Hege Tapio

Image courtesy of the artist

Hege Tapio examines the self as a landscape for “extreme self-mining,” inserting her body into extractive apparatuses to derive energy and spectacle from her tissue. Through biosensor installations, video, performance, and a liquid fuel medium drawn from her body fat and urine, her work invokes renewed empathy for the complexity of human and inhuman actors. Tapio furthers a post-minimalist methodology of encoding affect into mechanical structure. Her rituals, drawn from alchemical and spiritual narrative, re-mythologize inert motions of energy refinement and transcend the bio-techno barrier. 

Tapio is the founder and director of i/o/lab: Center for Future Art, where she has produced and curated a biennial from 2006-16. Through her Black Box residency, she is developing EPHEMERAL, a semi-dermal implant designed to release synthetic emotions. Her practice can be further researched here: http://tapio.no/wp/.