Andrea DeFelice

I incorporate various media including video installation, performance, and sculpture into my process. I approach art in a way that involves an attempt to learn about something I know nothing about. The learning process must become part of the work or else it’s a waste of time. This approach can either conduct the choice of the medium, or vice versa. However, the term ‘medium’ gets a bit lost in my process, but this is not something that I’ve come to mind. I believe it to be more interesting and important to witness and learn where the work naturally leads in its development. It becomes an investigation and I enjoy letting it happen this way.

My work is inspired mostly from personal experiences, associations, and my own emotional responses. I incorporate my interests in behavioral and adaptive patterns resulting from sudden change and/or conditioning. I’m also very interested in language [specifically the humorous and discursive/useless elements of language], the physical senses, communication, devices, science, and technology. I attempt to inspire perceptiveness and bring about controversy over surrounding influences and experiences from everyday life. I am interested in how this connects to identity, human behavior, physicality, and psychological development. I use art to communicate both outwardly and inwardly, and to express myself emotionally. Most importantly, I used it to learn how to do things.

aedefelice@gmail.com