is a Berlin based visual artist working with expanded photography, video and choreography. Pers practice addresses political, economic global structures and queer ways of life through the lens of current and future image technologies, and its profound impact on society.
Tess studied fine art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Berlin University of the Arts, and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Tess works as well as an dedicated art educator, most recently as a lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, at the Academy of Arts, Nuremberg and as an assistant professor at the Department of Photography at Chung-Ang University, Seoul. During stays in Asia, Tess observed megacities, their architecture, the socio-political order and the influence of implemented smart technologies on daily life, which led to the project »Alpha++«. In the current project »2Dbody3Dcode« the focus shifts to landscapes and infrascapes, in which Tess explores the utopian potential of movement and encounters between animate beings and AI entities in the micro and macro, between physical and virtual spheres. Per addresses the Western dichotomy of nature and technology and searches for ways to overcome it. Through a daily practice of internal Chinese Kung Fu, the relationship between practice and artistic production is questioned and shaped.
(per = non-binary pronoun)
