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Margit Brünner: Cooperative Drawings with Oratunga

CAE1611

Summary Note

German artist Margit Brünner, in essence, collaborates with nature to produce her art by pulling canvases and drawing paper through the landscape. Materials include drawings, a DVD, and Brünner’s Ph.D thesis, which is housed in the CA+E Research Library.

Biographical Note

Margit Brünner holds a PhD in Visual Arts and undertakes her artistic research practice between Vienna, Austria and Adelaide Australia. Working through performative intervention, video and drawing her work investigates the spatiality of affective relations. Margit studied and undertook her Master’s degree project in architecture with Hans Hollein, at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. She has received several grants from the Austrian Federal Chancellery and was awarded with a MF & MH Joyner Fine Arts scholarship. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; the Architectural Biennale Venice; AEDES Gallery in Berlin; the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, amongst other places. Currently she holds a visiting research position at the University of Adelaide.

Scope and Content

The Oratunga pastoral property in the Flinders Range of South Australia is owned by Gini Lee, a landscape architect based at the University of Melbourne. She administers an artist-in-residence program on the historic property in which Brünner participated in 2008-2010, pulling canvases and drawing paper through the landscape, in essence collaborating with nature to produce her art.

Arrangement

The archive Margit Brünner: Cooperative Drawings with Oratunga, is organized into two folders: the first folder contains artist information, and the second folder contains project outcomes.

Inclusive Dates

2008-2017

Bulk Dates

2008

Quantity / Extent

9 Items

Language

English

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Related Publications

Brünner, Margit. Constructing Atmospheres: Test Sites for an Aesthetics of Joy. Baunach, Germany: Spurbuchverlag, 2015.

Grishin, Sasha. John Wolseley: Land Marks II. Fishermans Bend, Vic, Australia: Craftsman House, 2006.

Hill, Barry, and John Wolseley. Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings. Crawley, W.A.: University of Washington, 2011.

Leahy, Cathy. John Wolseley: Heartlands and Headwaters. Melbourne, Vic., Australia: National Gallery of Victoria, 2015.

Williamson, Clare. Lost & Found: Peter Lyssiotis and John Wolseley: The Adventures of Two Artists in the State Library of Victoria. Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, 2005.

Wolseley, John, and Paul Carter. Tracing the Wallace line. Bendigo, Vic, Australia: Bendigo Art Gallery, 2001.

Wolseley, John. John Wolseley: Travelling West to Sunset Tank: Melbourne Works on Paper, 19 September - 14 October 2007. Melbourne: Australian Galleries, 2007.

Container Listing:

  • CAE Box 124

    • Folder 1 Artist Information, 2009 – 2017
    • Folder 2 Project Outcomes, 2008 – 2009

Additional Materials

    CAE Flat File F20 Oversized Items

    • 2#1 hill.2 #1, Cooperative drawing, Pencil and crayon on paper, July 10, 2008
    • 2#2 hill.2 #2, Cooperative drawing, Pencil and crayon on paper, July 10, 2008
    • 2#3 hill.2 #3, Cooperative drawing, Pencil and crayon on paper, July 10, 2008
    • 2#4 hill.2 #4, Cooperative drawing, Pencil and crayon on paper, July 10, 2008
    • 2#5 hill.2 #5, Cooperative drawing, Pencil and crayon on paper, July 10, 2008

    CAE Textile Rack Oversized Items

    • 2#6 five days’ records’ of 2nd left knee (Glass Gorge), Nr. 2, Watercolor, ink, pencil and oil crayon on canvas, 2008