Melissa E. Logan
Melissa E. Logan is an artist living in Hamburg.
Performance, installation, video, painting and electronic music are her usual tools for making work. Logan works in groups by gathering artists together, connecting themes, layering meaning, using contradiction and process, clichè and duration, live installations. For example 'On Air' at Gold+Beton Gallery in Cologne where musicians performed for eight consecutive days, original material for thirty minutes as a 'live radio' program. At the Tinguely Museum in Basel, Logan is injecting artificial voice commands into the public space, of which field recordings will be aired daily via live radio.
The works shudder between authenticity, subaltern, touch on theory, shift to artificial exaggeration, post punk urgency in the tradition of avant-garde nonconformism.
Logan studied painting at The Academy of Arts in Munich where she started the collective Chicks on Speed with her colleagues there. With CoS Logan has exhibited, performed and lectured at diverse locations: Kyoto Cont. Art Museum, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Pompidou, Dundee Cont. Center for the Arts; TBA-21 Vienna, CAC Vilnius, Tate Briton, Victoria & Albert Museum, KC GRAD, just to name a few.
Chicks on Speed are represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane. Melissa E. Logan is represented by Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn. University of Craft Action Thought is a label and performance company founded by Logan in 2016.
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