Adelheid Mers

texts + publications

 
Doing Combat - Arts Administration Pedagogy at the Intersections of Management, Cultural Studies and Art as Research. Developed in conjunction with the conference "Cultural Management and Pedagogy: Discourses and Practices" in Helsinki, Finland, May 19-21, 2010, this paper will be presented at the AAAE conference, Boston, 2011. It will be published in the annual follow-up book accompanying the Symposium Series: Cultural Management and the State of the Field. Helsinki, edited by Constance DeVereaux & Pekka Vartiainen. Abstract
 

Paper: Transfer Diskurse – Einige Relevante Künstlerpositionen. Kultur- und Kreativindustrien (KKI). Kreativität/Innovation. Aesthetik. Diagrammatik./Transfer Discourses - Some Relevant Artists’ Positions. Cultural and Creative Industries. Creativity/Innovation. Aesthetics. Diagrammatics. abstract (pdf. en/de); workshop: “Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?”, in the context of the art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, September 2010. To be published as: "Transfer Diskurse – Einige relevante Künstlerpositionen. Kultur‑ und Kreativindustrie. Kreativität/Innovation. Ästhetik. Diagrammatik", in: Artistic Research als ästhetische Wissenschaft. Zur transdisziplinären Hybridisierung von Wissenschaft und Kunst", transcript, Bielefeld, 2011

 
  Drain Magazine, September 09: "Responsibility to" (go to: Archives/Cold/Section 5)
 
Reading some of Vilém Flusser’s thoughts on creativity in North America in 2009 - selfmade, do-it-yourself and 
doing-it-together (download pdf)
 
  Art21 blog, July 6, 2009: The value of didactic art and the gift economy—from object ownership to object affiliation
 
“Interview with Jan Kaila and Jan-Erik Andersson, Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland”, in “Bootprint”, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2009
 
  editor; WhiteWalls: "useful pictures", January 2009
 

“Diagram for an Exhibition: Spiegelbild”, Lido, Magazin von KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, issue 03/08, August 2008

 
  "Sketches: Organizing Arts", Green Lantern Press, May 2007, contains a diagram after Duchamp's lecture "The Creative Act". 500 editions contain a screen print of the diagram. Download the pdf here. This book was published in conjunction with KSAMEC.
 
  The first issue of Bootprint, 2007 contains my translation of Vilém Flusser's lecture "Krise der Linearität" (Crisis of Linearity) and an artist statement in which I talk about my diagramming practice in relation to Flusser's writing. I called it "Stalking the Continuum".
 

“Art as Research”, diagram and lecture (on DVD), “Open Letter”, Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Artists' Statements & the Nature of Artistic Inquiry, Thirteenth Series, No. 4: Fall 2007

 
  M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online, Feb. 7, 2007, Feminist Art: A Reassessment. Edited by Susan Bee & Mira Schor - pdf of my contribution
 
  posted 9/27/06: interview about Vilém Flusser on the luckypix blog
 
  Diagram 5.1, 2005
 
  Scale, Volume 01, Issue 8+9: Edited by Joel Swanson, Sept. 2004, select files: MP1.pdf, MP2.pdf, MP3.pdf
 
  "Diagrams", "Quarter After Eight", Volume 8, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Spring 2002
 
  "Applied Aesthetics" interactive CD-rom, “Publication with No Name”, Volume 2, Kopenhagen, Denmark, Fall 2001