July 20 2020
March 2 2020
Review on Molecular Sex by Anabelle Lacroix
Bruckner’s was one of a series of works dispersed throughout HKW in smaller spaces. Two large standing projection screens occupied the room, disposed like an open book that immersed the viewer in both sound and image. Tension between dancers on one screen was paralleled with content on the second screen that fluctuated between snippets of feminists reading a manifesto, excerpts from a sex doll documentary and other footage. Speaking with the artist about her work—which deals with the entanglement of molecular biology, the development of nanotechnologies and the shaping of our own desires—the notion of agency became central to our conversation. How can we redistribute relations and influence patterns in the making of technology to embody non-normative and non-binary perspectives? For me the subtle layering in Bruckner’s video as well as her approach to identity politics and performance on screen provided an openness and sensitivity that performed a strong queering of the idealised vision of our technofuture. The video was accompanied by a scrolling text on a small side screen, a posthuman manifesto for interspecies sexuality from sexbots and every mutating techno-organisms with simultaneous co-habiting genres. Only then society would shift from binary sex to ‘quantum-sex’. (...) The live performance embodied the choreographed elements in her video work (which are reminiscent of both music videos and contemporary dance) layered with short excerpts of found footage and 3D renderings of a three-legged dancing creature, with meditative watery sounds and an occasional chorus. Many of the questions posed in Bruckner’s work also relate to ideas of networks and ecologies of trust and of care that were echoed in other works in the exhibition and later discussed in the symposium program that go beyond the scope of this review. There was a general consensus during the closing panel of the transmediale symposium that discussions had not reached any conclusions. This is telling of the amount of work there is to be done if we want to bring change to the development of society in relation to the limitations of new media technologies. This was clear at the end of the panel, in relation to an audience question reflecting on post-colonial and feminist perspectives as a shift in the field, asking about what strategies we could put in place to generate change beyond the surface. This is the kind of structural change that is needed—as intersectional feminist Nina Lykke once said in relation to her power as a Caucasian academic, sometimes one has to think about what we can give up and how we can make space. On Show at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, transmediale 2020. Review in Art&Australia, 02/2020.
January 3 2020
HASH AWARD, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe (nominated). Performance: 21/02/2020, ZKM.
February 9 2020
Our Loves Are Not Only Human, Opening: 20/02/2020, Digital Solitude, Stuttgart
October 21 2019
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, transmediale 2020, End to End. Opening: 28/01/2020
January 3 2020
Interview: Techno-Sex-Bots: Molecular Sex, Synthetic Love and Quantum Bodies
February 9 2020
CTM / transmediale at Berghain, Berlin, Performance Sympoetic Desires, 29/01/2020
November 6 2019
Schloss Akademie Solitude / ZKM: Engineering Care, Web Residency, November 2019.
October 7 2019
23/01/20: Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, Quantum Brittle Stars, Performance
March 10 2019
57 Venice Biennale, 2019, Molecular Ghosts of Love at Cinema Teatro Italia, Venice, Opening 9 May
April 17 2019
Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Artist-in-Residence, 2019-20
June 26 2019
Johanna Bruckner: BRITTLE STARS, Q8, Cologne. Opening 23 August
October 17 2019
SEA Foundation Tilburg, Digital Artist-in-Residence, October 2019
August 12 2019
NIDA ART COLONY: artist in residence, August 2019
May 6 2019
Digital Dramatizations: Ecologies from the Future, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Opening: 4 May
April 17 2019
Bodies beyond currencies, Lecture performance by Johanna Bruckner, Plateaux Festival, CH, 20 April
May 2 2019
"Small Projects for Coming Communities", Opening: 11 May, Stuttgart
April 17 2019
Molecular Ghosts in Love: Lecture by Johanna Bruckner, Valand Art Academy, Gotheborg, 17 May
November 2 2018
17 November: Displaying Cinematography: (Un-)Building Walls. Johanna Bruckner, Marie-France Rafael, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Architecture Biennale Venice
January 3 2019
CAC Centre d’art contemporain Genève, 5th Floor, solo project, February 2019
January 25 2019
February 2019: CAC at artgeneve presenting 5th floor / Six Doors
March 1 2019
15 March - 28 April: Q8, Cologne, Act
March 1 2019
SEXED POWER: POST-FEMINISMUS? POST ME TOO? POST-GENDER? 8 - 16 March, MOM Art Space Hamburg
September 5 2018
7 September: EIGEN+ART LAB Galerie, Nomadic Bodies, Opening, Berlin
December 21 2017
Co-launch of BLOCC Building Leverage Over Creative Capitalism
Next public presentation: a circuit of workshops at HBK Bern & ZHdK Zürich, 2018
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August 5 2018
Perspektivwechsel #5, Galerie EIGEN+ART LAB, Artist Talk, 11 September
September 16 2018
Berlin Art Week: EIGEN+ART Lab, Performance TERRA X, 28 September
November 2 2018
18 November: Venice Biennale 2018, Giardini, Venice, "Scaffolding Desires" by Johanna Bruckner & Sandra Oehy, Performing Architecture, Goethe Institute Milano
November 6 2017
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
REALTY: Workshop hosted by the Sommerakademie Paul Klee fellowship program in conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr
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May 19 2018
16. ARCHITECTURE- BIENNALE, VENICE: PERFORMING ARCHITECTURE, GOETHE-INSTITUT, 26 May, Panel discussion; Performance
August 9 2018
24 August: Johanna Bruckner & Tyler Coburn, Opening, OnCurating Project Space, Zürich
November 17 2017
Sommer Akademie Paul Klee Fellowship
Over the period of Summer 2017 to Spring 2019, the Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern grants fellowships to eight artists committed to issues spelled out in the REALTY program.
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April 15 2018
All so Near: Textiled Bodies, China Girls and Archi-Finance. Künstlerhaus FAKTOR Hamburg
April 28 2018
12 May: Galerie Reflector Contemporary: Performance: Toxicoloy Reports
November 2 2018
28 November: EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin: CHEERS, opening
November 17 2017
Black Mountain College, Zürich, Workshop & Performance, Opening, 19 April, 2018
May 22 2018
25–27 May 2018, Symposium Revisiting Black Mountain, ZHdK
Cross-discinplinary Experiments and Their Potential For Democratization (in Times of Post-Democracy)
March 30 2018
5 April, 2018, Opening: Hyperbodies: Johanna Bruckner, Reflector Contemporary Gallery, solo, Bern
April 15 2018
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Falkenberg, Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, 2018
Opening: 9 February, 2018
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April 15 2018
Panel discussion, Kunsthaus Hamburg: I too, have been seduced by the promise of exposure
December 6 2018
LOWLAND Magazin, Edition 4, with an interview by Johanna Bruckner, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
May 22 2018
Research encounter 25-27 May: "Maritime Poetics: from Coast to Hinterland"
December 30 2017
Maritimes spaces, history and poetics, Corner College, 25-27 May, 2018
December 30 2017
From loss to survivals: on reconstruction and trans-missions of artistic gestures, 2018
Franklin University, Intervalla, Volume 5, Switzerland, with my text contribution The Building: a scaffold, a score. Exercises in re-materialisation
June 13 2018
Terra Vague: Against the Ghosts of Land. Performance, HafenCity Hamburg, July 2108
November 25 2017
Untertage - im Waldhuus, 2018, Opening: 09.12.2017, Panel discussion: 7 January 2018
November 17 2017
Westwerk Hamburg, Video Club 17, 7-10 December
VIDEO Club knüpft an die 1999 gegründete, gleichnamige Präsentationsplattform der Hamburger Kunsthalle für Videokunst an.
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April 15 2018
Kino Rex, Bern: KUNST UND FILM
November 17 2017
Kino Metropolis, Hamburg
The Building, a scaffold, a score: Screening of selected work by Johanna Bruckner, 31 October, 2017
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November 17 2017
Collaboration with Caro Baumann, ongoing, presentation 2018
November 17 2017
SCAFFOLD
Project, ongoing. A scaffold refers both to physical labour on the construction site as well as to the algorithmic scaffold, or framework, as both method and object in algorithmic infrastructure and logistics constitute the tools alongside which abstract, social and cooperative peformances are emerging.
