Yucca Mothwoman, Yucca tegeticula femosa, AI (Astral Intelligence) generated climate crisis first responder, 2023 season
Archival pigment prints
Wall installation
Claudia Bucher is a multimedia conceptual performance artist based in Yucca Valley, CA. Through a lens of eco-conscious feminism, and often drawing from the fields of science and technology, she creates imaginative philosophical speculations on a range of subjects inspired by nature, but triggered by sociopolitical events. nowbehereart.com/artist/claudia-bucher, @clauditopia
I identify myself as a conceptual performance-installation artist, but I often think of myself as a writer. I use physical space, raw materials, organic matter, found objects, digital media, and the human body to create poetic meditations, philosophical essays, speculative fiction, or satirical comedies in the form of performative sculptural installations. Language—naming, framing, and word play is an essential aspect of my work. It is the connective substrate across my practice. I am interested in a wide variety of subjects, and like a writer, I use my work to explore ideas and satisfy my curiosity. In particular, I like to dream up links between art, architecture, science and technology, ecology, biology, space exploration, mysticism, Feminism and science fiction. However, I also possess the practical problem solving mind of an engineer and secretly wish I were working on the International Space Station. This mind considers art making to be a physiological process: an act of metabolism akin to respiration, digestion and excretion. This mind regards the built environment as an extended physiology and likes to create structural engineering challenges for itself. It is a crucial part of my practice that I design, engineer, and fabricate everything myself. This allows for the work to always remain human-scaled and intimate. My projects often arise out of an enthusiastic engagement with the natural environment and human-made subcultures of Southern California, and in response to current socio-political events. I am currently working on projects inspired by life in the Mojave Desert.