Biografie
Artist-researcher Laura von Niederhäusern develops narrative inquiry methods by means of film and writing. Observing speech acts and ordinary ways of life under the present time imperatives of permanent (self-)production and acceleration, her attention is drawn to conceptions of efficiency, disposability, modes of orientation and integrity in the sphere of individualised “immaterial labour”.
Laura von Niederhäusern studied critical theory, cultural studies and fine arts at HEAD Geneva, where she subsequently worked between 2009-2015 as a research assistant and faculty member of the CCC Research-based Master Programme. In 2023, she has obtained a practice-based PhD degree at DFA/ZHdK in cooperation with the Art University Linz. Currently she works as research associate at the Institut for Contemporary Art Research, Department Fine Arts ZHdK, where she coordinates the pre/doc and PhD-Programme.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
Selection exhibitions
- 9th Bucarest Biennial, Bucarest
- Face No Dial of a Clock, Kulturfolger, Zürich
- La bête et l’adversité, Le Commun, Genf
- Ich gab mir Mühe, damit ich nicht an Unlust früh verglühe, Kunstraum Gitte Bohr, Berlin
- Keine Zeit. Erschöpftes Selbst/Entgrenztes Können, 21er Haus, Wien
Selection conferences
- Transversal Entanglement – Artistic Research in Film, Filmuniversität Babelsberg
- The Need for Art to Change the World, ZHdK, Zürich
- 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, ZHdK, Zürich
- Über Leben – How do artists live/survive? Positions, experiences, strategies, ZHdK, Zürich