Alison Williams is a South African video artist, filmmaker & painter based in RSA. Her works appear internationally in various Film Festivals, Galleries and Art Museums. She is concerned with visual emotion and the triumph of the human spirit, using mainly performance-based works with a strong tendency towards the dramatic. Her works are mostly one on one directions towards the viewing public, works produced in isolation or in remote areas. Her main focus is the production of psychological works that disturb normal modes of being. She uses travel and personal life experience in her art, as she believes that life and art are inseparable entities. She is also the founder and director of Human Emotion Project which screens many international artists. An artist in love with the wind ...

recent exhibition selections and galleries:

• ArtFem.TV presents "Sit stay" by Alison Williams at the conference: CRITICAL INFORMATION: MAPPING THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY, Graduate Student Conference at the School of Visual Arts, NY, USA, December 3, 2011
• LETTERS FROM THE SKY. Experimental films on climate change, curator Kai Lossgott, screens "Bird" by Alison Williams at COP17 in Durban, South Africa 28 November - 9 December 2011 Artspace Gallery.
• Human Emotion Project HEP 2011 screens as part of Festival Video Dia Loghi 2011 at The Velan Centre of Contemporary Art, Turin Italy from the 14 - 22 December, curated by Willy Darko & Alison Williams
• Encyclopedic Cartoons Video Project - screen "Chicken - Alison Williams" in Tehran (Iran) and Mannheim (Germany). 1. 25 Bilder pro Sekunde, Mannheim (Germany), curated by Simone Kraft and Sohrab M. Kashani at Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran - Dec/January 2012; courtesy of Joas Sebastian Nebe
• HEP Mirror Mirror - screens in Denmark 5 - 29 June 2011, curated by Alison Williams, Danny Germansen & Steffen Graumann - a collaboration with Brujo Art Company and HEP at Bittes Gallery, Ribe
• The video series Contextual Face will be screened at 2 venues: Galleria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland, May 28, 2011, and Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, June 2, 2011. As part of CologneOFF*2011 Baltic Sea curated by Evelin Stermitz and Wilfried Agricola de Cologne screens "sit stay" by Alison Williams.
• CologneOFF*2011 Baltic Sea screens "mirror mirror" a Film by Anders Weberg and Alison Williams May 2011 (Anders Weberg & Agricola de Cologne)
• Alison Williams screens "Lovesick", curated by Niclas Hallberg at the International Experimental Film and Video Festival in East Iceland. Icelandic Minister of Culture will open the festival this year at 20:00 in the Slaughterhouse in Egilsstaðir, Saturday, March 19, 8:00pm - 11:00pm, Egilsstaðir, Iceland
• CologneOFF 2011 - Ukraine, March 18, 2011. "Contextual Face" (curated by Evelin Stermitz),City Art Gallery Kharkiv, Ukraine. Catalogue. Please see the press release by Festival Director Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
• Video Evening #3 Contextual Face Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at 7 pm at Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curated by Evelin Stermitz
• 9 Dez - 29 Jan (Seg. A Qua. 10h30 e 15h00, Qui. A Sáb. 21h30), Antecâmara, Antes do espectáculo "Noite de Reis", Oficina Municipal do Teatro, Coimbra, http://projectovideolab.blogspot.com/2010/12/videolab-disfarca-inst
• Contextual Face, CologneOFF 2011, Cologne International Video Art Festival, Cologne, Germany http://coff.newmediafest.org. 2010-2011 Cinéma Féministe (curator Evelin Stermitz)
• Fragments is a collaborative video art project headed by Michael Chang (DK) and Marty McCutcheon (US). Screens "Threshold" Alison Williams at Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York in April 2011. Please see this link for further information on the exciting project.