TransArts - Cäcilia Brown: SMELLY HILLS
Eine Veranstaltung von TransArts - Transdisziplinäre Kunst

I like to work with themes structuring public space- organisation, the right of use and enjoyment, entitlement, questions of power, infrastructure and resources, but these themes are hard to manifest. So I work with fragments. I understand the materials I am working with as an archive. I don’t invent the themes from scratch so it makes sense to work with material that already exist as a fragment, a document of our environment.
I like to look at sculptural qualities from a linguistic point or the other way around- when in a previous body of work I was letting my sculptures hang around in the exhibition room, in another series I work with the notion of leaning and holding- these terms are actions as much as they can be used to describe the qualities of a sculpture.

Next to my interest in how sculptures position themselves I am also interested in the combination of materials and content, in one of
my series I worked with bad connections purposely- content wise as much as actual bad joints.

In the lecture I will talk about previous work with a focus on the process of making rather than exhibiting. Since I am currently on a residency in Taiwan, experiences at Artist in Residency programs could be another interesting conversation.
Furthermore I would be interested in discussing „sustainable art working/making“ with the students. Lets see how much we can fit into our meeting.

Cäcilia Brown was born in Sens, France, she lives and works in Vienna, Austria. From 2004 - 2011 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2008/09 she studied at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. Cäcilia Brown teaches as a lecturer since 2015 in the Department: Sculpture and Transmedial Space, University for Art and Design, Linz, Austria 2020, 2021, 2022 she co-taught the Sculpture Class in the Stone Quarry at International Summeracademy Salzburg with Anna Hofbauer & Mikkel Holm Torp. 2009-2017 she developed and gave Art Courses at Zoom Childrens Museum, Vienna 2015-2017 Developing and Organising Volunteer based Art Courses at Refugee Centers in Vienna