Tjasa Kancler

Lecturer Professor

Knowledge area: Estètica i Teoria de les Arts

Contact Information
Department of Visual Arts and Design
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Belles Arts Pau Gargallo, 4
636712591
tkancler(a)ub.edu

My profile

Tja¿a Kancler (Maribor, 1978), artist, activist, researcher and associate professor at the Department of Visual Arts and Design - Section Art and Visual Culture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. S/he holds B.A. in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana and B.A. in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. M.A. in Artistic Production and Research, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, and PhD in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona.

S/he participated in exhibitions, art festivals and conferences including: Berlinale Talent Campus (Berlin 2009), Sarajevo Talent Campus (Sarajevo 2009), The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression, City Museum (Ljubljana 2009), Decolonizing Knowledge and Life through Theory and Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienna 2011), Art and Research: Shared Methodologies, Politics and Translation, Faculty of Fine Arts (Barcelona 2012), Festival Lezbična četrt, 25th anniversary of Lesbian Group ¿KUC-LL (Ljubljana 2012), Archives of the Non-Racial, JWTC (Johannesburg - Cape Town, 2014), Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism. Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches, University Justus-Leibig (Giessen 2014), Decolonizing the Museum, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA (Barcelona 2014), Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice, University de Linköping, (Linköping 2015), Toward a non-Eurocentric Academia: Border Thinking and Decoloniality from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas, Duke University (Durham 2016), Right to move / Libertad de movimiento, Goethe Institut (Barcelona 2016), 3ºMuestra de CineMigrante (Barcelona 2016), Inside/Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective, Leibniz University (Hannover 2016), Decolonizing Transgender in North, CGF Karlstad University (Karlstad 2016), Belonging and Participation in the Nordic societies, Turku University (Turku, 2016), Thinking Gender and Sexuality (After) Empire and Socialism, Max Planck Institute (Gottingen, 2016).

http://www.damne.net
https://barcelona.academia.edu/tjasakancler

- info

Research interests

Colonialidad del ver y modos de producción artística

Imaginarios trans*, feminismos decoloniales y prácticas artísticas audiovisuales

Políticas de memoria y contra-genealogías críticas

Participation in Projects

Genealogy of Amnesia: Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality (https://archiveofamnesia.akbild.ac.at/) . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.AR 439 . FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds . PI: Grzinic Marina

L'arxiu audiovisual com activitat docent innovadora . 2012 - 2013 . Generalitat de Catalunya . PI: Carles Ameller Ferretjans

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications)

Kancler, T.; Rexhepi, P.; Grzinic, M. (2019). Decolonial encounters and the geopolitics of racial capitalism. Feminist Critique - East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, pp. 13 - 39 . https://feminist.krytyka.com/en/articles/decolonial-encounters-and-geopolitics-racial-capitalism . ISSN: 2524-2733

Kancler, T. (2017). Interrogating Silences: Crisis, Borders and Decolonial Interferences . In Border Thinking. Dissasembling Histories of Racialized Violence . Volume. 21 . (pp. 152 - 163) . Sternberg Press . ISBN: 978-3-95679-383-7 . https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/border-thinking-disassembling-histories-of-racialized-violence/

Kancler, T. (2018). Arte-Política-Resistencia . (pp. 1 - 300) . Ediciones t.i.c.t.a.c. . ISBN: 978-84-09-02989-1 . http://www.intervencionesdecoloniales.org/2018/12/arte-politica-resistencia/

Kancler, T. (2019). Hacia una "academia" No-eurocéntrica . In Des-bordes N6 / Red Conceptualismos del Sur . Red Conceptualismos del Sur . https://des-bor-des.net/2019/12/17/hacia-una-academia-no-eurocentrica/

Kancler, T. (2020). Body Politics, Trans* Imaginary and Decoloniality . In Decolonizing queer experience. LGBT+ narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia . (pp. 1 - 205) . Lexington Books a Division of Rowman & Littlefield . ISBN: 9781793630308 . https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793630315/Decolonizing-Queer-Experience-LGBT-Narratives-from-Eastern-Europe-and-Eurasia

Gr¿inić M., ¿efik, T., Zabret, V., Pristov¿ek J. Kancler T., Uitz S. (2020). Dialogues for the Future: Countering Genealogy of Amnesia . In CKZD - Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Austrian Science Fund (Peek Project No. AR 439-G24/IBK), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . ISBN: 978-86-88001-19-9 . https://archiveofamnesia.akbild.ac.at/?p=1305

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Tjasa Kancler . (2014) . Arte, política y resistencia en la era postmedia (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universidad de Barcelona. http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/145688

Workart

kronotop.org . Kancler, T.; Steidinger, A . (Audiovisual) . 2014 . http://www.kronotop.org . Hamaca, plataforma de audiovisual experimental . Associació Hamaca

Archives of the Non-Racial: A Mobile Workshop . Kancler, T . (Audiovisual) . 2014 . https://vimeo.com/102174088 . Johannesburg Workshop for Critical Theory

Countering the Genealogy of Amnesia . Gr¿inić,M., Pristov¿ek, J.,Kancler T., Jauernik,C. , Tatlić, ¿., Uitz,S., Zabret, V . (Audiovisual) . 2019 . https://archiveofamnesia.akbild.ac.at/?page_id=17 . FWF PEEK Project AR 439 . Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Viena

Exhibitions

The trans*-reformulation of language in political experimental videos . (Collective) . 24/04/2019 - 28/04/2019 . European Media Arts Festival: http://2019.emaf.de/de/index.html . ISBN: 978-3-926501-4

Suspicious, implicated agencies: gender mutants, decolonial transfeminist, militant filmmakers, radical theoreticians, migrant sex workers . (Collective) . 12/10/2018 - 31/12/2018 . International Computer Arts Festival: https://www.mfru.org/ [http://www.damne.net/?p=2652]

Aftermaths and Transformations: October Revolution 1917 Revisited . (Collective) . 23/10/2017 - 25/10/2017 . Instituto de Bellas Artes, Facultad de Bellas Artes y Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Viena . https://www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/institute/bildende-kunst/vortrage-events/2017/aftermaths-and-transformations-october-revolution-1917-revisited

UNCENSORED - International Film Days . (Collective) . 16/03/2017 - 18/03/2017 . Top Kino /Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Viena . https://www.akbild.ac.at/portal_en/institutes/fine-arts/lectures-events/2017/uncensored-internationale-filmtage

Stories of Traumatic Pasts. CounterArchives for Future Memories . (Collective) . 08/10/2020 - 03/04/2021 . Weltmuseum: https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/exhibitions/stories-of-traumatic-pasts/ . ISBN: 9783775748841

More Information: www.damne.net