aerobic topologies: (eBook)

socio-spatial knowledge practices of fermenting microbes

Carolin Melia Brendel (Autor)

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2025
150 Seiten
Schlebrügge.Editor (Verlag)
978-3-903447-29-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In an assemblage of different media, Carolin Melia Brendel explores the power of air by linking different onto-epistemologies of the spatial that are conditioned by air. The book is based on the collaborative artistic work of Helena McFadzean and Carolin Melia Brendel, Aerobic Topologies I-XVII, for which they worked with symbiotic bacterial and yeast cultures that incorporate their spatial conditions into their development through aerobic fermentation. Documentary artifacts and traces of opposing forms of knowledge that were important for the artistic process-microbial, aerobic, logistical, infrastructural, geographical and entrepreneurial-are taken up again, viewed historically, critically juxtaposed and thus placed in a material-discursive relationship of tension, similar to a vibrational movement. Between the pages of the book, a resistant space unfolds against anthropocentric paradigms of knowledge production. It questions the analytical activity of drawing boundaries as an epistemological condition and sabotages attributions of agency and authorship. It gives rise to methodological speculation about transdisciplinary intra-action and onto-epistemological actions under the disciplinary label of 'artistic research'. 'The way in which Brendel relates her academic text to the artistic work is characterized by a sensitivity and analytical acuity that makes it an outstanding work and an example of artistic research in the best and most complex sense.' Andreas Spiegl

Carolin Melia Brendel is a media artist, artistic researcher and sociologist of finance. Her work explores knowledge formations and their polymorphic consequences using transmedial, installative, post-anthropocentric and collaborative methods. She develops postdisciplinary onto-epistemologies at the interface of art and science in the form of material-discursive apparatuses. Brendel is currently completing her PhD in artistic research on the financialization of the deep sea at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Basel FHNW and the University of the Arts Bremen. Her artistic practice is informed by her multidisciplinary background in Critical Studies and Video Art (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Sociology of Finance (Goethe University Frankfurt & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris) and Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna). Her artistic solo and group works have been presented in the context of Wiener Festwochen, Kunsthalle Wien, Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, Swiss Artistic Research Network and Politics of the Machines, among others.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2025
• Zusatzinfo: numerous color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: aerobic fermentation • ART • Artistic Research • Kunst
• ISBN-10: 3-903447-29-3 / 3903447293
• ISBN-13: 978-3-903447-29-5 / 9783903447295