About
V Barratt and Francesca da Rimini — co-founders of VNS Matrix, the pioneering cyberfeminist art collective formed in Adelaide in 1991 — formed In Her Interior (IHI) in 2015 to co-create and perform live works of spoken/sung and recorded text and video within site-specific installation environments. For VNS Matrix’s 25th anniversary in 2016, they wrote and performed, with VNS Matrix, the third and final VNS Matrix Manifesto: A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene.
An unfaithful follower of constraint-based experimentation across various art traditions, IHI frequently collaborates with accomplices including land custodians, sound artists, birdwatchers, writers, philosophers, and gleaners.
IHI has performed in galleries, dedicated performance spaces, repurposed industrial settings, academic environments, and theatres across New York, Helsingør, London, Berlin, Adelaide, Byron Bay, Sydney, and Melbourne.
Hexecuting
Central to IHI’s practice is the method of “hexecuting” — creating rules-based or constraint-based texts which become the generative foundation for videos, 3D models, animations, and live performance works. This process entwines the algorithmic with the incantatory, treating code and spell as cognate operations.