Being a couple challenges us to expose your vulnerabilities. As the artist duo Asef-Burckhardt, our works (combining video, sound, performance and drawings) ask how large-scale narratives affect the most intimate. We seek a space that is both intellectually sharp and emotionally sensitive. Both of us have studied another discipline next to art (architecture and psychology) and we continue this interdisciplinarity in our joint works.
We have collaborated with academics and artists, which demonstrates our understanding of art: not to isolate ourselves as a “duo of lovers”, but to strengthen each other in working for community building and environment. We seek formats in which our artistic works can be experienced in a sensual, multi-perspective way while having a discursive approach. This stems from our conviction that relationships are the place of navigating and negotiating politics and poetics. Together we move in this space between us searching for a sensitive language in the tension of resistance and attraction.
