Portfolio /Maï T Segura & UFOHarald V Uccello

Maï T Segura is born in Bilbao. She grew up in Strasbourg, where she studied photography with Antonio Fimia and Pascal Holtzer and furthermore with Sepp Berlinger in Wien. In 1978 she created a performance about Five Female Personalities for an instalation piece about advertising by Michel Dupuy that took place in L´Atelier Theatre, Strasbourg. From 1979 until 1982 she did a Living Sculpture project with Fabrice Jeaneret, where she basically decided that her Art was to produce no Art whatsoever; in the same time Maï T considered the project a work on gender to question who is female? who is male? In Autumn 1982 Maï T moved to Paris where she wrote, co-directed and acted in experimental
theaterproductions that basically continue the autobiographical style of her first work
5 Female Personalities. For example La Kleptomane, written, directed and performed by Maï T and Francoise Grandcolin in the Bastille Theatre, París and in the Theatre of Poitier. Nous sommes partis longtemps en arrière, written and directed by F. Grandcolin and performed by Maï T in the Jaqueline Boulanger Gallery, Paris. In Porcherie, written by P.Pasolini and directed by Philippe Poulain, Maï T played the philosopher Spinoza, a role that suited and pleased her enormously. The play was performed at the Theatre Festival of Alès and afterwards in a painters studio in Paris. Ana le mur devant derriere was based on Maï Ts idea to work with the elements ´shoes´ and ´sleep´, written and directed by Jean Hurpy and performed by Maï T in a delapitated apartment overlooking the Champs Elysee in París as well as in the Theatre of Caen. Maï T performed also in Nicomède, written by Racine and directed by Vicent Vernillat and in La Ville, written by Claudel and directed by Jacques Sobel in the Theatre of Genevilier in París. And just to contradict herself she regularily continued her Living Sculpture project, this time with Jean Baptiste Nico. In 1988 the circle closed: Maï T went back to her first love Photography. Her performance and her photography turned into One activity.

UFO Harald V Uccello is born in Wien and grew up there and in Zug, Oberägri, Stuttgart, Graz and München.
From 1971-72 he learned with the photographer J.Jensen in an advertising agency. From 1973 to 1976 he studied painting at the Kunstakademie in München with G.Fruhtrunk. Between 1974 and 1975 he joined the Orgy Mystery Theatre on five ocassions as the assistent of H.Nitsch. From 1976 to 1980 he studied filmhistory with E.Patalas at the Filmmuseum and with H.Färber at the H.F.F. Between 1977 and 1979 he colaborated on several theater-, opera- and film-productions of W.Schroeter. He also did music-, painting-, scriptwriting- and directing-colaborations, camerawork, stagedesign and several acting jobs with R. Deckert, G.Meller, M.Patzelt, C.Heil, G.Koch, G.Stelly, E. Mitchell, J.Nares, G.Indiana, L.Davis, D.M.Marcovicz, S.Szcesny etc. From 1980 until 1987 UFO lived in Manhattan and for some time also in Hamburg and Berlin. Between 1975 and 1987, after having done various sketches without sound, for example Neusiedl and Warschawa City of Songs, UFO realized 20 movies (12 of them feature lenght) in Super8 and also videos, mostly in colaboration, especially with Bibiena Houwer, J. Waltemath,T. Wright, S.Tillett and A. Bergen. UFO considered these pictures, immaterial paintings and he projected them, all originals, regularily in filmclubs, cinemas, galeries, museums and other spaces. Many of them are deconstructions of plays or novels yet the documentary always takes an equaly important role: Kean, Manfred, Chris, Dangerous Islands, Worthless, Für Opa, Dear Jimmy, You, I, Enthusiasts, Mono, Anabelle, Henny, Only You, O.K. Today Tomorrow, MeasureTaken, Seventy Rolls to Rome, Güle Güle, Candide in The Americas. In early 1988 after a 4 month trip to Nepal, where he co-directed together with F.C.Giercke the video Loxin.The Initiation of a Young Shaman, UFO moved to Paris, he meets Maï T at the Centre Pompidou, where Loxin is screened in the exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre.

Besides their individual art activities Maï T and UFO immediatly colaborate on Life Art and photo-actions.
In 1992 they move to the Toscany and they have their first exhibition together with photography and paintings in 1993. From summer 1994 until autumn 1999 they live and work
in the Penedes, where they also cultivate a biological vegetable-, fruit- and flowergarden. Since the beginning of 2000 they live in Barcelona. They start to publish the cybermagazine www. fotyart.org in 2001. FoTyArT becomes also the name of their production association.
Maï T & UFO curate and organize various groupshows with digital art as well as Life Art festivals as well as a cycle of videos for the collective m.a.p.a., winning the first prize of Art-Creation awarded by the CC St.Agusti in Barcelona in 2004.
In preparation is a book - and exhibition project of the photo-action-series
Natural Expression 1988-2006,
a compilation of their videocreations 2003-2006
and the continuation of the work in progress World Without Borders with upcoming chapters in Africa, Europe and Asia.

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