ART IN PROCESS projects
bello benischauer - art projects
& my own artistic work
eitelberger@artinprocess.com

Leila on the Beach, 2007
a new series - puppets made of collected material - individual beaches around Australia /photographs, puppets remain on the beach



my work philosophy
ACROSS THE BORDER: BODY - OBJECT - MEDIA - SPACE

My special interest is the polarity between mankind and the artistically formed material - the object, starting from primitive archaic and ritual art forms of expression. This is how develop real and virtual collages, created through the elements: BODY, OBJECT, MEDIA and SPACE using various techniques and media.
I try to design a documentary package in relation to the audience. ART IN PROCESS orientates its general work to the word emballage, which is basically used for theatre terms in relation to object theatre, meaning the wrapping or surrounding of a thing. The main focus is the idea of the synthesis of the arts in relation to a contemporary theme. Already existing art forms connect; time terms get redefined; space opens up for new forms of experience...
My work develops from the context women and society/Western Society. Masks, costumes, reflecting on different society-masks of women - based on self-observation and portrayals, multiple facettes, ... . My work does not reduce the female aspect to be sexual related and therefore reduced in its meaning, it is more the female and its powerful forces that are interesting for me to investigate. Motherhood, Archetypes, Heroine, What makes us strong?

REVIEW 2007

- CONFERENCE
Old Currents/New Blends: A Distillation of Art and Geography" is this year's theme of the NCECA (National Council on Education, Ceramic Arts conference) 2007 - 41st Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky USA
Kentucky International Convention Center - March 14-17:
including The Paperclay revolution a paper and slideshow by Graham Hay on March 15, 3pm-4pm, showing images of Australian artists working with paper clay.

including images of my work:
01. an image of the digital production PROJECT X... six transformations of life, 2005; six different masks were designed related to different stages of life. This photo shows the last stage of Finally they die. The mask is already only fragment and includes little mirrors reflecting sun beams - the mask is foretelling a transition stage between human life and some sort of universal existence. (paper clay, acrylic paint, finish)
02. mask of the same production, from 4. scene: They reproduce themselves
03: an Assemblage called: The Cry and its reverberation (Der Schrei und sein Widerhall, the original German title is element of the Assemblage), a homage on Edward Munch's The Cry in relation to the human being and nature conservation and throwaway society, 2002 (mixed medias on board, metal/paper clay/-mache/acrylic paint/ finish/natural objects, wood, stones, shells)
04/05: two torsi from the series of six torsi called Ghostfaces. Paper clay/ -mache and acrylic paint/ finish, 2001; they were part of the installation Ghostfaces in connection to paintings and shell/silver- objects on a glass top and an audio-visual composition of the torsi
06: showing objects from a digital production that is in its developing stage, started 2006; mask, torso and puppet - for a digital production: self-identifications: a permanent in-memoriam (paper clay, plaster, acrylic paint, finish, wood, metal)

self-identifications: a permanent in-memoriam current work, 2006/07

german description:
ein sich konstant weiterentwickelndes "in memoriam", 2006/07: Meine künstlerischen Arbeiten konzentrieren sich auf eine Auseinandersetzung mit mir selbst als Frau, als Frau westlicher Gesellschaft, und als Frau an sich. Masken, Verkleidung (Kostümierung) reflektieren die Gesellschaftsmaske der Frau, gestützt auf eine Selbstanalyse und Darstellung, die viele Gesichter hat und sich im Prozess entwickelt. Das Frauliche als Stärke bezieht sich in meiner Arbeit nicht auf sexuell herabgeminderte Werte, sondern auf das Frauliche in der Rolle als Mutter, in der als Kämpferin und Hüterin des Lebens, als Bergende und Tröstende und vor allem in der aus sich heraus zu ungeahnter Größe Heranwachsenden.