Marissa Rae Niederhauser

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My work is concerned with the physical, the organic and the innate mysticism of the human body. While you see my photography here I am a dance artist first. I have been a dancer since I could walk and everything I create comes from this source of connection to the emotions and innate wisdom of the body.

I am a woman and a performing artist. I have spent my entire life in front of the eyes and the camera lenses of others. This means that the tangible and archival presence of my work had previously always been reinterpreted through another’s gaze.

Being female in the world is loaded. Being a woman who makes her art with her body is even more loaded. While I always appreciate my collaborations with other artists I decided it was time to reclaim my work and my bodily image. I no longer rely solely on the eyes of others to preserve my work.

I originally started using photo and video for my own purposes in the studio to record my ideas for later reference, as a way to test costume and makeup concepts and to get distance to look at the work objectively while considering composition, lighting, and to give myself performance notes. This tool over time became fueled by it’s own creative force.

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BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA- USA

Exhibitions
2017 'He Left His Mark' photo diptych in group exhibition, GI-EOK, The Corner Room Art, Berlin-DE
2017 ‘I’ve Always Been a Good Sleeper’ photo series in FAKE SLEEP AWAKE, Studio Current, Seattle, WA
2016 ‘Love Spell, Day 82 Findings: Inconclusive’ multi-media installation in ‘Perceptions’, Tapir Gallery, Berlin, DE
2013 Mercy is a Warrior, performance duet- ongoing throughout day, Ideas City Festival, The New Museum and Dance Day: Dance New Amsterdam in NY, NY
2011 Fugue, Site Specific Performance in conjunction with the Carolee Schneeman retrospective, solo, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA.
2011 [[TROPHY]], multi-media site-specifc performance, Cal Anderson Park Reflecting Pool and Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
2010 It doesn’t matter if it has been said before, some things bear repeating, Series of 3 multi-media installation/performance events and residual static installations, Project: Space Available, Seattle, WA, USA.
2010 Mercy is a Warrior, performance duet, at Remix Seattle Art Museum and 12MM, On the Boards, Seattle, WA, USA.
Publications
2017 ‘Unbinding Spell’, photograph, Blue Milk Journal: Movement (UK)

Screenings
2017 Sanctuary, video art, Central Kino, Berlin, DE
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