Seraina Renz
former doctoral student
Lectures

Conferences / workshops

Bern, international symposium (Dec 7, 2013) “Driven by the Real – Performance in Ex­-Yugoslavia and Switzerland – Going along the Rupture Lines”, Bone 16, Performance Art Festival Bern (together with Valerian Maly)

Bijeljina, workshop and artist residency of the Ambar foundation (Sept 1-15, 2013), together with Milenko Lazić and Maya Minder

Zurich, 3rd International Summer school (June 4–8, 2012) “Modern Visions: Produktion und Prozess” (together with Nanni Baltzer, Patrizia Munforte, Anne Röhl, Fabienne Ruppen, and Daniela Wegmann)

Basel, chair at conference “Refraiming Gender – Refraiming Critique (Sept 16–17, 2011)

Zurich, 2rd International Summer school (Sept 13–16, 2010) “Um/Bruch” (together with Nanni Baltzer, Alexandra Blättler, Sophie Junge, Yujin Kim, René Perret, and Linda Schädler)

Zurich, workshop with Marina Gržinić (April 16, 2010): “Video and Politics in Socialist and Post-Socialist Yugoslavia”


Lectures

Belgrade, Summer school "Travelling Communiqué" (June 11, 2014): paper "The 'Human' in Yugoslav Philosophy and New Artistic Practices"

Konstanz, Slawistisches Forschungskolloquium (May 27, 2014): paper "Nach dem Humanismus. Performance- und Konzeptkunst am Studentischen Kulturzentrum Belgrad"

Berlin, First International Forum for doctoral candidates in East European art history (May 9, 2014): paper "Performance and Conceptual Art in Belgrade 1970–1980"

Zurich, Guest lecture at the chair of Prof. Philip Ursprung for the course "The Walk" (April 11, 2014)

Bern, international symposium “Driven by the Real – Performance in Ex­-Yugoslavia and Switzerland – Going along the Rupture Lines” (Dec 7, 2013); paper: “Reality and the Real in Performance Art”

Zurich, international symposium “Mythmaking Eastern Europe: Art in Response”; paper: “’Art and Revolution’ – The Student Cultural Center Belgrade as Place between Affirmation and Critique” (Oct 18, 2012)

Zurich, 3rd International Summer School “Modern Visions: Produktion und Prozess”; chair of section 4 “Produktion und Zeitlichkeit: Kunst im sozialistischen Kontext”; paper: “Neue Kunstpraxis in Jugoslawien. Zwischen Schöpfertum und Produktion” (June 4–8, 2012)

Zurich, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst”; paper “Videokunst und das absurde Kalte Medium. Ein Vortrag über Emotion, Spektakel und das weibliche Subjekt in der Videokunst” (June 30, 2011)

Ohrid, Summer Colloquium “Dialectical Interdependencies of Theory and Practice in Feminism. Exploring the Issues of Gender, Transitions and the Balkans”; paper: “Ethnicity and Gender. Art and Political Activism” (June 19–30, 2011)

Zurich, 2rd International Summer School “Um/Bruch”; chair of section 4 “Mediale Präsenz – Zum Verhältnis von Präsenz und Medialität als Bruch»”; paper: “Präsenz – Medium – Akusmatik. Zu Performance und Stimme in Milica Tomićs Werk” (Sept 13–16, 2010)

Bern, “Erster Schweizerischer Kongress für Kunstgeschichte”; paper: “Medium – Körper – Materialität: Die Politik der Videokunst von Marina Gržinić und Aina Šmid” (Sept 2–4, 2010)

Vienna, annual conference of the Verband Österreichischer Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker “Paradigmenwechsel. Ost- und Mitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert. Kunstgeschichte im Wandel der politischen Verhältnisse”; paper: “Vom Avancement der Verspätung – Die jugoslawische Neo-Avantgarde in der westlichen Kunstgeschichte” (Nov 5–8, 2009)

Bern, Museum of Art, symposium “Tracey Emin: Subjekt und Medium”; paper: “Tracey Emin. Subjektivitätskonzepte des Postfeminismus” (May 16, 2009)


Exhibitions / Performances / Artist talks

Bern, Stadtgalerie, exhibition “_mirror” during “Bone 16, Performance Art Festival Bern” together with Valerian Maly
Review: http://www.terpentin.org/de/bone-16-festival-fur-aktionskunst

Bern, Artist talk with Raša Todosijević (Dec 4, 2013) during Bone 16

Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts, performative art auction: AAAAR Artists Activists A(u)ction Against Racism (with Imayna Caceres, Miriam Raggam, Andreas Scherz und Joanna Wilk) (Jan 20, 2012)

Zurich, Kunstraum Walcheturm, “Euro-Latin Performance Project” Performance “Ein unmöglicher Vortrag” (Nov 10–14, 2010)

Berlin, exhibition “Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity – Quadrilogy Part 1” (Sept 5–Dec 13, 2009) together with Daniel Kurjakovic

Berlin, artist talk with Fernando Bryce within the exhibition “Conflicting Tales” (Dec 3, 2009)

Berlin, artist talk with Mathilde ter Heijne and Alexandra Tacke within the exhibition “Conflicting Tales” (Oct 31, 2009)