Anna Bierler

ecologie - publicatie - experimenteel

Anna Bierler works with the medium of writing, through process based publishing, installations, reading groups and poetry. Her artistic practice stems from graphic design: she makes publications that explore how ecological narratives are experienced and disseminated. She focuses on the role language plays in the design of our imaginations and explores how using time as a design material can shape new perspectives that remedy fractured relationships with nature and alleviate eco-anxiety. Anna has taught at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam; ArtEZ, Zwolle; the University of Antwerp and the 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 Suzi Project Space, Amsterdam; Auftakt Festival Cologne; Onomatopoeia Eindhoven; Casco Art Institute in Utrecht; CLOUD Dance Lab in the Hague. Since 2022 Anna co-organizes the poetry collective OOOReading Club in Rotterdam

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    • AFLOAT

    Project

    • 01-10-2023
    • In samenwerking met: María Mazzanti
    • Locatie: 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!

    OOOREADING CLUB

    Project

    • 01-09-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Tiiu Meiner
    • Locatie: 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 samenwerking met: Marit Mihklepp
    • Locatie: 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 samenwerking met: María Mazzanti
    • Locatie: 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 samenwerking met: Auftakt Festival
    • Locatie: gold+beton, 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

    OOOREADING: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 2/2

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    OOOREADING: CONFUSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

    Workshop

    OOOREADING: WITH YOUR WORDS OF RESILIENCE WORM, Rotterdam NL

    Workshop

    • 05-11-2023 t/m 05-11-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Worm, Rotterdam
    • Locatie: Worm , Rotterdam

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Experimental Grant, Stimuleringsfonds

    • 2022
      Stipendium

    • Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Project Grant, Stichting Jaap Hartens Fund

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Project Grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Research Stipend, Mart Stam Stipendium

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • Starting Grant, Stimuleringsfonds

    • 2023
      Publicatie

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

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

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

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

    • and deep deep holes and tracks and traces and changes

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

    • Tear Bag

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

    • Construction Sites

    • 2021
    • essay
    • Design Department, Sandberg Institute - Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
      Publicatie

    • Meltdown

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

    • Glass Poem

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

    • Milk Star

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

    • another world for hole is opening

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

    • she tells the truth, always

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