20.04.2012 / Roman Kirschner

Matter as Substance of Utopia

The lecture will focus on the latencies and potentials of materials and especially on the term of processmatter and the „not-yet-being“ (In-Möglichkeit-Seiendes) developed by Ernst Bloch. Roman Kirschner will show examples of his artistic work in the field of audiovisual scultptural art and dive into the dialogue with matter that was necessary to realize them. 

Roman Kirschner works as an artist in the fields of visual and media art. He has studied philosophy, art history and audiovisual art in Vienna and Cologne. For his basic research Roman is currently working on the research project “Liquid Things” at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a Phd on „Processes of material transformation. Metamorphosis in art practice?“ at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. His work has been exhibited internationally in eg. Tokyo Museum of Photography (JP), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco (USA), Woodstreet Galleries Pittsburgh (USA), Itaú Cultural Sao Paulo (BR), V2 (NL), Cornerhouse Manchester (UK), Lunds Konsthall (SWE), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE), Kunsthalle und Künstlerhaus Wien (AT), Arko Art Center Seoul (ROK).

20.04.2012 16:00 HPZF

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