Blanka Kirchner - Transcription and Transcript: Text as a Reflection of the World

The work­shop led by con­cep­tu­al artist Blan­ka Kirch­n­er will offer par­tic­i­pants a space to explore text as a tool for record­ing real­i­ty. Through work­ing with diary entries, media frag­ments, and obser­va­tions of the sur­round­ing world, par­tic­i­pants will become famil­iar with tech­niques of tran­scrip­tion and rewrit­ing. Texts will then be fur­ther devel­oped and mod­i­fied through short exer­cis­es. The work­shop will empha­size the ques­tion of author­ship, selec­tion, and inter­pre­ta­tion of record­ed real­i­ty. The out­come of the work­shop will be a tex­tu­al col­lage or a short lit­er­ary piece based on the record of a real day, simul­ta­ne­ous­ly reflect­ing how we con­struct a view of the world through language.

Blan­ka Kirch­n­er grad­u­at­ed from the Fac­ul­ty of Art and Design at Jan Evan­ge­lista Purkyně Uni­ver­si­ty (FUD UJEP) in Ústí nad Labem, major­ing in Pho­tog­ra­phy and Dig­i­tal Media. From 2010 to 2013, she worked at FUD UJEP as an assis­tant in the Per­for­mance stu­dio (now Space – Object – Action), led by Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Jiří Kovan­da. Her doc­u­ment­ing artis­tic activ­i­ties are pri­mar­i­ly based on sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly pro­duced dai­ly records, diary entries, authored texts, cor­re­spon­dence, and var­i­ous ver­bal and sentence-based hap­pen­ings. Since 2019, she has been work­ing at the Depart­ment of Art, Fac­ul­ty of Art and Archi­tec­ture, Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Liberec.

“I am inter­est­ed in per­son­al mem­o­ry, the sto­ries of each of us, lit­er­a­ture, life, death, love, the peo­ple around me, and every­day life, which brings the best, most mag­i­cal, and para­dox­i­cal sto­ries or situations.”

FUA TUL, K. Hubáček Stu­dio (F2)