Sandrine Schaefer’s reply to our project: Feminism in art of artists born on or after 1970

Sandrine Schaefer, 2012-02-11

Adventures in Being (small) is a project that addresses how humans fit into various environments, both corporally and conceptually. Through this work I have confronted ways in which awareness of an environment changes when my female body interacts with a space in an unexpected way.

Feminism in art of artists born on or after 1970

Adventures in Being (small)

After mindfully losing a significant amount of weight in 2009, I began exploring found spaces that I could not previously fit. What started as a playful exercise in measuring my transformed body has evolved into a comprehensive series of site-sensitive performance art installations titled, Adventures in Being (small). Fascinated by the shared human experience of understanding one’s body within various environments, I have fit myself into hundreds of spaces across the planet. I have traveled across the US, to Shanghai China, and will be implementing this work throughout Mexico in early 2012. I have pushed my body through fences, underneath benches, inside bike racks, piles of abandoned tires, coin- operated children's rides, etc. I've also explored natural environments like salt flats, crevices between stones, and trees. I may seek out a place, but never a space. I stay inside of each space as long as my body or the space will allow, and I leave the space as I found it. This project is designed in such a way that it is often created and witnessed by chance and my body is often observed in stillness. My goal with this work is to create an unmediated living image that challenges how people may consider their surroundings.

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