Staff Profile:Professor Susanne Clausen

Name::

Ms Susanne Clausen

Position / Job Title:

Reader in Fine Art

Responsibilities:

School Director of Teaching and Learning

Study abroad co-ordinator

Areas of Interest:

I work and publish continuously under the artist name Szuper Gallery, often in collaboration with the artist Pavlo Kerestey. My work is characterised by a self-reflexive performative art practice. I create performances, videos and multi-media installations, incorporating new uses of performative and interactive media practices and text. In these works the performance and the exhibition are a site for post or meta-production in which the stream of film and performance images becomes redirected into the realms of critical thought. (I will survive, 2007). Installations resonate theatrical film sets and stages, where the development of the work can be experienced. (Work/Arbeit/Rabota, 2007). Performers and actors are choreographed within these sets, enacting texts and movements, thus generating a structure of social, cultural and political references and associations within the work. (The Extras Regina, 2008). I have also produced interventionist installations and performances into public arenas, for example LIFTARCHIV, 2001-5.

I have collaborated with institutions, artists and museums both internationally and in the UK. Previous exhibitions and performances include The Extras Curtain Razors, Regina, Canada, 2008; 4'33'', Kunstverein Bregenz, 2007; Kunsthalle Helsinki, 2006; Set Project, Western Front Vancouver, 2005; Play without a Stage, Shedhalle Zurich, 2005; Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2002;Temporary Accomodation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2001; Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong, 2005; Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, 2002; Televisions, Kunsthalle Vienna, 1999.

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Postgraduate Supervision:
I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students who would like to work on such topics as: research in and through art practice, film and video, filmed and live performance, installation as post-production, digital and time-based practice, collective practice(s), theatre as art, contemporary feminism, political art, alternative spaces. I currently supervise two doctoral projects, one exploring Ordinary Process As A Means To Becoming while the other focuses on Hybridity in Media Art.

Recent seminars and workshops:
I have convened seminars and workshops addressing Performance and Video Practice and Theory, Critical Self-reflexive Practices and Performative Curating, (for example Curatorial Vaudeville, ZHdK Zurich, 2008) I have also contributed to HEA funded pedagogical research on Teaching as Critical Fine Art Practice.

I have convened seminars and workshops addressing Performance and Video Practice and Theory, Critical Self-reflexive Practices and Performative Curating, (for example Curatorial Vaudeville, ZHdK Zurich, 2008) I have also contributed to HEA funded pedagogical research on Teaching as Critical Fine Art Practice.

Biography:
I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1988 – 1994) before gaining an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College in London (1997- 1999).

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2008 The Extras- Regina, Curtain Razor, Regina, Canada, reviewed in Splice (Autumn 2008)

2007 Work/Arbeit/Rabota Artists' Studio, London, reviewed in ArtReview, 2007

Szuper Gallery Les Complices, Zurich

2006 The Extras, Szuper Gallery, Kunsthalle Helsinki, reviewed in Art Papers, 6/2006

2005 Nightshifts, Western Front, Vancouver
The Extras, Live Art Biennial, Vancouver

Rehearsing the Extras, Performance', Forum Box, Helsinki

2004 'homeland security. something always follows something else',Para/Site Art space, Hong Kong , 04

2002 gallery fiction, KünstlerHaus, Bremen

QUIVID, Technisches Rathaus Munich (Exhibition Design and Curation)

1-Z, Kreisverwaltungsreferat Munich,

2001-05 LIFTARCHIV, KVR, Munich
Circus artists under the big top: clueless - and other business strategies, (Performance) Whitechapel Art Gallery. London
mobile parasitic architecture, Galerie der Künstler, Munich

2001Szuper Gallery, Künstlerhaus Bremen

Group Exhibitions (Selection):

2008 Loving Revolution, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Scold Head Screenings, Scold Head, London

Self Aquisition, Zeh Gallery, Kiev

2007 4' 33", Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein

Bohemian Workout, Lothringer 13, Munich

2006Kemfest, Kemerov Museum, Kemerovo, Russia

Jump Into Cold Water, Shedhalle Zurich,

Bad Drawing-mistaken, misbehaving, malevolent, awful, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cinncinati, USA

2005 'Play without a Stage', Shedhalle Zurich

XENOPOLIS, München, 2005

Loop, Video Art Festival Barcelona

2004 Trading Places, Pumphouse Gallery, London

Electric Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile etc touring

2003 Electric EarthFilm and Video from Britain, British Council Touring Exhibition, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RU National Museum, Moscow, RU

Curating Degree Zero, Plugin, Basel und Centre d'Art Contemporain Genf, CH

2002Another Swiss Version, AR/GE KUNST Museum, Bolzano, I

The movement began with a scandal, Kunstraum hosted b,y
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Museum Munich, D (co-curated with Alun Rowlands)

2001 Televisions, Kunsthalle, Wien, A

Temporary Accommodation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London), UK

What's Wrong?, Trade Appartment, London, UK

Freepulse, 9th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre d'image Contemporain, Genf, CH

On The Margin, Plugin Gallery, Winnipeg, CA

Publications (Selection):

Books

Clausen , S. and P. Kerestey (eds), Blume-Beyerle W., Hauffen M., Pemler M., Richter D., Suchin P., Schütz H., Snauwaert D., LIFTARCHIV, (deutsch, englisch),Revolver Frankfurt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-403-9

Clausen , S. with Szuper Gallery, (eds) Brisley, S., Tarsia, A., Hoffman, J., Hobbs, P. and Roth, J., Gallery Talks, Galerie d Künstler, Munich, 2001, pps 32-64, ISBN 3-00-008394-4.

Clausen, S., with Szuper Gallery, (eds) Szuper Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2001, pp 36, ISBN 0854881271.

Edited Works: Contributions

Clausen S. "Szuper Gallery", in Artists' Studio, Cultureshock, 2007, 96 pp. ISBN: 0-95-46999-5-5

Clausen, S., ''Interview with Szuper Gallery'', in Borderline, Strategien und Taktiken fur Kunst und soziale Praxis, AG Borderline-Kongress, AG Borderline-Kongress, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002, pp 328, ISBN 3-8311-3775-7.

Clausen, S., Schütz, H., Fricke, A., Nicolai, O. and Pemler, M., ''Circus artists under the big top: clueless and other business strategies'', in Demokratie als Auftraggeber - Kunstwettbewerbe der LH München, Heinz Schutz, Baureferat der LH Munchen, Verlag für moderne Kunst,2002, Nürnberg, 2002, pp 128, ISBN 3-936711-04-6.

Clausen, S., ''Szuper Gallery'', in Demokratie als Auftraggeber - Kunstwettbewerbe der LH Muenchen, Heinz Schutz, Baureferat der LH Muenchen, Verlag fur moderne Kunst, 2002, Nurnberg, 2003, pp 128, ISBN 3-936711-04-6.

Journal Papers

Clausen, S. Slapping Scenes, The Happy Hypocrite, Hunting Gathering Issue 2, 2008
Clausen, S., 'Labour and Love' Geist, no.11,12,14, Summer 2008
Clausen, S. and Kerestey, P., Work/Arbeit/Rabota, Slashseconds 5, Available from: [www.slashseconds.org]

Clausen, S. and Kerestey, P., ''Szuper Gallery'', Szuper Lift-Archiv, 6, October 2004, pp 2-6, [WWW] [Available from: www.fuckinggoodart.nl/fga6.html.]

Clausen, S., ''Liftarchiv'', FLACK ATTACK, 1, January 2006, Available from: [www.flackattack.org]