Muda Mathis

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Muda Mathis during the show "Let's sing Arbeiterin *" by Les Reines Prochaines and Freundinnen *, 2019

Muda Mathis (born February 25, 1959 in Zurich , resident in Regensberg ) is a Swiss performance , installation and video artist , musician and performance activist . She is known for collaborative writing and works with Sus Zwick and the women's music performance group Les Reines Prochaines . In 2009 she and her work were awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize .

Life

Muda Mathis grew up with five siblings in Romanshorn . After leaving school, she completed a preliminary course at the St. Gallen School of Design and then an internship in sculpture. 1978–1980 she attended the F + F School for Art and Media Design with Peter Trachsel , Doris Stauffer and Serge Stauffer as lecturers in Zurich with her first performance experience , 1980–1982 she was at the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance in Herisau.

From 1986 to 1988 she studied audiovisual communication ( video art ) at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel with René Pulfer and remained active in audiovisual productions, bands, performances and installations in Basel and internationally. Since 1990 she has had a production and living community with Sus Zwick (* 1950).

She is a co-founder of the women's music performance group Les Reines Prochaines (1987) and the studio and production group VIA Basel (AudioVideoKunst, 1988), the manifesto of great and respected artists and co-authors of the artist group table talks. Since the early 1980s she has had changing, often long-term collaborations with various artists and collectives, continuously with Fränzi Madörin and her partner Sus Zwick.

1996–2017 she taught at the Basel School of Design and Art . In 2003 she received a studio grant from the IAAB Montréal, and in 2009 the Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim (both together with Sus Zwick). Muda Mathis lives in Basel.

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In 1987, Muda Mathis, Teresa Alonso and Regina Florida Schmid founded the performance music group Les Reines Prochaines , which performs with a changing line-up - Fränzi Madörin and Pipilotti Rist , Gabi Streiff , Sus Zwick , Sibylle Hauert, Michèle Fuchs and Barbara Naegelin . As a gang from Basel they formed during the youth and women's movement of the 1980s with the intention of questioning traditional art and gender boundaries and they still play in front of an international audience today. Dada , Fluxus and Punk

Initiator and co-editor of the Performance Chronik Basel (1968–1986 together with Silvana Iannetta, Sabine Gebhard Fink , Andrea Saemann , Anna Schürch , Bernadett Settele, Margarit von Büren , Sus Zwick) and the second book publication of the Performance Chronik Basel “Remembering and Recording” ( Edited by Sabine Gebhardt Fink , Muda Mathis, Margarit von Büren in Diaphanes Verlag Zurich / Berlin 2016), a network for the historical processing of performance art in the Basel environment.

Collaborations are a component and characteristic of the artist's work. Together with various artists, she develops performance and stage programs such as the Gottlieber Revue or the latest stage production Let's sing Arbeiterin *.

“The artistic work of Muda Mathis moves between the areas of the fine arts - especially video / video installation and performance - and music, whereby she knows how to merge these areas in an intimate, melodramatic and pleasurable way: words paint pictures, pictures create sounds , Tones carry them on rhythmically and actions give the images and the music a new common structure and dynamic. Another feature of their art in terms of content and style is the staged, ironic dilettantism as a conscious strategy. The unorthodox camera work is of decisive importance in the creation of the images, which are also performative. This is by no means static, but attached to the body or an extended part of the body or the objects and thus conveys unusual and idiosyncratic views of what is happening 'from the inside of profane things'. The viewers are therefore not observers, but rather involved in the drama of what is happening […] Muda Mathis belongs to the first generation of feministly motivated video artists who have been breaking new ground with this medium since the early 1980s. For Mathis, this is particularly a questioning of normative specifications not only with regard to female role models and ideals of beauty, but also with regard to normality in general. Equally important is the collective way of working with changing artistic and technical partners who significantly shape the aesthetics of your videos. "

Individual works

  • Art Credit Basel-Stadt; Liestal, New Media Collection Baselland;
  • Bern, Art Today Foundation;
  • Arbon-Frasnacht, lake waterworks, sound and light installation, The drinks machine is alive, 1999;
  • Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau, Ittingen Charterhouse;
  • Kunsthaus Zurich; Zurich, Swiss Life Art Collection, Foyer Binz Center, The ideal life, 2000.

Awards

  • 2019: Performance Prize Switzerland , Audience Prize: Manifesto Reflex Collective, with Monika Dillier , Iris Ganz, Sibylle Hauert, Lysann König, Fränzi Madörin , Dorothea Mildenberger, Sarah Elena Müller, Barbara Naegelin , Chris Regn , Andrea Saemann , Dorothea Schürch , Sus Zwick .
  • 2019: Swiss Music Prize , Les Reines Prochaines, Michèle Fuchs, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick
  • 2012: Atelier Scholarship Berlin from the Landis & Gyr Foundation, Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2009: Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim , Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2003: Atelier scholarship in Montréal , Canada, IAAB , Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2000: Konstanz Art Prize , Muda Mathis
  • 1996: VIPER Lucerne video award for the video Babette by Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick
  • 1993: Award of the Canton of Baselland, Muda Mathis
  • 1991: 1st prize at the Biennale de Video, Medellin, Colombia, Muda Mathis for The Washing Day, Video
  • 1989: Video award of the Viper 10th international film and video days, Lucerne, Muda Mathis, Pipilotti Rist for the video installation Die Tempodrosslerin saust
  • 1988: Prize of Feminale Köln Muda Mathis, Pipilotti Rist for Japsen
  • 1988: Le Prix du Jeune Créateur de la Semaine International de Video à St.Gervais, Genève, Muda Mathis, Renatus Zürcher for Der Tuesday, Video

performance

  • 2019: Let's sing Arbeiterin * , Les Reines Prochaines , Lucas Acton, Sibylle Aeberli , Michèle Fuchs, Sibylle Hauert, Chris Hunter, David Kerman, Chris Regn , Marcel Schwald, Dorothea Schürch , Kaserne Basel, Theater Gessnerallee Zurich, Tojo Theater Bern
  • 2017: A dark horse, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Kunsthaus KuLe Berlin
  • 2017: Fur of Fear , Sybille Hauert, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, performance festival in Xi'an, Maibai and Nanchang and in the boxing club Basel
  • 2015: Russia is a man , Anca Daucikova , Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Iris Ganz, Fränzi Madörin, performance reading, Klingental exhibition space
  • 2015: Ni Hao , Art of Encounter, Kaskadenkondensator Basel, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2014: Gottlieber Revue , with Evi, Nic & C. Chris Regn, Evi Wiemer, Karin Kröll, Katharina Friese, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Michèle Fuchs , Fränzi Madörin , Sibylle Hauert, David Kerman, Dorothea Schürch , Bärbel Schwarz , Bena Zemp , Martin Chramosta, Franziska Welti, Christoph Oertli, Andrea Saemann
  • 2013: Cloth over the city , rummaging through Chur, Chur, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2011 Embracing a Spanish Village , Festival Acciòn Mad, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2010: The song of noise liquide and swing , Handlung und Spur, Oxyd, Winterthur, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2009: Time for a second biography , Symposium Space and Desire, ZHdK Zurich, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2009: The sweating lioness , Wildwuchsfestival Kaserne Basel , an art (en) entertainment evening with Les Reines Prochaines and guests
  • 2009: My speech therapist is called Sus Zwick , Telling Tales: Long Night of Swiss Performance Art, Kartause Ittingen , Gessnerallee Zurich, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2007: The Great Songbook Of Inspired Clouds , Les Reines Prochaines u. a., Basel barracks
  • 2005: Enlightened Ritzen , Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Fränzi Madörin, view of the original, art credit , Basel
  • 2004: Protuberances 2 , Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick, Festival Bone 7, Bern
  • 2004: Protuberances for the longest day , Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick, Kunsthof, Zurich
  • 2003: In the curve of the tendril , Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick, Generation Gap, Andrea Saemann, Festival Hildesheim
  • 2002: Interfaces , Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick / Andrea Saemann, Plug in, Basel

Art in architecture and projects in public space (selection)

  • 2014: The elephant is here , ten imaginary sculptures for Helvetiaplatz Bern, an audio walk by Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick and Fränzi Madörin
  • 2010: The gas station , photography, plastic objects, UPK Basel, economic building, staff restaurant, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2009: The precarious of the vertical , photography, foyer Stadttheater Winterthur, season 2009/10, Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2008: The road to nieu Bethesda , a cooperation project organized by Monika Dillier and Andrea Saemann with South African and Swiss artists.
  • 2007: Purity and Danger , Aktion, Münsterplatz, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, with the group of female artists, Table Talks
  • 2007: Bonanza II , Video, Letzigrund Stadium, Office for Buildings, DV, 3 ', Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2003: Audio tunnel , audio installations, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Fränzi Madörin, Museum for Communication , Bern
  • 2001: Never seen pearls , TV show, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Fränzi Madörin, a. a. Wanderlust, Point de Vue and Viper, Basel DV, 57 '
  • 2001: Happy radio: Radio Felix , radio play in episodes, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Fränzi Madörin, Hipp Mathis u. a., Platter Spital, Basel, Kunstkredit, Basel

Exhibitions (selection)

Videos

  • 2016: Sleeping , 3-channel work with Sus Zwick
  • 2015: Olga and Olga and the Korean grandmother , HD Ton, 25 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2013: The golden Landscape of Feminism - making of , with Fränzi Madörin and Sus Zwick
  • 2006: Kiev Connection , Video DV 45 ', with Fränzi Madörin and Sus Zwick with Les Reines Prochaines
  • 2005: Carte Postale Sonore , Video DV, 7 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2004: Supposition and chance , Video DV, 7 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2004: The ideal studio , video DV, 16 'with Fränzi Madörin and Sus Zwick
  • 2002: Les Reines Prochaines in Thurgau , 5 clips, DV, 10 ', Les Reines Prochaines
  • Making off - how an installation is created , DV, 4 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 1998: The invention of the world, with Fränzi Madörin and Sus Zwick
  • 1996: Babette , Video U-Matic, 15 ', English / German. U. title Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick with Babette Zaugg
  • 1993: The merry women of Windsor , U-Matic Low, 2'20 '' Muda Mathis and Fränzi Madörin,
  • 1991: So take these peas , U-Matic Low, 10 ', Muda Mathis
  • 1990: Der Waschtag , Video U-Matic Low, 7 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 1990: Tuesday , U-Matic Low, 14 ', Muda Mathis and Renatus Zürcher
  • 1989: The pace slower whizzes , in collaboration with Pipilotti Rist and Les Reines Prochaines
  • 1988: Japsen , 1988, Video U-Matic Low, 14 ', Muda Mathis and Pipilotti Rist
  • 1988: The knife in the compote , single-channel video, 13 minutes 40 seconds, color, sound, 4: 3, PAL, production format: U-matic low-band; in collaboration with Käthe Walser

Movies

  • The Hamburg filmmaker Claudia Willke made the documentary Les Reines Prochaines in 2012 - thinking alone is criminal with the Basel free trader film production as a co-production with: Swiss radio and television (documentary TV version 52 min, festival version 77 min)

Literature (selection)

  • Chris Regn: Interview with Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick. In: Facetten 12 , Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau, Niggliverlag, 2010.
  • Isabel Zürcher: Interview with Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick. In: Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim. Federal Office for Culture (Ed.), 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523580-1-6 .
  • Annina Zimmermann, Pierre-André Lienhard: échanges 4, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick , Schwabe Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7965-2039-6 .
  • Katharina Steffen (Ed.): Everything will be fine! : Visions and experiments from Switzerland , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-39407-6 (previously: ISBN 3-518-39407-X ).
  • Margrit Brehm u. a .: Muda Mathis & Sus Zwick - the invention of the world. In: yet on the other hand. Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1998, ISBN 3-925521-44-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manifesto of great and respected women artists from 1999 and part of the artist group table talks
  2. ↑ Sarah Stähli (text) Ursula Häne (photo): LES REINES PROCHAINES Still: Do it yourself! In: No. 06/2013 of. The weekly newspaper, February 7, 2013, accessed on August 27, 2016 (German).
  3. ↑ artline> art magazine · "Everything was moving and was on its way towards the present". Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Record and Remember - Writing About Performance. Accessed March 2, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Les Reines Prochaines at the height of their art. Retrieved on March 2, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  6. ↑ Dominique Spirgi: captivating audience with the indestructible queens. In: Stadtschreiber. January 24, 2019, accessed on March 2, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ Badische Zeitung: On the rise for 30 years - Theater - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  8. ^ Esther Maria Jungo: Life & Work Muda Mathis. Collection Kunst heute, accessed on August 27, 2016 (German).
  9. ↑ Performance Prize Switzerland. Retrieved September 28, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Winner :: Swiss Music Prize. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Kristin Schmidt, Kristin Schmidt: Gottlieben becomes Czech. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ On a world and time travel with Germaine. Retrieved on March 2, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
personal data
SURNAME Mathis, Muda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathis, Petra (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss performance, music and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Romanshorn , Switzerland