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BIO
Iris Piers (1983) is a Dutch artist and director working with non-narrative flm, video installations, live cinema performances and music videos. Piers studied Fine Arts at the WDKA in Rotterdam, painting at the Kunsthochshule Berlin, mixed media at the School of Visual Arts in New York and was an intern at the New York based video-art company Perpetual Art Machine.

Her films have been broadcasted on networks such as PBS (USA) and NPS (NL) and over the years her work has been featured at the Berkeley Art Museum, the International Short Film Festiva Oberhausen, Portobello Film Festival in London, Malmö Konsthall, LMAK Projects in New York, Röda Sten in Göteborg and Umeå University, amongst others. Piers’ work has been nominated at various film festivals and her short experimental film ’Casimiration’ won the award for best online film at the national Dutch film festival in 2007. After living in Berlin and New York, Piers is based in Gothenburg, Sweden where she runs production company New Romantics.

STIPENDS
Umeå University Arts Fellowship scholarship (2011)

The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts - production grant (2009/2010)

Film i Skåne - co-production(2008/2009)

Filmcentrum Syd - equipment grant (2008/2009)

Film i Dalarna - co-production (2008)
Kulturnämdnen Malung-Sälen - co-production (2008)

AWARDS/NOMINATIONS

2007: Winner: Jury Award for best Online Film, Nederlands Film Festival, NL.

2007: Nominated: Best Music Video, Int. Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, DE.
2008: Jury: Nederlands Film Festival, NL.

REPRESENTATION/DISTRIBUTION/a.o.
USA: Perpetual Art Machine, MUBI.

UK: Radar Music Videos.

The Netherlands: Holland Film.

Sweden: Film i Skåne, Folkets Bio.

SCREENINGS 2005-2011
More than 70 screenings between 2005 and 2011. For example at the Chelsea Art Museum, American network PBS, Portobello Film Festival, Guangzhou International Film Festival, Malmö Konsthall, Raumerweiterungshallen, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Gothenburg Konsthall, Robodock Festival and the Nederlands Film Festival.

DVD RELEASES/ART EDITIONS
2009 Viskra limited edition, 100x with Ner Ep.

2008 Little Things, Flau Records, JP.

2008 Holland Film, Best Dutch Shorts of 2007, NL.

2007 Casimiriation Limited Edition 5+2, LMAK Gallery, NYC.

2007 Perpetual Art Machine - Best of 2007, USA.
2006 ROJO DVD, Le Stille Rel, ES.

2006 Limited Edition - Drawings 17+2 with Katharina Grosse, DE/JP.

FILMOGRAPHY

'All is Still' (music by Maymay) (Flau Japan) (Gothenburg/Portland/Tokyo, 2011)

'Flight' (music by Solander) (Tenderversion Recordings) (Gothenburg/Sörmland, 2011)**

'Darkling, I listen' (Göteborg, 2012)

'Endymion' (music by Anja Linna) (Göteborg/Malmö, 2011)**

'In The Half Light' (music by Lidwine) (Göteborg/Paris, 2011)**

‘Narcissus’ (music by Solander) (Malmö, 2010)**

‘Innan Mörkret’ (music by Tobias Lilja & Lindefelt) (Malmö, 2010)**

'The Age of Glass' (Malmö 2010)**

'Vit Skam' (with Su-En Butoh Company and Lisa Stenberg) (Uppsala, 2010)**

'Swarming Flocks of Light' (Malmö, 2009)*

‘Fishflame’ (music by Lindefelt) (Malmö, 2009) **

‘Viskra’ (music by Fredrik & Lindefelt) (Malmö, 2009)**

‘11 Years’ (music by Fredrik) (Malmö, 2008)**

‘Undervattensmässing’ (installation) (with Lindefelt & Apocalypse Lab) (Malmö, 2008)*

‘The Land Under the Sea’ (installation) (Malmö, 2008)*

‘Smithereens’ (installation) (with Nathaniel Wojtalik) (Haarlem/Colorado 2007)*

‘Opened’ (music by AUS) (Tokyo/NYC, 2007)**

‘Casimiration’ (Berlin/NYC 2007)*

‘Dive’ & ‘Love Wind’ (music by Christopher Willits) (Berlin, 2006)**

‘The Invisible in Air’ (music by Brede Rörstad) (Berlin, 2006)**

‘A specifc whisper A: Soon and Sleep’ (Berlin, 2006)*

‘Ici’ (Haarlem, 2006)*

‘Carillon’ (Berlin, 2004)*

* (director/photographer/editor/sound) ** (director/photographer/editor)

SELECTED PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS etc.

2011 'The Garden Room' solo exibition at galleri Maskinen, Umeå, SE.

2011 'The Celebration' an interactive installation, exhibition at HumLab, Umeå University, SE.

2011 Live cinema performance with cellist Anja Linna, HumLab, Umeå University, SE.
2011 Arts fellowship at HumLab, Umeå University, SE.

2011 'Under the Cold Hillside' and 'Narcissus' selected for FilmBar festival, Malmö, SE.

2011 'Endymion' installation for Lady Fest Malmö, SE.

2010 Group show at Mediations Biennial, Concent Art, Berlin, DE.

2010 'Endymion' installation at Röda Sten in Gothenburg and Atalante in Gothenburg, SE.

2010 Group exh. at Studio 44, Stockholm, SE.

2010 Live cinema performance with cellist Anja Linna at HumLab, Umeå,SE

2010 'The works of Iris Piers' at kulturhaus Cairo, Wurzburg, DE.

2010 Live Cinema performances in SE, NO, DE, CH, BE, NL.

2010 'Innan Mörkret' premiere on Malmö Gallerynight at Biograf Spegeln, SE.

2010 Lecture at Malmö Stadbiblioteket, SE.

2010 Presentation of 'The age of Glass' made possible by Auto Images, SE.

2010 Broadcasting of 'Casimiration' on America's Public Broadcast Service (PBS).

2010 Selected works at Music Doc New York, US.

2010 Video design for SU-EN Butoh dance company, Uppsala, SE.

2010 Live Cinema Performance at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, SE.

2009 Viskra screening/performance, Sonic Youth exh. at Malmö Konsthall, SE.

2009 Casimiration at Centre of Contemporary Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

2009 Viskra screening/performance, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE.

2009 Casimiration at Gothenburg Konsthall, SE.
2009 Viskra screening/presentation at Drömfabriken, Svenska Film Institutet, Stockholm, SE.

2009 Viskra premiere, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE.

2009 Lecture at HumLab, Umeå University, SE.

2009 Live cinema performance w/ soundartist Lindefelt, Moonshake, Umeå, SE.

2008 ’Smithereens' with Nathaniel Wojtalik, Berkeley Art Museum, USA.

2008 Live Cinema performance, Kassel Documentary Film Festival, DE.

2008 ‘Undervattensmässing’ for Apocalypse Lab & Iittala, DesignBoost, Malmö, SE.

2008 'Bridges to Paradise' at Utsikten Kunstsenter, Kvinesdal, NO.

2008 ’The Land Under the Sea' (installation) at Full Pull 08, Malmö, SE.

2008 'Casimiration' at the Centre of Contemporary Arts, Warsaw.

2008 Visual room design for Full Pull finisage at NEON gallery, SE.

2007 'TV Dinners' group show at LMAK projects, NYC, USA.

2007 'New Breed' show with Amelia Bearskin. Washington DC Int. Art Fair.

2007 'New Breed' show with Amelia Bearskin. Scope Contemporary Art Fair, NYC.

2007 'The Eye of the Beholder', Circa Cont. Art Fair, Puerto Rico.

2007 'Dive' nominated at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE.

2007 'Casimiration' awarded best online film at the Netherlands National Filmfestival, NL.

2006 Performance, PAF Filmfestival, Czech Republic.

2006 Live Cinema/Painting with German artist Katharina Grosse at the SDLX, Tokyo.

2006 'Soon and Sleep', ZMF, Berlin, Germany.

2006 'Carillon', 313 Gallery, Corner Brook, Canada.

2006 Residency exhibition at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA.

2006 Video Archive at NEON Gallery, Sweden.

2005 Performance at Transmediale Festival 2005, Berlin, Germany.

2005 Performances at Zentrale Randlage, Berlin, Germany.

COLLABORATIONS
Apocalypse Lab & Iittala, Aus/Moteer/Flau, Brede Rörstad, Chris Maris, Christopher Willits/ Ghostly Records, Erik Levander, Fredrik/The Kora Records, Julia Björnberg, Katharina Grosse & Christl Mudrak, Lindefelt, Ljudbilden & Piloten/ Nosordo, LMAK Gallery, Marty Schnapf , Manami-N, Mi and Lau/ Young God Records, Nathaniel Wojtalik, Neon Gallery, Paul de Homem-Christo, Rasmus Persson, Solander, SU-EN Butoh Company and Tobias Lilja amongst others.