"Svenja Schüffler`s work deals with topics related to Human-Earth-Science and the uncertainty of knowledge, accompanied by the Art Project "Institute for Uncertain Knowledge IUK"
In Process! Reworking of an Ethiopian painting on the act of founding society in the form of a large-format polyptych. For this, weaving, an archaic technique of processes, tools and...
Essay (DE): How to manage the Apocalypse? An Essay about drawings and collages on management without end, and ultimately about the drafting of insurance – a kind of school of...
CONTROL ROOM (School) encourages new institutions and concepts of caution to be developed and legally demanded, that is, to “do not” and take preventive measures. By interconnecting, transmitting, converting, assembling...
“.. But the hyena is not really hyenaic. Only the practice of contaminating their miraculous and enigmatic figure, which obviously excites the imagination so strongly, is hyenaic. The ongoing defamation, –...
“”..The visage of the manager is distinguished. It is a glorious reflection of the effectiveness and efficiency achieved in the management of the underground, and in the execution of the hidden duties…” “…Herausragend ist...
Essay (DE): – An Essay about drawings and collages on management without end, and ultimately about the drafting of insurance – a kind of school of early warning that cautions...
First Chapter Essay (English): Pitch Bird “An unusually embellished representation of a flanged pipe can be seen. The pipe is part of a borehole closure (christmas tree) of an underground oil reservoir,...
“..The visage of the manager is distinguished. It is a glorious reflection of the effectiveness and efficiency achieved in the management of the underground, and in the execution of the hidden duties…” “…Herausragend ist...
“.. But the hyena is not really hyenaic. Only the practice of contaminating their miraculous and enigmatic figure, which obviously excites the imagination so strongly, is hyenaic. The ongoing defamation, –...
“..The visage of the manager is distinguished. It is a glorious reflection of the effectiveness and efficiency achieved in the management of the underground, and in the execution of the hidden duties…” “…Herausragend ist...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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,...
Etching needle, darning needle, embossing pen, scalpel, blade, scissor, paper abstractions of band-aids, pencil, adhesive, glas showcase 40cm x 26cm x 10cm, 2013
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 /...
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...
The works are installing a single (complex) thought or aspect, originated as a byproduct of other works. These thoughts focus on the generally being medial (as a form of animation or enliving...
Some chalk pastels contain such a small amount of binder that they only just cohere. At the slightest touch with the paper, the pastels immediately disintegrate into its dusty pigments.
