About
Sylvia Rimat is a German and British performance maker and artist, based in Bristol. Her work manifests in various formats, spanning studio shows, one-on-one performance, site-specific work, a geo-located audio-walk as part of a tailor-made App, audio installation, audio sculpture in public space and most recently a site-specific book publication.
Characterised by strong visual aesthetics, she encourages her audience to interact playfully with elements of video, audio, new technologies, animals (imagined and real), surreal moments, humour and fragments of dance.
Her work deals with processes of the human mind, such as consciousness, memories, decision making or how we experience time, drawing on scientific research, personal experiences and our imagination, to ask big questions. More recent work explores our connection with the natural world, as well as notions of care beyond the human species and climate action. The development of her work often follows a collaborative approach, connecting with academics and researchers, ie from Neuroscience to Psychology and Physics), other specialists (ie Hypnotherapy and Astrology) and people from diverse communities.
Her staged performances have been presented throughout the UK, Europe and in Australia, including the British Council Showcase at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London’s Barbican Centre in SPILL Festival, Cambridge Junction, In Between Time Festival (Bristol), various venues in Denmark, Poland, Germany and Spain, and in Australia (Sydney Festival, Proximity Festival in Perth).
Sylvia is a Pervasive Media Studio resident, a member of artist collective Residence in Bristol and part of #CultureDeclares.
