Tjasa Kancler

Lecturer Professor

Knowledge area: Escultura

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

Tjasa Kancler (Maribor, 1978), artist, activist, researcher and Serra Húnter professor at the Department of Visual Arts and Design - Section for Art and Visual Culture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University ... + info

Research interests

Capitalismo tecno-racial, 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 . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.AR 439 . Das Kuratorium des Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) Àustria . PI: Marina Grzinic

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

Conviviality as Potentiality: From Amnesia and Pandemic towards a Convivial Epistemology . 2021 - 2025 . Ref.FWF-PEEK AR 679 . Das Kuratorium des Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) Àustria . PI: Marina Grzinic Mauhler

BIP ERASMUS+ Artistic Correspondence. Research 'in situ' Documenta 15 (Facultad de Bellas Artes de Kassel) /// Contemporary Art at the Crossroads of the Social and the Political (Facultad de Bellas Artes de Viena) /// Intersections: Art, Institutions, Autonomous Spaces and Activism (Facultad de Bellas Artes de Barcelona) https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/bellesarts/inici/-/detall/bip-erasmus-intersections-art-institutions-autonomous-spaces-and-activism . 2022 - 2023 . Ref.2021-1-ES01-KA131-HED-000 . Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Kancler, Tjasa, Sucari, Jacobo; Grzinic, Marina; Pristovsek, Jovita; Bool, Shannon; Grcic, Tamara

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 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2524-2733

Kancler, T. (2018). 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. (2020). Body Politics, Trans* Imaginary and Decoloniality . In Decolonizing queer experience. LGBT+ narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia . (pp. 17 - 37) . Lexington Books a Division of Rowman & Littlefield . ISBN: 9781793630308 . https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793630315/Decolonizing-Queer-Experience-LGBT-Narratives-from-Eastern-Europe-and-Eurasia

Kancler, T. (2022). Trans* Films and Decolonization . In Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities: For Radical Change . (pp. 142 - 161) . Cambridge Scholars Press . ISBN: 978-1-5275-8164-7 . https://books.google.es/books?id=-nVjEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Re-Activating+Critical+Thinking+amidst+Necropolitical+Realities&source=bl&ots=PmJWvb_m (https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8164-7)

Kancler, T. (2021). Speaking against the void. Decolonial transfeminist relations and radical potentialities . In Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues. Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice . (pp. 1 - 282) . Routledge . ISBN: 9780367434403 . https://www.routledge.com/Postcolonial-and-Postsocialist-Dialogues-Intersections-Opacities-Challenges/Koobak-Tlostanova-Thapar-Bjorkert/p/book/9780367

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

Bueno, P . (2023) . En la montaña me siento un poco mejor.Trabajo de investigación sobre dolor, cuerpo, performance y neurodivergencia (Master's Thesis) . Universidad de Barcelona.

Sanchez, M . (2024) . Happy Family Dreams (Master's Thesis) . Universidad de Barcelona.

García Patón, E . (2024) . Cuerpo, texto y arquitectura; una práctica de resistencia (Master's Thesis) . Universidad de Barcelona.

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

Insurgent Flows. Trans*Decolonial and Black Marxist Futures . Kancler, T, Grzinic, M . (Audiovisual) . 01/10/2023 . FWF Austrian Science Fund-FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds

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]

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

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

Insurgent Flows.Thriving of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer and Trans Vitalities. White Topographies of Coercion and Emancipation . (Collective) . 20/09/2023 - 30/09/2023 . Experimental Film: Insurgent Flows. Trans*Decolonial and Black Marxist Futures . https://convivialityaspotentiality.akbild.ac.at/2023/09/10/exhibition-insurgent-flows-thriving-of-black-brown-indigenous-queer-and-trans-vitalities-white-topographies-of-coercion-and-emancipation/

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