ART/SCIENCE and BIOMEDIA PROGRAM
Head: Klaus Spiess
Center of Public Health, Vienna Medical University
Performances/Installations/Publications/
Talks/Curational/Press
Klaus Spiess runs the cross-disciplinary Arts and Science program and the LASER art&science talks at the Medical University Vienna, where he is Associate Professor. He develops transdisciplinary performances/ installations on the subject of biopolitics performing at Budascoop Kortrijk; Tanzquartier Vienna; Belvedere/21er Haus, Vienna; Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Omaha; Click Festival, Helsingør; ISEA, AIL Vienna, Muffatwerk Munich, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, among many other venue (together with Lucie Strecker). His installations have been shown at venues such as the Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, the Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, and at the Prix Ars Electronica Festival. He has published on the subject of his work in Leonardo, The Journal of Performance Research and The Lancet.
Hare's Blood ++, {un][split} Micro Performance and Macro Matters, Muffatwerk Munic, 2018
Anamnesis Group. Seminar on Techniques of Intimacy, Vienna 2016
Leonardo LASER Talks at Vienna, Hosted by Vienna Medical University and University of Applied Arts, Klaus Spiess, Organizer and Chair
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2020
Editor:
Armen Avanessian, Werner Boschmann, Karen Sarkisov, Klaus Spiess (eds) Microbiome. The Microbiome and the Coming Micro-biopolitics. Series XXI Century Science. Sternberg Press. Berlin. 2020 https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/microbiome/
Jens Hauser, Lucie Strecker (eds) with Chris Salter, Klaus Spiess (co-eds), Issue ‘On Microperformativity‘ Performance Research 25/3’ 25:3:51-57 (2020).
Peer Reviewed Papers:
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker, Bozhidar Baltov, Jürgen Ropp, Oleg Soulimenko, KT Zakravsky, Mark Rinnerthaler: Microbial Keywording - Towards material speech acts. Issue ‘On Microperformativity‘ Performance Research 25/3’ 25:3:51-57 (2020).
Klaus Spiess et al: Entangled Speech. Issue ‘On Diffraction’. Performance Research 25/5 (accepted).
Book Contributions:
Spiess K, Avanessian A, Boschmann W: On the Human Microbiome: A Transdisciplinary Conversation. In: Armen Avanessian, Werner Boschmann, Karen Sarkisov, Klaus Spiess (eds) Microbiome. The Microbiome and the Coming Micro-biopolitics. SERIES XXI Century Science. Sternberg Press. Berlin. 2020
Spiess Klaus: Microbial Keywording/Entangled Speech. Society of Artistic Research Special Interest Group (SAR SIG 1) Language-Based Artistic Research. Practice Sharing, University of Applied Arts Vienna & Nottingham Trent University Online 2020/21 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/930652
Klaus Spiess et al (2020): Ecological Respellings. Sammelband Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften ‘Digital Humanities’ – Biodiversity and Language Diversity (accepted)
Performances:
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Semiotic Sympoiesis for the Posthuman Commons. Entangled Speech. Online Performance. 4th International Conference on TabooTransgressionTransference in Art&Science. Online. 26th-28th November. 2020.
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Entangled Speech. International Society of Electronic Arts ISEA ‘Why Sentience’ Montreal & Online 13th-18th Oct 2020 https://art2020.isea-international.org/art-portfolio/klaus-spiess-lucie-strecker/
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Viral Speech. Performance Vienna Art Week. Nov 14th 2020. https://www.viennaartweek.at/en/program/viral-speech-klaus-spiess-lucie-strecker/
Exhibitions:
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Entangled Speech. Museumsquartier/Schauraum Angewandte Vienna Oct 8th – Nov 22nd
https://www.mqw.at/en/institutions/q21/program/2020/10/klaus-spiess-lucie-strecker-entangled-speech/
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Viral Speech. Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery. Online Exhibition. Sept 9th – Oct 1st https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/ars-electronica-art-gallery/
2019
Performances
Spiess Klaus, Strecker Lucie: Microbial Keywording. Ars Electronica. Out of the box. Human Limitations- Limited Humanity. Linz 2019. https://ars.electronica.art/outofthebox/keywording/
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Microbial Keywording. Cruising Corpoliteracy. Reading Bodies. The New Alphabet. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin 2019 https://www.hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_157747.php
Rauschmeier R, Spiess K: Heavy Make-Up. The Afterlife of Foreskins. Vienna Art Week. 15-22th November https://www.viennaartweek.at/de/vienna-art-week-2019/programm/ https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=448
http://www.gddg.at/gpa/veranstaltungen/mittwochssalon
https://vimeo.com/322924748
https://vimeo.com/307470661
Book Contributions
Spiess K, Strecker L: Microbial Keywording. Gently whisper to your oral microbes. In: Ars Electronics. Out of the box. p 80. Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH. Berlin 2019 https://ars.electronica.art/outofthebox/keywording/
Spiess K, L Strecker. Metabolic Currencies. Yuga Gallery and Rittai-Kobo. Art&Research, Faculty of Fine Arts. Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo. Understanding Art&Research. 8th-19th Nov 2019 https://www.angewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte-2016/data/uploads/Aktuelles/Veranstaltungen/2019/UAR_Tokio_Booklet.pdf
Spiess K, L Strecker. Metabolic Currencies/The Performative Biofact. Museum for Applied Arts. Vienna. Understanding – Art&Research, 28.6.-28.7. https://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte-2016/data/uploads/Aktuelles/Ausstellungen/2019/UAR_Publikation_MAK_V9_Web_FINAL.pdf
Exhibitons:
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Metabolic Currencies. Yuga Gallery and Rittai-Kobo. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Arts. Tokyo. Understanding Art&Research. 8th-19th Nov 2019 https://www.angewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte-2016/data/uploads/Aktuelles/Veranstaltungen/2019/UAR_Tokio_Booklet.pdf
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Metabolic Currencies/The Performative Biofact. Museum for Applied Arts. Vienna. Understanding – Art&Research, 2019. https://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte2016/data/uploads/Aktuelles/Ausstellungen/2019/UAR_Publikation_MAK_V9_Web_FINAL.pdf
Talks
Spiess K: Microbes as good hosts: entangled speech. Guest Lecture, Medientheorie, Universität für Angewandte Kunst. Wien. 10.12.2019 https://www.dieangewandte.at/aktuell/aktuell_detail?artikel_id=1573733271619
Spiess K: Commoning Foreskin Cells as Material Trans-Subjectivities The Afterlife of Foreskins Venue: Seminar Room 3 “Bianca von Bienenfeld”, Center for Public Health, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1090 Vienna. Monday, November 18, 2019, 05:00 pm https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=448
Spiess K: Leonardo Art&Science Evening Rendezvous LASER : The Future of the Body in the Context of Neurotechnology. Monday, September 23, 2019, 06.15 pm (Chair) https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=397
Spiess K: The Art and Science Experiment in the Age of CRISPR. University of Applied Arts, Lecture Hall 21, 4th Floor Vienna, Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 06:00 pm (Chair) www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D431%26reset%3D1
Spiess K: Psyche Körper Kunst. Art Lounge Cafe Korb: Der Mittwochs Salon. Gruppen-Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaft: 26.6. 2019
Performance Documentaries, Animations
Disobedient Psychobiotics, 2019. Performance at Muffat Halle, Munic; Angewandte Innovation Lab and at Medical University Vienna
Microbial Keywording, Performance with Brut Theatre at University of Applied Arts AIL and at the Medical University Vienna https://vimeo.com/379859270 https://vimeo.com/379872338
Microbial Keywording, Performance at Ars Electronica, Linz
https://vimeo.com/379866513
2018
Performances
Spiess Klaus. Lucie Strecker, Oleg Soulimenko. Microvaluta. Leonardo Art&Science Laser Talks at Vienna. Performance. October 27th, 2018 Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Microbial Keywording. Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. Symposium, Interventionen, Ausstellung. Angewandte Innovation Lab. Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, 10.12.- 21.12. 2018 Link Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Microbial Keywording Step 1-6. Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. Symposium, Interventionen, Ausstellung. Angewandte Innovation Lab. Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, 10.12.- 21.12. 2018 Link Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. From Microbial Keywording to Living Currencies. Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. Symposium, Interventionen, Ausstellung. Angewandte Innovation Lab. Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, 10.12.- 21.12. 2018 Link Link
Alex Bailey, Roland Rauschmeier, Klaus Spiess Spiess Klaus. The Economy of Capitalism. Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. Symposium, Interventionen, Ausstellung. Angewandte Innovation Lab. Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, 10.12.- 21.12. 2018 Link Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Mikrovaluta. Ein Projekt von Klaus Spiess und Lucie Strecker mit Oleg Soulimenko und einer Special Appearance von Ann Liv Young. Performance. Brut Theater Wien, Out and About. Hygiene Institut/Zentrum für Public Health der Medizinischen Universität Wien, 27.10.2018 Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Hare’s Blood ++ (Un)/(Split) Micro Performance and Macro Matters. Science&Art Festival. Muffatwerk. Performance. 31.08-2.09. 2018. München. Link
K Spiess, L Strecker, J Knierzinger. Metabolic Currencies Cairotronica. Cairo International Electronic&New Media Arts Festival. Future of Possibilities. Kairo. Palace of Arts. Performance. May, 5th-11th, 2018. Cairo, Egypt. Link
Installations
Lucie Strecker, Spiess Klaus. Mykovaluta. Installation. BE MY GUEST_possible bodies Körper an der Grenze zur Verunsicherung. Stadtgalerie Lehen Salzburg. 28.9.-7.11.2018 Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Hare’s Blood ++ (Un)/(Split) Micro Performance and Macro Matters. Science&Art Festival. Muffatwerk. Installation. 31.08-2.09. 2018. München. Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Hare’s Blood + . ÜBER_LEBEN. ENTROPY. Interaktive Medien-Raum-Installation und performatives ART-LAB. 25. Mai bis 16. Juni 2018. Künstlerhaus Wien. Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Reset Dog. ÜBER_LEBEN. ENTROPY. Interaktive Medien-Raum-Installation und performatives ART-LAB. 25. Mai bis 16. Juni 2018. Künstlerhaus Wien. Link
K Spiess, L Strecker, J Knierzinger. Metabolic Currencies Cairotronica. Cairo International Electronic&New Media Arts Festival. Future of Possibilities. Kairo. Palace of Arts. Installation. May, 5th-11th, 2018. Cairo, Egypt. Link
Cataloques
K Spiess, L Strecker, J Knierzinger. Metabolic Currencies Cairotronica. In: Cataloque Cairo International Electronic&New Media Arts Festival. Future of Possibilities. Kairo. Palace of Arts. Performance, Installation, Workshop May, 3rd to 12th, 2018. Cairo, Egypt. Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Hare’s Blood ++. (Un)/(Split) Micro Performance and Macro Matters. Science&Art Festival (ed Hauser Jens, Dietmar Lupfer) Muffatwerk. München 2018. pp 16-17 Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Hare’s Blood ++. In: 25 Jahre Muffatwerk (Hrsg Muffatwerk München). München 2018. pp 36-37 Link
Invited Talks
Spiess Klaus (mit Lucie Strecker) Artists Talk. Universität der Künste, Berlin, 11.6.2018 Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker Mykovaluta. Lecture. European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. 14.6.2018. University of Copenhagen Link
Spiess Klaus. Kunst aus dem molekularbiologischen Labor: Utopische Mikrosubjektivität. Lecture und Workshop. 2. PNI Psychoneuroimmunologie Kongress. 14-16.9.2018, Innsbruck. Link
Chairs
Spiess Klaus. The Microbiome, the Immune System, and Individuality: A Philosophical Examination Lecture by Thomas Pradeu. Leonardo Art&Science Laser Talks at Vienna. Chair and Introduction. September 10th, 2018 Link
Spiess Klaus. Leonardo Art&Science Laser Talks at Vienna. Milk. The White Gold in Translation. Breast Milk as a Model for a Generous Economy to Come. Chair and Introduction. November 23rd, 2018. Link
Spiess Klaus. Leonardo Art&Science Laser Talks at Vienna. Shenzhen Molecular Speed. Troubled Markets for Gene Editing Tools? Chair and introduction. December 15th, 2018 Link Link
Performative Workshops
K Spiess, L Strecker, J Knierzinger. Metabolic Currencies Cairotronica. Cairo International Electronic&New Media Arts Festival. Future of Possibilities. Kairo. Palace of Arts. Workshop. May, 5th-11th. Cairo, Egypt. Link
Curational Work
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker, Jens Hauser. Applied Microperformativity: Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn. Kuratiert von Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess und Jens Hauser. brut im AIL Angewandte Innovation Lab. Link Link
Klaus Spiess. LASER Leonardo Art&Science Laser Talks at Vienna. Curator.
Reports, Press, Media
Jens Hauser: Art and agency in times of wetware. PCA-Stream 2018 Link
Mario Savini: Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker. Hare’s Blood and The Hour of the Analyst Dog. In: Mario Savini, Arte Transgenica La Vita e il Medium. Pisa University Press 2018. P 110-113
Manuela Naveau. Special Feature. New Keywords in Art (Ars Electronica). Microperformativity. In: Public Art. Korea. 05/14. 2018 Link
2017
Performances
Spiess K, L Strecker, A L Young: Metabolic Currencies. Click Festival. Contemporary art, Science and Technology. Copenhagen May 19th, 2017. Link
Spiess K, L Strecker: Metabolic Currencies. Performance. ISEA. International Society for the Electronic Arts. June, 14th. Manizales, Columbia. Link
Lucie Strecker, Spiess K: . „Metabolic Currencies III“ | Lucie Strecker und Klaus Spiess. Residency und Performance im ‚Vorbrenner-Experimente zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft’. 15.10.-30.10.2017 . Innsbruck. Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker. Metabolic Currencies III. Performance im Rahmen von Medienkunstfestival Wien. Vermögen, The Future of Demonstration. Reaktor Wien 7. Nov. 2017, Wien. Link
Spiess Klaus, Sara Lanner. Etiquette der Zungen. Performance . Naturhistorisches Museum/Pathologisch-Anatomische Sammlung (Narrenturm). Lange Nacht der Museen. 7.-8.10.2017. Link
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: ‚Hare’s Blood +’. Chimeras. Bemis Center of Contemporary Art Omaha. From January 2017. Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Hare’s Blood +, Art|Sci Center Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, California NanoSystems Institute, 2017/1/12 Link
Spiess Klaus , Lucie Strecker: Metabolic Currencies. Performance, University at Buffalo SUNY. 17.4.2017. Link , Link
Scientific Papers
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: In/valuable Hare’s Blood : Performing with living relics of animals. Performance Research. Turning Animal. Vol 22 Issue 2 pp. 115-122 (2017) Link
Spiess K, L Strecker, M Kimmel, M Martes, P Pietschmann: Modeling the Immune System with Gestures: A Choreographic View of Embodiment in Science. Leonardo, Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology. 2017 Link
Book Chapters
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker. Spitparty & Hare’s Blood + In: Wetware: Art/Agency/Animation. J Hauser, D Familian (eds) Beall Center for Art + Technology. University of California Irvine. pp 59-71 (2017) Link
Invited Lectures, Talks, Panel Discussions
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Hare’s Blood +, Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvouz (LASERs), UCLA, 2017/1/20 Link
Klaus Spiess. Lecture und Podiumsdiskussion. Die Ordnung der Dinge. Symposium. Kunstuniversität Linz am Ordensklinikum Linz Barmherzige Schwestern. 14.November 2017 Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Hare’s Blood +. Lecture at Quirky Ecologies Seminar. Click Festival. May 20th, 2017. Copenhagen. Link
Artists Residencies
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: University at Buffalo SUNY April 2017. Link
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker. Artist Residency. Center for Human-Computer Interaction. University of Salzburg. July/August 2017. Link
Press, Media, Reports
The Reader. Janet L Farber. Creature Discomforts. April 4th, 2017.Link
APA Vienna Medical Univerity Link, Link
Platthaus Marc: Performance aus Kunst und Wissenschaft Kunstprojekt: Zellen begehen Selbstmord. Laborpraxis. 17.1.1917 Link
2016
Exhibitions
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: ‚Hare’s Blood +’ Wetware: Art/Agency/Animation 6/2-7/5/2016. Beall Center for Art + Technology. UCI University of California Irvine. Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: ‚Hare’s Blood +’ Hybrids: On the borderline between Art and Technology Onassis Cultural Center. Athens. Nov 7th 2016-Jan 16th 2017
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Scientific Publications
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Transmaterial Becoming. in: On Trans/Performance - Volume 21 Issue 5 pp. 78-80 (2016) Link
Lectures/Panels
Klaus Spiess: Panel Contribution. Gene Editing, Artificial Life and Ethics: Interdisciplinary Symposium at Newkirk Center for Science and Society’s. University of California Irvine, 6.2.2016
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Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Platforms or Colonies? The New Normal. Digital Wednesday. 9.11.2016 Link
Klaus Spiess: Performing Matter: Wissenschaft in der Kunst Podiumsdiskussion, 12.10.2016 Link
Artists Residencies
Klaus Spiess, University of California Los Angeles. Link
Media&Press
Art Journal Open, Charissa Terranova: Between negative Dialectics and Neological Aesthetics Link
GDI Impuls, Wissenschaftsmagazin für Wirtschaft Gesellschaft und Handel Michal Böhm. Frankenstein 2.0. Nr. 3, 2016
Lucie Strecker künstlerische Leiterin des Programms ‚Arts in Medicine’ am ZPH erhält FWF Senior-postdoc für Kunst. 13.1.2016 Link
Marcene Robinson. Using DNA, dirt and feces, international artists merge science and art to answer life questions. UMBD Physicians Group. Released Sept 14, 2016 Link
Project Websites:
www.reset-dog.com, Trailer link
2015
Performances
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker, Daniel Aschwanden: The hour of the analyst dog (Die Stunde des Analysehundes). 21er Haus - The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Vienna, 11.1. 2015 Link, Link
Exhibitions
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Hare’s Blood plus. A transgenetic Performance Project CyberArts 2015, Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz, September 2015, Link
Scientific Papers
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker, Ann Liv Young: Trust—credibility is always at stake: Ann Liv Young's Sherapy at the World Psychiatric Association Congress. The Lancet Psychiatry 2:7:595–596 (2015) Link
Book Chapters
Spiess Klaus , Strecker Lucie: Hare’s blood plus. A transgenetic performance project. In: Leopoldseder H, C Schöpf, G Stocker: CyberArts 2015, International Compendium – Prix Ars Electronica. Hatje Cantz Verlag 2015, p 70-71. Link
Spiess Klaus, Ferstl Paul, Lucie Strecker: Beiträge zeitgenössischer Performance-Kunst zu einer medizinischen Bioethik. In: Hofbauer H, L Kaelin, H J Ankersmit, Feigl (Hg.): Ist der Patient ein Mensch? p 124-130, 2015, LIT Verlag, Münster Link
Paul Ferstl Alexander Sprung, Spiess, Klaus Teaching Paradoxical Interactions: Students, Narratives and the Patient Interview: In: Lena Möller, Minerva Ahumada, Laurinda Brown (eds) Perspectives on Storytelling: Framing Global and Personal Identities. eBook. The Inter-Disciplinary Press 2015 Link, Link
Prices
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Prix Ars Electronica 2015, Kategorie: Hybrid Art für Hare’s Blood plus-A transgentic Performance Project. Link
Video Publications/Screenings
Spiess, Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Sex, gender and squirting breastmilk - performance artist Ann Liv Youngs' alter-ego character Sherry performs Sherapy at the 2014 World Psychiatric Conference in Madrid. The Lancet TV. Link, Link
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Hare’s Blood + -A transgenetic Performance Project. Video, 5.45 min Link
Opening Keynotes
Klaus Spiess (together with Agnes Husslein and Mario Codognato): Schlaflos (Sleepless) – Das Bett in Geschichte und Gegenwartskunst (The Bed in History and Contemporary Art), 21er Haus - The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Vienna, 29.1.2015 Link
Panel Discussions
Spiess Klaus: 21er Haus - The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Vienna, 11.1. 2015 Panel Discussion zu The hour of the analyst dog’ (Die Stunde des Analysehundes). Link
Reports, Media, Press
Hauser Jens, Jaschko S, Krpan JV: Towards a collective hybrid vigor. In: In: Leopoldseder H, Schöpf C, Stocker G: CyberArts 2015, International Compendium – Prix Ars Electronica Hatje Cantz Verlag 2015, p 70-71, p 54-59 Link
Roberts J: When Science meets Arts. Horizon (Science in Society The EU Research&Innovation Magazine. 26. November 2015 Link
Austria Presse Agentur APA: Kunstperformances: MedUni Wien entwickelt neues Format partizipativer künstlerisch-wissenschaftlicher Forschung. 15.10.2015 Link
ExpertInnen des Zentrums für Public Health realisieren interaktive Performances. Homepage der Medizinischen Universität Wien. News and Topstories. 15.10.2015 Link
2014
Performances
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Hasenblut+ (Hare’s Blood+). Biofiction, The International Synthetic Biology Festival Science Art Film Festival. Museum of Natural History (Narrenturm) Vienna, 17.10.2014 Link
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker, Rotraud Kern, Paul Ferstl: Its Showtime. Performance. Lange Nacht der Forschung, AKH Wien, Long Night of Science, General Hospital, Vienna 4.4.2014 Link
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: P53-VMAT2 hasenblut Performance Lectures 1 and 2, Galerie cubus –m, 21. und 30. August 2014 Link
Exhibitions
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: P53-VMAT2 hasenblut. Exhibition and Open Studio, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, 22. – 30. August 2014
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Publications, Research Reports
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Spitparty: DNA Imaging and Aesthetic Mimicry. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts. Special Issue ‘On Medicine’, Vol 19:4:38-44 (2014) Link
Book Monographs
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: Bios: Zoe: Performance, Genetik und Mimikry. Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin. Berlin 2014.
Book Chapters
Spiess Klaus: Mimikritische und (post-)animistische Praxen in BioPerformances. (Mimicry and (Post-)animistic Practices in BioPerformances). In: Susanne Stemmler (ed): Perception, Experience, Experiment, Knowledge. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Arts and the Sciences. Zürich:Diaphanes 2014, p 155-171 Link
Klaus Spiess: Das Eigentum am Körper – Biopolitik und Performativität. In: Transit für Karl Aspern. Hrsg: Brigitte und Wolfgang Prinzgau/Podgorschek. Verlag Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien 2014. p 13
Panel Discussions
Klaus Spiess (together with Vincenzo Pavone, Nadine Bongaerts, Vitor Martins dos Santos, Lucie Strecker) Panel Discussion. Homo oeconomicus: innovation as rational behaviour? At: Biofiction, The International Synthetic Biology Festival Science Art Film Festival, Museum of Natural History Vienna, 18.10.2014 Link, Link
Guest Lectureships
Spiess Klaus, Gastdozentur Life Itself. Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin, Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz, Inter-University of Dance, BA Dance, Context, Choreography. Mai 2014
Symposia Chairs
Spiess Klaus: Aesthetic Strategies and Psychotherapeutic Simulation of Authenticity (Chair). 16th World Congress Psychiatry Madrid 14.-18.9.2014. Volume 1 Section Symposia p 200 Link
Lectures Performances
Spiess Klaus: Mimicry as an Aesthetic and Psychotherapeutic Strategy 16th World Congress Psychiatry Madrid 14.-18.9.2014. Volume 1 Section Symposia p 202 Link
Klaus Spiess: Zur Biopolitik und Performance rauschartiger Selbstuntersuchung. Konferenz TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT. Aspekte einer Zeitgeschichte des Rausches. 6.6. 2014, Elektro Gönner, Wien Link
Performances curated by Klaus Spiess
Ann Liv Young, Live Art Performance during Session Aesthetic Strategies and the Psychotherapeutic Simulation of Authenticity 16th World Congress Psychiatry Madrid 14.-18.9.2014 Volume 1 Section Symposia p 200. Curated by Klaus Spiess and Lucie Strecker Link
Publications about Klaus Spiess’ work
Molekulartheater, Mikroperformativität und Plantamorphisierungen. Von Jens Hauser. In: Susanne Stemmler (ed) Perception, Experience, Experiment, Knowledge. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Arts and the Sciences, Zürich: Diaphanes 2014, p 173-189 Link
Angela Stief: Salon der Obsession. In: Kunstforum International: Obsessionen I. Band 225, p 66-76, 2014 Link
Media,Press,Reports
Nature-Events: Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker: Hare’s Blood +, Biofiction Festival, 23. Oktober 2014 Link
Prices
Klaus Spiess/Lucie Strecker: Prix Ars Electronica 2015, Kategorie: Hybrid Art für Hasenblut + Link
2013
Performances
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker: Lesarten des Immunen. Lecture Performance. Kulturelles Stadtlabor - Palais Kabelwerk. 2013/4/3 Link
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess u. a. : Bioart im Kontext der Performance-Kunst. Invited Lecture und Performance. Salon für ästhetische Experimente. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2013/12/4 Link
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess. Rotraud Kern. Performance. Bios: Zoe. Performance bei Symposium Perception, Experience, Experiment, Knowledge. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Arts and the Sciences. Graduale 13. 10.-12. 10. 2913. Universität der Künste, Berlin Link
Invited Talks
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: Bios:Zoe; BioArt im Kontext von Performance Performance, and Video-Screening and Conversation. Salon für ästhetische Experimente. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 4.12.2013. Berlin Link
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess: Gefakte Wissenschaft ist die beste Wissenschaft. (Vortrag und Talk Perception, Experience, Experiment, Knowledge. Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Arts and the Sciences. Invited Lecture. Graduale 13. 10.-12. 10. 2913. Universität der Künste, Berlin Link
Klaus Spiess, Paul Ferstl, Lucie Strecker. Beiträge zeitgenössischer Performance-Kunst zu einer medizinischen Bioethik (1. Symposium der Gesellschaft für Philosophie in der Medizin. Wien, 4.12.2013 Link
Spiess Klaus: Das Eigentum am Körper - Biopolitik und Performativität, Universität für Angewandte Kunst-Digitale Kunst. Open Lecture and Artist Talk 2013/3/4 Link
Video Screenings
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker. Proof of Concept # 3, HD Video, 50 min. Galerie cubus-m, 2.8.2013, Berlin Link
2012
Performances
Lucie Strecker, Spiess Klaus, Bios:Zoe. Tales of the Visceral. KunstenzentrumBUDA, Kortrjik, Belgium. Residency 2012/4/22-2012/5/12 Open Rehearsal 2013/5/12 Link, Link
Lucie Strecker, Klaus Spiess, Bios: Zoe. Tales of the Visceral (Spitparty) Tanzquartier Wien. Residency 2012/5/27-2012/6/29 Inside 2013/6/27 Link
Prices
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker, Salka Rosengren: Fictional Offender. Giessener Preis für Wissenschaftliche Präsentation&Lecture Performance. In: Performing Science², Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität. Justus Liebig Universität Gießen. 16.9. 2012 Link
Invited Lectures
Spiess Klaus: Molecular made Body Images: BioArt and Queer Immunology. Vienna Art Week Predicting Memories. 2012/11/23 Link, Link
Spiess Klaus/Lucie Strecker: Contemporary European Performance and Arts and Humanities in Medicine, Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar, Indonesien, 2012/3/12
Spiess Klaus/Lucie Strecker: Contemporary European Performance and Dance in Health Promotion. School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesien. 2012/3/5
DVD Books
Spiess Klaus, Lucie Strecker, Salka Rosengren Fictional Offender. Giessener Preis für Wissenschaftliche Präsentation & Lecture Performance. In: Performing Science² Video Edition. DVD Box. Eds: Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität. Justus Liebig Universität Gießen. 2012 Link
2011
Performances
Lucie Strecker, Salka Rosengren, Klaus Spiess. Fictional Offender. Performance. Tanzquartier Wien 2011 (15.6.-18.6.) Link
Reports, Press, Media
Los von der Befindlichkeit . Emerging Choreography bei Stückwerk 2011 im Tanzquartier Wien (Elisabeth Hirner) Corpus. Internet Magazin für Tanz Choreographie Performance. 26.6.2011 Link
http://www.corpusweb.net/los-von-der-befindlichkeit-9.html
2010
Spiess, K., Strecker, L. (2010) “If I would get a macrophage“ (Performance), European Co-Operation Project on „Virtual Communities“, Underground City 21, 5/10/2010 Link
Deck, J., Poet, P., Spiess, K : Underground State 2, Empire me – Der Staat bin ich! Panel symposion, “The Fragmented City and the Dissapearance of Public Space” Theater Nestroy Hof /LAB factory, Vienna, 2011, 6.10.2010 Link
2009
Spiess K: Picture of the Year. 1st Price. Austrian Science Fund. (Arts and Humanities Group), Link
Spiess K.: Group Exhibition, Picture of the Year, Haus der Forschung (House of Research), Sensengasse 1, A 1090 Vienna, March/April 2009
Spiess K.: Choreographies beyond text. Springerin (Journal of Contemporary Art), 3: 30-33, 2009
2008
Spiess K : To be cellular or how to portray the immune system by choreography. In:
Thomashoff, HO, The Person in Art: Conceptual & Pictorial Frames on Art & Mental Health
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge New York 2008, p 34-44
Spiess K, B Ilievski, S Ildirar, G Erman, K Tascilar: A Slapstick
Comedy to enhance RA patients´ understanding of autoimmunity. Ann Rheum Dis
2008;67(Suppl II):651
Spiess K: The role of arts , comics , movies and theatre in the gendered imagery of the immune system. Journal of Czech and Slovak Psychiatry 2008; 104 (Suppl 2):179
Spiess K: How females in a 70s’ science fiction movie dive into immune ‘bodyscapes ’ mapped by males. Journal of Czech and Slovak Psychiatry 2008; 104 (Suppl 2):180
Spiess K, SM Bauer, R Reichert, B Bernatzik: How a psychodynamic mirror model was used in the immunology of the ‘80s. Journal of Czech and Slovak Psychiatry 2008; 104 (Suppl 2):181
Spiess K: ‘Choreographies beyond text. An Antigen fixates an Invader’- Silk Stitching. In: Exhibition of the Arts and Mental Health Section ‘The Person In Art’ 17.-30.9.08, World Psychiatric Congress. Science and Humanism, p 69. Old Town Hall Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic.
Ilievski B, K Spiess: Gender related imageries of the immune system in medical students ’ lay ‘immune theatres ’. Journal of Czech and Slovak Psychiatry 2008; 104 (Suppl 2):181
Erman G, B Ilievski, K Spiess: Designing sexual characteristics of immune cells in a children comic movie. Journal of Czech and Slovak Psychiatry 2008; 104 (Suppl 2):180
Ildirar S, B Ilievski, G Erman, K Tascilar, K Spiess: Humorous anthropomorphisation in an educational video for patients with autoimmune diseases. Journal of Czech and Slovak Psychiatry 2008; 104 (Suppl 2):182
2007
Ilievski B, Spiess K: Medical Students’ Choreographies of the Immune System Uncover Stereotypes of Masculinity. The Journal of Men's Health & Gender 2007; 4 (3): 377
Ilievski B, Spiess K: Choreographies of Immunological Textbooks uncover Medical Students’ Gender Stereotypes. Gender Medicine 2007; 4 (2): 183-183
Erman GA, Ilievski B, Spiess K: Immunology Comic Movies Promote Gender Prejudices. Gender Medicine 2007; 4 (Suppl A): 56
Ilievski B, Erman GA, Spiess K: Should a T cell be male or female? – Pitfalls of an anthropomorphized Immune System in a ’80s immunology comic movie. The Journal of Men's Health & Gender 2007; 4 (3): 377-378
Ilievski B, Spiess K: Mimetic Playfulness Uncovers Gender Stereotypes in Medical Students’ Choreographies of the Immune System. Annual Meeting of Turkish Rheumatologists, Sept 1-5, 2007, Fethiye, Turkey, Book of Abstracts p 108.
Erman GA, Ilievski B, Spiess K: Should a T cell be male or female? – Pitfalls of an anthropomorphized Immune System in a `80s immunology comic movie. Annual Meeting of Turkish Rheumatologists, Sept 1-5, 2007, Fethiye, Turkey, Book of Abstracts p 108-109.
Spiess K, Ilievski B, Ildirar S, Erman GA, Tascilar K: Development of an educational video tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Annual Meeting of Turkish Rheumatologists, Sept 1-5, 2007, Fethiye, Turkey, Book of Abstracts p 101.
Spiess K: Von den wilden, den gezähmten und den dekorativen Anamnesegruppen. In: POM. Jahrbuch für Patientenorientierte Medizinerinnenausbildung 2007: 27-35. Mabuse.. Frankfurt/Main.
2006
Spiess K, Thomashoff HO, Esmer P, Galindo RJ, Kawase N: Playing the play of the play. Turkish Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 17; 2 (Suppl 1):168
Spiess K: Performing Immunology (DVD, 10 min) Screened at: World Psychiatric Association International Congress, Arts and Mental Health Section, July 12-16, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey
Spiess K, Ilievski B: Fe/Male Lymphotics (13 min, DVD). 3rd International Cinema and Communication Congress, November 6th-8th, 2006. Istanbul Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey,
Spiess K, Ilievski B: The Immune- metaphorically proceeding from war and destruction of the foreign to a balance of the foreign. Paper presented at 3rd International Cinema and Communication Congress, Istanbul Universitesi, 2006. Book of Abstracts p 5, Istanbul, Turkey
Spiess K, B Ilievski: Immune System goes Hollywood. 26. Internationales Maitreffen der Anamnesegruppen. Wien, 25.05.-28.05.2006. Abstractband Seite 24-25
2005
Spiess K, S. Bauer, B. Bernatzik, A. Mejstrik and R. Reichert: How does visual culture related to creativity influence ways of making knowledge in immunology? Association Social Anthropologists of UK and Commonwealth, Conference Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. Aberdeen, UK, Book of abstracts p 45.
Link
Spiess K, Bernatzik B, Dalpra, M, Bauer S, Luis Z, Reichert R: The Anjuna Balance (16 min, DVD) Screened at: World Psychiatric Association Congress Arts and Mental Health Section, Book of Abstracts p 56, Cairo, Egypt, Sept 16th, 2005.
Spiess K, Bernatzik B, Bauer S, Reichert R; Optical models of Self/Nonself Integration in Art, Psychoanalysis and Immunology. World Psychiatric Association Congress. Arts and Mental Health Section. Book of Abstracts p 89, 2005. Cairo. Egypt
2004
Spiess K, Bernatzik B, Dalpra, M, Bauer S, Luis Z, Reichert R: The Anjuna Balance. 12. Rassegna internazionale di film etnografici (Tourisms): Nuoro 25-30 ottobre 2004:catalogo/a cura di Paolo Piquereddu. Istituto superiore regionale etnografico. Link
Bauer S, Spiess K et al: Postcolonial globalism to be balanced in Goa. ASA Conference (Association of Social Anthropologists of UK and Commonwealth), Locating the field: metaphors of space, place and context in anthropology. Durham, Uk, 27.3.-1.4.04 Book of Abstracts, p 12. Paper and Videofilm (DVD, 13 min) Link
Spiess K, Bernatzik B, Bauer S, Reichert R: The ‚Hall of Mirrors’:A Certain Way of Seeing in Art and Immunology of the 70s’. 8th Biennial EASA Conference, Europaean Association of Social Anthropologists, Vienna, 8.-12.9.2004, Book of abstracts p 542-543
GasteigerJ, Spiess K: ‘Transit’ – Die Erosion des Körpers als Bedeutungsträger. Ausstellung. Mizrahi Fine Arts, Wien, Österreich. 5.-20.11.04. Link
Schmid L, Schneider F, Sieberth E, Vogel T, Pekarek A, Ortner P, Schink S, Spiess K: Internationalität, Multidisziplinarität und Bedsidefunktion der Anamnesegruppen. 8. Grazer Konferenz. Qualität der Lehre. Evaluation, Accreditation, and Problem-Based Learning
17. - 19. Juni 2004. Graz. Österreich
Vogel T, Schneider F, Sieberth E, Spiess K: Die Anamnesegruppe in der Säulentheorie des Wiener Reformcurriculums. 8. Grazer Konferenz. Qualität der Lehre. Evaluation and Problem-Based Learning. 17. - 19. Juni 2004. Graz. Österreich
2003
Spiess K: Über die Sensationen von wachsenden, heranwachsenden, auswachsenden und erwachsenden Kindern. In: Maja Vukoje. Sensationsverlag, Wien 2003
Spiess K: Psychosomatik in der Inneren Medizin. Acta Medica Austriaca. Abstract.
Spiess K, Bernatzik B, Dalpra, M, Bauer S, Luis Z, Reichert R:
The Anjuna Balance. Kurzfilm. Fieldworks:Dialogues between art and anthropology. Tate Britain Audio & Video Webcast Archive. London, UK 2003 Link
2001
Spiess K: Die kompetente Zelle – das Immunsystem als Metapher, Zeichen, Sprache und Kultur. Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie 47: 98-110. 2001
Spiess K: Kultursensitive Forschung (Editorial). Psychologische Medizin 4: 2-7.2001
Spiess K: Vom Klinischen Blick zum digitalisierten Abbild. Psychosozial 83:125-137.2001
2000
Spiess K: Die Erscheinung des Menschen im BlutzuckerSpiegel. In: Fassler G:
Ohne Spiegel leben. Sichtbarkeiten und posthumane Menschenbilder. S. 141-157. Wilhelm Fink Verlag. München 2000
Spiess K: Anamnese-Etiquette aus medizinanthropologischer Sicht- Käsebrötchen, Indianerbäuche, belgisches Konfekt. POM. Jahrbuch für Patientenorientierte Medizinerinnenausbildung 2000: 77-91. Mabuse. Frankfurt/M.
