Dr. Michael Baers
Affiliated Researcher
Positions
Education
Publications
2016, An Oral History of Picasso in Palestine. Hamburg: adocs verlag.
2019, “Concerning Intent, Interpretation, Memory and Historical Ambiguity in the Conflict in Western Sahara,” Memory Studies Vol. 12 (3). London. Sage Publications, 294 – 306.
2019, “Crime Story: Berlin’s Tiergarten and Perceptions of Public Space.” In: Sandra Bartolli (ed.), Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression: This Obscure Object of Desire. Zurich: Park Books 122 – 133.
2018, “What Comes Under, After, Beyond: Notes on Jeff Weber’s Kunsthalle Leipzig.” In: Jeff Weber, An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology. Amsterdam: Roma Books, 459 – 477.
2014, “Ett första steg mot en regional riskbedömning” (A First Step Towards a National Risk Assessment). In: Johanne Løgstrup, Åse Lovgren, Karolin Tampere (eds.), Reform. Aarhus: Antipyrine, 92 – 101 (in Swedish).
2014, “Eros Cannot Be Found on Facebook.” In: Alexandra Croitoru, Magda Radu, Dana Andrei (eds.), Dear Money. Bucharest: Salonul de Proiecte and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, 29 – 47 (in Romanian and English).
2019, “From Social Democratic Experiment to Postwar Avant-Gardism” (co-author: Iris Ströbel), bauhaus imaginista online journal.
2018, “A First Step Towards a National Risk Assessment,” e-flux journal, No. 91. (online journal).
2014, “Vagaries and Vacillations: Some reflections on the making of An Oral History of Picasso in Palestine,” Vector – critical research in context. Critical theories and creative practices of research. Iasi: University of Arts George Enescu, 32 – 41; 43 – 58.
2012, “Michael Asher: Final Words and Unfinished Work,” e-flux journal, No. 39. (online journal)
2012, “No Good Time for an Exhibition: The Making of Picasso in Palestine,” e-flux journal, Nos. 33 and 34 (online journal).
2011, “Inside the Box: Notes from within the European Artistic Research Debate,” e-flux journal, No. 26. (online journal).
Talks
06/02/2020, “The Outside of the Inside and the Inside of the Outside: Resuscitating the emancipatory pedagogical project of the historical avant-gardes after the emergence of postcolonial studies.” As part of Art, Spatiality, Politics Ringvorlesung, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin.
15/09/2015, “The Ballad of Picasso in Palestine,” lecture on my work with the Picasso in Palestine project, Malmö Academy of Art and Valand Academy, University of Gotebörg, Sweden.
Conference Papers
10/02/2020, “Give us time, give us time, and we’ll be a multitude: Notes on the artistic doctorate.” As part of EQ-Arts Creator Doctus (CrD) Workshop, Merz Akademie Hochschule für Gestaltung, Kunst und Medien, Stuttgart.
26/10/2018, “The Nowhere of the Archive,” as part of The Conscience of an Archive, New Europe College, Bucharest.
18/05/2017, “Escape Routes: A proposal for the re-organization of artistic pedagogy at the graduate level,” as part of: Phase 3—How We Do Research, Muthesiuns University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
Teaching Activities
Awards
- Fellow, Kunstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, 2018 – 2019.
- Recipient, award, 2014 Zed Grant in Artistic Research, Istanbul
- Recipient, stipend and residency, IASPIS, Stockholm, November – January 2014
- Recipient, working grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), fall 2006
- Recipient, stipend and residency, DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artists) fellowship, March – June 2006
Languages
- English: native Speaker
- German: basic