1999 Expert opinions

by Prof. Horst Gerhard Haberl, president of the Saar Academy of Fine Arts from 1995 to 2004

Walli Höfinger, born in 1966, certified absolvent of the fine arts department, studied "New Artistic Media" with Ulrike Rosenbach from 1993-1999 and has been performing her own performance-productions internationally since 1996. Her media repertoire includes movement (dance), video, light and sound.
In her inter-medial works Walli Höfinger seeks to visualize and literally embody borderline experiences. Out of the interactive fusion of real and virtual levels of body language, movement sequences ritualized as minimalistic gestures and video-sculptures set in space, the media artist generates new live images of the human condition of being in the world at the interface of nature and technology. Her artistic research can be defined as a dialogue between her own body and its virtual opposing reflections. Another significant aspect is the physical-acrobatic use of the artist's body, which goes to the physical limits and "acts out" psychological states to the point of complete physical exhaustion.
Höfinger's artistic path is a significant example for the "retrieving tendency" of the Nineties, in which the telematic experience of the Other is counteracted with a direct body-experience.
Knowing her outstanding artistic work and expecting positive further development, I strongly recommend supporting Walli Höfinger by any means.
Prof. Horst Gerhard Haberl
July 1999

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