Birgit Hansen
Artist born 1969 in Denmark. Bilingual Danish/English since based in Northern Ireland 1999-2009. Sculpture BA (2002) at University of Ulster - developing video and performance, live/installation work on the MFA (2002-2004) same place, including book of concrete poetry. Initially showing work in Catalyst Arts, Belfast. FIX02 (open platform), Pride04, and with Bbeyond as member 2005-2009. Doing collective, monthly meetings and local/ international solo works. Renewed membership 2022 after collective performance in Cloughjordan with Bbeyond at Convergence festival, Milford House LAI in Tipperary, Ireland, online, and at PODO festival, Buchapoteke /Studio im Hochaus, Berlin 2023.
Voice/sound as virtual yet analogue instrument in performance context; thought as timebased work and or sculptural-painterly drawing/writing experiments - using also audio-visual, digital recording and editing to search out site specific and bodily atmospheres in many works in progress.