Email nicole[at]nicolebachmann.net
Instagram @friendsfanzine
Collaborative project DEARS
Instagram @dearsmagazine, www.dears.ch
Based in London and Zurich
Nicole Bachmann works across video, text, sound, installation and performance. The voice is at the centre of her work. Through the voice she questions dominant narratives and investigates the wider socio-political implications of how meaning is made and who has access to making it.
Her practice is grounded in writing which serves as the initial material for her videos and performances reflecting her interest in utterance and storytelling.
Largely based on feminist and emancipatory thought, Bachmann’s work considers the voice as a tool for formulating and imagining new futures and for disrupting old narratives of modernity. Drawing on the oral tradition, her spoken works use rhythm, melody, silence, duration, sounds and repetition to formulate ideas and concepts that include non-verbal formulations; an embodied vocabulary. This inclusive way of talking about and with ‘things’, whether living or non-living, opens up ways of thinking and feeling about new concepts of being together and community.
Through this, Bachmann questions the structures of social norms and inequalities through her own and others’ bodies and voices. This is inspired by Rosi Braidotti’s concept of how people as subjects are embodied and embedded in the world we are sharing through relational affectivities.
Bachmann’s predominantly collaborative practice evokes a sense of togetherness and reciprocity in order to search for meaning away from the prescribed set of definitions. Activating the individual as well as the group, Bachmann questions how to become bodies and voices of social and political change.
Bachmann also invests in community building through her collaborative project Dears, Write which invites people to come together and write in company.
