Blaise Kirschner (they/them) teaches Moving Image at the Royal Institute of Art. They are responsible for years one to five.
Kirschner’s installations, videos and feature-length films frequently reference histories from below and draw on popular genres, speculative fiction and postcinematic media to address how fantasies and fears about contemporary socio-political, technological and ecological conditions are encoded in cultural forms.
Kirschner (Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art, London, 2023) has participated in numerous international exhibitions and film festivals and received the prestigious Jarman Award in 2011 for their outstanding work in the field of artists’ moving image. Their films are distributed by LUX and held in the British Film Institute Artists’ Moving Image Collection, both London, the Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, and private collections.
Recent exhibitions include Illiberal Arts (HKW, Berlin, 2021) and its continuation Illiberal Lives (Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 2023), and the solo exhibition UNICA (Fluentum, Berlin, 2022), as well as the screening programme Haunted Engines: UNICA and Other Films from Computer Generated Worlds (BFI Southbank, London, 2023).
A full list of exhibitions and publications is available here.