This book provides a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted oeuvre of Ingrid Wiener, who rediscovered tapestry weaving as a contemporary medium. Her Gobelins tapestries--which started out as collaborations with VALIE EXPORT for Friedensreich Hundertwasser and were later realized in long-term cooperation with Dieter Roth--addressed her everyday surrounding, encompassing everything that came into her view. At the same time, she thematized her weaving as a nomadic, mobile, and intellectual practice. The book also focuses its attention on the artist's dream watercolors--and her work as a singer, cook, and filmmaker. Ingrid Wiener studied Textile Design, participated in performances with the Wiener Gruppe, acted in the film Sun stop! (Ferry Radax, Konrad Bayer), and realized cooking concerts and performances. With her husband, Oswald Wiener, she managed several eateries in West Berlin, including the EXIL, before moving to Canada. Today, Ingrid Wiener lives and works in south-eastern Styria, Austria.
About the Author: is a professor for Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments at the University of Potsdam in the European Media Studies degree programme since 2016. She studied Art Research, Media Theory and Media Art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Goldsmiths, University of London as well as the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2000 to 2007, she was a research assistant at the research centre "Das Technische Bild" at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she received her doctorate with a thesis on the digital history of textiles and punched-card weaving. studied German Literature and Art History at Harvard University and wrote her doctoral thesis, entitled Body Analyses/Poetic Acts. Ambivalences of Austrian Performance Art after 1945, at the University of Chicago. She currently teaches Art History at the University of Vienna. Recent publications include an article about Ingrid Wiener in volume 68 of FKW, entitled "Feminist In-Action. Ingrid Wiener's Tapestry Collaborations" and In-Action. The Vienna Group, Viennese Actionism, and the Passivities of Performance Art, forthcoming from Chicago UP.Ingrid Wiener studied Textile Design, participated in performances with the Wiener Gruppe, acted in the film "Sun stop!" (Ferry Radax, Konrad Bayer), and realized cooking concerts and performances. With her husband, Oswald Wiener, she managed several eateries in West Berlin, including the EXIL, before moving to Canada. Today, Ingrid Wiener lives and works in south-eastern Styria, Austria. Michaela Leutzendorff Pakesch studied Theatre at the University of Vienna and Drama at the Dramatisches Zentrum, has been collaborating with different theatres for many years and now works as a cultural manager and curator. In cooperation with Ingrid Wiener and the festival steirischer herbst, she organised the culinary concert Heiße Ohren (hot ears) in 2014. In February 2020, she curated a solo show with Ingrid Wiener for Museum Hartberg, entitled INGRID WIENER. northwest passage. is a linguist and art critic. He is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vienna and regularly contributes to journals such as Texte zur Kunst as well as exhibition catalogues and books about a wide range of artists including Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen. In 2017, SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR published volume 1 of his collected writings on art and architecture (ed. Diedrich Diederichsen, Sylvia Liska, Albert Oehlen, et al.).