TRANSDISCIPLINARY ART PRACTICE: INSTALLATION, LIVE PERFORMANCE, RADIO ART (SELECTED)
INSTALLATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
2024 Seijo & her Soul, 9 Evenings, 2 Radio Stations and the Radio Multe Ensemble, USF’s Visningsrommet, Bergen, Norway, 30 August-September 8
2023 Living Radio Lab, as part of Shortwave Collective, Struer Sound and Listening Biennial, Struer, Denmark
2021-ongoing Radio Multe, ongoing FM and online experimental community and conceptual radio station, Bergen, Norway
2021 SkottegatenFM, three-month mini-FM neighborhood radio station broadcasting daily, with Hordaland Kunstsenter listening station and street party events, co-produced with BEK, Bergen, Norway
2018 Tonspur 76_Expanded: Karen Werner’s HAUS, Plus A Group Of Works Circling About Holocaust Postmemory and the Stranger, curated by Georg Weckwerth, Projectroom MAG3, Vienna, Austria
2018 Zirkus, eight-channel public sound installation with artistic contributions from Reni Hofmüller, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Elisabeth Kelvin and Bruno Pisek’s der Sprechchor, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier, curated by Georg Weckwerth, Vienna, Austria; also installed at Tonspur Passage, Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia
2018 A Chance Event, eight-channel collaborative sound installation, with Serbian feminist podcast FEMKANJE and composer Yvette Jackson, part of Computer Art Festival WFMR, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia
2017-2018 Covenant of the Tongue, eight-channel sound
installation, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
2017 Laws of Lost and Found Objects, included in Soundings: Protest|Politics|Dissent at Power Plant Gallery, Duke University,curated by Caitlin Margaret Kelly, NC, USA
2017 Strange Radio Listening Station, Episodes 1-5, In How do you Measure the Reality? curated by Alexandra Grausam, das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria
PERFORMANCES
2022 A Line Associated to Other Lines - A Postcard Libretto as a Score with a String, Two Speakers and Ontological Popsongs, with Ricarda Denzer for Brandon LaBelle and Jill Halstead’s exhibition, Social Acoustics, Bergen Kjøtt, Norway
2022 Jamming the Signal, for Sounding Research, die Angewandte, Vienna, Austria
2021 Radio Multe Launching into the Air, with Alwynne Pritchard,commissioned by Air Conditions, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, Iceland; adapted for Tonspur Kunstverein Wien/ MQ21, Vienna, Austria
2021 Seaweed, with Sabine Popp, for Radio Hopes & Dreams, Elin Már Øyen Vister’s mobile radio station, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2019 Strange Radio: Live! Radical Interconnectedness Festival, Massachusetts, USA
RADIO & AUDIO WORKS FOR BROADCAST
2024 Seijo and her Soul, commissioned by Lumpen Station, Lausanne, Switzerland
2020 The Psyche & Cupid Radio Hour, with Dilşa Perinçek, for Rummur Radio, Norway; adapted from Kone Foundation Harvest Party, Finland, Radiophrenia, Glasgow, Scotland
2020 Archive of Future Signals, for Wave Farm, NY, US; also featured on Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman and forthcoming at Assembly, Beijing, China, curated by Iris Long
2020 Signals & Connections: Archival Processes, with Maia Urstad, for Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2016 Strange Radio, Episodes 1-5, first performed on Orange 94.0 FM, Vienna, Austria; additional broadcasts at Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Georgia, 2020; International Features Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018; Kunstradio 01/ORF, 2018; Live Art Magazine,Academy of Music, MA, USA 2016
2017 You Will Not See Me Die, with Wendy Call, commissioned by Earshot, Australian Broadcast Corporation
2016 Swimming in Butterflies, Australian Broadcast Corporation, additional broadcasts on Constellations Podcast, 2019; Nova, RTE, Ireland, 2017
ACADEMIC TRAINING & TEACHING (SELECTED)
EDUCATION
2025 (expected) Doctor of philosophy in artistic research • Faculty of Fine Art, Music & Design (KMD), University of Bergen, Norway
Dissertation: re- radio, Supervisors: Brandon LaBelle, Ciara Phillips and Anna Friz
2004 Doctor of philosophy in sociology •
Brandeis University, MA, USA
Dissertation: A Sociology of Contemporary Activist Art 1990-2004, Supervisors: Maurice Stein, Shulamith Reinharz
1993 Masters of education •
Harvard University, MA, USA
1990 Bachelor of arts in semiotics & anthropology •
Brown University, RI, USA
ACADEMIC WORK & TEACHING POSITIONS
2020-2024 Artistic Research PhD Fellow including 25%
service and teaching, KMD, Bergen, Norway
Facilitating BA + MA Tutor Groups
Supervising BA + MA students
Designed and taught BA + MA course: Re- Radio: Radio Art’s Evocations
2001-2010, 2012-2020 Goddard College, Vermont, USA,
BA & BFA in Socially Engaged Art, 50%
Faculty position. Additional
appointments in MA programs 2001,
2008, 2012
Facilitated BA, BFA + MA Tutor Groups
Supervised BA, BFA + MA students
Designed and taught courses
including: Making the Word Incarnate,
The Body a Text; Radio Art:
Listening to the Deep Connection;
Research Ethics; Critical Thinking
and Writing; Digital and Audio
Storytelling; Decolonization
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2023 External Sensor/ Examiner, Master Course: Explorations in Ocean Space V: Listening to the Barents Region with Dr. Nancy Couling, BAS, Bergen, Norway
2023 Doctoral jury member for Katharina Smets, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 External Sensor/ Examiner MA Diploma, Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2022 External Sensor/ Examiner Third Year Diploma,
Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2014-2018 Undergraduate Program Coordinator,
50% position, Goddard College, Vermont, USA
2010-2011 Director of Montague Farm Zen House, Cross-class
community organizing with Zen Peacemakers, USA
2006- Community Economies Collective Member
VISITING ARTIST & INVITED WORKSHOP LEADER
2024 Tracer (creative documenter of poetic knowledge), part of BAS’s co-convening of 2025 Bergen Assembly’s “learning with,” February + October, Bergen, Norway
2023 Radio BAS, part of Big Wonderful Experiment in non-extractive architecture, Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2022 Open Wave-Receivers, w/Shortwave Collective, Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway
2022 Ontological Politics and Radio, for Performing Theory, Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2022 Signal Jamming workshop, part of Sounding Research, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2019 Radio Audity! Live radio performance workshop, Aalto University Media Lab, Espoo, Finland
2018 Politics of Storytelling, invited presenter Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2018 Radio Autoethnography, Phd-in-Practice Program, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
2018 + 2019 Radio Autoethnography, Universität für
Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2018 Visiting Artist for Radio Experiments, New School for Public Engagement, NY, USA
2018 Visiting Artist, Ghost’s Radio, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2020 Shoemaker, D. & Werner, K. Listening and becoming through sound: audio autoethnographic collaboration as critical communication pedagogy. With accompanying audio piece, “What is Collaboration?” Review of Communication: Special Issue on (Re)sounding Pedagogies, 20(4), 355-366.
2019 Werner, K. Covenant of the Tongue. For [In]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. Special Double Issue on Audiography, Guest Editors Neil Verma and Jacob Smith. With accompanying audio piece. https://mediacommons.org/intransition/covenant-tongue
2019 Werner, K. In Praise, In Praise of the Radio Autoethnography: A Radio Collage. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(6), 561-562. With accompanying audio piece.
2016 Gansworth, L. & Werner, K. First Medicine: Stories of Water & Now. Rethinking Marxism: Special Issue on Marxism and Spirituality, 28(3), 385-396.
2015 Werner, K. Performing Economies of Care in a New England Time Bank and Buddhist Community. In G. Roelvink, K. St. Martin, & J.K. Gibson-Graham (Eds.), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies (pp. 72-97). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Werner, K. Buzz and Breath Duet. In Stephanie Loveless, editor, A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros, NJ: Terra Nova Press.
2022 Werner, K. Who are you SkottegatenFM? In Brandon LaBelle, editor, Ecologies of Attention: Artistic Research from Bergen Art Academy https://socialacoustics.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Werner.pdf
Also forthcoming in Contingent Sounds, 2024
2007 Werner, K. Understanding and Reclaiming Money Creation: Our Experiences Creating the North Quabbin Time Bank. In J. Allard, C. Davidson, and J. Matthaei (Eds.), Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet (pp.139-154). Chicago: ChangeMaker Publications.
2007 Werner, K. Pragmatist Sociology: Lessons from Goddard College and Dewey Pedagogy. Teaching/Learning Matters 36(1), 3-7.
2007 Werner, K. Book Review: A Post-Capitalist Politics, by J.K. Gibson-Graham. Critical Sociology 33, 357–358.
EDUCATION
2025 (expected) Doctor of philosophy in artistic research • Faculty of Fine Art, Music & Design (KMD), University of Bergen, Norway
Dissertation: re- radio, Supervisors: Brandon LaBelle, Ciara Phillips and Anna Friz
2004 Doctor of philosophy in sociology •
Brandeis University, MA, USA
Dissertation: A Sociology of Contemporary Activist Art 1990-2004, Supervisors: Maurice Stein, Shulamith Reinharz
1993 Masters of education •
Harvard University, MA, USA
1990 Bachelor of arts in semiotics & anthropology •
Brown University, RI, USA
ACADEMIC WORK & TEACHING POSITIONS
2020-2024 Artistic Research PhD Fellow including 25%
service and teaching, KMD, Bergen, Norway
Facilitating BA + MA Tutor Groups
Supervising BA + MA students
Designed and taught BA + MA course: Re- Radio: Radio Art’s Evocations
2001-2010, 2012-2020 Goddard College, Vermont, USA,
BA & BFA in Socially Engaged Art, 50%
Faculty position. Additional
appointments in MA programs 2001,
2008, 2012
Facilitated BA, BFA + MA Tutor Groups
Supervised BA, BFA + MA students
Designed and taught courses
including: Making the Word Incarnate,
The Body a Text; Radio Art:
Listening to the Deep Connection;
Research Ethics; Critical Thinking
and Writing; Digital and Audio
Storytelling; Decolonization
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2023 External Sensor/ Examiner, Master Course: Explorations in Ocean Space V: Listening to the Barents Region with Dr. Nancy Couling, BAS, Bergen, Norway
2023 Doctoral jury member for Katharina Smets, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 External Sensor/ Examiner MA Diploma, Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2022 External Sensor/ Examiner Third Year Diploma,
Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2014-2018 Undergraduate Program Coordinator,
50% position, Goddard College, Vermont, USA
2010-2011 Director of Montague Farm Zen House, Cross-class
community organizing with Zen Peacemakers, USA
2006- Community Economies Collective Member
VISITING ARTIST & INVITED WORKSHOP LEADER
2024 Tracer (creative documenter of poetic knowledge), part of BAS’s co-convening of 2025 Bergen Assembly’s “learning with,” February + October, Bergen, Norway
2023 Radio BAS, part of Big Wonderful Experiment in non-extractive architecture, Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2022 Open Wave-Receivers, w/Shortwave Collective, Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway
2022 Ontological Politics and Radio, for Performing Theory, Bergen Architecture School, Bergen, Norway
2022 Signal Jamming workshop, part of Sounding Research, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2019 Radio Audity! Live radio performance workshop, Aalto University Media Lab, Espoo, Finland
2018 Politics of Storytelling, invited presenter Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2018 Radio Autoethnography, Phd-in-Practice Program, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
2018 + 2019 Radio Autoethnography, Universität für
Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2018 Visiting Artist for Radio Experiments, New School for Public Engagement, NY, USA
2018 Visiting Artist, Ghost’s Radio, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2020 Shoemaker, D. & Werner, K. Listening and becoming through sound: audio autoethnographic collaboration as critical communication pedagogy. With accompanying audio piece, “What is Collaboration?” Review of Communication: Special Issue on (Re)sounding Pedagogies, 20(4), 355-366.
2019 Werner, K. Covenant of the Tongue. For [In]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. Special Double Issue on Audiography, Guest Editors Neil Verma and Jacob Smith. With accompanying audio piece. https://mediacommons.org/intransition/covenant-tongue
2019 Werner, K. In Praise, In Praise of the Radio Autoethnography: A Radio Collage. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(6), 561-562. With accompanying audio piece.
2016 Gansworth, L. & Werner, K. First Medicine: Stories of Water & Now. Rethinking Marxism: Special Issue on Marxism and Spirituality, 28(3), 385-396.
2015 Werner, K. Performing Economies of Care in a New England Time Bank and Buddhist Community. In G. Roelvink, K. St. Martin, & J.K. Gibson-Graham (Eds.), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies (pp. 72-97). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Werner, K. Buzz and Breath Duet. In Stephanie Loveless, editor, A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros, NJ: Terra Nova Press.
2022 Werner, K. Who are you SkottegatenFM? In Brandon LaBelle, editor, Ecologies of Attention: Artistic Research from Bergen Art Academy https://socialacoustics.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Werner.pdf
Also forthcoming in Contingent Sounds, 2024
2007 Werner, K. Understanding and Reclaiming Money Creation: Our Experiences Creating the North Quabbin Time Bank. In J. Allard, C. Davidson, and J. Matthaei (Eds.), Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet (pp.139-154). Chicago: ChangeMaker Publications.
2007 Werner, K. Pragmatist Sociology: Lessons from Goddard College and Dewey Pedagogy. Teaching/Learning Matters 36(1), 3-7.
2007 Werner, K. Book Review: A Post-Capitalist Politics, by J.K. Gibson-Graham. Critical Sociology 33, 357–358.
Selected Talks & Conference Presentations
“Strange Radio as Method,” Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2019
“Working Collaboratively,” with Deanna Shoemaker, Autoethnography Special Interest Group, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, 2018.
“Ghost’s Radio: Art, Research, Possibilities," Spaces Beyond: Parallax Forum Network, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, 2017
“Sounding Autoethnographic Performance: Radio, Song and Digital Audio as Inquiry,” co-organizer of panel and presenter, “Strange Radio: Radiophonic Space and Performance Autoethnography,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, 2017
“Audio Ethnography: Art and Politics of Knowledge Production,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois,, 2015
“Telling Sound Stories,” invited presenter for Smith College seminar organized by Dr. Julio Alves, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
“Audio Hearth,” co-founder with Tina Antolini & co-organizer with Andrew Leland; free audio listening events with guest curators, 2013-2020
“Working Collaboratively,” with Deanna Shoemaker, Autoethnography Special Interest Group, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, 2018.
“Ghost’s Radio: Art, Research, Possibilities," Spaces Beyond: Parallax Forum Network, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, 2017
“Sounding Autoethnographic Performance: Radio, Song and Digital Audio as Inquiry,” co-organizer of panel and presenter, “Strange Radio: Radiophonic Space and Performance Autoethnography,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, 2017
“Audio Ethnography: Art and Politics of Knowledge Production,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois,, 2015
“Telling Sound Stories,” invited presenter for Smith College seminar organized by Dr. Julio Alves, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
“Audio Hearth,” co-founder with Tina Antolini & co-organizer with Andrew Leland; free audio listening events with guest curators, 2013-2020
Grants, Awards & Honors
Art Residencies:
Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2024
Bang & Olufsen Residency, Sound Art Lab, Struer, Denmark, with Shortwave Collective
Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK), Norway, 2021 + 2023
Røst AiR, Skomvær, Norway, 2022
Venø Gård Kunst, Venøya, Norway, 2021
Monson Arts Center, Maine, USA, 2019
Elektronmusikstudion with Yvette Janine Jackson, Stockholm,
Sweden, 2019
Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence, Mynämäki, Finland, 2019
Mobile Art Lab Residency, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice,
Poland, 2017-2018
MuseumsQuartier, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, Austria, 2017
studio das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2016
Vermont Studio Center, Hemera Foundation, USA, 2014
Meltzer Fond Award for Radio Station as Collective, University of Bergen, Norway, 2022 (Travel research grant to Berlin and Kassel)
Bergen Kommune Interdisciplinary Arts Grant for Radio Multe, 2022, 2023, 2024
Bergen Kommune Electronic Arts and Empty Storefront Grants (with William Kudahl) for Bergen Community FM Radio, 2021
Meltzer Fond Award for Radio, Resonance and Song, University of Bergen, Norway, 2021
Artistic Research Fellowship, Faculty for Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Norway, 2020-2024
Inauguaral Radio Art Fellowship, Wave Farm, Hudson, NY 2019-2020
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship, 2019-2020 + 2017-2018
Grand Prix Marulić for Radio Documentary, “Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” 2016
Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow, 2014-2016
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Audio Production, 2014+ 2019
Art Reviews & Interviews
“Hun vil gjenopplive FM-radioen i Bergen,” by Osama Shaheen, Bergens Tidende, 10 August 2022
“Strange Radio Elicits Deep Listening,” by Trish Crapo, Montague Reporter, March 27, 2019
“Strange Radio, Radical Interconnectedness,” Interview with Monte Belmonte, 93.9 FM The River, April 2019
“Zapotec Language and the Language of Radio,” Interview on InContrast: A Podcast on Culture in the Making with Ilan Stavans, New England Public Radio (NEPR), February 12, 2018
“Undulating Fabric of Time” and “Haunting: A Conversation with Karen Werner,” by Joan Schuman, Earlid, Fall 2018
“Listening to the Deep Connection, KW Interview with Frank Jodicke,” Skug MusikKulture, February 2018
Also appears in German in DAVID: Judische KultureZeitschrift, December 2018
Live Studio, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2024
Bang & Olufsen Residency, Sound Art Lab, Struer, Denmark, with Shortwave Collective
Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK), Norway, 2021 + 2023
Røst AiR, Skomvær, Norway, 2022
Venø Gård Kunst, Venøya, Norway, 2021
Monson Arts Center, Maine, USA, 2019
Elektronmusikstudion with Yvette Janine Jackson, Stockholm,
Sweden, 2019
Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence, Mynämäki, Finland, 2019
Mobile Art Lab Residency, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice,
Poland, 2017-2018
MuseumsQuartier, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, Austria, 2017
studio das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2016
Vermont Studio Center, Hemera Foundation, USA, 2014
Meltzer Fond Award for Radio Station as Collective, University of Bergen, Norway, 2022 (Travel research grant to Berlin and Kassel)
Bergen Kommune Interdisciplinary Arts Grant for Radio Multe, 2022, 2023, 2024
Bergen Kommune Electronic Arts and Empty Storefront Grants (with William Kudahl) for Bergen Community FM Radio, 2021
Meltzer Fond Award for Radio, Resonance and Song, University of Bergen, Norway, 2021
Artistic Research Fellowship, Faculty for Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Norway, 2020-2024
Inauguaral Radio Art Fellowship, Wave Farm, Hudson, NY 2019-2020
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship, 2019-2020 + 2017-2018
Grand Prix Marulić for Radio Documentary, “Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” 2016
Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow, 2014-2016
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Audio Production, 2014+ 2019
Art Reviews & Interviews
“Hun vil gjenopplive FM-radioen i Bergen,” by Osama Shaheen, Bergens Tidende, 10 August 2022
“Strange Radio Elicits Deep Listening,” by Trish Crapo, Montague Reporter, March 27, 2019
“Strange Radio, Radical Interconnectedness,” Interview with Monte Belmonte, 93.9 FM The River, April 2019
“Zapotec Language and the Language of Radio,” Interview on InContrast: A Podcast on Culture in the Making with Ilan Stavans, New England Public Radio (NEPR), February 12, 2018
“Undulating Fabric of Time” and “Haunting: A Conversation with Karen Werner,” by Joan Schuman, Earlid, Fall 2018
“Listening to the Deep Connection, KW Interview with Frank Jodicke,” Skug MusikKulture, February 2018
Also appears in German in DAVID: Judische KultureZeitschrift, December 2018
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With thanks to mentors, advisors and teachers: Shulamit Reinharz, Julie Graham, Eve Marko, Sherre DeLys, Gregory Whitehead, Brandon LaBelle, Ciara Phillips, Anna Friz and Maia Urstad.
