Bio
Nietzsche Drager is a dialectical cultural theorist/artist/writer/architect/performance artist. His research articulates, defines, abstracts, explores, recontextualizes, deconstructs, numerous fields, disciplines, and modalities in Media, Culture, and History, using avant garde conceptual art, experimental cultural theory, and continental philosophy. Drager has been published internationally in, Literary Journals, Art Journals, Art Blogs, Exhibition Catelogs, and Artist Publications, notably, The TEXT( U.K.) + MOBILE ALBUM INTERNATIONAL( Paris/ New York ). His conceptual art practice includes exhibiting in the biennale, KAAP 2010 Biennale, Utrecht, Holland, and at Art Metropole ,Toronto, Canada, and performances in European galleries.
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Education
2006 – 2009 Dutch Art Institute ( NL ) M.F.A.
1986 – 1991 University of British Columbia, ( CAN ) B.F.A.
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Selected Solo Exhibiions
2010 Dada Cafe, KAAP 2010 Biennale, Utrecht, Holland STORM, Arts Organization, CURATOR: Mark Kremer (NL)
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Untitled Artist Files, Contemporary Histories- Intersecting Pasts and Futures, AHVA Library Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada
2010 Conversations on a Free Democracy, Prognose voor de Toekomst / Prognosis for the Future , Gallery ST. Havenkwartier, Deventer, Holland
2009 Leary Lennon Love: Dolmus Festival (lecture/performance to an audience covertly escorted to a hotel room without permission ), Gallery Niewe Vide, Haarlem (Holland), Nietzsche Drager video skyped a lecture from University of British Columbia, SCRF 201 (Vancouver, Canada) to Amrath Hotel, ( Haarlem Holland); in collaboration with and featuring- Johanna de Schipper and Kelly Kersenns , a.k.a THE NEW COLLAGISTS (http://www.thenewcollagists.com/): the lecture, title ” Dada, Surrealism + Buddhism: a query into the transspace of the spirit”: Saturday June 13th 2009 (Vancouver start time 9 am and Haarlem start time 18:00 pm); assisted and organized in Holland by Christoph Both- Asmus / Curator and Festival Organizer, Emilie Oursel
2007 Michel Foucault Letters, Go’n Postal, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
.Published Conceptual Art
2011 The Text, ( U.K Experimental Poetry Journal)., 8 pages, Editor : Keith Jaffrete
2011 Mobile Album International ( Paris/New York Art Journal) , “Rodin”, 2 pages
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Published Poetry
2012 Pacific Poetry, on- line, 3 poems
2012 Ditch, on -line, 4 poems
2011 Grain, CDN, 1 poem
2005 Filling Station, CDN, 4 poems
2005 580 Split, U.S.A., 1 poem
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Published Essays on Artists
2011 Earth Sky Tree Branches, Essay on Christoph Both-Asmus’s Tree Project, Exhibition Publication: KuperDomingosProjects, Berlin, 2 pages
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art@nietzschedrager.com