BIOGRAPHY
Marika Seidler (b. 1972) lives in Copenhagen Denmark.
Works primarily with video installations and drawings. Her video work addresses culturally driven phenomena that
treat communication, body language and identity in various cultures and realities.
She has contributed to a wide range of exhibitions locally and internationally, located in Norway, Sweden, Island,
Finland, Berlin, France, United Emirates, Austria, Ethiopia, Syria, and U.K. (“Distant Relations” Museum of
Contemporary Art Roskilde Denmark 2007, and “Phenomena” Pori Art Museum, Pori Finland 2008).
In 2005 Seidler was granted a one-year residency in Los Angeles by The Danish Art Agency. Her projects have
generously been supported by The Danish Art Agency, DCCD Center for Cultural exchange with the Develloped
countries, as well as many private funds.
Seidler is a graduate from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, Denmark (1994-2000).

Socio and cultural ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN VIDEO ART.
Seidler uses work methods from anthropology and stresses a process-oriented research where local stories play the
key role. Her work displays social relations and group dynamics exposing borders, power, exchange, position, rituals
and identity in culturally determined group mechanisms. These relations often come from social structures and from
“cross species relations” between animals and people, where identities are created and exchanged.
The ethnographic work method of Seidler’s makes use of both documentary and fi ction. The video production begins
with an extensive documented fi lmed research with interviews and auditions to collect personal accounts and stories,
a process that is developed with an executive producer. The footage and stories are rewritten, locations chosen and
the altered stories are recorded with actors with or without dialogue.

VIDEO INSTALLATION
The video fi lms are exhibited as split screen and multiple screens projections and presented with the original
collected footage, a setup that lets the visitors participate or perform in the installation.
Since 1998 Seidler has produced works on:
Men in Mumbai who explore physical expressions in friendships (Touch). Animal communicators intuitive telepathy
with animals in the US (Anihuman). Science Fiction writers in Tokyo visualizing on the future (Tokyo SF stories).
Young actors recreating fairytales and re-enacting their own versions of a shared cultural heritage in Sct. Petersburg
(Dacha, Lisy Nos). “Imagine a place that don’t exist” on the power of imagination in the Middle East (Imagine). A
stewardess’s loss of sense of time and space in orbit (Cocoon). The meaning of Death in contemporary youth culture
and traditional burial rituals in Benin (Le Soleil de Minuit).
DRAWING / PAINTING Seidler’s paperwork unfold stories of uncanny experiences between animals and people
describing “cross species relations”, otherness and longing for nature, and loneliness.