"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"
Essay (DE): How to manage the Apocalypse? An Essay about drawings and collages on management without end, and finally about the design of an insurance -a kind of school of early warning that cautions the end of all guarantee Ein...
CONTROL ROOM (School) encourages the development and demand of new institutions of caution, i.e. those of preventive omission. By switching, transferring, converting, merging and combining the signals, fears and messages, a new alphabet of precaution is created. The control room...
Essay (DE): An Essay about drawings and collages on management without end, and finally about the design of an insurance -a kind of school of early warning that cautions the end of all guarantee Ein Essay über Zeichnungen und Collagen...
“..But the hyena is not really hyenaic. Only hyenal is the practice of besmirching her wondrous and enigmatic figure, which apparently excites the imagination so strongly. The ongoing defamation – their defamatory portrayal is itself of hyenic art…” “..Wirklich hyänisch...
“”..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 das Antlitz des Managers. Es ist ein herrlicher Abglanz der...
Essay (DE): An Essay about drawings and collages on management without end, and finally about the design of an insurance -a kind of school of early warning that cautions the end of all guarantee Ein Essay über Zeichnungen und Collagen...
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, which has been developed by drilling operators. With the help...
“..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 das Antlitz des Managers. Es ist ein herrlicher Abglanz der...
“..But the hyena is not really hyenaic. Only hyenal is the practice of besmirching her wondrous and enigmatic figure, which apparently excites the imagination so strongly. The ongoing defamation – their defamatory portrayal is itself of hyenic art…” “..Wirklich hyänisch...
“..But the hyena is not really hyenaic. Only hyenal is the practice of besmirching her wondrous and enigmatic figure, which apparently excites the imagination so strongly. The ongoing defamation – their defamatory portrayal is itself of hyenic art…” “..Wirklich hyänisch...
“..But the hyena is not really hyenaic. Only hyenal is the practice of besmirching her wondrous and enigmatic figure, which apparently excites the imagination so strongly. The ongoing defamation – their defamatory portrayal is itself of hyenic art…” “..Wirklich hyänisch...
“..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 das Antlitz des Managers. Es ist ein herrlicher Abglanz der...
In the public as well as in the religious sphere, the oath was the basis of all authority and the root of the law. He guarantees the agreement of words and deeds against the background that language opens up the...
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 products, such as the manufacture of thread, the loom, the fabric, was...
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 experimental reasons. In the tradition of a collaborative library, WikiDaemon will provide...
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 risk, but, in case of a calculated earthquake and a calculated...
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 from an artistic angle, and produces knowledge about uncertainty. IUK...
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 time a simple process that can be, and in many...
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 temporal demand and necessities of the situation enables a rhetoric...
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 Survey USGS, region is Greece-Turkey, 1975-2014
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 that resemble a laboratory test room. The project will demonstrate...
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 visualization. The past allows to get a clue of what...
“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 probabilistic forecasting of natural systems. We show that testability is...
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 taxonomy) resigned 1758 in his 10. edition of the Systema...
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 time. This proximity to the human species makes apes appear...
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, 2012
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 / timber – white glazed marple / non reflecting glas, 2016
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 reflecting glas, 2012
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 practice) of the applied technics and tools
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.
