Phoebe Osborne
Bio: Phoebe Osborne (b. 1984) is a choreographer and visual artist based in New York, NY. Their work employs performance, video, installation, and sound as means to examine the relationship of bodies and environments in their imminent negotiations. Osborne’s works have been presented across the US and Europe, including commissioned performances at Transmediale Berlin, La Caldera Barcelona, SFMoMA and Oakland Museum of California. The have exhibited at City Limits Gallery (Oakland), False Flag (Long Island City), Southern Exposure (San Francisco) and SOMArts (San Francisco). Osborne was a 2017 recipient of the DanceWEB scholarship as a resident artist at Impulstanz in Vienna. Splitting their time between New York and Amsterdam, they will pursue a second masters in the DAS Choreography Program at the University of Arts beginning this fall.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: The eyes of the pigeon, sitting atop the spine on either side of the brain, undulating with the head upon each step, resolving two different images/ locations (one view from each eye) into one. Perhaps history is as the pigeons, their wings clapping, flashing winds of information into vortexes suspending time and space. An energetic force even amongst wreckage and death and smashed wholeness and storms of our earthly paradise.
Language – communication and connection rather than culture and nation. The language of flaking on culture and nation while letting its wreckage be a place for communication, provocation, and care.
Tentacular winged extensions, connecting us from all points in this wild and vast city.
I want to live amongst the wreckage with you
I want to sit in nutrient
dense shit and concrete ruins with others
like the pigeons do
L to R:
Untitled (Gold Bricks) (from the #artlifelottery series), (1.5:1 dimension ratio, Prospective Artwork: Adobe Illustrator format, updated February 19, 2018); Flake (180 min, Performance, sound, video, 2017); by the fence at night (8:33 min, HD video and sound, 2017)