Anna Bierler

ecology - publication - experimental

Anna Bierler is a visual artist, writer and educator. Her practice considers storytelling, process and modes of collectivity. Using language as her main material her work materializes in experimental modes of publishing, reading performances, workshops, poetry and participatory installations.
Anna has taught at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam; ArtEZ, Zwolle; the University of Antwerp and is a regular guest tutor at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She has hosted workshops at Zone2Source, Amsterdam; Hackers and Designers, Amsterdam; and StrandLab; Almere.
Her work has been presented at RIB (Rotterdam), Suzi Project Space (Amsterdam), Auftakt Festival (Cologne), Onomatopee (Eindhoven), Casco Art Institute (Utrecht), CLOUD Dance Lab (the Hague). Her poems have been published in Daisy World Mag (Amsterdam), Robida (Topolò) and will be published in the upcoming hooops magazine (Berlin) and CODA (Paris).

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    • AFLOAT

    Project

    • 01-10-2023
    • In collaboration with: María Mazzanti
    • Location: online and offline, Rotterdam
    • afloat is a publishing platform and storytelling experiment to imagine the end otherwise. We explore the entanglements of climate catastrophe, storytelling, survivalism and worldmaking. Co-led by Anna Bierler and María Mazzanti, afloat creates publications, leads workshops, and develops protocols for compost-writing, interdependent texts and wet-reading tools. We believe these methodologies allow us to stay attuned to the planetary crisis from a space of vulnerability and empathy.
    • coming soon!

    OOREADING CLUB

    Project

    • 01-09-2022
    • In collaboration with: Tiiu Meiner
    • Location: Earth, Rotterdam
    • OOOReading Club is a community for writers and readers who experiment with language as a material. OOOReading aims to unite lonely writers with each other, to provide listening ears and attentive eyes to test out anything from fresh-shiny-baby texts, to rough-tough-sticky texts, and everything in between. Recent Activities include: Building With Words, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam NL, 2024 Confusions and Conclusions 1+2, Rib, Rotterdam, 2023
    • https://www.instagram.com/oooreading_club/

    STONE NETWORK

    Project

    • 01-09-2021
    • In collaboration with: Marit Mihklepp
    • Location: Earth, Rotterdam
    • The Stone Network builds on Anna's design research which investigates publishing as the process of creating relational experiences to understand ways of doing and living together, and Marit's artistic research which explores points of contact and ways of learning in collaboration with our more-than-human companions . So far the Stone Network has taken shape in conversations, writings, workshops, radio shows and publications.

    WET READING ROOM

    Workshop

    • 11-02-2024 t/m 17-02-2024
    • In collaboration with: María Mazzanti
    • Location: University of Antwerp, Antwerp
    • Throughout the week, we shared with them watery publishing protocols and writing exercises and discussed fluctuating waters, the fear of rising tides, human and non-human relationships, water infrastructure, and posthuman philosophy. The students translated their findings into a series of publications and zines and presented them in the first iteration of the wet reading room

    GROUNDING EXERCISE

    Performance

    • 29-11-2024 t/m 29-11-2024
    • In collaboration with: Auftakt Festival
    • Location: gold+concrete, Cologne
    • A poem about geologic timescales designed as an immersive storytelling experience for an audience. Seeking balance between sharing historical information and lived experience, providing multiple entry points for a viewer.

    SHE TELLS THE TRUTH, ALWAYS

    Performance

    OOREADING: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 2/2

    Exhibition / presentation

    OOREADING: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

    Workshop

    OOOREADING: WITH YOUR WORDS OF RESILIENCE WORM, Rotterdam NL

    Workshop

    • 05-11-2023 t/m 05-11-2023
    • In collaboration with: Worm, Rotterdam
    • Location: Worm, Rotterdam

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Experimental Grant, Stimulation Fund

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Project Grant, Stokroos Foundation

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Project Grant, Jaap Hartens Fund Foundation

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Project Grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academy

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Research Stipend, Mart Stam Stipend

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Starting Grant, Incentive Fund

    • 2023
      Publication

    • I want to change from a rock to a psychedelic flower

    • 2022
    • poem
    • Robida Magazine #8: Isola Otok Island - Robida Collective
      Publication

    • I want to change from a rock to a psychedelic flower

    • 2022
    • poem
    • Daisy World Magazine #4: Silent Spring - Zazie Stevens
      Publication

    • and deep deep holes and tracks and traces and changes

    • 2022
    • reader
    • Anna Bierler and Hannah Rose Whittle - self published
      Publication

    • tear bag

    • 2021
    • collection of poems
    • PUB Journal - Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
      Publication

    • Construction Sites

    • 2021
    • Essay
    • Design Department, Sandberg Institute - Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
      Publication

    • Meltdown

    • 2021
    • short stories
    • Daisy World Magazine #2: No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn - Zazie Stevens
      Publication

    • Glass Poem

    • 2024
    • poem
    • OOOReading Club, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam - OOOReading Club
      Publication

    • Milk Star

    • 2024
    • poem
    • hooops, Berlin - Astarte Posch and Elisa Pieper
      Publication

    • another world for hole is opening

    • 2024
    • poem
    • CODA, Paris - Manon Bachelier
      Publication

    • she tells the truth, always

    • 2023
    • poem
    • Auftakt festival, Cologne - auftakt festival