Dorit Cypis
@ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, February 23rd, at 6PM
“Personal practice and public practice have always had a dialectical relationship for me.”
Blending making, an activist mode, and mediation, Dorit Cypis (MFA, California Institute for the Arts, and Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University) has focused “on the physical and somatic body as the site for negotiating interiority and the social world.”
Since the 1980s Cypis has employed strategies of photography, performance, installation, social sculpture to explore relationships between personal and social identity, questioning subjectivity in relation to corporeal, social, political and psychological spaces.
It is as an artist that Cypis approaches a conflict resolution practice. Her 25+ year career in the arts, exploring the social, physical and psychological aspects of who we are, how we represent ourselves, and how we relate to others, brings a breadth of knowledge, experience, and subtle tools of perception to mediation.
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