Prof. Julia Scher

Multimedia und Performance Surveillant Architectures
 
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  1954 geboren in Hollywood, Kalifornien.

B.A. Malerei, Skulptur, Grafik, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); M.F.A.
Studio Arts, Department of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Lebt und arbeitet in New York,
seit 2006 in Köln.

Zahlreiche Gastprofessuren u.a. University of California Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Department of
Architecture/Cambridge und Massachusetts College of Art/Boston, Lesley University Boston, Maine College of Art,
Hartford Art School/University of Hartford.

Seit 2006 Professorin für Medienkunst an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln.

Stipendien und Auszeichungen u.a. 2005 Fellowship der John F. Salomon Guggenheim Foundation; 1996 Bunting
Fellowship an der Radcliffe/Harvard University, Cambridge; 1993, 1989 und 1988 Art Matters Inc.; 1992 National
Endowment fort he Arts with Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York.

Zentrale Themen in Julia Schers Werk sind die Auseinandersetzung mit Überwachung und dem Cyberspace.
Mit ihren oft temporären, transitorischen Arbeiten – Performances, Audio-/Videoinstallationen, Kommunikationsobjekte
und Internetprojekte – untersucht sie Strukturen von Macht, Kontrolle und Verführung.


EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN (Auswahl)

2006

Wo bitte geht's Öffentlichen, Wiesbaden, Installation im öffentlichen Raum/Hauptbahnhof
The Look of Law, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, USA
Monologues, Video Screnning, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Balance and Power - Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Boston, USA
Run Time, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC

2004 Six Feet Under Make Nice, White Box, NYC
2002 Security By Julia XLV: Security Landscapes, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
Security By Julia XLVI, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
2000 wonderland, Georg Kargl Galerie, Wien
Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
1999 Predictive Engineering, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1998 wonderland, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
The Komputer Kings, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
1997 Forecast, Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Harvard Universitiy, Cambridge, MA
Securityworld, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
P.S.1 M.O.M.A., Long Island City, New York, permanente Installation im Aussenraum
1996 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge (zusammen mit Elizabeth King)
Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Schweiz (zusammen mit Vanessa Beecroft)
American Fibroids, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
1995 Massimo De Carlo, Mailand
Schipper & Krome, Berlin
1994 A series of rotating installations, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC
Don't Worry, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
1993 Mystery Meat, Galerie Metropol, Wien
1992 Buffalo Under Surveillance, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1991 I'll Be Gentle, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1990 Security By Julia, VII, Max Fish Bar & Restaurant, New York
Insecurity By Julia, Anoka-Ramsey College, Coon Rapids, MN
Security Site Visits, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1989 Occupational Placement: (O.P.), The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
1988 Security By Julia, The Collective for Living Cinema, New York
1984 Julia Scher, American Landscape, Coffman Gallery, University of Minnesota



GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN (Auswahl)

2006 Having Been Described in Words, Orchard Gallery, New York
Show Me The Way to the Public Sphere, Wiesbaden
Fallout - Cold War Culture, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2005 Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art
Balance and Power - Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (2006 auch Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA)
On Patrol, De Appel, Amsterdam
2004 The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects
Firewall, Ausstellungshalle für zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster (2005 auch Württembergischer Kunstverein)
2003 At Your Own Risk, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Phantom of Pleasure, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2002 POLITIK-UM / New Engagement, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prag
Metropolis Now, Museo Nacional Centro de Artem Sofia, Madrid
2001 CTRL Space, ZKM Karlsruhe
Metropolis Now, Borusan Art & Cultural Center, Istanbul
Pat Hearn Gallery: Part Two (1988-94), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
2000 Continuum 001, CCA Glasgow
Aussendienst, Kunstverein Hamburg
1999 The American Century: Art & Culture 1950 - 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Transmute, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Sleuth: The Private Eye In Film Noir, Current Photography and Video, Fotogallery, Chapter, Oriel Mostyn & Barbican, London
video cult/ures, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Berlin
1998 Roommates, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
Fast Forward: body checks, Kunstverein Hamburg
1997 Heaven: Private View, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
The Art of Detection: Surveillance in Society, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Was nun?, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (auch Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; La Joya, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico
Surveillance, MIT, Cambridge
1996 Voyeur's Delight, Franklin Furnace, New York
shopping, agnes b., New York
So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star: Artists Interpret Popular Music, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Strange Days, the agency, London
1995 The Telematic Room I, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Das Ende der Avantgarde, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München
Derek Jarman, Craig Kalpakjian, Julia Scher, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Fantastic Prayers, Zusammenarbeit mit Tony Oursler und Constance Jung, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Press Enter, The Power Plant, Toronto, Kanada
1994 Bioinformatica, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (1995/96 auch Kölnischer Kunstverein, Javier Lopez, London, Galerie des Archives, Paris)
Temporary Translation(s), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
L'hiver de l'amour, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
Internet, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz
Four Walls 1993 Benefit and Sale, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Backstage, Kunstverein Hamburg (auch Kunstmuseum Luzern)
XLV Venice Biennale, Aperto '93, Venedig
Aesthetics and Violence, Grazer Kunstverein und Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
The Final Frontier, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1992 Seven Curators/Seven Rooms (Exposure), P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY
The Speaker Project, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Surveillance 1992, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC
Tattoo Collection, Galerie Air de Paris and Urbi et Orbi, Nizza/Paris (auch Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Nantes)
Galerie Rudolph Zwirner, Köln
1991 Topographie II: Untergrund, Wiener Festwochen
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1990 ILe Choix des Femmes, Le Consortium, Dijon
Art Cologne 1990
1989 National Video Festival, American Film Institute, Hollywood
The Desire of the Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1988 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Collecting, Organizing, Transposing, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore
(auch University Gallery Virginia, Commonwealth University Richmond, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island NY)
1987 Covert, P.S.1 Museum for Contemporary Art, Long Island City
1986 Safe & Secure, Rifle Sport Gallery, Minneapolis
Surveillance, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles
1985 Paintings Under Surveillance, Nada Gallery, New York
1984 Scher Exteriors/Waldorsky Interiors, Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
1983 Grand Fragments/Scher Landscape, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota
1981 Works from Minnesota, University of Wisconsin
1979 L.A.I.C.A. Sells Out, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art


Performances
(Auswahl)

2006 "Toxic Tour" for John Malpede's "Come Together", CAVS/MIT, Cambridge
2005 The Truck, the Assailant and the X, Venice Beach, Kalifornien
The Sleeping Guard, zum Symposion "Evil", MIT, Cambridge
2004 Actors'/director, Security Girls, zur Ausstellung "Firewall", Münster
Security mom and daughter team (Regie), Kunstmesse Basel
Tony Ourslers "Studio" (Darstellerin)
2003 "Embedded" (Regie), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2002 SBJ XLV, Security Landscape (Käfig mit Besuchern)
2001 Open Mouse - 1 h of surveillance skins on screen + sounds of control attached, live meltings + sonic commands
1997 Elisabeth Dole, The New Museum, New York
1996

Sounds for the Watched, Mother, New York
Surveillance Nite @ Jackie 60, New York

1995 Fantastic Prayers, by Constance DeJong, Tony Oursler, Stephen Vitiello. A Dia Foundation Production. Dream #2
Security with Julia, Kölnischer Kunstverein
Insecurity By Julia, Technoscience and Power Conference, CUNY, New York
1990 Julia Scher: Security Site Visits, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis


PUBLIKATIONEN (Auswahl)

2006 Wo bitte geht's Öffentlichen, Wiesbaden, Installation im öffentlichen Raum
The Look of Law, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, USA
Balance and Power - Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Boston, USA (pamphlet)
2005 Nouveaux Médias, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Balance and Power - Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Michael Rush, University of Illinois, Champaign
Bill Horrigan, Having been described in words, Orchard Gallery "Postcard"
2003 Auf eigene Gefahr, Hgs. Markus Heinzelmann, Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2002 GNS [ Space ] : Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, MIT Press/Levon, Hgs. Frohne und Weibel
2000 Présumés innocents: L'art contemporain et l'enfance, capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
1997 Performance Anxienty, The Museum of Contemporary Art, inkl. CD
1995 Cocido y Crudo, Reina Sofia, Madrid
1994 Toponimias - Ocho Ideas del Esapcio, Fundacion "La Caixa", Madrid. Essay von Jose Lebrero Stals
1993 Thresholds and Enclosures, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Le Principe de Realité, Villa Arson, Nizza
XLV Exposizione Internazionale d'Arte: La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale di Venezia
1992 Topographie II: Untergrund, Wiener Festwochen. Essay von Silvia Eiblmayr
1990 Le Choix des Femmes, Le Consortium, Dijon
1989 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1987 Surveillance, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles. Essay von Branda Miller


ARBEITEN IM NETZ (Auswahl)

2005 www.fuenfnullzwei.de/scher/automatic.php
2004 http://insecuritybyjulia.com.thing.net/pictures.htm Digital Terror
www.low-fi.org
www.tribes.org Fribourg Sous Surveillance
2003 www.celesteolalquiaga.com
2000 -
2002

www.securitybyjulia.com
www.aussendienst.hamburg.de