Portfolio – Svenja Schüffler

Sacrifice – What is worth more, art or life ?

Sacrifice – Was ist mehr wert, Kunst oder Leben? Vor diese Wahl wird man unlängst gestellt. Agnus Dei das Opferlamm Gottes im Madrider Prado, ist wie alle Meisterwerke des...

Kopf eines Hirsches getötet durch einen Pfeil

In Seidenpapier verhüllte Fotografien zeigen Fragmente der verborgenen Werke – jene geheimen Arbeiten, die im Inneren der Rahmen eingeschlossen sind. – Photo clippings of the hidden secret works in the...

How to manage the Apocalypse?

Essay (DE): How to manage the Apocalypse? (DE) Die neuen Arbeiten zeigen eine Fülle an grafischen Techniken auf Papier, die speziell für die Werkreihe ausgearbeitet und erweitert wurden. Dabei werden...

Addendum

Essay (DE): Ein Essay über Zeichnungen und Collagen zum Management ohne Ende, und letztendlich über den Entwurf einer Versicherung, – eine Art Schule der Frühwarnung vom Ende aller Versicherung. An...

Control Room (Kontrollraum)

CONTROL ROOM (Schule) verkörpert das heikle Konzept der Delegitimierung traditioneller Institutionen innerhalb des Kontrollraums der Angst und ermutigt gleichzeitig das Aufkommen neuer Institutionen, die sich auf präventive Maßnahmen konzentrieren. Die...

How to manage? ‘1 (Wie managen?)

Hyenic ‘1 (Hyänisch)

Maculata ‘1 (Befleckt)

“..Wirklich hyänisch ist aber nicht die Hyäne. Einzig hyänisch ist die Praxis der Beschmutzung ihrer wunderbaren und schillernden Gestalt, die offenbar die Einbildungskraft so stark erregt. Die andauernde Diffamierung, –...

The End of Discussion ‘1 (Das Ende der Diskussion)

Divine Managers ‘1 (Herrliche Manager)

“…Herausragend ist das Antlitz des Managers. Es ist ein herrlicher Abglanz der vollbrachten Effektivität und Effizienz in der Verwaltung des Untergrunds, und in der Erledigung der hintergründigen Aufgaben.” “..The...

Pitch Bird ´3 (Pechvogel)

Essay (pdf): How to manage the Apocalypse?

Groundless (Ohne Grund)

Control Room (Video)

Edible Pictures (Schluckbildchen)

Pitch Bird ‘2 (Pechvogel)

First Chapter Essay (English): Pitch Bird “Eine ungewöhnlich verzierte Darstellung eines Flanschrohres ist zu sehen. Das Rohr ist Teil eines Bohrlochabschlusses (Christmas Tree) eines unterirdischen Ölvorkommens, das von Bohrtechnikern erschlossen wurde. Mithilfe...

How to manage ? ‘2 (Wie managen?)

The End of Discussion ‘3 (Das Ende der Diskussion)

Divine Managers ‘2 (Herrliche Manager)

Maculata ‘2 (Befleckt)

The End of Discussion ‘2 (Das Ende der Diskussion)

Hyenic ‘4 (Hyänisch)

Maculata ´3 (Befleckt)

Hyenic ‘2 (Hyänisch)

Maculata ´4 (Befleckt)

How to manage? ‘3 (Wie managen?)

Zusammengefasst “How to manage the Apocalypse?”

Divine Managers ‘3 (Herrliche Manager)

Hyenic ‘3 (Hyänisch)

Pitch Bird ‘1 (Pechvogel)

Festivity at Humboldt

Im öffentlichen wie im religiösen Bereich war der Eid die Basis jeder Autorität und die Wurzel des Rechts. Er garantiert dabei die Übereinstimmung von Worten und Taten vor dem Hintergrund,...

Guards (Athene noctua)

mens rea

Göttinger Drei

The Oath (Posture study)

Wigand von Saalburg Rot

WikiDaemon

WikiDaemon is one kind of a tool with whom we prepare for the unforeseen. The tool is being created as a free online and nonprofit platform. This platform is an art-science initiative created and designed for...

INTRODUCTION: An Experiment on a Bird

Before the Kakadu (Cockatoo) might be killed in an earthquake experiment by concrete slabs, according to the probability distribution, he still has something to say. The bird is not only exposed to the seismic...

#bird #boyle #collapse #concrete #Experiment #istanbul #probability #seismic risk

An Experiment under a Concrete Slab

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (Miniatur)

An experiment on a bird in the air pump (miniature, prototype), chalk pastels on paper, 22,5cm x 17cm, 2016. The drawing by Svenja Schüffler is a miniature that mimics the original painting. Photograph: ©...

Institute for Uncertain Knowledge

http://www.institute-for-uncertain-knowledge.org/ The Institute for Uncertain Knowledge IUK Berlin is an Art Project of Svenja Schüffler, acknowledging the uncertainty of knowledge. The Institute approaches the phenomenon of “Uncertain Knowledge“ in science and society...

Schrödinger´s Bird ‘1

Silver Crested

Bousai Zukin (Earthquake Protection Hood, Japan), steel, 2016

KAIROS EEW App

Schrödingers Bird ´16

Into the Blue

Schrödinger´s Bird ‘2

INTRODUCTION: Installing Seismic Risk of Istanbul

Art Project/Installation on the interface between science and art. As we are living in the age of construction on our planet, earthquakes will in the future have an increasing impact...

Schrödingers Bird ´17

Is Concrete modern?

While concrete has the appearance of an advanced technology, based upon theoretical understanding of stresses and chemistry of cements, knowledge held by trained experts, reinforced concrete is also at the same...

Forecast tear down Slabs

The imposing slab fragments, the uncanny ruins are the evidence of a violence to come, loaded with a force to harm and slay down, irreversible and unexpected. A visible threat, an...

To issue an Instruction

Video objects, 2016 “A countdown, is a time sequence of backward counting, to indicate and speak out loud the critical time remaining before an anxiously anticipated event occurs. The...

Real World Data

Print on paper, folded paper, object 90cm x 1000cm (10m), 2014 Real worl data (scientific definition of data collected in real world) – seismic data from the earthquake catalog, United States Geological...

Schrödingers Bird ´11

Schrödinger´s Bird ‘5

INTRODUCTION: The Moment of the theoretical Alert

The project aims to design and critically reflect an Earthquake Early Warning Assistant of the near future. It experiments with scenarios of human-machine interaction via a series of multi-media performances...

Schrödinger´s Bird ‘4

Earthquake Animation

This multi-media setup is emphasizing the complexity of earthly activity by animating and transforming 10.000 historic earthquakes (on the basis of the earthquake catalogs of Turkey) into sound, motion and...

Schrödinger´s Bird ‘3 (Miniatur)

Schrödinger´s Bird ‘9

Schrödingers Bird ´14

Testing for ontological Error

“Science is rooted in the concept that a model can be tested against observations and rejected when necessary. However, the problem of model testing becomes formidable when we consider the...

INTRODUCTION: Anthropomorpha

Anthropomorpha that is the link for questioning the mechanisms that produce and determine the human. The term Anthropomorpha (human-like) originates from a defunct taxon that Carl von Linné (founder of the modern scientific...

(Apo)tropaion ‘1

Looking at apes or its imagery to some extent seems like looking in a mirror. It is the experience of seeing too many similarites and differences embodied at the same...

(Apo)tropaion ‘2

Every piece, every line, every slit a presence that repels and surrounds his absence. – Chalk pastels on paper, paper band-aids 100cm x 80cm, framed: timber – white glazed maple, museum glas,...

Defunct Taxon

Chalk pastels on paper, pencil (sketch line), 2011 200cm x 152cm / framed, timber – red alder

2969 (First Count)

2969 paper abstractions of band-aids, pencil, couch 180cm x 80cm x 110cm, 2012

(Authorship and Love)

Etching needle, darning needle, embossing pen, scalpel, blade, scissor, paper abstractions of band-aids, pencil, adhesive, glas showcase 40cm x 26cm x 10cm, 2013

(Apo)tropaion ‘3

Chalk pastels on paper, adhesive, paper abstractions of band-aids, pencil (sketch line), paper mounted on aluminium dibond/3mm 80cm x 100cm x 3cm / frame 86cm x 106cm x 6,5cm /...

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Chalk pastels on paper, pencil (sketch line), 2011 152cm x 200cm / framed, timber – red alder

Infinitisation of Production

(Apo)tropaion `7

(Apo)tropaion `10 – Chalk pastels on paper, paper band-aids Assemblage, 47 x 40cm, 2019

Untitled (Dynamograms)

Chalk pastels on paper, pencil (sketch line), paper mounted on aluminium dibond/2mm. (6x) 30cm x 50cm / frame 34,5cm x 55cm x 4cm / timber – red alder / non...

(Apo)tropaion ‘4-6

Chalk pastels on paper, pencil (sketch line) 60cm x 90cm / framed, timber – white glazed maple, 2013

Five Eyes (Cebus)

Five Eyes (Moth)

Chalk pastels on paper, cutout, 30 x 30cm, oak, MIROGARD, 2016

Five Eyes

Being able to shift. Hairy, unreadable, squatting in the blind.

Anthropotechnics

Cold cathode lamp, ventilator, aluminium plate, bench with white tiles and anthracite joints (own production), terrarium, paper, wire, petri dish, brocken mirror, coloured contact lenses, false single eyelashes, eyelash curler/-brush, saline solution,...