Performative Diagrammatics: An Artistic Exploration of the Relation Between Epistemic Diversity and Systemic Elasticity

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  • Adelheid Mers School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Author Biography

Adelheid Mers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Adelheid Mers is a visual artist, who works through Performative Diagrammatics, a practice that includes elements of installation, facilitation with publics, and video. Her research draws on close work with others, exploring arts ecologies, and knowing differently, or epistemic diversity. Work takes place nationally and internationally, for example in residency, conference and exhibition settings. Educated at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the University of Chicago, she is Associate Professor and chair of the department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mers currently co-leads the working group Performance & Pedagogy at PSi.

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