Dr Kersten Glandien

Associate Professor of Art History

Kersten Glandien is Associate Professor of Humanities and studied Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art History at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia. She worked as lecturer and researcher at the Technical University Dresden, at the Music College Dresden (1977-1982), and as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the Academy of Science in Berlin (1982-1989). Her fields of expertise span the aesthetics of architecture, design and music.

From 1984-1988 she curated a highly acclaimed experimental cross-genre concert series in Berlin. More recently she curated ARK2000: Concert for an Installation at London’s Dilston Grove, gave keynote lectures at the ‘Noise Symposium’, De Montfort University, Leicester in 2008, and the ‘RadioArt Symposium: Reinventing The Dial: Explorations in Experimental Radio Practice’ at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2009. She gave a keynote introduction to the opening of Dukatenscheißer, Douglas Henderson's solo SoundArt exhibition at the Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, in 2009. She is currently working on a book on Sound Art.

Publications

• Sound in Context: Aesthetics of SoundArt (monograph in progress).
• Die Kuh singt – oder - Die Liebe zum Authentischen (collaborations between composer Lutz Glandien & video artist Hartmut Jahn). (Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2005).
• Die Musiktheaterkonzeption Heiner Goebbels‘ - Schwarz auf Weiss und Surrogate Cities, in: Handbuch Experimentelles Musik- und Tanztheater, Vol.7 (Laaber: Laaber-Publ., 2004).
• Malte Lüders/ Lutz Glandien: Sound Installations – Sound Architecture. (Berlin: Elsenstudio, 2002).
• En Route – A monographic study of the œuvre of Heiner Goebbels, 2000. www.heinergoebbels.com Art on Air: A Profile of New RadioArt in: Simon Emmerson (ed), Music, Electronic Media and Culture (Ashgate, 2000).
• Against the Grain - Eisler re-discovered in Hanns Eisler. Archive zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bd.3. Stiftung Archive der Akademie der Künste (Hofheim: Wolke Publ., 1998).
• Music Machines - Spirits raised by us, Catalogue AngelicA Music Festival (Bologna, 1997).
• Translation and Edition of Chris Cutler. File Under Popular: Texte zur populären Musik (Neustadt: Michael Schwinn Music Publishing, 1995).
• Too long ignored, too bad, in RéR Sourcebook (London: Novemberbooks 1995).
• Der TechnologieEffekt oder Die Welt der Differenzen, GI Prisma no.2 (1994).
• Musik und Politik. Zu musikkonzeptionellen Problemen der Rock-Avantgarde Westeuropas, In: Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, No.30 (4/1988).

Curatorial activities

• ARK2000. Concert for an Installation. Dilston Grove, London, August 2000.
• Acousmatic concert series RadioArt in Britain & Germany and RadioArt Symposium, Goethe-Institut, London, 1998.
• Concert series Zwischenspiel - Interplay in New Music, Goethe-Institut, London/ London Musicians’ Collective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1997.
• Acousmatic concert series RadioArt in Germany, Goethe-Institut, London, 1997.

Conferences and Presentations

• Different Ways – The Aesthetics of Heiner Goebbels, The School of Sound Symposium, 30 March - 2 April 2005.
• Sound Discourse: Sound & Space, Universidad National Autónoma de México in Mexico City, October 2003.
• Sound in Context: The Sonic Aspect of Sound Art, International Vernacular Congress of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, October 2003.
• Mapping the Discourse of SoundArt, Resonanzen SoundArt Symposion, Stadt Gallery, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2002.
• SoundArt Discourse in England, Plenary meeting of the Ars Acoustica-group of the European Broadcasting Union, BBC December 2001.
• SoundArt in Context. The School of Sound Symposium, Glasgow, April 2001.
• SoundArt as RadioArt. Legacy of an Old Medium, RadioArt Symposium, Goethe-Institut London, 1998.
• Articles, reviews and interviews in Resonance (London), Jazz Life (Wien), Jazzthetik (Münster), Radical Philosophy (London), Weimarer Beiträge (Berlin & Weimar), Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft (Berlin).
• Radio programmes for Mitteldeutschen Rundfunk Leipzig, SFB Berlin und Resonance FM London.
• Aesthetics in the GDR. Annual Conference of the British Society of Aesthetics, London 1991.
• The Concept of Aesthetic Culture in German Social-Aesthetics at the End of the Nineteenth and First Third of the Twentieth Centuries, and its Understanding Today. Conference of Aesthetics in East European Countries at the Academy of Science of the USSR, Moscow 1989.
• The Social-psychology of A.N. Leont'ev and its Relevance for the Analysis of Musical Practice. Leont'ev Colloquium at the Institute of Aesthetic and Art Theories, Berlin 1985.
• The Social-historical School of Soviet Psychology and the Social-psychological Problems of Aesthetics - between 1920 and the Present Day. Academy of Science, Berlin 1985.
• On Analysis in Aesthetics and Art Theory, Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theories, Berlin 1985.