Über die Arbeit sprechen Forschung: Priska Gisler & Luzia Hürzeler

Vorlesung auf Englisch

At the Institute Practices and Theories in the Arts (IPTA) processes of translation between various media and between scientific and artistic forms of representation are explored and tested. The focus is on exploring how different media also generate different kinds of knowledge. Priska Gisler, head of the IPTA and professor at the HKB, will talk about the HKB's research department and the opportunities for artists to approach and get involved in research. Luzia Hürzeler, artist and researcher at the HKB, worked on different projects together with Priska Gisler. She will present works produced in the frame of those wider research projects.
 
Priska Gisler has been head of the Institute Practices and Theories of the Arts since 2009. In collaboration with artists and professionals from the visual arts, writing and theatre, she has developed a series of interdisciplinary research projects dedicated to current issues of artistic production as well as questions about the production of knowledge in different social contexts.

Priska Gisler studied sociology and history at the University of Zurich and completed her doctorate at the University of Bern on gender politics in public discourse. After working as a research assistant in sociology at the University of Zurich and as a senior assistant at the Chair of Philosophy of Science and Research at ETH Zurich, she headed a research group at Collegium Helveticum, a transdisciplinary laboratory at ETH and the University of Zurich. In between, alongside and after this, she spent research periods at MIT in Boston, the London School of Economics and Goldsmiths College in London, and lectured at the ZHdK, the Universities of Basel and Vienna. Currently she is head of two SNSF-research projects, next to “Africa behind glass” (in collaboration with Luzia Hürzeler and Sarah Csernay), also of “Aesthetication of war violence: An artistic-scientific investigation of the implementation of documents in contemporary theatre productions and performances” (together with Darija Davidovic & Diana Rojas).
 
Luzia Hürzeler is a visual artist. She is currently working on the SNSF project “Africa behind glass. An artistic and ethnographic investigation into the production, presentation and maintenance practices of the Bern Diorama Collection" (2020-2024) at Bern University of the Arts. In it, she focuses on the gorilla diorama and examines its models and references as well as its relationship to the animal that the gorilla on display once was and to the place where it lived.

She studied at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts (now HEAD) in Geneva and completed a Master's degree at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. From 2007 to 2009 she was a scholarship holder at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. In 2017, she completed her doctorate at the Bern University of the Arts and the University of Bern as part of the SNSF project "Wir sind im Winterschlaf!" (2012-2016) in a combination of visual arts and social anthropology. From 2017 to 2019, she led the research project "Qui a vu le loup? Genèse et déconstruction d'une représentation" at the École de design et haute école d'art du Valais (édhea). www.luziahurzeler.ch.