Johanna Kirsch born 1980, Salzburg, Austria Johanna Kirschs work deals with the quest for freedom and autonomy. How directly relevant - how substantial are present ties, codes, rules, borders, limits and categories? Is there something like individual or collective autonomy beyond of hierarchy, territories and the oppression of other beings and our natural resources? Kirschs interest is it to test concrete human needs as well as the rules coming with them. Her artistic experiment tries to open up a space of alternatives in shifting perspectives. The Method changes with the context and can have the form of performance, installation, drawing, video, photo, text, film and all possible intersections. www.schrik.info Studies/ research 2004-2005 Jan van Eyck Academy, post graduate institute for production and research in fine art, theory and design -fine art department, Maastricht, NL 2002-2003 interdisciplinary post academic studies for fine art, design and architecture, KHB- Weissensee, Berlin, D 1997-2002 Academy of fine arts, Vienna, A Residencies 2010/11 Mexico City, Atelier Land Salzburg, MX 2009 Cill Railaig Project, Ireland IRL Ever Mass Land, Nadine, Brussels, B 2008 bains connective, Brussels, B PAF, France, F 2007 AIR Antwerp, B 2006/7 BKA Kunst, A.A.C.S, Chicago, Il, USA 2004/5 Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL 2003/4 Cité des Arts Internationale, BKA Kunst, Paris, F Professional activities 2009 ongoing moving past between (WT), documentary film project together with Katharina Lampert 2006 2009 project Collective N6, together with Els Dietvorst (B), Orla Barry (IRL) (firefly), Wim Cuyvers (B) and Nikolaus Gansterer (A) 2001/02 programmation and organization of the performance space Salon Lady Chutney, Burggasse, Vienna, together with Stefanie Seibold and Katrina Daschner
Projects/screening/exhibitions (selection) 2013 MEASURES OF SAVING THE WORLD _ PART 3, group show, <rotor>, Graz, AT HOT STONES, WET ZONES, FAST MELONS, group show, Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), Vienna, AT 2012 Up to Nature, an unplugged performance platform in the greens outside European cities, Performance: My name is Ape or the little tree theatre in ANTI Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio, FI, Black Box Teater Oslo, NO, brut Vienna, Inbetween Time Bristol, GB Rotate Festival, participation, Insbruck, AT Demnächst? Ein Ort für werdende Kunst, Performance: How to get what you relly want or sometimes I really don t know if I wanna break in or out, Galerie5020, Salzburg, AT 2011 Oktoskop, TV prodcast of me, the big bad wolf and the radical sense of freedom and No Track Walk/Den Weg brechen, AT Body, Space and Movement - Strategies of Perception of Space and Landscape, group show, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, AT Living on the edge of a silver future, group show, Galerie 5020 Salzburg, AT LOVE_20: Zines, group show, LOVE, Vienna, AT Verbale 2, group show, Atelier Esther Stocker, Vienna, AT Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em, Screening, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin,D pimp your collection: cars you drive me art, group show, Landesgalerie OÖ, Linz, AT 2010 Where do wie go from here? group show, Secession, Vienna, AT Am Rande der Balance - Paradoxien des Instabilen, group show, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT Das Auto bin ich - the car, that s me, performance, installation, parking deck, Offenes Kulturhaus, Triennale 1.0, Linz, AT Nepotists, opportunists, friends, freaks and strangers intersecting in the grey zone, Announcement of a secret ritual, bollwek, Z33, Hasselt, B 2009 "Sorry, I forgot to pay my dues because I am in an urgent meeting with my needs" (an enacted branching off manual), performance and audio installation, Songlines/Firefly, Mechelen, B Plateau/Raum für Zwei, together with Bernhard Hosa, installation and performance, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT Until the End of the World, group show, AMP, Athen, GR Attempt to get out of civilization No. 3.1. performance in the frame of, Zerlegt und Verspielt, Normalzustand - Festival of the Regions 09, Linz, AT Geschichten Verwahren, exhibition design, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, AT News from the new no colonies, video collaboration with Katrin Plavcak for her exhibition, Human or other?, Secession, Wien, AT Identies and Staging Strategies, Performance 1, group show, Forogalerie vienna, AT On Track. Off Track. Memorising the Mid-World. Walking the Fifth-Space, group show with project collective N6, ARGOS, Brussels, B NIGHT SHOP. Readings. Performances. Screenings. Streamings, Performance with the project collective N6, Beursschouwburg, Kunstenfestivaldesarts 09, Brussels, B 2008 On Track. Off Track. Memorising the Mid-World. Walking the Fifth-Space, group show with project collective N6, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT Takeoff, Young Art/Scene Austria, group show, OK, Linz, AT Body Fluids, group show, CONFLICT ROOM, Antwerp, B experimental video exhibition, video screening, touring several universities, Thailand, THA Not all systems that are not stable are unstable, solo show, Passagengalerie, K/haus-Passage, Vienna, AT rooftop performance, performance, planktonbar, bains::connectiv, Brüssel, B Performing Video, how toi climb a fence, video-lecture, Brut, Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT Imagetanz, screening, festival for choreography, performance and video art, participation, brut, Vienna, AT place@space, group exhibition, performance, z33, Hasselt, B ERROR # 8 @ PROJECT(OR), video archive presentation, Rotterdam, NL 2007 don t worry be space, performance and video, in the frame of Hack the MUHKA reclaim public institutionalised space,
initiated by bolwerk, MUHKA (facade), Antwerp, B It s a pretty good day to sit in front of a window, performance, space intervention, artist talk, AIR, Antwerpen, B exits and dead ends, Festival of Regions, Participation with den Weg brechen no track walk 1.0 Performance, space intervention, video, Kirchdorf, OÖ, AT ERROR, #6 KING KONG, group show, Antwerp, B Donkerte/Darkness, Open Air, group show, Antwerp, B Antigarviation Beweis Nr.2 Installation, Intervention, together with Esther Stocker Elektro Gönner, Vienna, At Urban Wilderness Beast Action 1.0 video installatation, presentation together with Nikolaus Gansterer and Jörg Piringer (Sticky Performance), Air Antwerpen, Antwerpen, B Jan van Eyck Video Weekend participation, screenings, presentations, discussions Maastricht,NL Resonance, or How one reality can be understood though an other, Group show, Artis, Hertogenbosch, NL 2006 Cinejam Film Festival, estrojam, screening, short films by women film directors, Landmark Century Cinema, Chicago, Il, USA The 18th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, screening, Chicago, Il, USA Queerfeministischer Filmeabend, screening, Schikanderkino, Vienna Antigravitation Beweis Nr.1 Together with Esther Stocker, Installation, Elektro Gönner, Vienna, AT Heute kein Evidentes Problem, Group show Junge österreichische Foto-, Medien- und Installationskunst Galerie Westlicht, Vienna, A 2005 I want my fucking adventure solo show, F18 > HISK > IN / OUT, Antwerp, B Untitled excerpts group show, Nadja Vilenne Gallery, Liège, B INTERMITTENT TERRITORY FOR ALIENATED FIGURES group show, outrageous look, Brooklyn, NY, USA Stepping out. An invitation to do something new. An exhibition of research and production, group show, Jan van Eyck Academy, Galerie Space, Maastricht, NL BEVOR KAPUTT exhibition/screening together with Eleonora Meier, Zürich, CH DIAGONALE screening, Austrian film festival, Graz, A best of diagonale shorts, sunday afternoon, DIAGONALE screening, Filmcasino, Vienna, A Emaf screening, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, D you see what I want group show, praxis, Vienna, A werke junger österreichischer filmemacherinnen screening, poolbar, Feldkirch, A q-film program, screening, Ladyfest, Vienna, A that s entertainment a sing-along evening, participation, together with Katrin Plavcak, Petit Théâtre Mercelis d Ixexelles, Brussels, B
2004 born to be a star group show, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria and performance, Künstlerhauspassage, Vienna, A Mothers of Invention group show, where is performance coming from, curated by Stefanie Seibold and Carola Dertnig with "Salon Lady Chutney", MUMOK, Vienna, A Auto exhibition together with Hans Scheirl, Montafoner Kunstverein, Schruns, Vorarlberg, A 2003 painting show group show, N.Milwaukee, Chicago, USA 4west5 group show, Ealing, West London, GB Klimatisch im Hoch group show, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, A Jewel Osco Rap performance, video and installation, fluctuated images, FLUC, Vienna, A synthetic pleasures group show, Galerie >dreizehn/zwei<, Vienna, A 2002 endlich sechundzwanzig group show, Galerie Westlicht, Vienna, A VIDEOEX short film festival, Zürich, CH nomination Faistauer-prize, Galerie in Trakelhaus, group show, Salzburg, A Moving Desire space, sound- and video installation, group show, Semperdepot, Vienna, A Boxenstop video program, Maknite, MAK, Säulenhalle, Vienna, A 2001 spaceship trashpower solo show, salon Lady Chutney, Vienna A A Blink of an Eye Austrian Experimental Film and Video Art, The Guiness Theatre Singapore, CN And Squatspace, Sydney, AU Dychroscopic gloss Group show, Semperdepot, Vienna,A Factor p screening, Performance film program Salon lady Chutney, Vienna, A 1999 Galerie Charim Klocker, group show, Vienna, A 1998 academies, spices, diversities group show, Semperdepot, Vienna, A
Videos 2010 ALLES IST JETZT/ EVERYTHING IS NOW, Video, 9 min Orgon Rock, music video clip, 5min Together with Katrin Plavcak and Rudi Fischerlehner, Headless Production 10 2009 News form the new no colonies, music video clip toghether with Katrin Plavcak Headless Production 09 2008 AS IF IT WERE NATURE the inverse utopia, experimental video, documentary News from the news no colonies video music clip EX SITU, video performance 2007 den Weg brechen no track walk 1.0, video, documentary don t worry, be space, video performance Urban Wilderness Beast Action 1.0, video Antigravitation II, apply this to any environment, clip 2006 Antigravitation I, video together with Esther Stocker 2005 sense of non-direction, video, installation 2004 me, the big bad wolf and the radical sense of freedom, video/film Soundtrack; RinkaLaOne 2003 Jewel Osco Rap, MTVideo clip and performance together with Katrin Plavcak music: Rudi Fischerlehner 2002 moving desire, video, animation, installation 2001 micro home, video Trash power I, video animation This is Power, visual heroic space mission II, video, animation, installation 2000 heroic space mission I, video clip, video performance 1999 erected space, video, animation 1998 pixel, loop, video, animation, installation Publication/Contributions: Cahier#3 Open Baarheid, Over, publiek domein, planning en restruimte, VLAAMS BOUWMEESTER,ISBN 978-90-403-0320-3 EXTREM-BODY,SPACE AND MOVEMENT Ausstellungskatalog, NÖ MuseumsbetriebsGmbH, Wien, 2011, ISBN:978-3-9502934-3-2 PERFORMANCE IM BILD UND IM MEDIALEN ÜBERTRAGUNGEN FOTOBUCH NR. 43/2009 FOTOGALERIE WIEN, 2009, Vienna, AT SELBST ÜBERSETZEN! / TRANSLATE YOURSELF! Ein Performance Lesebuch zu Aufführen/ a Performance Reader for Staging ContributionBzy Lilo Nein, ISBN 978-3-200-01520-3, Vienna, AT Bienvenue, project Newspaper in the frame of, The Stone Road: on track, off track, Memorizing the mid world. Walking the fifthspace, firefly, www.firefilms.be, editor, Firelfly Orla Barry, Delaunoystraat 58, B- Sint-Jans Molenbeek, 2008 TOOLS Project publication with participants of the international exchange plattform for artistst, expedition, distributed by Les Laboratoires d Aubervilliers, www.leslaboratoires.org, paris, F, 2008 ETCETERA 109, Jaargang 25, december 2007, Dutch-language magazine on the performing arts bimonthly five issues per year, Theaterpublicaties vzw, Sainctelettesquare 19, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium, 2007 A Prior, Making Sense in the City, A Prior Magazine, J.Kluyskensstraat 2, 9000 Ghent, BE, 2007 EXITS AND DEADENDS/ FLUCHTWEGE UND SACKGASSEN, Catalog, Festival of the reagions, Festival der Regionen, AT, 2007