Daphne Plessner
Associate Professor
Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Canada
Biography
Daphne Plessner produces visual and text based artwork and public interventions. Her current project (since 2010) is an online publishing platform (The Citizen Artist) that documents interventionist artworks that use investigative journalistic strategies (aka 'aesthetic journalism') to examine the notion of citizenship, migration and mobility, through a series of topics such as 'What is a University?', 'Assembly' and 'Protest'. She has won several research grants and her artwork has been exhibited in Europe from the 1990s to the present day. She holds a BA (Hons) Philosophy, Birkbeck College (London, UK) and an MPhil Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London, (UK) and is currrently completing a PhD Politics at Goldsmith's College. She studied Fine Art briefly at Emily Carr and UBC (Art History) and more extensively at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich, Germany, under the artist Robin Page, an early member of the Fluxus movement.
Research Interest
Fine Art
