The project’s artistic research into this omnipresent
material and natural resource is conducted in collaboration with the University of Leoben’s Department of Petroleum Engineering
(DPE). Working together on artistic petroleum experiments is a non-hierarchical process which combines different approaches
and ways of thinking to enable productive engagement. The interdisciplinary nature of this collaborative process, which includes
the DPE team as well as a number of expert guests, is inspiring and offers new ways of seeing our energy culture.
The
objective is to bring about a change in public perception and create new visions of a future without oil by means of a collective
process of reflection and experiments as well as through individually developed artistic works that address the global petroleum
culture.
As part of the event, the Reflecting Oil project, its goals and interdisciplinary experiences will be
presented. Additionally, the discussion will also focus on opportunities and issues of the art-science nexus.
Presentation
by Ernst Logar (Artist and Cultural Worker)
and a discussion with Holger Ott (Reservoir Engineer, Head of the Department
Petroleum Engineering at Montanuniversität Leoben) and Gerald Bast (Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Moderation:
Julia Grillmayr
Ernst Logar has been working with photography, film, sculpture, and installations
since 1995. In his work, he addresses existing power structures and historical, sociocultural, and ecological phenomena. From
1997−1999, he studied Experimental Design at the University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz, and Transmedia Art at the
University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1999−2004. He also completed the Culture and Organisation postdoc programme at the
Institute for Cultural Concepts and the University of Vienna from 2006−2007. His creative work includes Non-Public Spaces
(since 1998), Den Blick hinrichten (2004−2008), The End of Remembering – Carinthian Partisans (2008–2012), Invisible Oil (2008),
Sustainable Transformation (2010), Place of Unrest (2012–2018), Tar Sands: Approaching an Anthropocentric Site (2016), and
Reflecting Oil: Arts-based Research on Oil Transitionings (since 2019).
Ernst Logar was born in 1965 in Klagenfurt (Austria)
and lives and works now in Vienna.
https://ail.angewandte.at/program/reflecting-oil
