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2012                                                                                                 

Surplus beyond Accumulation

Notes on Intensified Time and the Labor of Art: Towards an ethics of social intensification

IFK Academy 2012,

Paper for the section „The Flow in the experiment of the arts“

The International Center for Research in Cultural Studies, Kunstuniversität Linz, August 2012

Johanna Bruckner

www.ifk.ac.at

In search of utopia

curated by Sofia Mavroudis

Text contribution to the exhibition cataloge in A5 sized cards: Silence spaces, silent patterns; beyond noise, visual and language?

www.curareart.com

Holidays in Greece

as part of IMPORT EXPORT,

Kassel, September 4-8 2012

Vassilliea Stylianidou presents works of her archive, and platform studiovisits; among it the section of Holidays in Greece, for which I produced a sound installation.

http://importexportkassel.de/

www.studiovisits-berlin.tumblr.com

more info on the installation, click here

The Artist as a "Creative Professional"

A Brunch and a Talk around the subject of the role of the artist today in the context of transformations in art educational structures. 

This discussion is part of the ongoing project YAPP i Botkyrka – Young Artist Production Program at Botkyrka konsthall, where artists from the Royal Institute of Art meet students from high schools in Botkyrka within a collective art practice. As part of YAPP’s spring course 2012 a discussion platform on negotiating collaborative art practices has been established.  

Moderated by Johanna Bruckner at The Royal Institute of Art, Sofia Mavroudis CuratorLab at University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design and Caroline Malmström, Botkyrka Konsthall 

May 20, 12- 3 pm, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm 

Invited participants / Open to public. 

When is the artist (not) an artist? 

Performative panel discussion / Film as a performance, 

An exploration of the "collective subject" while investigating relations between new cinema, curating and experience. 

A project by Johanna Bruckner

May 25, 6 pm, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm

Transnational Labor and creativity

workshop programm

by Johanna Bruckner

Royal institute of Arts, Stockholm

firste meeting: March 22, 11.30, KKH

We, the Public

Conference,

University of Art and Design, Lucerne

Kunstmuseum Lucerne

SARN, Swiss Artistic Research Network

April 26-27

Time/ Another Duration:

New Performative Strategies

Workshop by Johanna Bruckner

How is showing and presenting of art work related to the challenges of economic transformations?

www.sarn.ch

Feminist International Forum, Geneva (FIF)

BAC Batiment Art Contemporain, Geneve

As part of ETERNAL TOUR 2008-2012, in cooperation with the University of Geneve, Switzerland

June 7-9

www.eternaltour.org

Bodies, Strategies and (Dis-)Embodied Knowledge:

Lecture by Johanna Bruckner

TV Mejan

tv channel, 219 hours (live) streaming

art and cultural content

a project of the Royal Institute of Arts, Stockolm, which I have co-produced.

www.tvmejan.com

Conference on Practice-Based-Research

Bauhaus Universität, Weimar

December, 1-3, 2011

Presentation by Johanna Bruckner

„Curating as Artistic Practice: Performative Research

and the Articulation of Protest“.

Through investigating critique as a practical matter

this project examines performative research settings as

methodes of academic approaches in art practice.

www.practice-based-research.com

Performative Symposium Preview

Royal Institute of Fine Arts, Stockholm

How do public institutions produce social realities?

November 21-23, 2011 1-6pm

The events of panel installations and workshop scenarios are public and participatory. A project by Johanna Bruckner

IAC Inter Arts Center Malmö

„Seeing is Participating. Seeing is Thinking“

Performative Symposium

Research as a practical matter

2013

A project by Johanna Bruckner

I am pleased to announce the Performative Symposium‘s realization at the Inter Arts Center, Malmö. „Art as Research“ will epistemologically be explored in a performative exhibition setting. The project will conclude with a final conference in Berlin and started with an experiemental test version and resarch in New York this year. See description below.

http://www.iac.lu.se/

based in Berlin and the rhetoric of protest.

Reflections in context.

Text by Johanna Bruckner, written for the 7th Berlin Biennale

The exhibition based in Berlin has activated a sociopolitical conflict that reaches far beyond the curatorial interest. It has exposed a field in which cultural policy and social activism instigate a terrain of relational complicity. Hundreds of actors participate through public practice and shape a major part of the exhibition's discourse – left with a major political notion.

Forms of resistance in the arts: Where does curating place political art with regard to its Vermittelbarkeit? Where does political art place the contemporary curating?

EUFRAD 2011, Stockholm

Presentation at EUFRAD 2011, The European Forum for Research Degrees in Art and Design, Stockholm, 27-30 September 2011.

organized by ELIA The European League for the Institutes of the Arts; and SHARE Academic Network for Research in the Arts. 

www.sharenetwork.eu

My practice on paper examines how knowledge can be ’taught’ as an exhibition format itself. It epistemologically addresses the museum’s presentation of arts, which has been challenged through artistic research. Through a performative panel I investigate a setting of an artistic knowledge exposition that practically reflects what it epistemologically discusses: how do institutions respond to knowledge dissemination in practice?

ART AS TEXT SCHOOL

Performative Symposium

New York City, 2011

Galerie FLux Factory

Planned in cooperation with Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin

How Reflective is the Educational Turn?

Commodifying & Exhibiting Art Research

Institutional Practice and the Curatorial

Film

Symposium

A project by Johanna Bruckner

In the context of the Educational Turn, research has become significant in artistic creation and production. Symposia and projects show increasing interest in the qualities of Art Research that represents a new field of interest in academic art education. Interrogating how this discourse shapes the institutionalized landscape of Art Exhibiting, Presentation and Commodification this project reflects on how to institutionally respond to the verbally reflective practices in arts.

What does Art Research mean in a politically disciplined landscape of art biennial, institutional presentation, and commercialization? Where does the Art Biennial, as representant of a significant allegory, stand in this approach and how may it contribute to commodifying art research in a politically and rhetorically euphemized ,criticality‘ of art? How can art practice visualize assemblage as a political statement, thus challenging the rhetorical as the poltics of the visual, and asking what can we actually learn from the exhibtion as a culturally spatial concept, such as examined by Irit Rogoff in "What can you learn from the museum"? 

These questions will be explored in a practical way through visualizing a Performative Panel on the one hand, and theoretically through the discussion of the research question on the other hand.

CINEMATIC AESTHETICS ON PAPER

Reflective Art Writing in Contemporary Film Practice: How Can We Visualize Artistic Research as a Political Statement?

A project by Johanna Bruckner

How can we present artistic research in the art film?

New scholars request a reflective research-based practice that asks for rhetorically communicating the author’s culturally, socially, and discursively situated position in the context of the artwork. This discourse asks the art film practice to experiment with modes of presenting research.

Hence, this paper discusses the question of how artistic research in art film can be visualized and investigtes the experimental cinema of artistic research by means of a recent example in contemporary film practice, which presents theory in a way that emphasizes on the pedagogical potential of moving images and shows that art film is theory and theory is art film.

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AAR-  platform for critical artistic research e.V

2011

It‘s Method! Practice Based Research

Edited by the Bauhaus Universität Weimar, 2012.

I will contribute with an essay on

„Artistic Research, Place and Site-Specifity“

“FORUM DEBATE“

Curated by Johanna Bruckner

V Barcelona International Video Art Festival

The Mise en scène: Re-enactment and economic crisis in contemporary video art:

Workshop/panel/conversation

1. 1.What does it mean to "produce" in a state of economic crisis? How are artists able to reflect on the conditions they are entangled in? How may artists respond by means of socio-political aesthetics? 
   

2. 2.Public participation, research and social collaboration: What         does professionalism now mean?
   

A panel discussion followed by a workshop will investigate the question of contemporary video art in a state of crisis, tansformation and conflict, asking how artists relate to these topics and how they engage in these within their practice. In this context, we will explore the significance and extent that research plays in artistic practice, giving special consideration to varied approaches and processes.

„Praxistest. Künstlerische Projekte zur Vermittlung aktueller Kunst“ / „Practical test. Projects of genuin artists to communicate current art to the public"

The „Schriftenreihe des Schöppinger Forums für Kunstvermittlung“ will publish the installation of the Performative Symposium (see below) in context of research inquries in: Transfer. Beiträge zur Kunstvermitlung, Volume 8. 2011/12.

www.forum-kunstvermittlung.de

Congress populaire

An open concept of a one day symposium to consider artistic activism, curatorial practice, and reflective inquiry in the context of and as practice-based research. A project by Johanna Bruckner

more info will follow.

for details, please conctact Johanna Bruckner

CURATING URBAN SCREENS

Fusions of Technology and the Cinematic in Public

Panel

LOOP Barcelona, Conference Program, 20 May 2011.                           

Speakers: Susa Pop (Public Art Lab Berlin, Media Facades Festival), John Aiken (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London), David Cunningham (University of Westminster, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, London), Johanna Bruckner. Moderated by Cristina Garrido (Idensitat Barcelona, Goldsmith, London). Presented by Public Art Lab, Berlin. Curated by Johanna Bruckner. www.loop-barcelona.com

This panel considers the Cinematic Potential of Urban Screens in public spaces. Its objective is to explore theoretical concepts and practical approaches for understanding the communicative and socio-aesthetic qualities of urban screens in their relationship to the cinematic.

LIMINAL SPACES

Screening in public spaces

LOOP Barcelona, May 2011

Curated by Johanna Bruckner

Presented by Public Art Lab, Berlin and Screen Projects Barcelona

www.loop-barcelona.com

The artworks presented here explore the city as a space of parallell worlds transcended through liminal zones: the public underground system characterizes such a hybrid non-space. People use the underground as a place of transgression in order to arrive at their destinations: it is a non-place of changing, in which identities are constantly in transition.

The works chosen for this exhibition play with these conditions of transgression by reflecting the transitional aspect of a spatial journey, exploring liminal spaces as structural rituals, which we continously travel through, and characterize every simple and symbolic journey, such as pointed out in ‘Les Rites de passages‘ by the French anthropologist Van Gennep. The video works explore these meanings by crossing stages on various levels

- a process that corresponds with the daily practice of changing places while people are on their ways to their

destinations.

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URBAN SCREENS, Social Aesthetics and Reflective Cinema: From Moving Images to Research Media

Poster Presentation at the International Conference

for Research and Intervention in Visual Cultures, space:resolutions.

Vienna University of Technology,

October 2010.

While experimenting with the concept of transnational urban space, I will investigate the challenged relationship between the digital screen scenario in the public realm and the expanded cinema. The relatively new practice of ‚culturally’ curating media facades on a large scale with the aim of an institutionalized format (Pop/Struppek 2010) calls for investigation into the relation between net urbanism and the experimental dimension of the cinema – a field in which urban space, the practice of socially designing the virtual dimension and the narrative aspect of the cinematography together describe a unique area for intervention and research in visual cultures.

ART RESEARCH AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT: Articulating Rhetorics in the Visual Realm and the Epistemology of the Political.

Aesthetics of Art Research and the 7th Berlin Biennale 2012.

Research Project

Research has become of significant interest in artistic creation and institutional practice, which is emphazised in the reflective politics of the 7th Berlin Biennale.

Interrogating the question of what can be learnt from the upcoming Biennial, this text considers the extent, the New Politics of Art Research are present in the concept of the 7th Berlin Biennale 2012, in which artists are required to discuss their political statement. Articulating political rhetorics in the visual realm reflects the academic turn in its practice, which is made explicit in the concept of this art biennal, and which leads me to arguing that art research has become integral part of international institutional practice in the international context.

Why do Contemporary Art Museum curate Urban Screens? 

Recent approaches in understanding the museum as a public space of negotiation. 

A lecture screening by Johanna Bruckner

Flux Factory, New York City

May 12, 8:30 pm

The practice of curating urban screens reflects how museums increasingly become arenas for experience and events of the moment. It might be assumed that as art practices expand, curating expands to accommodate them. The main question of the project is what models of curatorial activity can be distinguished and recognised as the result of operating in the environment of internet and new moving image practices: which moving image practices do new technologies offer us, and how does it affect new models of curating? This, I will question in my talk.  

The last decade has seen the development of new networks and collaborations between artists, curators, and organizations regionally and internationally. These models have established platforms from which to generate programming and accumulate research „that goes beyond the national or localized mandates of the traditional contemporary art museum“ (newmuseum.org), and instead encourages knowledge production and project curating through shared concerns based on experience and practice. This has led to new ways of thinking about collecting, recording histories, and producing discourse, as well as extending exhibition models. Considering the architecture of the museum as a research platform itsself the museum has become a space of critical mediation and intervention. Social Networks, transnational collaborations and the presentation of new research based production in the politics of the educational turn have led to new questions in presenting arts.