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Selene States

Performance, film and textiles

Selene States is a British-American artist, translator and dress studies scholar whose practice spans performance, choreography, 16mm film and textiles. She teaches Fine Art and Textiles at Loughborough University.

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About the artist

Selene States is a British-American artist, translator and dress studies scholar who teaches across Fine Art and Textiles at Loughborough University (Loughborough University). She holds a diploma in Fine Arts from the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, where she studied under Marijke van Warmerdam and John Bock, and her practice-based PhD at the Bauhaus University Weimar examines the history of women 'wearing the pants' (Loughborough University).

Her work deals with performativity, re-enactment and embodiment, and moves between performance and choreography, 16mm film and video, and crafted textiles and fashion design; her videos and installations have been shown at Milton Keynes Gallery, l'Aubette in Strasbourg and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Loughborough University). Drawing on fifteen years' experience as a cultural translator between the Anglo-American and German spheres, she has published texts on art theory and history with MoMA and Scheidegger & Spiess, among others (Loughborough University). The Joseph Clark Collection holds an untitled print by her (Joseph Clark Collection).

Sources

  1. Loughborough University
  2. Joseph Clark Collection

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