I am an interdisciplinary artist, working across visual arts, film and performance and cherish collaborations with musicians and artists of other disciplines. In my performative work – also when moving within a set trajectory – I embrace the immediacy & power of improvisation.

I’ve always been drawn to both: visual media as well as work with the human body, dance, movement based practices and its visceral poetry.

My work evolves around themes of human-nature relationships, womanhood, transformation & empowerment and is inspired by mythology as primal and archetypal expressions of life. I feel a strong inspiration to work in natural environments, to create work in a dialogue with a place, an environment, connecting with its stories, listening to its presence, becoming a channel to its essence and life.

I am not seeking to document or reproduce reality. Performances, installations or films are like journeys we go on and invite an audience to come along on to. I believe that on this journey magic can happen – that has the power to bring wonder, empowerment, beauty & transformation into our lives.

Even when traveling through dark, my work embraces life, and the vital power at its core as also within human beings.

My desire is to share experiences; a poetic, visceral journey – work that might have the capacity to go and take others beyond rational perception. I believe, through the alchemy of different layers, complimenting, permeating and enriching one another, a dimension beyond the rational is allowed to open up.

Andrea Hackl