Alan Schacher
I perform and devise interactions between body, place and matter, always imagining the body within a situation and context. Questioning diasporic identity, I observe it to be a global condition that challenges notions of homeland. Materials and actions take form to extend on and extrapolate issues, one informing the other. I re-use costumes, props and materials in an arte povera tradition. Usually starting from a single idea and image that develops and grows in meaning and interrelationships. Is the artist’s body a necessary inclusion in the work? Sometimes absence is a statement. The work is completed by its location, context, and in the act of witnessing.
Black streamers flow from the roof of Kandos Museum like the winds of time. Being black, they are anti-celebratory. The artist thinks they come from the past -matter and action swallowed in some black hole returning to haunt us in karmic retribution.
This project has been supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Quirky, elegant, bizarre work that engenders states of otherness, an outsider condition in a world with its own logic.
