Victoria Stephenson

My practice is an experimental work, utilsing every medium I can get my hands on. It is an expression of my wish to create and to learn, to encounter new ideas, new practices and different ways of interacting with the world. I work with the layering of mediums, translating, transmuting, re-working ideas. I feel compelled to make work in response to questions relating to my own human existence and how my reality is perceived, as well as how these concepts can be universally shared within the world. I enjoy creating sound pieces and investigating how music can be translated into movement. I combine this with a love of technology, both obsolete and new, to create performance pieces. I use film and effective editing to convey performance in a cyberspace of online exhibitions as well as physical.

I'm inspired by artists such as Joan Jonas and Maya Deren, who work across a wide range of processes, pushing the boundaries of film. Other artists who inspire me include the collective VNS Matrix and Linda Dement, their cyberfeminist digital creations both horrifying and humorous. I’m strongly influenced by theorist Donna Haraway’s feminist writings, particularly her ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ (1985) and her mythical re-imagining of a world free from discrimination.

My practice supports a cross disciplinarity approach to art and research. I work across mediums, often melding moving image with live performance, using my body to emphasise the ideas I’m looking into. I play with sound and visuals, projections and screens. I want to make art that is big, electric, overwhelming, whilst weaving in my personal reflections on my religion and devotion. I dabble in poetry.