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Place of Birth: Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Kaethe Katrin Wenzel
- Kaethe Katrin Wenzel (born November 1, 1972, in Aachen) is a German artist.
- She works are about Utopian ideas, the future, and alternative concepts for society.
- Her main instruments are drawing, interviews, the Internet, mechanics/electronics, and street art.
- She uses techniques from surveys to speculative fiction to explore "the collective production of culture, the interface of art and science, and the production and negotiation of public space".
- Her projects provide skeptical footnotes to global history. She modifies or mimics urban signs, advertisements, or services, jolting viewers out of their habitual ruts, upsetting conventional ways of seeing and of representing the world.
- Her interview-based drawing projects connect the streets and the Internet.
- Her aim is to create space for unusual thoughts and empowered communication: "The point is to rewrite existing structures as alterable, to change and rethink them (...) Through a collective work process (Wenzel) opens up new perspectives and visions of specific themes."Wenzel often actively involves passersby in surveys or service interventions, testing machines of her own invention, or she interviews citizens as local specialists – experimenting with forms of collective authorship and working against traditional notions of artists as "visionaries" who are supposed to possess special insights denied to the "average person". According to Wenzel, new ways of seeing, which are developing as part of the digital revolution, and of changing concepts of the urban realm are especially suitable for artistic infiltration to reflect the underlying structures of daily life.
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