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HARM WEISTRA’s artwork spans a variety of disciplines, including films, photos, media art and installations. As an artist, he draws inspiration from his own experience, as well as from his research. Most of them demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of an open society with ubiquitous interactions since the internet is a dominant platform for (anonymous) human debate. His stories challenge the binaries we continually reconstruct between self and other, between our own savaged and civilized selves. Harm Weistra lives and works in Amsterdam. He holds a Master in Social Sciences and a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam.
- First National Screendance Award - Agite y Sirva - Screendance Touring Festival 2014
- CINEDANS - Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam 2014
- ScreenDance Festival Stockholm 2014
- San Francisco Dance Film Festival San Francisco 2014
- Vida de Perro Short Film Festival Barcelona 2014
- International Video Art House Madrid 2014
- Festival dança em foco Rio de Janeiro 2014
- Festival International de Vidéodanse de Bourgogne Le Creusot (France) 2014
- Breaking 8 Cagliari 2014
Most of my work tends to radiate a latent disturbance, but always simultaneously a disconcerting beauty; on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully disruptive. Emphasizing aesthetics is not a mean in itself, but a way to seduce the viewer to watch. By creating confusion and by manipulating the viewer’s perception, I invite the audience to become partaker and to reflect. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the consciousness that the work evokes, complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By creating disruptive situations and by breaking the passivity of the spectator, my works reference avant-garde theory as well as emancipatory movements. They question the apparently rationally, logically but often culturally entrenched beliefs and opinions. (Harm Weistra)