Loren KRONEMYER

(TAS)

Loren Kronemyer is an artist living and working in remote lutruwita (Tasmania), Australia. Her works span interactive and live performance, experimental media art, and large-scale world-building projects aimed at exploring ecological futures and survival skills. As part of duo Pony Express, she is co-creator of projects like Ecosexual Bathhouse, a touring queer sex club for the entire ecosystem. She collaborates frequently with laboratories, including most recently as the first resident at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, and received the first Masters of Biological Arts Degree from SymbioticA Lab at the University of  Western Australia. She is a mentor at the Icelandic Academy of Art for their Masters of Performing Arts program, and a PhD candidate at the University Of Tasmania

After Erika Eiffel by Loren Kronemyer

After Erika Eiffel is the story of a tool with the power to pierce straight to the heart. This immersive work invites you to discover the startling intimacy and potent sensation of firing an arrow. Archery is a sport that demands patience and sensitivity. As you gradually hone your aim on a solo journey through a customized 16-target archery course, you become aware of the intense relationship between your body and the deadly bow. When you attune yourself to the object through your senses, you are rewarded by the rush of pleasure that comes from hitting the target.

As you venture deeper along the archery trail, the targets reveal the story of Erika Eiffel, a world class archer who attributed her career success to the fact that she had a long-term romance with her bow. What does it feel like to have a lethal weapon as the love of your life? Draw, aim, and release your inhibitions to discover a new relationship with a delicate and dangerous thing. In a world After Erika Eiffel, we can discover what it means to treat objects like people instead of people like objects.

After Erika Eiffel was exhibited at ANTI Festival, Finland in 2019