Annemarie Cecilia Thea Braunsteiner, Untitled

Austrian, b. 1967, playing from Nelson, New Zealand

Ann CT Braunsteiner was born in Austria, working as a biochemist and biotechnologist in a pharmaceutical company before relocating to New Zealand in 2009.

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Thoughts on the Telephone process

Difficult – not letting my personal view of the understood message have an impact on my translation.

Enjoyable – to study the work I was given, exploring the layers and the message that was somewhere there, finding a resonance from where to work from.

Questions – mainly how to decipher the message, what part of the work I was given translated into my writing/poem. How to transform and forward the message I got to understand.

Insights – first, that playing Telephone did not have to do with me liking/not liking the work I was given, but rather to focus on what was in front of me and what was there as a message. It also gave me the insights on finding a way to describe with a different medium another person’s artwork, what I find valuable for my own work. A third person's view of some sort. In that way the process felt like being the audience for a while – looking at an artwork as the gazer, for an example, visiting an exhibition – is there a correlation between the artist statement and the work? And how is the statement translated into the body of work? ‘Statement’ in playing Telephone would mean the ‘message.'