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Portslade Community Open Day, Involuntary Park, 2011 (image by Johanna Berger)
Johanna Berger trained as a visual artist and art therapist. She has worked for many years as an artist educator and creative consultant.
'My current practice has become largely about thinking creatively in order to enable positive change in various settings. I am generally interested in art that takes place on the edges of the art world/market.I think artist-led, self-initiated projects denote what contemporary art is today.'
As a way of contextualising this view in a practical way, Johanna set up BLANK Gallery and Studios in 2007, where she has curated experimental exhibitions as part of festivals and independent shows as well as continued to shape the overall creative approach to BLANK as an organisation.
In 2007, she co-founded Involuntary Park with performance artist CiCi Blumstein and sound artist Joseph Young. In voluntary Park's central aim is to challenge existing notions about the scale and nature of Public Art as a form, by introducing a more financially and ecologically sustainable, people-centred approach.
www.blankstudiosgallery.org
www.involuntarypark.com
Johanna Berger © 2011
