New draft for artistic practice: exposing ones life for the sake of doing what you love (hmm... possible title indeed!)
Sónia Barreiro: the artist as economic nomad.
My work has been transitioning between live performance to new media. The problem of space and claiming space, both physically and mentally are subjects I encounter in my practice and private life. I have been quite interested in the subject how people can fit in a society that seems more interested in digital space, while at the same time the social structure itself is pushing people out of the system.
As an economic nomad, I find myself often out of space: currently I have no home again and my studio serves as my base. Yet here, I am in the “working area”. How do both of this conventions co-exist and how does a human being, relate and exists in such scenarios is something my work is all about.
The life space and the working space.
What is more important, working or living?
Art can be anything, but should life be anything?
I work mainly with performance and all the other media direct themselves into performance again.