aerobic topologies: – E-Book (Fixed Layout EPUB)

socio-spatial knowledge practices of fermenting microbes

Carolin Melia Brendel (Autor)

Online Resource

150 Seiten

2025
Schlebrügge.Editor (Hersteller)
9783903447295 (ISBN)

Infos

In this assemblage of diverse media, Carolin Melia Brendel explores the agency of air by drawing together distinct onto-epistemologies of space that are conditioned by air. The book is based on the joint artwork with Helena McFadzean, Aerobic Topologies I-XVII, in which they collaborated with symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeasts that digest spatial conditions into their own becoming through aerobic fermentation. Documentary artifacts and traces of contrasting forms of knowledge agential throughout the artistic process – microbial, aerobic, logistical, infrastructural, geographical, corporate – are revisited, historically examined and critically juxtaposed in a vibrating material-discursive tension. These pages unfold a space unsettling anthropocentric paradigms of knowing. It troubles analytical demarcation as an epistemological condition and corrodes attributions of agency and authorship, giving rise to methodological speculations on transdisciplinary intra-action and onto-epistemological practices under the disciplinary label of “artistic research”.

“How Brendel relates to the artistic work with her academic text is characterized by a sensitivity and analytical acuity that makes it an outstanding piece of work and an example of artistic research in the best and most complex sense.”
Andreas Spiegl, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Autor

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: zahlreiche Abbildungen in Farbe
• Verlagsort: Wien
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna • Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien • Claudia Melia Brendel • Fermentierung • Künstlerinnenbuch • Künstlerische Forschung • Kunsttheorie • Medienkunst
• ISBN-13: 9783903447295 / 9783903447295
• Zustand: Neuware