Saskia Boddeke

Art Practive in Collaborative Virtual environments - C. C. De Souza June 2015

Boddeke alias Rose Borchovski is also a well-known artist at Second Life where she created multiple installations. The Second Life installations can be visited online at The Second Life Grid and at the Aire Mille Flux art-grid. These installations were shown in the Madrid Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo of 2012 and in The Digital Art Exhibition in Spain of 2014. The installation The Inevitability of Fate received more than 200.000 visitors.

Boddeke started to work as stage director and founded her own company Vals Akkoord and directed several productions. Boddeke also worked at the Dutch National Opera. In 1994 Boddeke directed the Opera 'Rosa, a horse drama. The libretto was written by Peter Greenaway. Boddeke and Greenaway worked very successfully together on several projects, Boddeke being responsible for the concept and direction based on Greenaway's libretto.

Saskia Boddeke (born 1962) is an innovative Dutch multimedia artist and stage, opera and film-director. Her music-theatre languages over the last 20 years use multiple projection screens, sophisticated computer programming and even newer visual phenomenon like second life, inter-connecting animated audio-visual avatars with live actors within a stage presence which combines the truly physical with the electronic. Her performances are shown around the world. Boddeke also created many multimedia installations where the visitors are surrounded by projections, sounds, light, smells and art objects. The aim is to create an immersive experience. In 2015 Saskia was awarded the Russian TANR award for her exhibition in Moscow: "The Black Square, The Golden Age of the Russian Avantgarde", a multimedia installation.