Rebecca Chesney’s practice examines our complex relationship
with the natural world, by engaging with issues of culture, politics and power. Her work has been exhibited widely including
at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Manchester International Festival, Newlyn Art Gallery, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in Texas,
Full of Noises Festival in Barrow, Springhornhof in Germany, and the Bluecoat in Liverpool. Awards include a Lucas Artist
Fellowship to Montalvo Arts Centre in California, USA and a Gasworks International Fellowship to CONA in Mumbai, India.
She is currently artist in residence at Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien, by invitation of sound art organisation TONSPUR
Kunstverein Wien.
This artist talk is part of a cooperation between the department of Digital Arts (Prof. Ruth
Schnell) / University of Applied Arts Vienna and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien (artistic director Georg Weckwerth).
www.rebeccachesney.com
