| Claudia
Wegener is a travelling, London-based sound and media artist organizing
collective audio radio projects; Associate member of Transnational Arts
Identity and Nation (TrAIN) Research at the University of the Arts
London (UAL)
Born in Hamm Germany in 1965, based
in London since 1989; currently in Kenya and South Africa.
audio
radio projects
2009-10 LONG WALK
2008-10 DURBAN
SINGS audio media and oral history project
2009 RADIO ARMED
RESPONSE
2007-08 the NO-GO-ZONES audio radio project
2007
‘LONG WALK (abridged)’
2006 STREET WRITINGS
2005
LONG WALK public chess tournament
other projects and
participations (selection)
2007 ‘Monday’,
an acoustic movie by weedworks and trunkstore for ‘Sons de
plateaux’, Marseille, organized by the International
Exhibitionist
2007
installation of RADIO ARMED RESPONSE at the Goethe Institut Joburg
‘Armed Response’
2006
participation with STAND STILL ‘joburg jingles’ in
BLACKOUTS – An event on the memory of space, curated by Paul
Hendrikse in collaboration with Patricia Kyungu, St Michaels Community
Centre in Alexandra Johannesburg S.A.
2005 video 30 min: voice
over for I REMEMBER… by Fred Koenig, Joburg 2005
2004
video 28 min: performance and text (from ‘24hrs’)
for FOLLOW ME… a film trilogy shown as a mobile projection
during the Olympic Games in the centre of Athens, directed and edited
by Kathrin Lind and Dimitris Tzamouranis
2003 "Gloria" from
‘24hrs’ piece for JORNAL PLANETA CAPACETE (Ano3
No11);
2001
‘Love and Hunger’ performance piece for
INTERCULTURALIDADES curated by Edson Barrus, centro de Artes UFF
Niteroi, with Jarbas Lopes, Ricardo Basbaum, Hapax, Márcia
X, Simone Micheline i.a.
curated projects
2005
curated playlist for ‘Daily Noises’, in the LeRoy
Neiman Gallery Columbia NY; curated by Valérie Vivancos and
Rudolphe Alexis (founder editors of the audio magazine
‘vibro’); ‘AIR LINES
downloaded’: audio work by Boyle Family, Zoë Irvine,
claudia wegener, Juan Cruz and foreign investment.
2004-05
(Oct. 04 – April 05) HERE a showcase for audio work at
Camberwell College of Arts with: Boyle Family, Caroline Bergvall, David
Toop, Foreign Investment, Juan Cruz, Kaffe Matthews, Paula Roush , Paul
O’Kane, Phill Niblock, Tereza Neuma Valérie
Vivancos, Rudolphe Alexis, Vibrofiles.com, William Furlong, Claudia
Wegener; broadcasts on Resonance104.4fm in Oct. and Dec. 2004
2004
Artivists: a day of performance and debate in Peckham Library and
Peckham
Square, as part of Camberwell Arts Week (co-organised and
co-chaired with Michael Asbury): with David Medalla, Gustav Metzger,
Dias&Riedweg, Oreet Ashery i.a.
works in
public and private collections (selection)
British Museum;
Department of Prints and Drawings
Collection of the Wellcome
Trust London
Johannesburg Art Gallery;
Kunstverein,
Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster;
Museum
Man, Liverpool/ Berlin;
National Art Library, Victoria
& Albert Museum London;
Royal College of Art
Collection London;
WDR 3 Cologne, Studio for Acoustic Arts
teaching
/ lectures / seminars
Brunel University UK; Dartington College
UK; Goldsmiths College University of London; Royal College of Arts;
London School of Economics; Tate Modern; Tate Britain; Princeton
University; University of Newcastle UK; USP São Paulo;
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; University of Thessaly Volos,
Greece; Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus; University of Windsor CA; Centre
for Civil Society at University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban; Market Photo
Workshop and Witswatersrand University, Johannesburg
education
1992-98
PhD Goldsmiths College,
University of London
1989-91
MA Royal College of Art London
1986-89
BA (Biology)
Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1985-89
BA (Fine Art) Kunstakademie
Münster Kunstradio Broadcasts:
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