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 forthcoming hooops magazine (Berlin) and CODA (Paris).
OOOREADING: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 2/2
OOOREADING: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
SHE TELLS THE TRUTH, ALWAYS
GROUNDING EXERCISE
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.
WET READING ROOM
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
OOOREADING: WITH YOUR WORDS OF RESILIENCE WORM, Rotterdam NL
AFLOAT
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.
OOOREADING CLUB
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
STONE NETWORK
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.