Sandrine Schaefer

they/them

Boston, USA, lives in S. Carolina, USA

Performance title: Pace Investigations No. 5 (Torpor), 2017
Photo by Daniel S. DeLuca

Using a site-sensitive approach, Sandrine Schaefer’s artwork offers opportunities to gather and proposes ways to share time not accessible elsewhere in life. Positioning the live encounter as primary, Sandrine’s interdisciplinary art practice is inherently social and collaborative. Their work most often presents as performance art installations that challenge conventional viewing tendencies by using repetition, long duration, and multisensory elements to reward curious viewers. Sandrine’s most current work celebrates interspecies entanglements by exploring everyday encounters between humans and animals in urban wilds. Their work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, performance art festivals, and non-art designated spaces. They have received awards through the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Tanne Foundation, the ICA Foster Prize, the Boston Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and the Edes Finalist Award. Working from the belief that it is an artist’s responsibility to uplift the work of others, Sandrine’s practice extends into curatorial projects, writing, and teaching. Sandrine has co-founded several artist-run initiatives and written about time-based art practices for numerous international publications. Sandrine is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art in 3D and Expanded Practices at Coastal Carolina University and serves on the Artist Advisory Council at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.