Talia Rudofsky
b. 1999 (London, UK)
Talia Rudofsky (b. London, England) is a multidisciplinary artist, archivist and DJ based in New York City, NY.
- The Hefker Girl -
Talia Rudofsky, better known as the Hefker Girl (or the Hefker Girl, better known as Talia, depending on what circles you run in), could hold the title of multi-disciplinary artist, archivist, designer, curator, or DJ, among others. But really she is not any one of those things, or rather is not just any one of those things, though neither is she simply the sum of them. The Hefker Girl, in a way that few others are, is a true embodiment of all her activities: in an occasionally off kilter way her sensibilities for photography, design, curation, and DJing morph into each other, making the idea of drawing distinctions between them wholly absurd; it would be missing the point. Her creative practice (to use a tired yet effective way to group these various activities together) is singularly unified.
She uses different frameworks to understand this magic, pulling from Pythagoras just as readily as fringe cults from the 1980s, though the truest understanding comes from the world that she has created for herself: the Fish Bowl. Here, if you can jump in, her eclectic creative practice crystalizes into a reality with its own gravity. So the metaphor of water, floating fish, and the ocean is an apt image for her DJ project: she is a sailor at sea, armed with a Dub compass to guide her through the uncharted depths of dance music and inviting the crowd into the haze, the suspension.
Bio by Jurrien Kampinga