Buchpräsentation und Lecture Performance mit Paula Cohen und Christina Gruber im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe “Donnerstags in der Bibliothek” der Universitätsbibliothek der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (auf Englisch)
From Amstetten in Austria to Sulina?s beach in Romania, From Mud To Outer Space tries to identify what builds a river?s identity through the libraries on its shores, the music that floats along its path and the people that it meets along the way. A book created and written by the freshwater ecologist and visual artist Christina Gruber (AT) and the seafarer and animation filmmaker Paula Cohen (FR) to explore the link between West and East, transatlantic wires, sturgeons, dragons and space coasts. Simply, the relation between water and people.
Paula Cohen, born in 1989 in Paris (France), studied at the Fine Arts School of Nantes (FR) and Porto (PT), the University of Nantes (History of Mathematics) and in the Graphic Research School of Brussels (BE) where she graduated in experimental animation cinema. She works as an artist and a seafarer in Marseille and at sea.
Publications: Moby Dick (Artist book, Bartleby and Co, 2017), From Mud To Outer Space (Artists book, Soybot, 2017) and L?Institut B. (Comic book, Bichel Éditions, 2018).
Christina Gruber, born 1987 in Amstetten (Austria), studied Site-specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), Applied Limnology at the University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Vienna (AT) and at Universidade de Agronomia Lisbon (PT). Works and lives as artist and freshwater ecologist in Vienna and on water. Exhibitions i.a.: CAC (New Orleans), AIL (Vienna), East Greenhouse (Corvallis), Skulpturinstitut (Vienna), steirischer herbst (Graz), Donaufestival (Krems), Künstlerhaus (Vienna). Residencies in New Orleans, Louisiana (US) and Woodside, Kalifornien (US). Publications: Cloud Atlas Vol. III (Artist book, self published, 2017), From Mud To Outer Space (Artist book, Soybot, 2017), Digital Water (Artist book, self published, 2016), The Boat Journey (Article, In: Landscape, Vol. 02, 2012). http://www.christinagruber.net
Programmdetails ?Donnerstags in der Bibliothek? unter http://www.akbild.ac.at/donnerstags
Kontakt: p.caseau@akbild.ac.at (Paul Caseau)