© Johanna Bruckner, Quantum Polymorphic Sensibilities, Performance, 2019, Foto: Guillermo Heize
FR 24 01 2020, 5:30 pm
Talking Sensibilities: Artist Talk with Johanna Bruckner
Moderated by Katharina Brandl
In this public discussion format, Johanna Bruckner provides an introduction to her artistic practice based on her video installation and performance Quantum Brittle Stars, one day after its presentation in Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. Together with artistic director Katharina Brandl, she will discuss the transformations that sensibility and sentience are subject to in a time of ever-closer ties between humans and machines.
With the emergence of sex robots, physical intimacy – in particular – becomes a social realm that is anything but the last stronghold of direct, not technologically mediated human contact. Going beyond techno-pessimistic visions, Johanna Bruckner’s work and the talk focus on new potentials, new concepts of corporeality in light of these changes. And what all of this has to do with quantum physics and brittle stars will also become clearer.
Johanna Bruckner, born 1984 in Vienna, is an artist whose works have been shown internationally. Solo exhibitions and performances: 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2019); Mamco, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva (2019); 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Swiss Pavilion (2018); Galerie EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin (2018). Group exhibitions: Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Falckenberg (2018); Galerie Reflector Contemporary, Bern (2018); KW, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2017); Museo Villa Croce, Genoa, (2017); Kunsthaus Hamburg (2016); Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (2016); Manifesta 11; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2016), and documenta 13.
Johanna Bruckner has taught at various universities and institutions. Her work was awarded numerous scholarships and nominated for a fellowship at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Currently, she is artist-in-residence at Istituto Svizzero in Rome and at Akademie Schloss Solitude and is producing works for the transmediale 2020.
The Performance Quantum Brittle Stars is kindly supported by Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung.
