The project’s artistic research
into this omnipresent material and natural resource is conducted in collaboration with the University of Leoben’s Department
of Petroleum Engineering (DPE). Working together on artistic petroleum experiments is a non-hierarchical process which combines
different approaches and ways of thinking to enable productive engagement. The interdisciplinary nature of this collaborative
process, which includes the DPE team as well as a number of expert guests, is inspiring and offers new ways of seeing our
energy culture.
The objective is to bring about a change in public perception and create new visions of a future without
oil by means of a collective process of reflection and experiments as well as through individually developed artistic works
that address the global petroleum culture.
As part of the event, the Reflecting Oil project, its goals and interdisciplinary
experiences will be presented. Additionally, the discussion will also focus on opportunities and issues of the art-science
nexus.
Presentation by Ernst Logar (Artist and Cultural Worker)
and a discussion with Holger Ott (Reservoir
Engineer, Head of the Department Petroleum Engineering at Montanuniversität Leoben) and Gerald Bast (Rector of the University
of Applied Arts Vienna)
Moderation: Julia Grillmayr
Ernst Logar has been working with photography,
film, sculpture, and installations since 1995. In his work, he addresses existing power structures and historical, sociocultural,
and ecological phenomena. From 1997−1999, he studied Experimental Design at the University for Art and Industrial Design in
Linz, and Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1999−2004. He also completed the Culture and Organisation
postdoc programme at the Institute for Cultural Concepts and the University of Vienna from 2006−2007. His creative work includes
Non-Public Spaces (since 1998), Den Blick hinrichten (2004−2008), The End of Remembering – Carinthian Partisans (2008–2012),
Invisible Oil (2008), Sustainable Transformation (2010), Place of Unrest (2012–2018), Tar Sands: Approaching an Anthropocentric
Site (2016), and Reflecting Oil: Arts-based Research on Oil Transitionings (since 2019).
Ernst Logar was born in 1965
in Klagenfurt (Austria) and lives and works now in Vienna.
https://ail.angewandte.at/program/reflecting-oil
