Nataša Prosenc Stearns
Name: Prosenc Stearns, Nataša
No. of works: 79
Countries: Slovenia, USA
Born: 1966

 
Biography

Slovenian born visual artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where she started experimenting with moving images. She traveled to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Grant for her MFA at California Institute of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Soros and Durffee Grants among others. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Douloun Museum of Art in Shanghai, Circulo de bellas artes and ARCO Fair in Madrid, Kunstlerwerkstatt in Munich, Bevilacqua la masa in Venice, Spazio Erasmus Brera in Milan, Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel, LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Ruth Bachofner Gallery and MOAH - Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Los Angeles and The European Capital of Culture Commission. She exhibited twice at the Venice Biennale. First she represented Slovenia at the 48th Biennale with her project Gladiators, for which she received Prešern Fund Award, a national award for great achievement in art, and in 2015 she was part of the Biennale’s group exhibition 20 Artists from Los Angeles, presented by bardoLA. She lives and works between Venice, CA and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her video and installation works reflect the world through a prism of imaginative, sometimes surreal or utopian prospect of non-anthropocentric future, where everything is connected and coexists with equal significance. The process of layering integrates different visual elements and leads to fragments of narrations. Recorded footage undergoes elaborate editing process, which enables her to deconstruct and reconfigure the relationships between layers, to create a new reciprocity among them. In the process of production she crafts all aspects of her projects: concept, recording, editing, sound and often performing - using her own body as a subject of transformation. Sourcing from personal experiences, her practice encompasses the impact of technological and social changes on people, with specific interest in changing gender landscape. It reflects the world of consumerism, continuous political crisis and addiction to technology. Finding a ground of connection that unites people with the organic world, she is testing the limitations of human, mainly female, body and hinting at its potential limitlessness. The anatomy of the images is in flux, in perpetual mutation, transformative states, questioning the integrity of the body, integrity of the self, the impermanence and transitory nature of human condition, of all conditions.

 
Author's Works
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Untitled, 27 March 2020Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Untitled, 27 March 2020Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Untitled, 27 March 2020
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Untitled, 27 March 2020 (04:20)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2020
Video meditation created in isolation of a pandemic. For years, the artist has been recording and archiving video and audio material with ideas that she later articulated and edited into videos, films, and installations. The video is designed for vertical...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Dreamscape #1 – LoversNataša Prosenc Stearns - Dreamscape #1 – LoversNataša Prosenc Stearns - Dreamscape #1 – Lovers
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Dreamscape #1 – Lovers (07:23)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2019
Dreamscape #1 – Lovers is a moving collage, which integrates human body with the organic world. The process of layering connects visual elements and leads to fragments of narration. Inspired by Fragments of Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes,...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Code L – FragmentsNataša Prosenc Stearns - Code L – FragmentsNataša Prosenc Stearns - Code L – Fragments
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Code L – Fragments (00:59)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2019
Code L - Fragments is a video installation created by two synchronized projections onto transparent screens. They integrate shadows and silhouettes of visitors and reflections of the architectural elements into the body of the installation. What emer...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Code LNataša Prosenc Stearns - Code LNataša Prosenc Stearns - Code L
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Code L (03:06)
Production: SNG Opera in Balet Ljubljana in Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2019
The original contemporary opera code L was composed by Slovenian composer Milko Lazar and was first performed at SNG Opera & Ballet Ljubljana in March 2019. The opera is composed by several arias and choruses and inspired by Roland Barthes'&...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Hotel Diary (film trailer)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Hotel Diary (film trailer)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Hotel Diary (film trailer)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Hotel Diary (film trailer) (00:05:59 (00:00:25))
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2018
A long forgotten encounter comes to life through fragments of real and imagined recollections. A chronicle of an affair, set in a deserted interiors of Los Angeles hotel (Nataša Prosenc Stearns).
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Run CityNataša Prosenc Stearns - Run CityNataša Prosenc Stearns - Run City
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Run City (00:03:11)
Production: 2017
The silhouette of the male figure in the rhythm of a steady stream is mapped to the changing snapshots of the city. Fragments of an urban landscape with buildings, traffic and streets without people run in a quick rhythm of montage, and over them, a layer...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Medusas (documentation)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Medusas (documentation)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Medusas (documentation)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Medusas (documentation) (00:01:40)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2017
Documentation of the installation Medusas from the exhibition by Nataša Prosenc Stearns with the title Caryatids and Medusas at the UGM Studio Gallery in Maribor in 2017. The exhibition layout was a combination of video projections, prints and vide...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Caryatids (documentation)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Caryatids (documentation)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Caryatids (documentation)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Caryatids (documentation) (00:01:23)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2017
Documentation of the installation Caryatids from the exhibition by Nataša Prosenc Stearns with the title Caryatids and Medusas at the UGM Studio Gallery in Maribor in 2017. The exhibition layout was a combination of video projections, prints and videos o...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Nightmares of the New WorldNataša Prosenc Stearns - Nightmares of the New WorldNataša Prosenc Stearns - Nightmares of the New World
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Nightmares of the New World (00:07:31)
Production: 2017
Series of three single-channel videos - Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers / Alternative Facts, Nucleus Brass. The work of the video artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns is never directly illustrative, but her new series Nightmares of the New Wo...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Parallax (excerpts)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Parallax (excerpts)Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Parallax (excerpts)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Parallax (excerpts) (00:02:06)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2017
Trees of Savannah, water, stream, wind. Series of five video objects entitled Parallax: Sky is Earth, Phantom Drift, Streaming Shields, Black Palms.
 
YEARS 85 decades present
Hribernik, Jasna  - Carte Postale
Hribernik, Jasna - Carte Postale (06:32)
TV Slovenija, 1997
Kovačič, Marko  - No More Heroes Any More
Kovačič, Marko - No More Heroes Any M... (0:18:15)
V.S. VIDEO/Forum Ljubljan..., 1992
Korenc, Jurij - Oddaja o Radiu Študent
Korenc, Jurij - Oddaja o Radiu Študent (00:04:45)
Studio 37, 1988
Hribernik, Jasna  - Hiša nasprotij / House of Contrasts
Hribernik, Jasna - Hiša nasprotij / Ho... (00:20:17)
TV Slovenija, 1998
Kracina, Damijan - Žeblji / Nails
Kracina, Damijan - Žeblji / Nails (00:06:34)
Akademija za likovno umet..., 1995
Gumilar, Marjan - Pogled
Gumilar, Marjan - Pogled (00:06:38)
Marjan Gumilar, 2002
Ema Kugler - Hydra
Ema Kugler - Hydra (00:15:45)
V.S. Video, Forum Ljublja..., 1993
Hribernik, Jasna  - Lok Telesa / The Body Bow
Hribernik, Jasna - Lok Telesa / The Bod... (00:18:21)
Sfinga, TV Slovenija, 1996
Saša Spačal - Mycophone_unison
Saša Spačal - Mycophone_unison (00:14:27)
Saša Spačal, Muzej sodo..., 2016
Hribernik, Jasna  - Ballabende
Hribernik, Jasna - Ballabende (00:21:46)
TV Slovenija, 1995
Kovačič, Marko - Song of Flesh and Image Was Made Body
Kovačič, Marko - Song of Flesh and Ima... (00:15:56)
ŠKUC - Forum / koprodukc..., 1985
Kovačič, Marko - Naprej v preteklost / Forth Into the Past
Kovačič, Marko - Naprej v preteklost /... (0:09:30)
Forum Ljubljana, VPK, 1995
Saša Spačal - Liminoid
Saša Spačal - Liminoid (00:08:08)
Saša Spačal, Muzej sodo..., 2016
Vipotnik, Miha - Space 2
Vipotnik, Miha - Space 2 (01:53)
Max-Max (Brut), 1986
Kovačič, Marko (2227) - I've Seen That... Like It Is
Kovačič, Marko (2227) - I've Seen That...... (06:20)
V.S. Video & Strip Core /..., 1993
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