the Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen, with philosopher Prof. Bojana Kunst .

ayla.pierrot.arendt@gmail.com

i keep track of my collaborations based on common interests. sharing interests is powerful but tricky. my work has been about triggering interests that are not One or Another but an In-Between, emerging from discussion. i recycle experiences not to capitalize them but to move each other. it is not about building a vision but reflecting on how i touch Another and how i am touched by Another. caring, assembling, overlapping and insisting in the interdependency