Andrea Geyer (born 1971 in Freiburg, West Germany) is a German and American multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City.
[4] Geyer focus on the themes of gender, class, national identity and how they are constantly negotiated and reinterpreted against a frequent backdrop of cultural meanings and memories.
[2][5] She has worked with numerous artists such as Wu Tsang, Simon J. Ortiz and Sharon Hayes (artist) In 1991, Geyer attended basic study painting at the Independent Art Academy in Stuttgart, Germany.
[10] It highlighted the role various women, through their relationships and organization, had on effecting social, cultural and political change.
Emphasis was given to the three women who founded the MoMa in 1929; Abby Aldrich, Lilli P. Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan.
Geyer believes the blueprint for effecting social change can be found through the examination of women's work in history.
Her second piece, Insistence, features a 15:21 min video shot overhead of black and white photographs with interjections of colour reproduction of the same heroic women stacked on top of a table.
This was a large undertaking with a big support team, with the backing of the Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Geyer sought to draw awareness to the vast linkage of influential women whose intended and unintended work created a network that ultimately aided each other's efforts towards social change.
[13] It documented an abstract historical trial scene, using the six video projects, one for each; accused, defence, judge, Prosecution, Reporter and Audience.
The soundtrack is projected in English and translated into German, Hebrew and Portuguese on headphones for the audience.
This form of performance raised questions regarding the responsibility, truth, justice and the notion of evil and how these themes extend both forward and background in time through the modes of fictionalization.
It was an effort to propose terms and strategies with an individual rethinking about the past and present time and have possibility to exceed a mere-restaging.
Spiral Lands was an exhibition that was held in Argos Center for Art and Media in Belgium.
It raised a central issue that addresses the relation of identity and land in North America.
Geyer travels the American Southwest with her camera between the years of 1850 and 2007,[15] and through her diary entries noted the lens through which western historiography was understood by conveying them through photographs of the landscape.
[16] ↵In the first chapter it consists of 19 frames, each combining two or three black and white photographs with a text.
Partly paired in double takes of the same land scale they recall the tradition of stereotypes in American landscape photography.
Geyer employs the form of doubling to draw attention to the fact that a point of view and narrative are never singular but always needs to be read in relation to their author and context.
The text punctuates in the classic pastoral idyll: with her own poetic observations and reflects the philosophical treatises, addressing topics of contemporary history, violence, and expulsion through the works of native American scholars and writers.
The viewers sit on chairs in front of the screen along with a series of text presented.
This project was supported by the general of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, space program.
[19] She wrote a book contextualizing Munson's life in parallel with the struggle of New York women finding their voices during their lifetimes.
Audrey Munson was one of the most famous models, and most captivating muse for artists during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
The book traces Munson's life and left behind texts, articles and photographs.
2013 – Sound Giving Will Feeling, presented by A Space Gallery and the Images Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2012 – 9 scripts from a Nation at War (collaboration with Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander and David Thorne).
Centre for Contemporary Art Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
2009 – Revisiting Histories; Sanford Biggers +Andrea Geyer & Simon J. Ortiz Foundation, New York, Cat.
2008 – Spiral Lands/ Chapter One (Koenig, London), 2012 - 2013 – Creative Time Global Residency