Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist

Birthday: 1962-06-21

Place of Birth: Grabs, Switzerland

Biography: Pipilotti Rist is a visual artist. She is best known for creating experiential video art and installation art that often portray self-portraits and singing. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body.

Movies

The Colour of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist
The Colour of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist

The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her stud...

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(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes
(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions gl...

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I'm a Victim of This Song
I'm a Victim of This Song

With I'm a Victim of this Song, Rist takes up the concept of the "cover" version, in which one perfo...

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Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Here Is Always Somewhere Else

The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappe...

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Ever Is Over All
Ever Is Over All

Ever Is Over All envelops viewers in two slow-motion projections on adjacent walls. In one a roving ...

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Blutclip
Blutclip

Rist's body is the canvas in this surreal montage. Unflinching displays of the artist's own menstrua...

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You Called Me Jacky
You Called Me Jacky

This video art work features Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist lip-synching to Kevin Coyne's 1973 song 'Ja...

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Mother Floor
Mother Floor

A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back...

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