A Conversation with Hanne Tierney

Hanne Tierney is a New York city based artist and curator. She specializes in experimental puppetry, mainly in the presentations of intensely emotional gestures and movements by non figurative objects and materials. Tierney, an internationally known puppet theater artist, has shown her work at Bitef in Belgrade, Fidena in Bochum, Espace Kiron in Paris, Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin, the Sidney Biannale, and other international and U.S. venues. In New York she performed at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and at every Jim Henson International Puppet Theater Festivals between 1992 and 2006. Tierney was a visiting lecturer at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in the sculpture department from 1992-1994. She is the founder and director of Five Myles, an exhibition and performance space in Crown Heights, that received an OBIE in 2000 for Tierney’s performance of Oscar Wilde’s Salome.

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