Biography
Barbara Kremser is theatre and cultural scientist, artistic researcher, co-founder and head of the university course for applied dramaturgy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2018 - 2023). In 2022, she completed her doctorate at the Linz University of Art (Applied Art and Cultural Studies) with honours on the subject of "Exclusive Blank Spaces". Under the pseudonym Barbara Ungepflegt, she deals with in-between spaces and utopias in the public space. Barbara Kremser aka Barbara Ungepflegt realises participatory, site-specific projects: performative installations, video works and interventions in public space. In the 2020/21 winter semester, she was a fellow at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK). She is also the editor of the art magazine IMMERHIN / AFTER ALL, winner of the Dissident Goddesses Temple Prize (2019) for her office installation Büro Zimmer Frei at the IKM and a member of the Institute of Strollology. Since 2010, Barbara Ungepflegt has presented her installations, performances and lectures in Austria and abroad, including at. brut Wien (AT), Werk X Wien (AT), SHIFT (AT), Galerie Knoll (AT + HU)l, Festival der Regionen (AT), Donaufestival (AT), Ars Electronica (AT), Best Off Styria (AT), Sophiensäle Berlin (DE), FFT Düsseldorf (DE), Impulse Festival (DE), Dramaturgische Gesellschaft (DE), Drodesera Festival (IT), University of Bologna (IT), Gessnerallee (CH), SWISS ARTISTIC RESEARCH NETWORK (CH), Kiasma (FI), University of Lund (SE), Humboldt University Berlin (DE), University of Malta (MLT), University of Bergen (NOR), University of Vilnius (LTU) Nova University of Lisbon (PT) and many more. See also: www.barbara-ungepflegt.com
Works (Performance, Installation, Art in Public Space, Video)
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Air pnp – Living in a Busstop Lecture @ CombART Lissabon, 3.7. – 5.7.2023, Lissabon (PT)
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track & field, London (GB), Ausstellung in Kooperation mit faN @ Parallel Editions Vienna, 11. – 14. Mai 2023, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Wien (AT)
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HAPPY & GLORIOUS, London (GB) Performance im öffentlichen Raum, Fotos Nurith Wagner-Strauss, 5. -6. Mai 2023, London (GB)
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Von Löchern, Lücken, Rissen: Exklusive Leerzeichen, Gastvortrag, 9. Jänner 2023, @ Kepler Salon, Linz (AT)
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Heimat in einfacher Sprache, performative Installation, Oktober 2022 @ communale oö - Eferding (AT)
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Exklusive Leerzeichen – Defensio der PhD-Arbeit 13. Oktober 2022, Kunstuniversität Linz (AT)
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Flânerie as collective action: Explorations at the interface of sociology and performance art, Presentation by Andrea Glauser & Barbara Ungepflegt @ V Midterm Conference of European Sociological Association’s Research Network 37 (Urban Sociology), Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research (Humboldt University Berlin), Germany, October 2022
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Artistic interventions in day-to-day worlds and the practice of crisis experiments, Lectureperformance mit Andrea Glauser @ Sociology of the Arts Mid-term Conference, September 2022, @ University of Lund (SE)
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track & field, Foto mit Kuchen, London (GB). Ausstellung und Performance in Kooperation mit faN @ Parallel Vienna, 6. – 11.September 2022, Wien (AT)
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Heimat in einfacher Sprache international, performative Installation mit Sophie Willhaben, Juni 2022 Wien (AT)
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Where is My Where? - Artistic Research Projekt mit Andrea Glauser und GastkünstlerInnen im Rahmen von SARN Conference Traversing Topologies Luzern, September 2021 und März 2022
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Circus Salto Morale, Performance mit Veronika Merklein und GastkünstlerInnen im öffentlichen Raum + Kultursommer Wien + Circus Sodomelli, Wien, Juli 2021
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Heimat in einfacher Sprache, Installation und Performance im öffentlichen Raum, in Kooperation mit dramatikerInnenfestival und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark - Joanneum, Graz, Juni 2021
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Beteiligung an Gruppenausstellung POSTERWACHSEN @KNOLL Galerie Wien, 9. Dezember 20202 – 20. April 2021 (Beiträge von: AES+F, Blue Noses, Brener & Schurz, Götz Bury, Brian Calvin, Gelitin, Gerhard Gutenberger, Lisa Hirn, Beate Hofstadler, Paul Horn, Ursula Hübner, Eva Kadlec, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Hannes Langeder, Jarmila Mitrikova + David Demjanovic, Stephanie Mold, Tex Rubinowitz, Barbara Ungepflegt, Thomas Weinberger)
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Exklusive Leerzeichen, Lectureperformance @IFK, 20.1.2021
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How to survive the day: public schnitzel, bus traffic and other escape attemps, Lectureperformance (video) @ ESA RN37 mid-term conference ‘Urban Theory and Urban Praxis: Past, Present and Possible Futures’, 28.1.2021, zoom
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Artist-in-Residence Fellowship @IFK – Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstuniversität Linz, Wintersemester 2020/21, Wien
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Air pnp - Air pause and peep @ KulturRegion Stuttgart, September/Oktober, Buswartehäuschen, Rathausplatz Gerlingen(DE)
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DIRTY LIVES BETTER , Performance mit Elsbeth Wallnöfer @ Ars Electronica Festival, September 2020, JKU Campus, Linz
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Abgelehnt, Performance @ Kultursommer Wien, August 2020, Artist Corner Naschmarkt, Wien
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Lecture Performance „I hope your eyes are fine, I work a lot“ @ 11th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2020, at the University of Bergen, Norway, March 2020 – cancelled (Covid 19)
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„The dumplings are coming“, Vortrag @ Performance Knowledges: Transmission, Composition, Praxis’ the School of Performing Arts (University of Malta) annual international conference organised in cooperation with the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), in Malta, March 2020
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Federal Ministry for Homeland Pollution, installation in public space, 9.9. - 27.11.2019, Vienna
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Room 215 at BEST OFF 2019 (exhibition), University of Art Linz, October 2019, Linz
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Behind the Leo? - Lecture at the 3rd Doctoral Symposium of Architecture, October 2019, University of Art and Design Linz
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Leo - about the Disappearance of Escapist Places in Reality and Imagination lecture 6th conference of the Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts 2019, Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki, August 2019
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since December 2017 Federal Minister for Homeland Pollution (performance, intervention, video)
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Room 215 - Lecture-Performance and Intervention, IFK Academy, August 2018, Linz
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When the houses bear grief - Installation, Impulse Festival 2018, Düsseldorf
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PHILIPPHOF PARSIDE - Glaube Siedlung Hoffnung - Installation in public space in cooperation with the Theatermuseum Vienna, 2018
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Zollhäuschen der Vernunft, Intervention + Performance, annual conference of the dramaturgical society, Greifswald (D), 2018
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airpnp - air pause and peep, intervention + film, public housing in the bus stop, Vienna, 2017
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BÜRO ZIMMER FREI, Installation, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 2016
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HEIMATPANORAMA, performative installation, Michaelerplatz, Vienna, 2016
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KUNSTINSPEKTION DONAU, performative intervention, Danube Festival, Krems, 2016
- DURSTIG, Performance, Plant X, Vienna, 2015
- MEINES, performance, art in public space, brut / imagetanz Vienna, 2015
- REIN, Performance, Work X, Vienna, 2014
- Sesselkrieg (Theatre of Prevention), Performance, WUK, Vienna, 2014
- ENDLICH - a visit to a pastry shop, performance, imagetanz 2014, "everything must go out 2014", bestOFFstyria, Graz, 2014, Linzer Landestheater 2014, Ausserferner Kultur, Reute, 2015
- MISSWAHL Intervention in Public Space, Vienna, 2011; Performance, Video, Vienna, brut 2013
- SOMMERLOCH, installation in public space, AGORA Market Biennale, 2013
- KUNSTINSPEKTION 2, performative intervention, film, Festival of Regions, Eferding 2013
- What Would Thomas Bernhard Do? (Theatre of Prevention), Kunsthalle + Wiener Festwochen, 2013
- Running Muschi, performance, brut Vienna, 2012, Festival Drodesera (It), 2013
- My favourite ashtray, Performance, Weinhaus Sittl, 2012
- Guest room "Zur schönen Aufsicht", installation, MUMOK Vienna, 2011
- survival tours, performance, forum festwochen (Vienna Festival), 2011
NOTSTAND, installation in public space, Sophiensäle Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Gessneralle Zurich, brut Vienna and FFT Düsseldorf (Freischwimmer 2011), Festival Drodesera (It), 2011
Coming soon
- HOMELANDTRASH, Film (completion expected end of 2020)
- "The dumplings are coming", lecture @ Performance Knowledges: Transmission, Composition, Practice' the School of Performing Arts (University of Malta) annual international conference organised in cooperation with the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), in Malta, 11-13 March
- Lecture Performance „I hope your eyes are fine, I work a lot“ @ 11th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2020, at the University of Bergen, Norway 25 – 27 March 2020
- Together with Univ.Prof. Dr. Andrea Glauser session @ ESA RN37 mid-term conference ‘Urban Theory and Urban Praxis: Past, Present and Possible Futures’ in Bologna, 2-4 September.
Publications
Leo – about the Disappearance of Escapist Places in Reality and Imagination in NIVEL — Artistic Research in the Performing Arts, Ende Jänner 2020 (https://http://nivel.teak.fi/)
