STEF ALLESPACH
Stef Allespach is a Californian-German artist/poet working in Los Angeles and Berlin. Their multi-media practice includes collage, video, drawing and painting, Her use of materials are determined by techniques that best articulate themes filtered through the histories of appropriation, film theory and feminism. Installation, photography and performance-collaboration are also components of their practice.
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Allespach’s work intersects elements of the personal, social and political. Their research-based practice includes subjects related to attention, conflict and desire, which evolved under the mentorship of Diana Thater, Mike Kelley and Ruben Ortiz Torres.
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Their street photography documents remnants of everyday life found in mark, object and performed body. Allespach has collaborated with numerous performance artists including Nancy Buchanan, Jerri Allyn, Rafael Esparza, Lita Albuquerque, Fallen Fruit and LA Art Girls.
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She exhibits, screens and performs nationally and internationally at institutions that include The Getty Center, LACMA, MOCA, Akademie der Künste, The Fowler Museum, Lucca Film Festival, American Cinematheque and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
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Allespach is an Assistant Professor and Lecturer on Photography and Media at various institutions including University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College and Chapman University. A graduate from the School of the Art Institute Chicago (BFA), Art Center College of Design (MFA) and UCLA Creative Writing (AA).
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Stef Allespach is the founder/director of Projekt Space 9, an interdisciplinary project space that promotes practices of visual, sound, text and performance art in Berlin.
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Email: stef@allespach.com
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