Angela Anderson is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of philosophy, ecology, economics, migration, and feminist & queer theory. Her artistic production is research-based and takes the form of multi-channel video and sound installations, sculptural elements and photography. Much of her work centers around the devastating effects of large-scale natural resource extraction projects and the complex economic, social, historical, aesthetic and affectual forces that converge in them. She calls into question the ideological function of sacrifice in heteronormative capitalist economies and proposes feminist eco-intersectionality as an ethical position from which to challenge patriarchal, settler-colonial narratives and foster inter-species & inter-material solidarity. Through experimentation with audio-visual forms, Anderson creates cartographies of multiple temporalities that resist the flattening time of capitalism. Her work activates different ways of seeing and perceiving affective relations of recognition and reciprocity in the face of the multiple human-induced crises that are currently unfolding across the globe.
Education
ongoing – PhD in Practice. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Project title: Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality
2010 – Master of Arts in Media Studies. The New School. NYC, NY USA Thesis title: No Unnecessary Noise: Club Cultures and the Politics of Affect
2006 – Bachelor of Arts. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN USA.
In Natural Resources and Economics, International Development, and Latin American Studies
Lectures / Screenings / Public Presentations
2023 ICI Berlin – From Solar Futures to Future Solidarity “Queer Eco-intersectional Luxury Communist Solarities Against Capitalist Authoritarianism” Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin, DE) https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/from-solar-futures-to-future-solidarity/
University Mozarteum Salzburg - Institute for Equality and Gender Studies Ecologies of Care: Screening of Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality – Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die (2019) followed by a discussion with Silvia Federici (Salzburg, AT) https://www.moz.ac.at/de/veranstaltungen/2023/01/31-iggs-social-justice-ecologies-of-care
2021 Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol - Hexengespräche / Witch Talks Artist talk with Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and curator Nina Tabassomi in the context of the exhibition “Witches”. Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol (Innsbruck, AT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swi2hpvon24
2019
Belvedere 21 - Why We Are All Family. The coexistence of species. Screening and artist talk, Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco- intersectionality – Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die (2019) https://www.belvedere.at/en/public-program-warum-wir-alle-familie-sind
Eflux - Ecologies of Care – Screening and conversation with Silvia Federici Screening of Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality – Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die (2019) followed by a conversation with Silvia Federici. Eflux, NYC. https://www.e-flux.com/program/284380/ecologies-of-care-screening-and-conversation-with- silvia-federici-and-angela-anderson/
New School Doc Talk - Ecologies of Care
Screening of Three (or more) Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality – Part I: For the World to Live, Patriarchy Must Die (2019) and Unearthing Disaster I (2013) as part of the Doc Talk series organised by Amir Husak. The New School, NYC. https://events.newschool.edu/event/doc_talk_ecologies_of_care
Screening of “Water Makes us Wet” by Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle Moderated by Angela Anderson and Nina Tabassomi at Leo Kino, in collarboration with Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, kinovi[sie]on and TAXISPALAIS as part of their series SEX DISCUSSIONS. Innsbruck, Austria. https://www.taxispalais.art
Three (or more) Ecologies: Reports on ecology, democracy & feminist futures from Rojava & Bakur – with Dilar Dirik and Rodja Tugrul. Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen. Innsbruck, AT. https://www.buchsenhausen.at/event/dams-in-somewhere/
2018
Kunsthal Charlottenburg – Public reading of the text “Returning the Gift” by Robin Wall Kimmerer in the context of the exhibition “Crossings” by Angela Melitopoulos with Angela Anderson & Maurizio Lazzarato at Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, DK. https://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/angela-melitopoulos/ http://bit.ly/2TLRS6F
“Framed Existences” Symposium - Golden Pixel CollectiveArtist talk. Three or More Ecologies: A Feminist Articulation of Eco-intersectionality. Organized by the Golden Pixel Collective (Katharina Swoboda, Marlies Poeschl & Lisa Truttman). Vienna, AT. http://www.goldenpixelcoop.com/post/179696908622/symposium-framed-existences-november-30- 2018
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen - “Unearthing Disaster I & II” Screening and artist talk. Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, AT. https://www.buchsenhausen.at/en/event/unearthing-disaster-i-ii/
“Ecosexualities” Sexuality Studies Association, Congress 2018 of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina. Paper Presentation: Ecosexual Time and the Subversive Multiplicity – Reclaiming lost and denied temporalities as an act of love and resistance (against generalized flattening) in the age of capitalist acceleration Regina, Canada. https://sexualitystudiesassociation.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/ssa-program-2018- 05-11-31.pdf
Let’s Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis – screening of Unearthing Disaster I (2013) by Angela Anderson & Angela Melitopoulos. Curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Nora Razian. Times Museum, Guangzhou, China. http://www.timesmuseum.org/exhibition/view?id=13
Savvy Contemporary – How Does the World Breathe Now Film Series Presentation of the film “Goodbye Gauley Mountain” by Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle. http://www.savvy-contemporary.com
2017
“Extraction: conference on Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene” University of California – Santa Cruz. Lecture and screening of Unearthing Disaster (2013) in organized by T.J. Demos and Laurie Palmer. Santa Cruz, CA, USA. http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/extraction-two-day-conference-and-related- exhibition-at-uc-santa-cruz/
documenta 14 – Greek Film Archive, Athens. Live screening of the video installation “Crossings” with Angela Melitopoulos. http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/17069/crossings-2017-
2016
Simon Fraser University – Screening of Unearthing Disaster I & II (2013 - 2015) with Angela Melitopoulos. Hosted by the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.sfu.ca/humanities- institute/public-events/archive/2015-16/unearthing-disaster.html
Let’s Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis – Sursock Museum, Beirut, Screening of Unearthing Disaster I (2013) as part of the screening program. Curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Nora Razian. Lebanon. https://sursock.museum/content/film-screening-fire-and-unearthing-disaster-i
College of the Menominee Nation – Keshena, Menominee Reservation, WI. Screening of Unearthing Disaster I (2013). In collaboration with Guy Reiter from the Menominee Conservation Commission. https://www.facebook.com/WinonaLaDukeHonorTheEarth/posts/987284531391996:0
2015
A Public Library – Berlin. Screening Unearthing Disaster I (2013) with Angela Melitopoulos. Organized by Fotini Lazaidou-Hatzigoga. www.apubliclibrary.org/event/unearthing-disaster/
The Cost of Wealth – platform for artistic research and production, Brussels. Screening of Unearthing Disaster I (2013) & II (2015) and lecture in collaboration with Angela Melitopoulos as part of the film and lecture series “The Cost of Wealth” curated by Florian Wüst. http://jubilee-art.org/?rd_project=the-cost-of-wealth&lang=en
No Strings Attached - On Performativity - Beursschouwburg, Brussels. Lecture-screening on the topic of performativity in documentary film production. As part of the symposium “No Strings Attached” by Sound Image Culture. http://soundimageculture.org/previous_discursive_program
2014
Landings: Confrontation and Confession - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Audio-visual Lecture “Unearthing Disaster: Mining for Gold in the Greek Debt Crisis” with Angela Melitopoulos for ”Landings: Confrontation and Confession” Curated by Natasha Ginwala & Vivian Ziherl. http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/symposia/landings-confrontation-and- confession#sthash.Ay1KVyhE.dpuf
Prizes, Residencies, Fellowships, Grants
2023 Kunst im öffenlichen Raum 2023 – Land Tirol Art in Public Space Tirol, with Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* https://www.koer-tirol.at/en/projects/2276/
Förderungsstipendium - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
2020-21 Cathrin Pichler Prize for Art and Sciences of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna https://www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/universitaet/uber-uns/news/2020/angela-anderson-erhaelt-cathrin-pichler-preis-2020
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship – Topical residency with the thematic focus of “Mutations” from October 2020 to June 2021. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE). http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/residency/
NEUSTART KULTUR – Kunstfonds: Stipendium für bildende Künstler*innen https://www.kunstfonds.de/neustart-kultur/gefoerderte/kuenstlerinnenstipendien
2018 Artist Research Grant - Berlin Senate https://www.berlin.de/sen/kultur/foerderung/foerderprogramme/foerderergebnisse/bildende-kunst/
Fellowship for Art & Theory - Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, AT. https://www.buchsenhausen.at/fellow/angela-anderson/
2017 Feature Expanded (a collaboration between HOME, Manchester & Lo Schermo dell’arte, Florence)
Feature film development program for visual artists, with my feature film project “Frostville”. http://www.schermodellarte.org/en/feature-expanded-3rd-edition/
2016
Artist Research Grant - Berlin Senate https://www.berlin.de/sen/kultur/foerderung/foerderprogramme/foerderergebnisse/bildende-kunst/
2015
Project Funding – Berlin Senate for the live radio event Radio Schizoanalytique – Transmissions from the Fold, with Angela Melitopoulos. https://www.angelaolgaanderson.net/radio-schizoanalytique
2012
KunstlerInnen Program Grant for Women Filmmakers sponsored by the Berliner Senat, for the script development of “Frostville”.
2009 The New School Graduate Media Studies Program Showcase Special Recognition for Interpretation Award. Dept. of Media Studies and Film, The New School (NYC)
Teaching
2022 - Present Instructor, Bard College Berlin - Art and Aesthetics Advanced Module https://berlin.bard.edu/people/profiles/angela-anderson
2019 - Present
Künstlerische Mitarbeiterin (Assistant Professor) Kunsthochschule Kassel with Prof. Bjørn Melhus – Virtual Realities Class. Kassel (DE). https://www.kunsthochschulekassel.de/personen/anderson-angela.html
2017
Workshop on Forum Expanded 2017 - Royal Academy of Arts Copenhagen
For the Media Arts Class, Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen.
Lecture-screening with a virtual tour of the 2017 Forum Expanded exhibition (Berlin International Film Festival).
2009 Teaching Assistant - The New School
Teaching assistant for the online course “Sound Culture” taught by Joan Schuman in the department of Media Studies and Film, The New School (NYC).
Publications
2023 Hydrofeminism Now
in The Taste of Water – Leaky vessels, flowing rituals and non-consensual collaborations Published by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT.
2022 Hexenküche (The Witch Rarely Appears in the History of the Proletariat) FKW – Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforchung und Visualle Kultur. Nr 71, Okt 2022. https://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/article/view/1631/1629
2021
Pipeliners for Trump – Energy, Extraction and White Supremacy in the US Midwest in Solitude Journal 3 Mutations, Published by Academy Schloss Solitude. June, 2021. https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/online-publications/mutations-2/pipeliners-for-trump-energy-extraction-and-white-supremacy-in-the-us-midwest/
2020
“We are not Activists”
in Swiss Psychotropic Gold, ed. knowbotiq, Nina Bandi, CMV Christoph Merian Verlag Basel, 2020. http://knowbotiq.net/psychogold/
2016
“We are not Activists” in Elements for a World: STONE, WATER, WOOD, FIRE, SKY the publication accompanying the exhibition Let’s Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis at the Sursock Museum, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Nora Razian. Edited by Ashkan Sepahvand. Beirut, Lebanon. https://sursock.museum/content/publications
2010
"I swear it's not a cow..." The eery glow of television screens in America's Heartland.
in Sarai Reader 08: Fear edited by Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi. Published by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Dehli, India. http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/sarai-reader-08-fear
2009
“No Such Thing as Good and Evil: The Wire and the humanization of the object of risk in the age of biopolitics” in darkmatter Journal Issue 4: The Wire Files edited by Sanjay Sharma and Ash Sharma. http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2009/05
Museum Collections
Mueso National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Crossings (2017) By Angela Melitopoulos with Angela Anderson & Maurizio Lazzarato.
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla – Crossings (2017) By Angela Melitopoulos with Angela Anderson & Maurizio Lazzarato.