University of Reading

Faculty Member, Department of Fine Art

Professor of Art

About

Areas of Interest:
Video, Installation, Experimental Performance, Performative Curating

My current practice and related research engages with filmed and live performances, video installations and interactive interventions. In these works the performance and the installation are a site for post and meta-production in which the stream of film and performance images are crash choreographed into a critical sphere. Installations resonate apocalyptic, theatrical film sets and stages, where the development of the work can be experienced. Performers and actors are choreographed within these sets, enacting texts and movements, thereby generating a structure of social, cultural and political references and associations within the work.

I work and publish continuously under the artist name Szuper Gallery, often in co-operation with the artist Pavlo Kerestey.

Recent seminars and workshops
have addressed performance and video practice and theory, critical self-reflexive practices and performative curating, for example Curatorial Vaudeville, at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich, 2008, or Crash Choreography, Performance Workshop, at the Ecole der Beaux Art, Geneva. I have also contributed to HEA funded pedagogical research looking at performative aspects of teaching in The strength of the system and my experiences of it, was that in fact, oddly enough, it was actually a very collaborative enterprise already.

Postgraduate Supervision:

I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students who would like to work on such topics as: research in and through art practice, film and video, filmed and live performance, installation as post-production, digital and time-based practice, collective practice(s), theatre as art, contemporary feminism, political art, alternative spaces.

Biography:
I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1988 – 1994) before gaining an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College in London (1997- 1999).


Selected Exhibitions:

2011 Szuper Gallery, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina (solo)
2010 VideoDanzaBa, Microcine in Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires,
2010 Moves 10: Framing Motion, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2009 Ballet, The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading (solo)
2009 Barefoot in the Head, Performa 09, New York, Bruce High Quality
2009 Translation Paradoxes and Misunderstandings, Shedhalle Zurich,
2008 The Extras-Regina, Curtain Razor, Regina, Canada (solo)
2008  Loving Revolution, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2007 Szuper Gallery at The Artists’ Studio, London (solo)
2007 4' 33", Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein
2007 Bohemian Workout, Lothringer 13, Munich
2007 Szuper Gallery, Les Complices, Zurich (solo)
2006 The Extras, Szuper Gallery, Kunsthalle Helsinki, (solo)
2006 Jump Into Cold Water, Shedhalle Zurich
2005 Nightshifts, Western Front, Vancouver, (solo)
2005 The Extras, Live Art Biennial, Vancouver, (solo)
2005  Rehearsing the Extras, Performance', Forum Box, Helsinki
2004 'homeland security. Something.., Para/Site Art space, Hong
2003  Electric Earth Film and Video from Britain, British Council Touring Exhibition, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RU National Museum, Moscow
2002 gallery fiction, KünstlerHaus, Bremen, (solo)
2002  QUIVID, Technisches Rathaus Munich 1-Z, Kreisverwaltungsreferat
2002 Another Swiss Version, AR/GE KUNST Museum, Bolzano, I
2002 The movement began with a scandal, Kunstraum hosted b,y
2001-05  LIFTARCHIV, KVR, Munich
2001 Temporary Accomodation Whitechapel Art Gallery. London
2001 mobile parasitic architecture, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2001 Szuper Gallery, Künstlerhaus Bremen, (solo)
2001 On The Margin, Plugin Gallery, Winnipeg
2001Televisions, Kunsthalle, Vienna

Books

Clausen , S. and P. Kerestey (eds), LIFTARCHIV, Blume-Beyerle W., Hauffen M., Pemler M., Richter D., Suchin P., Schütz H., Snauwaert D.,(deutsch, englisch), Revolver Frankfurt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-403-9

Clausen , S. with Szuper Gallery, (eds) Brisley, S., Tarsia, A., Hoffman, J., Hobbs, P. and Roth, J., Gallery Talks, Galerie d Künstler, Munich, 2001, pps 32-64, ISBN 3-00-008394-4.

Clausen, S., with Szuper Gallery, (eds) Szuper Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2001, pp 36, ISBN 0854881271.

Edited Works: Contributions

Clausen S. “Szuper Gallery”, in Artists’ Studio, Cultureshock, 2007, 96 pp. ISBN: 0-95-46999-5-5

Clausen, S., ''Interview with Szuper Gallery'', in Borderline, Strategien und Taktiken fur Kunst und soziale Praxis, AG Borderline-Kongress, AG Borderline-Kongress, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002, pp 328, ISBN 3-8311-3775-7.

Clausen, S., Schütz, H., Fricke, A., Nicolai, O. and Pemler, M., ''Circus artists under the big top: clueless and other business strategies'', in Demokratie als Auftraggeber - Kunstwettbewerbe der LH München, Heinz Schutz, Baureferat der LH Munchen, Verlag für moderne Kunst,2002, Nürnberg, 2002, pp 128, ISBN 3-936711-04-6.

Clausen, S., ''Szuper Gallery'', in Demokratie als Auftraggeber - Kunstwettbewerbe der LH Muenchen, Heinz Schutz, Baureferat der LH Muenchen, Verlag fur moderne Kunst, 2002, Nurnberg, 2003, pp 128, ISBN 3-936711-04-6.

Journal Contributions

Clausen, S. Slapping Scenes, The Happy Hypocrite, Hunting Gathering Issue 2, 2008
Clausen, S., ‘Labour and Love’ Geist, no.11,12,14, Summer 2008
Clausen, S. and Kerestey, P., Work/Arbeit/Rabota, Slashseconds 5
Clausen, S. and Kerestey, P., ''Szuper Gallery'', Szuper Lift-Archiv, 6, October 2004, pp 2-6,
Clausen, S., ''Liftarchiv'', FLACK ATTACK, 1, January 2006

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